Combining our efforts:
Working in a United Front

A successful United Front is a proletarian-led broad mobilization of
various classes and interests. Such a United Front is a powerful
liberation movement and can end oppression in a base area, and eventually
an entire nation. A true United Front must be led by the interests of the
proletariat  the masses of exploited people in the majority
internationally  because the proletariat is the only class for which
revolution is the only path toward liberation.

RAIL is part of the proletarian-led United Front against imperialism. As
such, we work with other organizations on campaigns or event that serve
the interests of the proletariat. Why does our organization work within a
United Front? Because historically, only United Fronts led by the
proletariat are successful in reacting to the strategies of the enemy,
imperialism. Only a genuine United Front can be successful in pursuing the
interests of the oppressed. RAIL and other mass organizations within the
MIM-led United Front against imperialism work with other groups and
classes that are not revolutionary or proletarian. But we follow the
leadership of the proletariat because this is the only sure method of
keeping multi-class social movements on the revolutionary path.

Many of the privileged classes claim that proletarian dictatorship
eventually and proletarian leadership in the here and now is oppressive in
itself. The reality is that many of these same critics direct the bulk of
their organizing efforts to coalition building, and that in every
coalition or movement there is leadership. While the politics leading a
coalition may be vague or unstated, historically in the united snakes
coalitions do not represent the goals of the proletariat. So the only
remaining question regarding leadership is whether we build a movement
that is strong, headed in the correct direction, and fiercely opposed to
imperialism? Or should RAIL water down its goals of educating about and
fighting against imperialism for the sake of organizing more people into
less correct work?

RAIL invites all organizations and individuals who are not communist,
revolutionary or otherwise affiliated to work with us on campaigns against
imperialism, settler nation domination of internal semi-colonies,
oppression through the prison system, gender oppression, environmental
destruction and all evils created by imperialism. We will insist that our
resources go to the development of genuinely progressive struggles, but we
are quite open to various methods of organizing and educating. We are
confident in our goals as we draw strength from the struggles of the
worlds majority, and we urge all activists and potential activists to
build their understanding of and opposition to imperialism with us and
through political practice.