The 2025 Organisational Resolution document was passed unanimously by delegates of the Second Congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party on 4 May 2025. We publish here the full version of that document.
We recommend reading this alongside the 2025 British Perspectives document, which forms the basis for the tactics and methods outlined here.
There is a deep discontent in British society. It is breeding an anti-establishment, anti-politician, and anti-rich anger, especially among young people.
But the British left is weak, demoralised, and confused. No one is harnessing the revolutionary potential of this mood among millions of people and channeling it against the capitalist system.
The growing opposition to the Starmer government will intensify this contradiction, and bring with it many opportunities to contrast communist ideas with the bankruptcy of the reformist left and other political trends.
Preparing for these opportunities is the central question facing the Revolutionary Communist Party at our Second Congress.
From the First to the Second Congress
In the twelve months since we launched the Party we’ve made an impact and had some growth. In 2024 we raised 38% more through financial collections than in 2023, and we grew the membership by 13%. We now have 1,206 members and 120 branches and cells.
Our work in the Palestine solidarity movement has been politically sharp and consistent. It led to enormous publicity for the Party, which was part of a unique set of circumstances in which we ran a general election campaign for the first time.
This raised the profile of the Party and taught us many lessons about mass work. The election campaign is a source of enormous pride for the Party, but it was a one-off. The electoral front is not the best arena for our work. We have much more fruitful avenues to pursue.
Despite the successes of the past twelve months, it is obvious that our Party remains far too small to resolve the contradiction between the widespread radical anger in society and the lack of a clear political expression for it. Membership growth is therefore our number one priority.
Given our rapid growth in 2023 there has been an inevitable need to consolidate, which has led to slower growth in the last 12 months. The key to consolidation and laying the basis for future growth is good branches with political and organisational strength.
Political training as the basis for growth
Party members must understand that our future growth is directly linked to the political and theoretical training of the Party. Therefore, our central mission is to develop cadres, who are revolutionaries with a deep understanding of Marxist ideas and an ability to translate those ideas into action.
High-quality political discussion at every level is the spine of our Party. Every branch meeting, regional aggregate, national event, caucus, or pub trip should teach every comrade something new and deepen our collective understanding of the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
We have several indispensable weapons to use on this front. Our books, pamphlets, newspaper, websites, and theoretical magazine are second to none. Every member should learn to use these tools systematically to sharpen their political understanding.
This year we will have some new tools on this front. We are publishing a new volume of Ted Grant’s writings, and producing new material on the history of the Fourth International. This will give comrades a deeper understanding of our own history and the genuine method of Trotskyism helping us to avoid the pitfalls of sectarianism, ultra-leftism and opportunism.
Cadre development takes time and we should avoid superficiality in education. Consistent, detailed, and patient discussion by more experienced members with newer members is the only way. This is the most valuable investment of our time. Discussion should cover Marxist theory, current affairs, as well as organisational work and lessons from our activity.
Professionalism as a prerequisite for growth
Alongside theoretical and political training, the other prerequisite for growth is a professionally organised Party.
All of our activity, from branch meetings, to national events, to paper sales, to interventions in demonstrations, should be tightly organised, well disciplined, and approached in a serious way. It means attention to detail. This starts by setting clear objectives for what we want to achieve out of any activity. The RCP is made up of professional revolutionaries, comrades who dedicate their time to the building of the party.
Branch officers have a particular responsibility to organise their work systematically. Secretaries, treasurers, paper officers, and education officers should be well trained, in regular communication with regional and national centres, and diligent in their duties.
The responsibilities of a branch officer go beyond carrying out a set of technical and administrative tasks, or establishing a division of labour. The branch committee forms a collective political leadership – a team of comrades who consciously and actively guide the work and priorities of their branch.
Our recruitment strategy
With politically strong, well organised branches we have what we need to grow the Party.
The most fruitful avenue from which we can recruit at this point is young people, especially students, who are wide open to our ideas. These youth will be our bridge to broader layers of workers in the future. For this reason, we should deepen and expand our presence on university campuses.
This means maintaining our existing student societies and establishing societies at new universities. This cannot be left to chance. We should use these to run public events such as discussion meetings, reading groups, stalls, demonstrations, campaigns, and social events. All this activity should be geared towards recruiting and training a new layer of Party members from among the students.
