The Program THE GIBRALTARIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
OUR WORLD IN THE LAST YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The gap between the rich north and the poor south is deepening. Unjust income distribution and class exploitation are become heavier. Through regional wars the peoples are caused to destroy each other. Capitalist class is continuing to be the power behind repression, fanaticism, drugs and arms trade. The pollution and plundering of natural sources for the selfish class interests are continuing. Imperialist-capitalistic system is alienating from humanity and approaching its historical end as a system to be superseded. On the basis of all these contradictions and conflicts, revolutionary dynamics are developing stronger on the world-wide scale and in individual countries. Communism has been the ultimate liberation of the humanity since the emergence of class societies. Today more strongly than before, the Gibraltarian Communist Party (GCP) believes that the future of humanity lies in communism. So with the world communist movement, it advances its struggle against imperialism and capitalism on the basis of proletarian internationalism. In the face of centralisation of capital on the world-wide scale and collective attitudes of bourgeois political forces against labour movement, GCP believes that it is necessary to secure firmly the union of world communist movement on the basis of the principles of proletarian internationalism and calls fellow communist parties to take steps to create a new international. Our Gibraltarian nation is one of those rare colonial territories and nations in the world without its own independent state. The bloody national repression implemented against our nation for centuries, and obstructions on its culture, its language and its national development as a whole have created a deep and irresistible demand for freedom in our people. Revolutionary national dynamics fostered by all these factors have set the task to fight for and establish the nation’s free and socialist national state for the proletariat of Gibraltar. On the other hand, the objective realities created by close connections between British’s capitalism and that of our country also have been determining the revolutionary dynamism of our people; and for that reason, there is a congruence between the social dimension of Gibraltarian revolution and that of the British. Also, the mentioned objective realities makes it the task of the proletariat of Gibraltar to struggle for political power together with the British working class. In the Gibraltar, the contradiction between labour and capital is deepening. National, class and all other contradictions are shaped and take their content on the basis and around of labour-capital contradiction. While the proletariat of Gibraltar struggles against the colonial regime of the United Kingdom and the Spanish imperialist ambitions for its national liberation, in the same process it is obliged to wage class struggle against its own collaborationist bourgeoisie for socialism. The historical task set forth by all these objective conditions for Gibraltarian communists is to organise the proletariat, to be vanguard of every form of its struggle, to strengthen the political army of the revolution and to remove all obstacles to national-social development. In the face of the existence of oppressed and oppressive nations and the obligation of our nation to create its own national state, Gibraltarian Communist Party, founded at its congress held at March 2004 as the political party of the Gibraltarian’s proletariat, aims at a political orientation complementing the communist movement of Gibraltar in the goal of political power. In its ideological and the toretical production and its political struggle, it takes Marxism-Leninnism as its guidance.
Imperialism, for the first time in history, has accomplished the division of the world among the imperialist powers, and developed productive forces to the highest levels within the class society. In last process it has entered into a deep crisis and become the greatest obstacle to the social progress, and thereby prepared objective conditions for the liberation of proletariat. At a time when the crisis pushed a few imperialist states into a redistribution war, Russian proletariat seized the political power through October 1917 Revolution. The October Revolution represented a historical moment in the progressive development of humanity, and caused the first decisive breakage in the supposedly eternal domination of imperialistic capitalism. Thus the humanity entered into the age of transition from capitalism to socialism. In international solidarity with the working classes of capitalist countries and colonised peoples struggling for national independence, the Soviet Union stroke imperialism tremendous blows one after another. In the Second World War, Soviet Union and socialist movement in general won a victory leading to the establishment of the socialist block. Classical colonial system was collapsed by the successive national revolutions in Asia and Africa. Socialist Countries There is no longer a socialist block as one of the important dynamics of world-revolution process. There are individual socialist countries where the communist parties are still in the power such as Cuba, China, Vietnam and North Korea. The balance between socialism and imperialist capitalism on world-wide scale today has been changed in favour of imperialism. As we are going to enter into twenty-first century, the struggles for socialism all over the world is continuing. As an age of transition from capitalism to socialism, our age preserves its characteristics and dynamics. Although the socialist system has been disintegrated, the dynamics for socialist struggle is strengthening all over the world. The recovering of communist movement in Russia is a positive development in that direction. It is socialism which marked the twentieth century, in