Communist Party (CP)

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” - Che Guevara

Welcome, Welkom, 歡迎, and Selamat Datang to the official headquarters of the Communist Party! The Communist Party is the vanguard party of the Bandurian proletariat, leading the proletariat in its struggle against imperialism, capitalism, and exploitation, and for the proletariat’s emancipation through the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat and a socialist society. As a communist and Marxist-Leninist party in the tradition of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Fred Hampton, Thomas Sankara, and Prachanda, our eventual goal is the withering away of the state and the establishment of a stateless, classless, moneyless, and egalitarian communist society.

The Communist Party of Banduria is a vanguard party, unapologetically following the revolutionary doctrines of Communism and Marxism-Leninism. Our aim is not to forge a class-compromise that will minimize and manage capitalism’s contradictions and quiet the class struggle; we are not a party of bourgeois, parliamentary reformists. Rather, we aim to wage class warfare to the proletariat’s benefit, and and to lead a social revolution that will completely abolish the existing class and social structure. While we do actively contest elections, our party apparatus is primarily extra-parliamentary; our focus is organizing the worker where they are, whether that worker be in the field, the factory, or the supermarket, into trade unions, tenants’ associations, and community organizations. As a party, we do welcome all progressive members of the intelligentsia, professional-managerial class, petite-bourgeoisie, and even the non-comprador, national haute-bourgeoisie; however, we are fundamentally a party of, by, and for the proletariat, and seek to advance the interests of that class and none other.

As a Marxist-Leninist party following the doctrines of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, we structure our party according to democratic centralist principles, allowing free discussion and debate according to democratic principles amongst our members before agreeing upon complete unity of action once the majority makes a decision, and consult and emphasize the mass line, organizing the proletariat and intensifying the class struggle, and formulating our ideology according to the organic, revolutionary instincts and ideas that the people harbor and distilling them accordingly. We also espouse the theory of People’s Multiparty Democracy, as Comrade Prachanda of the Nepali Communist Party formulated, which recognizes the validity of the parliamentary sphere as a legitimate arena of class struggle that communists must participate in, and does not equate socialism with the abolition of the parliamentary democratic system, instead calling for organizing the parliamentary democratic state according to proletarian, rather than bourgeois, lines.

Accompanying this reorganization of the state along proletarian, authentically democratic lines is a social revolution of, by, and for the working-class and the masses, as led and served by the Communist Party, which will establish a socialist society. We will end private ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange and transfer these things into public ownership and democratic control by a Bandurian dictatorship of the proletariat - structured according to the principles of People’s Multiparty Democracy - that will coordinate economic planning of the means of production, distribution, and exchange through a mixture of industrial syndicates, facilitation boards, computers, and centralized bodies, and establish a rationing system through non-transferable labour vouchers.

However, this platform is merely our Transitional Programme, an intermediary economic stage of lower-stage communism and the socialist mode of production. As communists, we ultimately aim to transfer the means of production, distribution, and exchange into common ownership, as part of the commons, to be used by all and for all of humanity, by which point the Bandurian state will have long withered away and in its place will exist a classless, moneyless, and stateless communist society enveloping the whole of humanity: this is our Maximum Programme.

However, we also recognizes the necessity and desirability of pursuing certain reforms, which the Bandurian proletariat demand, allowing these proletarians to better mobilize and organize itself in preparation of the socialist, proletarian revolution, and as Communists, it is our duty to demand the immediate institution of these reforms in the context of the present parliamentary, bourgeois democracy. Accordingly, we have prepared the proletariat’s demands, according to democratic centralist principles and following the mass line, in the following Minimum Programme:

• We demand the immediate nationalization of all rental properties, converting these properties to social housing.
• We demand an immediate program of slum clearance, entailing nationalizing all land currently occupied by shantytowns, demolishing these slums if residents consent, and constructing social housing at a 4:1 ratio to demolished housing units or 5 million social housing units - whichever is higher - and allowing residents of demolished slums to live in this social housing in complexes where they live amongst the community members of former slums.
• We demand a nationwide “right to return” law so that those whom gentrification displaced can return to their former communities, as social housing tenants, if they so choose.
• We demand capping tenants’ rents at one-fourth of their income.
• We demand immediately funding all necessary repairs to social housing.
• We demand banning “no-fault” tenant evictions, and only permitting just-cause evictions.
• We demand that the state construct all new social housing units as mid-rise, five-to-six story apartments, mixed-income, mixed-use developments, and according to the Danish cohousing principles, with ample community venues including childcare and healthcare facilities, communal kitchens and dining facilities, playgrounds, and green space.
  We demand an immediate program of relief to impoverished and swindled homeowners, by nationalizing all underwater mortgages and foreclosed homes, and allowing homeowners to stay in their homes as social housing tenants.
• We demand a right to shelter law, mandating that the state ensure all Bandurians have a roof over their heads at night.
• We demand a housing first policy with regards to unhoused Bandurians, ensuring that all unhoused Bandurians are immediately housed in a single-room occupancy hotel, studio apartment, or one-bedroom apartment.
• We demand a tax on all vacant properties equivalent to 2% of those assessed properties’ values.

• We demand that the government consider climate change the greatest threat to humanity and act accordingly.
• We demand transitioning Banduria to an energy system entirely based on renewable and nuclear energy by 2030.
• We demand a carbon tax, the proceeds of which would be given back to the people via a tax-free monthly check.
• We demand protection of the Bandurian natural environment, and hence demand that the state establish greenbelts on the urban periphery, declarate of large swaths of the Bandurian wilderness protected, reforest deforested areas and restore our nation’s wetlands.
• We demand that the state subsidise electric cars and prohibit imports of non-electric cars.
• We demand immediate ratification of the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol.