The prospect of an unpopular Government operating with a majority that it does not democratically deserve, alongside a challenging new right wing Government in Washington to which our Government is subservient, means that we, the Workers Party of Britain, have to be secure and united in our principles and work tirelessly to make a decisive attempt at the next General Election to attain effective power as well as sustain our current momentum for progress in local Government.

In addition, we may have to face attempts to blacken our name or destabilise us by ruthless interests determined on war and international confrontation. In that context, we affirm four fundamental principles to take us through to political power and the peaceful and democratic removal of the current Government.

1. Working Class: That we will not deviate from our primary purpose which is to represent and fight for the interests of the working class of Britain which we interpret as all those whose livelihoods (regardless of all other factors) depend on the decisions of the owners or managers of capital or the Crown and have no significant capital of their own beyond what is required reasonably to secure their pensions, care and personal security and those of their families.
2. Anti-Imperialist: That we will oppose all forms of imperialism and imperial alliances and that this is in the interests of the working class as well as of the dispossessed and oppressed peoples of the world and we oppose any use of military action, support or imperial subversion or intervention outside these islands except in direct and immediate defence of the people.
3. Socialist: That we will make every attempt to recover public support for socialism as the common-sense solution to systemic failure in the neo-liberal economic system and that we will interpret socialism to be the best available, effective, accountable, fair  and sustainable means of redistributing power and resources as widely as possible within the nation where all citizens have equal worth in and of themselves.
4. Unity: That the WPB will be open for debate on how these principles will be implemented but that there will be no toleration of attempts to breach these principles, which underpin the ten point programme on which the party was founded.  While pragmatic political alliances may be regarded as necessary in attaining the implementation of our principles, these alliances will not be permitted to change the character of the Party or its programme.