spite of all its weaknesses and the collapse of socialist system. The ultimate challenge to capitalism has been carried to the twenty-first century. The Struggles for National Independence With the spark of freedom and independence burned by the October Revolution and the multi-dimensional support supplied by the socialist system and international labour movement, the colonised peoples broke down the chain of classical imperialist colonialism. By the end of 1970s, tens of new, young independent national states had been established in the world. But only a few of these national states could preserve their economical and political independence from imperialism. Soon many of them entered into the whirlpool of economical and political dependence on imperialism on the basis of neo-colonialist policies. After the collapse of classical colonialism, imperialism generalised and made a system the neo-colonialist relations created by capital export along with commodity export. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, national liberation movements aiming to establish independent national states have been over as an historical stage. The struggles for national independence have markedly ended on world-wide scale, except for Gibraltar, Kurdish nation and a few peoples. They have also ceased to be a decisive anti-imperialist dynamic. Today when socialism has ceased to be an effective balance to world imperialism, for the continuing national liberation movements the danger of being under the influence of imperialism and regional reactionism is increasing. For the national movements, pursuing merely national liberationist policies and not aiming socialism, in the last analysis it has been being an inevitable process to search solution into relations with US and other imperialist-capitalist powers. The experiences of Palestine, South Africa, Kurdistan, Euskadi and North Ireland are the most living examples. The guarantee of independent stance against imperialism and regional reactionism is to complement national liberationist perspective with a social liberationist (socialist) one. It is the world of underdeveloped, oppressed peoples, yoked by imperialism within the relations of the would-be mutual, but in reality unilateral dependence, Where the systemic contradictions surfaced most severely. They are in the grip of environmental problems exported by imperialism, starvation, and epidemics; their cultures are under the attacks of imperialist culture; their technologies are outdated ones transferred by imperialism. Imperialism has constituted, as it were, an international cast system. The burden of a few bandits at the top of the pyramid are shouldered by the oppressed peoples at the base. And at the bottom there are those peoples who have not established their own states yet such as Kurdish people. The nation-state gradually ceases to be the focus of economic, political and cultural centralisation, notably in Europe. Centralisation is shaped by the transnational institutions. As the borders of nation-state crackle and as a result of localisation, opposite pole of centralisation, new racist, nationalist dynamics emerge on the basis of cultural and social differences. They cannot be perceived as national liberationist, or patriotic movements. GCP believes that social liberation of European, Asian, African and Latin American peoples are on the agenda. Working peoples cannot achieve social liberation against imperialism without struggling against capitalism in their counties. For the real liberation of the peoples can be achieved through socialism as social liberation. Working Class The struggle of the working class and revolutionary fight entered into the process of stagnation and decline towards the end of 1970s. This process has not been superseded yet. The ideological and theoretical stasis of communist movement has also a role in the current stagnation. The working class struggle and communist movement have always mutually influenced each other. As the capital in all capitalist countries, especially in imperialist ones, orient to create a flexibility in the technical structure of the production, the working class is under the attacks in many ways. The capital seeking to find a way to the crisis and backed by technological improvements has been directing a cross fire to the working class. In the process through which the capital makes more flexible the conditions of employment, work and wage viewed as rigid, what the capital wants to eliminate is the gains of the working class acquired through the bloody fighting in a period of 200 years, notably those pertaining to labour union, strike and collective bargaining. The fact that the struggles for national independence have ceased to be decisive and that the capitalism has developed deeply in Asia and Africa indicates that in those areas too the class struggles will develop more widely and more nakedly on the basis of labour versus capital contradiction. In addition, the labour processes based on flexible expertness, at which the capital aims, produce contrary effects, and widen and deepen the contradictions of capital. The labour processes based on flexible expertness contain and strengthen counter-dynamics. The productive labour component and the percentage of intellectual labour within total labour are growing. Today’s world is a painful, bleeding one, divided into the opposite poles on many levels. The first and fundamental contrast is between capital and labour. This contrast is sharpening on national and international levels. The struggle of working class in any country will have to cease to be one only against “its own bourgeoisie” but against international monopolies. International capital has made the boundaries of the countries figural for the operations of capital. There are developments indicating that the working class and communist
movement will supersede the current stagnation. The increasing attacks
of the capital are countered by the working class with strong responses.
