The International Communist Party is constituted on the basis of the following principles established at Leghorn in 1921 at the foundation of the Communist Party of Italy (section of the Communist International).

• 1. Under the present social regime of capital, the conflict between the productive forces and the relations of production develop at an ever increasing rate, giving rise to antithetical interests and to the class struggle between the proletariat and the ruling bourgeoisie.
  
• 2. Production relations today are protected by the power of the bourgeois State, which, based on the representative system of democracy, constitutes the organ for the defence of the interests of the capitalist class.
  
• 3. The proletariat can neither smash nor modify the system of capitalist relations of production from whence its exploitation derives, without violently overthrowing the bourgeois power.
  
• 4. The indispensable organ of the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat is the class party. The Communist Party, within which is gathered the most advanced and resolute part of the proletariat, unifies the efforts of the labouring masses and transforms their struggles for particular group interests and immediate gains into the general struggle for the revolutionary emancipation of the proletariat. The party is responsible for propagating the revolutionary theory amongst the masses, for organising the material means of action, and for leading the working class through the course of its struggles.
  
• 5. The world war, caused by the incurable contradictions of the capitalist system which produced modern imperialism, set off the crisis of the disintegration of capitalism, in which the class struggle can only be resolved by means of armed conflict between the working masses and the power of the bourgeois States.
  
• 6. After overthrowing the capitalist power, the proletariat must completely destroy the old State apparatus in order to organise itself as the dominant class and install its own dictatorship: that is to say, by basing the elective representatives of the State on the productive class alone and denying all rights to the bourgeois class.
  
• 7. The form of political representation of the proletarian State is the system of the workers’ councils (workers and peasants), already enacted in the Russian revolution, which began the world proletarian revolution and is the first stable realization of the proletarian dictatorship.
  
• 8. The necessary defence of the proletarian State against all counter-revolutionary attacks can be ensured only by removing from the bourgeoisie and parties opposed to the proletarian dictatorship all means of agitation and political propaganda, and through the armed organization of the proletariat in order to repel internal and external attacks.
  
• 9. Only the proletarian State is able to implement all of these successive measures of intervention in the relations of the social economy, by which will be achieved the replacement of the capitalist system with the collective management of production and distribution.
  
• 10. This transformation of the economy and consequently of social activity as a whole, through eliminating the division of society into classes will also eventually eliminate the need for the political State, whose machinery will gradually give way to that of the rational administration of human activity.