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Guide to RAIL work with other organizations

The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) is a mass organization
founded and led by the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM). RAIL and
MIM work with other organizations on a variety of issues. Our work with
these organizations is in the spirit of a United Front led by the
proletarian line. In such a United Front, groups and individuals work
together against a common enemy in spite of disagreements on other issues.

RAIL has a few guidelines for its work in the United Front with other
organizations which are relevant to specific educational events, rallies
and other activities that we carry out together:

1. RAIL will not give up its ideological or organizational independence in
work with other groups. In practice this means that RAIL will not allow
other groups to tell us what we can and can not say. And it means that
RAIL will not hide its ideology or its identity and affiliation with MIM.

2. RAIL will not demand that other groups give up their ideological or
organizational independence in the United Front. Instead we come up with
points of unity for specific events and invite other groups to unite
around these regardless of other disagreements. Other groups are not
restricted from making statements of political line that contradict RAIL
line as long as these are not statements that contradict the points of
unity.

3. RAIL will not invite any revisionist organizations or their front
groups into the United Front. A revisionist organization is one that
claims Marxism but in truth upholds an ideology fundamentally counter to
Marxism such as Trotskyism. We stand by this a point because, as a mass
organization led by a Maoist party, RAIL can not justify legitimizing
phony Marxism which deceives the people about what really represents the
proletarian line.

Often there are members of parties claiming to be Marxist infiltrating
mass organizations, frequently trying to take over these groups. Having
one or two members from a revisionist group in an organization does not
exclude that organization from participation in a RAIL-led event. We
divide along the lines of leadership: a revisionist front group is one
that is led by a revisionist group. Examples of such groups include the
National Peoples Campaign and the International Action Coalition (led by
Workers World Party), and the October 22nd Coalition and Refuse and Resist
(led by the RCP).

Last update: Jan 6 1999

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