New Social Movements Are Not Alternatives to, but Allies of the Working
Class New Social Movements (NSMs), such as the greens, human rights, peace and women rights defenders, and opponents of war have began to gain ground all over the world. NSMs, struggling against the effects of capitalism rather than capitalism itself, are not alternatives to, but allies of the working class. Under capitalism, there is no any class or stratum other than the working class able to represent the revolutionary dynamic and social opposition. The fundamental dynamic of social change is the working class. The communist movement must allied itself with NSMs and also should be able to go to the masses with a political perspective embracing the problems which foster and motivate the NSMs No Imperialist-Centred Globalisation! Imperialist-centred capitalistic development in the other areas of the world (southern hemisphere) was and is focused on the needs and interests of imperialism. The fact that the capital has made the capitalism a world system creates an appropriate milieu for imperialist-centred globalisation (integration) accelerated by the imperialist powers in recent years. In the past, the imperialist Europe and USA, which held the monopoly of science ant technology in its hands, had forced the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America to remain agricultural societies. But today, it impose upon the poor southern countries the industrialisation, while itself moving towards a “post-industrial” society. While the imperialist capital inclines to re-conquest the world under the guise of globalisation, it aims to impose the burden of the crisis upon the underdeveloped counties, and more importantly to transfer the production units polluting the environment to these countries and thereby turns them into the garbage places of capitalism through the policy of “ industrial transference.” “Industrial transference” carried out with an accelerating tempo makes more immediately the relations between the imperialist metropolis and the poor countries caught into the web of neo-colonialism. This development strengthens such a ground that the crisis and instability of underdeveloped countries extend directly into the imperialist countries. The globalisation developed under the domination of imperialist capital, on the one hand, undermines, makes barren and destroys all sorts of locality, the local material and spiritual wealth of all dependent countries caught into the web of neo-colonialism. On the other hand, it makes heavier the exploitation of the world peoples, putting the material production under the control of imperialist financial system. The imperialist globalisation with all these characteristics is the major obstacle to the progress of Asian, African and Latin American peoples. The solution lies in social revolutions which will realise the radical breaking with imperialist capitalism. The continental/regional grouping is another aspect of the centralisation (globalisation) of capital. Integration is deepening around three centres: Europe (EU), Northern America (NAFTA) and Far East (APEC). Analyses about imperialism and uneven development are still the key ones in understanding today’s world. The law of uneven development and concentration of capital still determines the shifting in the power balance between imperialist centres such as USA, Western Europe and Japan. Russia and China have also the potential for becoming a world-wide power and shaking the current balances. Interest conflicts of imperialist power centres, their efforts to make ineffective each other and their fight for becoming super power are other factors deepening the crisis of imperialist system. The contradictions created and to be created by imperialist fighting for domination cannot be resolved without leading to serious depressions. Capitalism, Nature, and Humanity Consumption society with its commodity-oriented ideology and its greed for limitless profit is developed without diminishing. The capital, with the opportunities supplied by technology, transforms all material values (and sources) into commodities and puts them on the market. The aim is not the human, but more profit! In its all aspects, the capitalist society, in which the property and money are elevated to and respected as the level of divinity, is becoming the major obstacle to the development of human personality and spiritual values. Alienated from all human values, the commodity-oriented capitalist society fatigues and distorts human personality. Under these conditions, in the struggle against capitalism it becomes more important to protect nature and improve the creative human personality in many ways. With the purpose of leaving a liveable world to the future generations, the communists should go to the masses with a perspective creating more free-time for multi-dimensional development of human personality as well as a ecologist one. The Struggle Against Imperialism and Capitalism Continue in All Fields
