Sunday 27 January 2013

Seize The Time: Proposals for Building Unity Among Revolutionary Students and Proletarian Youth

These proposals were adopted at the First National Conference of Revolutionary Youth and Students, held in Toronto during December of 2012.

 

Our aim is to integrate our struggles with the struggles of the exploited proletariat and oppressed masses by uniting the revolutionary students and proletarian youth activists on the basis of anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, and revolutionary politics. To meet this goal, the PCR-RCP Conference of Students and Youth Organizing Committee submit the following proposals for discussion and adoption:


 




We call on students and youth activists to join their local revolutionary student movement or organization where they exist (such as in Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa) or to create a local independent and autonomous group of revolutionary students where possible. These groups will work to:

1) Create and openly spread revolutionary communist propaganda, culture, and politics to bring new ideas and energy to the masses in this period of unprecedented anti-people attacks, which would reignite their struggles. We will not hesitate to shy away from using words like communism, proletariat, and bourgeoisie and to make clear our desire to struggle for communism by:

a)       Organizing Communist Schools where we collectively teach and learn about the history of proletarian struggles throughout the world. In particular, to study revolutionary student movements in countries that have been or currently engaged in revolutionary struggle or People's Wars. Education for Liberation! Education to Serve the People!

b)       Distributing the bilingual PCR-RCP newspaper, Partisan, which defends the revolutionary proletarian line.

c)       Intervening in campus general assemblies as part of the revolutionary student movement and to forge unity in action with revolutionaries from different tendencies on the basis of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism.

d)       Building anti-capitalist groups in high schools, which would mobilize students for a one-day walk-out on May 1st for International Workers' Day and;

e)       Rallying the different local student groups to bring their banners and join their local anti-capitalist or revolutionary May Day demonstration or celebration


2) Launch an online forum for revolutionary students and youth to explore and debate political questions, for example a theoretical journal online or in print.


3) Organizing campaigns in support of the just struggles of the First Nations against the Canadian state and by recognizing the unconditional right of the First Nations to self-determination.


4) Supporting the student movements and revolutionaries in capitalist countries that struggle against exploitation and repression, by organizing campaigns against their imperialist state.


5) Organizing militant and anti-imperialist demonstrations or activities, in the spirit of internationalism, that support and defend People's Wars in India, Nepal, the Philippines, Turkey, and Afghanistan, among others. For example, in the case of the People's War in India, putting forth the line "Down with Operation Greenhunt! Victory to the Naxalites!"


6) To consolidate and systematize these points of unity at a second conference of the Revolutionary Students and Youth Activists in June 2013, to be held in Ottawa.

a)       To strike a committee of delegates from this conference will help to organize the 2nd conference.