Wobbling Towards Communism

We are members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and we are Wobbling Towards Communism. We announce ourselves as a communist trend within the IWW, and we aim to reaffirm the basic principles of the union.

We are serious about our commitment to the abolition of the wage-labour system and its relation to commodity production and private property (and all that it entails). We are committed to this being the main focus of our tactics as a revolutionary union.

We are against reformist activism because capitalism cannot be reformed. We should not play the bourgeois game of single issue reforms. In particular, we oppose the practices and methods of the bourgeois business unions which only seek to increase their membership at the cost of revolutionary foment, that divides workers along skill and trade lines and capitulate to bourgeois political parties and the state. These reforms are perfectly compatible with the bourgeois mode of production, and have no place in Communism.

From this, we are against class collaboration and participation with any bourgeois institution, such as the state and its political parties. As the beginning of the IWW Preamble states, “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.” We are opposed not only to the standard bourgeois parties, but also to the left wing of capital in all its forms, from labour parties to political organizations which wish to subordinate the class struggle for their own gains.

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