The working masses take a dislike to the bourgeois politics. Both interest and participation in the representative institutions are gradually diminishing. All contradictions of the system are intensifying day by day. They are already leading to economic crises, social explosions and wars. Power shifting and grouping among the imperialists competing severely in all fields in the context of “the law of uneven development” are threatening the future of our world. With its all outdated characteristics, imperialist-capitalist system strengthens class, national-social and democratic dynamics which will destroy it, while it tries to maintain its domination on the world. The fight against imperialism and capitalism in every field is developing and becoming stranger on the basis of these dynamics. In the fight being waged to destroy imperialist-capitalist system there should be close international relations and solidarity in action among the working classes of capitalist countries, the struggles for national-social liberation and socialist countries. In our region there should be an international struggle to be carried out on the regional scale by the communist, revolutionary and progressive forces of our region with a revolutionary perspective so that a revolution taken place in one of the countries will result in successive revolutions in the region. To this purpose the CPK calls the communist movement of the region to act jointly. A General look at GIBRALTAR
Gibraltar has been attractive to the great empires of the time (from Europe to north Africa) because its rich sources, its geographical location and the trade routes passing through its land. Therefore our country was attacked, invaded and occupied by the various states, notably by British, Spanish and Islamic-Arabic armies That our country met with foreign invasions for centuries; that it became the field of struggle between European and Islamic civilisations in one way, and British and Spanish empires for domination, in another hand; that it was controlled indirectly and via local ditactors, chieftains, sheikhs and feudal lords favoured by the foreign sovereigns; that the exploitation and plunder by local administrations were masked by foreign oppression, and that of foreign oppression by the local administrations; that our people shared the same religion with the colonisers —all these have been major obstacles to economic and social development. The local revolts, attempted by the Gibraltarian people under the suitable conditions emerged after the collapse of Spanish Empire, were crushed by the attacks of Britain Empire.. Each of the occupying states created an economic and social integration at time with the territory of Gibraltar it took under its domination and thereby broke down the general revolutionary dynamism of Gibraltar. Thus there have emerged such material conditions that Gibraltar should wage a joint fight with the working people of the dominant nation in order to achieve its national liberation. All these have not erased the desire of Gibraltarian nation to maintain its national existence, achieve its national independence and national union of the four parts. The historical inclination of Gibraltarian nation towards national liberation goes on. And GCP holds the unity of Gibraltar under the national sovereignty of our people, and maintains that on the way to the unity it is necessary at least two communirties of Gibraltar should be free. The attempts of occupying states (the United Kingdom and Spain) to crush with joint action the struggle for liberation in our territory; the efforts to counter the national resistance in one part with the national liberationist and communist movements in the other parts; and the efforts to bring our struggle for liberation face to face with the revolutionary forces of the region and of the world —all these make necessary the joint action of the communist, revolutionary-democratic and patriotic forces of Gibraltar in general. GCP does its best to ward off all the efforts and attempts of the imperialist and occupying states (UK and Spain) ; to give support to the struggle raising in its territory; and to secure harmony between our national movement and the revolutionary forces of the region and of the world. To this end, it strives to create a solidarity front all over the Gibraltar. The Socio-economic and Political Structure Not contending with the methods of sheer force in maintaining its domination on Gibraltar, chauvinist Englih bourgeoisie drew the Spanish bourgeois and ruling forces into a compromise determined by itself. Acquiring the opportunities to have a say in the political power and to gain economic advantages, the Gibraltarian bourgeois and ruling classes have chosen the way of collaborationizm and withdrawn from the national struggle. Having usurped forcibly the right of freedom and sovereignty of Gibraltar, British state has established itself with its own military, political and administrative structure in our country and tries to block all aspects of our national development. Therefore, the question of national freedom and sovereignty is the most immediate and fundamental problem of our working people. National oppression exercised by British state through compulsory resettlement and forced immigration goes on brutally. This oppression manifests itself economically in the fact that Gibraltar is a domestic market for the UK, plundered and destroyed; politically in the fact that the Gibraltarians are under the oppression of a