Publicity campaigns for the Party, via posters and stickers or on social media, also yield a high number of new recruits when carried out in a systematic way. We should run a new national recruitment campaign following the Congress along these lines, with appropriate nationally-prepared materials and slogans according to the objective situation.
Our newspaper is also a key recruitment tool, which we can use much more than we have been in recent months. Regular and frequent paper sales should be organised by every branch as a way to meet contacts and start a dialogue with a layer of workers and young people in our local areas, based on the articles in the paper.
Public events, whether built for on campus through the student societies or built for through paper sales in a local area, are a key recruitment tool. We should try to hold a local public meeting every month or so, depending on conditions. They allow us to gather contacts for a political discussion to demonstrate the ideas of the Party and win new members on that basis.
Recruitment comes from the boldness with which Party members approach it. We should not make contacts jump through too many hoops to join the RCP. If they consider themselves revolutionaries and communists, and are not tainted with identity politics, then this is their Party. They should join as candidate members and begin their education and training.
But no less important than boldness is a systematic attitude to contact work. Not all contacts will be ready to join immediately, but that doesn’t mean they can’t make excellent recruits. Speedy follow-up and regular patient discussion with contacts is essential. The key is to start the discussion around issues or questions that the contact is interested in, and then patiently link these particular things to the general struggle against capitalism. In such discussions, we must listen as much as we speak so as to frame our ideas in the best way for each individual contact.
Each branch and university society should have a social life, where comrades and contacts can meet informally, ask and answer questions, and get to know one another.
This method of listening and discussing should continue long after the new recruit formally joins the Party as a candidate member. This is how we will train and integrate them into our ranks.
Recruits to the Party are attracted to us for our ideas, which inspire them. Political discussions and especially branch meetings should be inspirational events that raise people’s sights and deepen their understanding.
With political inspiration should come Party-building responsibilities. New recruits should be given tasks and responsibilities, starting small and working towards bigger things, through which they are guided and helped by more experienced comrades.
Growth on a firm political and professional basis will yield development in other areas, especially finance. We need to develop our work in several areas, not least in the taking on of new full-timers. We therefore urgently need to strengthen the Party’s finances, for which we rely primarily on ourselves as Party members putting our money where our mouth is. Our aim is to turn the world upside down through a global revolution that will end thousands of years of class society. As Communists, we should ensure that our financial contribution to the Party is commensurate with such an historic task.
It is only through strong finances that we’ll be able to build the professional Party apparatus we need. With strong full-time structures we can produce the highest quality political material and organise our work effectively. But for this we need the resources.
In the future we will require a weekly paper, for which finances will be required, although at present the fortnightly is sufficient for our needs. We will require more regional full-timers, and at a certain stage we will need regional offices. Our Party is part of an International with world-changing ambitions. As events develop across the globe we want to be able to maintain and increase our financial contributions to the International.
Setting targets
Despite the enormous possibilities that exist given the political situation, we must have a sense of proportion. We are simply not big enough to fill the vacuum. We cannot shout louder than our own voice.
However, this should not dampen our determination or the political ambitions we have for our Party. It should spur us on with a sense of the urgency of our task.
For this reason we should set ambitious but achievable targets for growth, to be discussed in branches, regions, and at the national level. We should aim to reach 2,000 members as soon as possible. If every member considers how they can recruit and integrate one new person to the Party then we are looking at doubling the membership in the coming period.
This proportionate ambition is how we should approach all targets, for paper sales, subs contributions, fighting fund collections, and so on. These targets should be discussed at all levels of the Party and every member should take responsibility for them.
Members of the Central Committee, as the elected leadership, have a particular responsibility for ensuring our objectives are discussed thoroughly at all levels of the Party.
But the Central Committee does not only function as a link between the local, regional and national levels of the party. It is the leading body in between the congresses, which has been elected to develop perspectives, strategically plan, and work towards politically and organisationally strengthening the regions and branches that its members follow up with.
Another key task of CC members is to develop cadres, by educating and working through leading members in their region, visiting branches and university societies to develop the work, and playing a leading role at key national events like the summer camp. In every branch, district, and region CC members should strive to develop strong teams that work together to achieve the targets that we set ourselves.
Rising to the challenge
The first year of the RCP’s existence has shown what we are capable of, even as a small force. While the so-called ’left’ fumble around in the dark, we must get stronger and bigger, building on sound foundations. History demands it of us and we will meet that demand with determination and optimism.
