11th Convention, 2022. The Political Resolution places today’s struggles inside a period of economic, social and political transformation driven by new technology, widening dispossession, ecological crisis and the ruling class turn toward fascism.
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1. Introduction
The resolution begins from the contradiction of the present moment: extraordinary scientific and technological capacity exists alongside poverty, homelessness, pandemic, ecological devastation, police violence, attacks on voting rights and growing fascist organization. It argues that the productive capacity to meet human need already exists, but remains constrained by private ownership and corporate power.
2. The U.S. ruling class in a multipolar world
The document examines the weakening of uncontested U.S. global dominance, the changing world economy, intensifying competition among major powers, militarism and the danger that working people will be made to pay for a crisis they did not create.
3. The new class — an abolitionist class
Automation, robotics and digital production displace labor while creating abundance. The resolution identifies a growing section of workers whose basic needs cannot be reliably met through the wage system. Because their survival increasingly requires social provision rather than the market, their immediate demands point toward public ownership and distribution according to need.
4. Unity of our diverse class
The resolution treats the struggle against white supremacy, national oppression, patriarchy and other forms of division as essential to working-class political unity. It emphasizes that the U.S. ruling class has repeatedly used racial hierarchy and exclusion to fragment workers and maintain power.
5. Fascism
Fascism is analyzed not simply as a set of extremist ideas but as a political form of corporate rule that becomes increasingly useful to a ruling class facing instability, resistance and declining legitimacy. The resolution calls for broad resistance to fascist attacks while maintaining an independent revolutionary perspective.
6. Approaching social consciousness
People often enter struggle through immediate needs — housing, healthcare, safety, wages, water, food, democratic rights. Revolutionary work connects these experiences to an understanding of the economic system and to a vision of a society capable of meeting those needs for everyone.
7. Tasks of the League
The League’s role is political education, organization and participation in real social struggles. The resolution stresses uniting revolutionaries, developing class consciousness, exposing private property as the barrier to a cooperative solution, and helping the movement fight for political power.