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Trotskyist Platform:
What We Stand For
Statement Updated

28 November 2024: Trotskyist Platform has just updated the About section of our website with an up to date and much more detailed statement of what our group stands for.

Today, the world is at a crossroads. Capitalist rule in Australia and around the world is bringing ever more poverty, job insecurity, economic stress, social division, racist oppression, misogyny and imperialism-driven wars. On the other hand, socialistic China’s mutually beneficial cooperation with developing countries and the example of continued socialistic success that she provides both present a medium-term existential threat to imperialist domination of the world. Moreover, the working class masses in the capitalist world are more and more discontent. However, right now, the absence of genuinely revolutionary socialist parties is allowing the dangerous Far-Right wing of the capitalist classes to gain in strength. Increasingly, the choice facing humanity is either the liberation of communism or the nightmare of the fascist form of capitalism. It is therefore urgent that politically conscious workers and other leftists build an authentic revolutionary, internationalist workers party in Australia. Trotskyist Platform is working hard to build such a party.

We believe that our What We Stand For statement provides the guide needed for those committed to the liberation of the exploited and oppressed to intervene into the events and struggles of this very high-stakes period in order to advance towards the goal of a socialist world where exploitation of labour, unemployment, racism, oppression of women and imperialist subjugation of “Third World” countries will become things of the past.

Please read our statement. With the world’s contradictions coming to a head, the entire fate of humanity may well be decided within the next two to four decades.

Our new What We Stand For statement can be accessed by clicking this link or by going to the “About” section of our website.

Trotskyist Platform’s Article About Genuine Trotskyism in the 21st Century Has Now Been Issued in Print Form

17 September 2022: Trotskyist Platform’s article, “Trotskyism: Lighting the Path to Revolution in the Capitalist World & Ensuring Socialism’s Final Triumph in China“, has now been finalised and edited and printed as a book. Subscribers to our journal, The Spark, will receive the book in the mail next week. We had earlier this year published the article online in provisional form.

The production of this book is an important milestone for our tendency. The writing and production of the book was the product of a great deal of research and work by several comrades. It motivates some of the key planks of our tendency and lays out in detail the theoretical and strategic platform that we believe revolutionary socialist parties must be built on. Especially at a time when the masses’ (in the capitalist countries) plunging living standards and widespread disenchantment with their lot could be harnessed by either ultra-reactionary, far-right outfits or by revolutionary leftist forces providing a way upwards out of the spiral of capitalist decline, complete clarity on the path needed to fight for socialism is more crucial than ever.

Trotskyist Platform stands against the capitalist system. We struggle towards a socialist society where exploitation of labour, racism, oppression of women and colonial subjugation of “Third World” countries will become things of the past. Our party has been built by comrades who came to our shared political outlook from a wide range of political backgrounds. Trotskyist Platform works hard to contribute to the building of a revolutionary workers party that will stand in the tradition of the early years of the Communist International (CI) that was formed in the wake of the October 1917 socialist revolution in Russia.

For those wishing to purchase a printed copy of Trotskyism: Lighting the Path to Revolution in the Capitalist World & Ensuring Socialism’s Final Triumph in China, please contact us on (61) 0417 204 611.

A PDF of the final version of the book can be downloaded or viewed below: