The Programme of the Party

The International Communist Party is constituted on the basis of the following principles established at Leghorn in 1921 at the foundation of the Communist Party of Italy (section of the Communist International).

1. Under the present social regime of capital, the conflict between the productive forces and the relations of production develops at an ever increasing rate, giving rise to antithetical interests and to the class struggle between the proletariat and the ruling bourgeoisie.

2. Production relations today are protected by the power of the bourgeois State: whatever the form of representative system and employment of elective democratic, the bourgeois State remains the organ for the defence of the interests of the capitalist class.

3. The proletariat can neither smash nor modify the system of capitalist relations of production which exploits it without violently overthrowing the bourgeois power.

4. The indispensable organ of the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat is the class party. The Communist Party, which contains the most advanced and resolute part of the proletariat, unifies the efforts of the labouring masses and transforms their struggles for particular group interests and immediate gains into the general struggle for the revolutionary emancipation of the proletariat. The party is responsible for propagating the revolutionary theory amongst the masses, for organising the material means of action, and for leading the working class through the course of its struggles by ensuring the historical continuity and the international unity of the movement.

5. After overthrowing the capitalist power, the proletariat must completely destroy the old State apparatus in order to organise itself as dominant class and install its own dictatorship: that is to say, it will deny all rights to the bourgeois class and individuals within it for as long as they socially survive, and will found the organs of the new regime on the producing class alone. The Communist Party, whose programmatic characteristic lies in this fundamental achievement, exclusively and only represents organizes and directs the proletarian dictatorship.

6. Only by means of force will the proletarian State be able to systematically intervene in the social economy, and adopt those measures with which the collective management of production and distribution will take the place of the capitalist system.

7. This transformation of the economy and consequently of the whole of social life will gradually eliminate the necessity for the political State, whose machinery will gradually give way to the rational administration of human activities.

8. The necessary defence of the proletarian state against all counterrevolutionary attempts can only be ensured by depriving the bourgeoisie and parties opposed to the proletarian dictatorship of all means of
political agitation and propaganda, as well as by the armed organization of the proletariat to repel internal and external attacks.

9. Only the proletarian state is able to systemically implement all the subsequent measures of intervention in the relations of social economy by which the replacement of the capitalist system by the collective management of production and distribution will be effected.

10. Due to this economic transformation and the subsequent transformation of all social life activities by eliminating the division of society into classes, the need for the political state will also be eliminated, its machinery progressively being reduced to the rational administration of human activities.