Read 2020 VISION – the new World Perspectives document
We’re living now in the early stages of what could reasonably be called the most disturbed period in human history… The roller coaster of history is shaking the world with stomach-churning lurches… On top of its rapidly developing environmental catastrophe and an exceptionally precarious economic outlook, the stability of the world is further threatened by an explosive volatility in relations between the major military powers…
Are we descending into a new dark age? All the old spectres have returned to haunt us… This is the resurgence of long-buried nightmares…
Today we are witnessing the first manifestation of an entirely new phenomenon: a truly global uprising… Revolution is in the air now… There has never been such international turmoil, such widespread movements of the masses on the streets on such a global scale…In thirty or more countries around the world – in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt in the Middle East; in Algeria, Sudan and Guinea in Africa; in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia and Peru in Latin America; in France, Hungary, Catalonia and the Czech republic in Europe; in India, Indonesia and the Philippines in Asia; in Haiti and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean; most spectacularly of all in Hong Kong – tens of thousands have massed together on the streets – sometimes hundreds of thousands and even millions – braving tear gas and police bullets for weeks on end…
The world is crying out aloud for a united mass party of the working people and the youth stretching across the globe: the creation of a genuine mass socialist international. Its hour has come.