The Connecticut Radical Reading Group (CTRRG) is a Marxist-Leninist organization dedicated to the advancement of political development among the people of Connecticut. We are committed to self determination for all oppressed peoples, sex liberation from patriarchal capitalism, and disability liberation.
All organizing members of the CTRRG have pledged to agree with and abide by our Points of Unity upon joining the organization.
Points of Unity
Article I. Ideology
Section 1. The Connecticut Radical Reading Group is dedicated to the study of Marxism-Leninism and the science of socialist revolution.
Section 2. Marxism-Leninism is a living body of revolutionary theory and method; it is the culmination of revolutionary experience from the whole history of the class struggle.
Section 3. This Study Group shall take ideological and practical guidance from the relevant experiences and contributions of revolutionaries from every land and region.
Article II. Self-Determination
Section 1. All peoples have the right to self-determination.
Section 2. We agree that the universal realization of that right within and without the existing U.S. empire and its junior partner Canada, that is, the decolonization of North America, is a precondition for a just society.
Section 3. The anti-colonial and national liberation struggles constitute a special stage of the social revolution.
Section 4. The struggle includes the liberation and self-emancipation of the Black nation of New Afrika, all pre-colombian Indigenous peoples, and the U.S. empire’s colonial territories.
Article III. Sex Liberation
Section 1. This group shall study a revolutionary materialist feminist theory and work to enumerate and expand it.
Section 2. The materialist feminist theory shall be distinguished from the reformist and unscientific feminist trends by: (i) recognition of gendered oppression as structural and (ii) recognition of the failure of reforms to bring about true emancipation.
Section 3. This Group is committed to depatriarchalization, entailing the full legal emancipation and structural liberation of women, LGBT persons, and gender-variant persons, and all efforts will be taken to ensure this is practiced in the Group’s organization.
Section 4. This Group shall vigorously defend the rights of women, LGBT persons, and gender-variant persons within its membership and shall endeavor to make study and work accessible and safe for such persons through a process of internal depatriarchalization.
Article IV. Disability Liberation
Section 1. This Study Group agrees that the abolition of disability as a social structure and the liberation of disabled persons is a vital component of the social revolution.
Section 2. This Group shall ensure that disabled comrades and members are included and empowered to participate in all branches of the Group’s work and study.