Revolution against reformism

Social Democrats, Socialist Parties, Labour Parties, official and former Communist parties and other such organisations have tremendous influence in the working class worldwide. They are reformist organisations - they use their base in the workers? movement to hold back the workers? struggle. They try to form governments that act within the capitalist system.
Some right wing reformists, such as Blair in Britain and Schroeder in Germany, use these parties as a stepping stone to power and then act directly for the capitalists, not even bothering to conceal their pro-establishment politics. Other, left wing, reformists - like Allende in Chile in the early 1970s - try to use a parliamentary majority to bring in socialism gradually.

The right wing reformists are deliberate agents of the capitalists. They must be driven out of the working class movement.

The left-wing reformists often try to present themselves as radical. But at the crucial moment they will leave the workers defenceless ? like in Chile in 1973 when the military overthrew Allende?s Socialist government and the workers were not armed and ready to defend themselves, resulting in years of repression and tens of thousands of killings.

REVOLUTION supports united action by all working class organisations against the capitalists. We defend the reformist organisations when they come under the attack from the state or the fascists.. We try to break away from the reformist leaders the millions of workers around the world who still look to them for leadership. We do this by demanding that the reformists act in the interests of the workers and break with the capitalists, and by building up a separate revolutionary movement to challenge the reformists' fatal influence.