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From state capitalism to revolutionary democracy
The RDG was founded in1983 by Socialist Workers Party members, who had been part of the SWP’s Republican Faction. Our ideas about revolutionary democracy were developed in conflict with the economism of the SWP.

The following statement appeared in Weekly Worker 291 June 3 rd 1999

The RDG has decided unanimously to support the Weekly Worker Euro-election campaign. The Group has agreed to give £500 for a deposit to sponsor one of the ten candidates on the Euro-slate. We urge others on the revolutionary left to do the same. It is important that we put an alternative to Blair’s imperialist Europe and Arthur Scargill’s little Englander nationalism.

The working class will find the answer to it own and society’s problems by taking up the struggle for democracy in a revolutionary way. The present imperialist war teaches the same lesson. The struggle of the people of Kosovo for self determination and independence is a revolutionary and democratic struggle in opposition to the policies of Milosovic, Clinton and Blair. It must not be separated from the revolutionary and democratic interests of the Serbian working class. The reactionary policies of the Milosovic regime in Kosovo are paralleled with the suppression of democracy and the working class in Serbia.

For us the main enemy is at home in our own Kingdom. Our fight is against US-Euro imperialism and it’s bombing of Serbian workers, and its refusal to arm the KLA. Our own constitutional monarchist state has proved once again to be the backbone of the most reactionary policies. We urge Weekly Worker to take up the arguments for a federal republic and make this one of the central slogans of the campaign. This was dropped from the programme in order to make an agreement with the SWP. Now that the SWP has again proved so weak and failed to stand up to Blair and Scargill, it should be reinstated as one of the central slogans of the Weekly Worker anti-imperialist election campaign.

Revolutionary Democratic Group