Ideology and Issues
The RSP was a left-communist party, which opposed both the authoritarian stalinism of the CPH and the moderate reformism of the SDAP. It united all kinds of groups that did not feel welcome within the CPH and SDAP: leninists, orthodox marxists, council communists and anarcho-socialists. The party's main goal was the proletarian world revolution, which would replace the capitalist system by a system of workers' councils . In the end this would result in a communist society, where inequality, exploitation and class would be eliminated.
It also had several concrete issues it campaigned on:
- Government intervention to combat unemployment and government subsidies for the unemployed;
- Abolition of Dutch monarchy and the Senate;
- Amnesty for all political prisoners and conscientious objectors;
- Replacing the army by a system of workers' militia;
- Equal treatment of men and women;
- Betting working conditions for workers: a 6 hour workdays, special protection of female and young workers, a ban on night work and an obligatory vacation;
- A minimum wage;
- Old age pensions form the age 55;
- Decolonization of the Dutch Indies.
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