Leader Collective leadership Colours Red | Political position Far-left | |
Newspaper La Bretxa and La Brecha Ideology Marxism
Socialism
Trotskyism International affiliation Committee for a Workers' International | ||
Revolutionary Socialism (Spanish: Socialismo Revolucionario) is a small Trotskyist political party in Spain affiliated with the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI). Revolutionary Socialism publishes monthly magazines in Spanish and Catalan called La Brecha and La Bretxa which contain a socialist perspective on news and current issues. It campaigns for a party of the working class to express the political needs of those not benefiting from the capitalist system. They believe a strong and organized movement of workers and young people can overthrow capitalism and establish a new society. This can be achieved by taking banks and big business into public ownership and administering them through democratic control and management.
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Catalan independence
They are in favour of the right to self-determination including independence but fight for a socialist Catalan state as part of voluntary Iberian federation. They are against alliances with pro capitalist parties for independence as it would suppress the voice of the working class who hold the real power for change through mass movements.
Abortion rights
Revolutionary Socialism has said it is in favour of abortion rights but trade union involvement is needed to fight for free safe and legal abortions provided as part of a public health system. To give women a real choice however, investment in services that allow the reconciliation of private and work life as well as free access to contraceptives through a system of public healthcare is needed so that women don't have abortions for financial reasons or because they are not able to combine work and motherhood. This means investment in health, education, the care sector, social welfare and childcare. And stable incomes that are enough to lead a dignified life.