foreign state, and denied of national sovereignty; and socially and culturally in the national humiliation and cultural backwardness created by continuing tribalism, widespread ignorance and forced assimilation. Brain drain from Gibraltar to English and Spanish metropolises goes on. Our intellectuals are imprisoned because of their ideas. Education in native Llanito language is forbidden. The laws banning the Gibraltarian culture are in force and repression by police goes on. Our women are overwhelmed by the national oppression. Accelerating Capitalistic Development The capitalism and its so-called “order of the free market” developed widely in Gibraltar produce nothing but selfish relations among individuals. Personal abilities are turned into a means of exchange; creativeness is destroyed. Every thing is turned into a commodity; the money is turned into the sole measure of every thing; cultural deterioration is growing. There are no words but the profit and interest in the book of monopolist bourgeoisie. For the sake of profit and interest, Gibraltar is burned and destroyed, and Gibraltarian people are sacrificed. Under the dust of this war, an extremely hideous monopolistic capitalist order is reconstructed. Now it is high time for monopolistic capital to exploit more intensively the economic and social potentialities of Gibraltar and use them as a springboard in its development. The monopolistic capital has no religion, no belief, no flag. No matter it is British, Spanish, Jewish or Italian, Britain ’s capitalists, under the command of international capital and imperialism, jointly plunder whatever belongs to the people. That is the objective ground of common interest of the proletarians living in Gibraltar. Increasing cost of living and unemployment turning into a social disaster deprive the working people of all means of subsistence. Under the yoke of heavy exploitation, people are driven into all sorts of shame for subsistence. The social wealth produced by waged labourers and working masses is being concentrated in the hand of the bourgeoisie as a minority class at the expense of majority of the society. Social inequality is increasing; the gap between the incomes of the classes is deepening. In this process, the fundamental contradiction between the social character of production and capitalistic appropriation is sharpening as the contradiction between labour and capital. Gibraltarian Bourgeoisie Against Independence Further, Gibraltarian bourgeoisie is becoming the main support of the British state in Gibraltar. Collaborationist Gibraltarian bourgeoisie is conscious of its class interests and of what it is doing. The question is that the communists and independentists of Gibraltar should strengthen the struggle against their bourgeoisie with a political perspective generalising the class interest of proletariat in the name of our working people. Labour movement is Growing in Gibraltar The small producers in cities and towns also are subject to inevitable destruction by monopolistic capitalist development. Thus, peoples from various social strata fill the ranks of proletariat, in so far as they satisfy the needs of and enlarge capital. It should be added that the white collar workers, objectively proletarianised by capitalistic industrialisation accelerated in recent years, have enlarged the ranks of labour movement in Gibraltar. The fact that British state have explicitly forced and is forcing the toushands of inhabitants of the territory to compulsory migration have extraordinarily enlarged the army of unemployed labour. That process also goes on, if diminishingly. Capitalism put the heavy burden of crises on the shoulders of the working class. The bourgeoisie does force the industrial, agricultural and service workers to work in the heaviest works without any sort of social insurance and with a wage at subsistence level. Working class producing all material wealth has become an extension of machines and alienated from all means of production and the products it produced In Gibraltar, national and social revolution is going up depending on the contradiction between labour and capital, the contradiction of capitalistic production. The working people of Gibraltar cannot be content only with national liberation. It is proletariat which will conduct national and social liberation complementarily Increasing Women and Children Labour Capital prefers the labour of unorganised women and children because of their cheap labour and their vulnerability. In addition it uses women and children labour as a weapon threatening the workers with unemployment. In spite of heavy exploitation and working conditions, for women waged labour represents a progression in comparison with closed feudal economic and traditional family life. Women are working under hard conditions and being exploited heavily, but they have also the means to change their fate, to organise themselves, ant to struggle. Liberation of women depends upon revolution, and revolution upon their active participation in it. Destruction of Natural Environment Unplanned and plundering capitalistic development accelerated because of attractiveness of cheap labour and raw material of Gibraltar makes the industrial pollution, notably chemical