07.09.1995

Manifesto of the Communist Party of Great Britain

From 'The Communist', paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, September 9 1920

FELLOW WORKERS -

The Executive Committee of the Communist Party feel it incumbent upon themselves to advise you to watch with ever increasing vigilance the series of crises - industrial and political - through which we are now passing.

... The Council of Action, representing on this rare and refreshing occasion an underlying spirit of determination of the organised masses of the country hitherto unknown, have prevented yet another open attack on Soviet Russia.

The declaration of the Miners’ Federation for a general strike to commence on or after September 25 presents to us a first class individual crisis which may have far-reaching effects on the development of the organised labour movement. The transport workers and railway workers have shown unhesitating loyalty to, and solidarity with, their allies, the mineworkers ...

The master class have lined up with more solidarity than ever in order to prosecute the class war against the legitimate demands of the mineworkers in particular and of trade unionists in general ...

There is no country in the world where the workers could so easily become the masters of their own destiny as in Great Britain, and we therefore appeal to our revolutionary comrades ... to be loyal, to be vigilant and unceasing in their efforts for the final overthrow of the capitalist regime.

Concentrate on workers’ control! Keep it always in your mind! The workers alone can free the working class. Join the Communist Party.