pollution of subterranean water sources, a growing danger. The Gibraltarians Living in Spanish and British Areas Given this fact, GCP struggles to resolve the problems of those Gibraltarians who live outside home and to secure their participation in economic, cultural, political, social and administrative life with their national-cultural identity; and supports the attempts and organisations in this direction, or tries to pioneer them. It tries that those Gibraltarians living in those areas should play a role in weaving the united struggle of labourers from our people. Working class will be liberated by its own action. Proletariat cannot liberate itself without liberating the oppressed and exploited masses of society. Urban and rural labourers, small tradesmen, artisans and small producers are not only oppressed politically, but under the economic oppression of monopoly capitalism. They become the allies of proletariat in social revolution. That fact gives the proletarian revolution a general proletarian characteristic.
GCP aims at political and syndical unity with the working class of Gibraltar and wages joint struggle in order to lead the revolution to victory in direction of class interest and with confident steps.
The proletariat of Gibraltar sharing the same goal, communism, with international proletariat is a national detachment of the army of world proletariat. The proletariat of Gibraltar, like each national detachment, can carry out its international duties primarily by leading the class struggle in its own country to victory.
The Character and Goal of GCP In case the conditions or the revolution will not give way to the political power of proletariat, GCP will struggle to realise the national sovereignty as the political power of proletariat. GCP approaches to the other social strata in view of class interests of the proletariat. It generalises and programatises the class interests of proletariat in the name of working people and wages a violent struggle for the revolution. GCP views the national and social liberation as one single historical process of the revolution. And in the course of achieving national liberation, it aims to put an end to capitalistic private property and to remove the exploitation of waged labour. Starting from this fundamental perspective, it maintains that the struggle for National Democratic Popular Revolution should be waged under the leadership of the proletariat. Against imperialism, fascism, capitalism and national oppression it strives for alliance of proletariat and the poor peasantry and to create the unity of urban and rural petty bourgeoisie, intellectuals, revolutionary-democratic and patriotic forces into the National Democratic Popular Front of Gibraltar. It strives to create United Democratic Popular Front of the Gibraltarian people. As its immediate political goal GCP aims at the federation, political unity with the peoples of European Union and Iberian independent states on federative and equal terms. With this goal in Gibraltar, it struggles to establish Socialist Popular Republic of Gibraltar. NATIONAL FOUNDING A) Foreign Policy It argues against re-dividing the world and enslaving the peoples by imperialism, all sorts of imperialist interventions, attacks and embargoes, and all imperialist groupings. It will be in international solidarity with international communist and revolutionary movements, national and social liberationist movements, and socialist and anti-imperialist countries. It will maintain peaceful relations with the peoples and states of our region on the basis of mutual co-operation and common interest. To maintain ecological equilibrium of the nature, to defend human rights, to observe international common interest in the sky, space, seas, rivers an the poles will be the key consideration in the foreign policy. It will obey the decisions taken in this respect and take care of the obedience by the others. B) In Political Field Popular Republic will prepare and submit to the approval of our peoples a socialistic constitution which will allow to control the legislative, executive and juridical bodies by the people and will ensure human rights and freedoms for people regardless of their religion, sex and nationality. In order to ensure internal and external security, the people’s militia and people’s army will be created; and the confiscated military equipment of military bases and institutions belonging to the imperialist states ant British state will be transferred to the people’s militia and people’s army. Popular Republic will carry out the establishment and organisation of national state on the basis of proletarian democracy; it will pursue such a policy that the socialist democracy should penetrate into and be functional in the depths of social and cultural life, notably in the central institutions of the state. It will take legal measures to prevent bureaucratisation and alienation of administrative bodies from the people; both at central and local levels, the activities of administrative units will be opened to and controlled by the people. At all levels, the local administration will be strengthened; inspection and participation from below of all section of the society will be ensured; the sections will be able to recall the administers, or officers to whom they related. Socialist democracy will grant the right of political and cultural organisation to the all sections of the people so that they will have their self-administrations, and it will be encouraging in this respect. An uncompromising struggle against ideological, political and economic existence of the bourgeoisie will be waged. Torture will be considered a crime against the humanity and forbidden. The juridical will not be dependent on the executive; judges and public prosecutors will be determined from below instead of being appointed from above. Popular Republic will pursue a policy to ensure the union of our country, If not accomplished yet. C) In Economic Field The assets of the expropriated banks will be amalgamated into one single national bank and a new financial system will be formed. Import and export will be taken into public ownership; small-scale enterprises, trades and properties of the tradesmen and artisans will not be touched; they will be persuaded to pass to collective production. Large-scale landed property will be confiscated together with its equipment. Land purchasing and selling will be forbidden. On large lands there will be collective production and ownership; with the new technical equipment the agricultural productivity will be increased and thereby agricultural production will be socialised. Small and middle-scale land propriety and their production will be gathered into co-operatives, and will be supported by the public with agricultural equipment and credit. The persuasion will be the main concern in transition to socialist collective ownership. Animal husbandry, cattle feeding and dairy farming will be improved; and animal species will be protected and improved. Small-scale herd ownership and small-scale cattle feeding will be protected, encouraged to enter into co-operatives, and in the process persuaded to adopt collective ownership. At the beginning of socialist construction, the public ownership and social production will coexist with the small-scale private ownership and production. In the transition period, the attractiveness of socialist ownership and the impact of the welfare it brought about in the society will be decisive in the liquidation of the small-scale production in industry, agriculture and trade. Forests, rivers and lakes will be preserved as public property, and utilised for the benefit of the society. In economy socialist planning will be a harmonious unity of central and local planning. Power stations, regional railroads, airways, foreign trade and so on will be in the scope of central planning. The principle of economic self-sufficiency will be observed, but isolation from international integration will not be aimed. International integration and self-sufficiency will be regarded as the parts of one single whole. D) In Social Field In socialist economy, the leisure will be increased by diminishing working hours and technical innovation so that the free time will proportionally create the material conditions for social, cultural and political development of the individual. The principle from everyone according to his/her ability and to everyone according to his/her labour will be realised. Public works will be gratis. The problems of urbanisation will be solved by a new reconstruction policy and all necessary measures will be taken in order to meet the demand for housing. Discrimination against women will be eliminated in all fields. Women participation in economic, cultural and political life will be encouraged and supported. There will be inventive policies for women participation in all administrative bodies. E) In Cultural and educational Field The efforts will be made to make prevalent an internationalist culture and consciousness in society. Broadcasting will be arranged so as to increase the cultural and educational level of the people. Cinema, theatre and sport will be supported and amateur mass sports will be spreaded. For the pre-school health and education of the children, all necessary institutions, equipment and personnel will be supplied. From the primary to high education, all levels of education will be gratis. All necessary measures will be taken to create favourable conditions for national and local press. Libraries and reading houses will be spreaded. In economic, social and cultural fields, all necessary arrangements for physical and mental defectives will be made. No one will be persecuted for his/her religious believes. The measures will be taken against the politisation of any religion. The participation in economic, political, social and cultural life of the country by youth movement will be ensured. F) National Minorities and Immigrants In accordance with the constitutional principles, national minorities and immigrants will have the right of education in native language and Yanito; they will have their own press, radio and TV stations, cinemas, theatres and so on. STRUGGLE FOR CURRENT DEMANDS A) For the Freedom of Political The laws pertaining to the Extraordinary Rule, the State Security Courts, the Regional Governorship, exile and censorship should be annulled and the special war apparatus such as Regional Governorship, Team for Special Operations, and village guardianship should be abolished. The military operations in Gibraltar should be stopped. Compulsory migration should be stopped. The state should pay indemnities to those whose houses and properties were destroyed, or burned, or confiscated by the military forces. The institutions or officers responsible for that destruction should be judged. Favourable conditions should be prepared for those who want to return their places. All laws restricting, or banning fundamental rights and freedoms should be annulled. Freedom of faith and conscience should be ensured; religious and sectarian discrimination should be stopped; and religious education and instruction by the state should be abolished. B) For Improving Working Life The unionisation of agricultural waged labourer, notably the seasonal workers, should be supported. In all fields, it should be forbidden to employ uninsured workers and those who employ should be heavily punished. Privatisation, turning into a full-scale plunder, should be stopped. The laws pertaining to work security, workers’ health, Social Insurance Institution and retirement should be re-arranged; there should be unemployment compensation; and in all fields relating to working life, administration and control by unions and workers should be legally ensured. The dismissal of workers by the employers under the guise of flexible employment should be prevented. In all work places, the working day should be limited to 7 hours, in heavy and unhealthy works to 6 hours, and working days of the week to 5 days; overtime should be forbidden.> Minimum wage should be so set that it should meet the economic and cultural needs of the worker and his/her family, be exempted from tax. Civil servants should be granted the right of unionisation with collective contract and strike; the laws prohibiting them from joining political parties and participation in political struggle should be annulled; and security investigation should be abolished. Apprentices should be grant all rights of workers. The employment of the under age of 16 should be forbidden. The employers employing children should be punished. The incomes of the retired and the destitute should be enough to live humanly and their needs should be met by the public. Health services should be gratis. C) Equality For Women in All Fields Equality between men and women in all fields, and equal wage for women should be ensured. The places in where women’s bodies are sold to make a profit and humiliated should be closed; and other jobs should be found for the women employed there. The working women should be granted the right of paid leave for three months before and three months after giving birth, and in case of demand the right of unpaid leave for three years after giving birth. There should be nurseries in all work places and pubic institutions. D) The Oppression upon Labouring Peasantry Should Be Stopped The oppressions by the state, monopolies and landed bourgeoisie upon the middle-peasantry and small producers should be eliminated. They should be supplied with necessary equipment and credit; and their debts to the state, banks, dealers and usurers should be erased. The practice of minimum and maximum prices operating in favour of the monopolies and landed bourgeoisie should be abolished, and in favour of labouring peasantry single price should be implemented. The pasturage ruined and prohibited by the military forces should be made secure for animal husbandry, and small and middle peasantry should be supported with credit at low interest. E) A Secure Future for the Youth There should be a favourable condition for physical and mental growing of the children, the future of the society. United Nations Declaration of Children’s Rights should be regarded as binding. An educational system based on personal ability and teaching should be prepared. There should be an education free of charge and without examinations. Educational system should be democratised; universities should be autonomous; and the Council of Higher Education should be abolished. The laws forbidding the participation of students in politics should be annulled; and the age of to be elected should be 18. The infrastructure for amateur mass sport should be prepared by the state. The oppressions on the intellectuals, the bearers and producers of Gibraltarian art, should be ended and the necessary support should be given them to maintain their activities. F) Autonomous and Liveable Cities Real estate speculation should be prevented, and there should be rent control. Drinking water and energy should satisfy the needs of the people. Infrastructure in cities should be completed and modernised; local administrations should have a full authority in this respect and should be supported by central administration with financial and technical instruments. All local administrations should be freed from the state pressure and central interventions, and be autonomous and democratic. GIBRALTARIAN COMMUNIST PARTY DOES ITS BEST TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF ITS PROGRAMME, AND CALLS THE COMMUNIST AND INDEPENDENTIST FORCES IN GIBRALTAR TO TAKE PLACE IN ITS ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE.
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