Post-PSWP Constitution of the Maoist Communist Party

THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND INSTITUTIONS ACCORDING TO THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE MAOIST COMMUNIST PARTY
FOLLOWING THE SITUATION WITH THE “PSWP”, AND PREVENTING ITS REOCCURANCE
AND TO FACILITATE OPTIONAL AFFILIATIONS OF LOCAL BRANCHES WITH A RELIGION

MARX • ENGELS • LENIN • STALIN • MAO
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PREAMBLE
The Maoist Communist Party is a glorious revolutionary and scientific Party which aims to counter the problems facing modern communist parties by upholding fervent left-wing economics, by remaining moral and disciplined, by upholding the radiant Maoist Proletarian culture and incorporating into our ideology high moral standards and ethical principles, behaviour and conduct, in order to fill the gaping void in the heart of the alienated man.

The founding members of the Party had tried to work previously within other communist organisations (prior to the founding of Infrared), but encountered a common liberal and uncommitted attitude, loathing of the working masses, overwhelming domination by professional managerial and graduate students, lack of congruity with the historical culture and morals of Communists and socialist states in history, stifling attitudes towards discussion (politically correct atmospheres), rampant moral laxity and degenerate influences of the wider culture; all aspects which rendered any serious activity and remaining in such organisations impossible. They decided to create a new, disciplined organisation with very clearly defined lines, ethos, and aesthetics, in order to act in consensus and unity, and one that would be totally free of identity politics, LGBT ideology, and all forms of bourgeois liberalism.

The new Party was to be grounded in Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, be steadfast in its political, moral and economic lines and would maintain high levels of discipline, exemplary charitable behaviour and promotion of grassroots red culture. Communism is to be defined in material reality by the ones calling themselves Communists, and we are determined to reclaim this term for the good and for the humanity, which intellectually and rationally we already know it stands for, and to demonstrate this to people currently with misconceptions, that they might say, "if that is what a Communist is, then I am a Communist too."

Mao Zedong Thought is the Marxism-Leninism of our era, the era in which imperialism is heading for its total collapse and in which socialism marches on towards victory in the whole world. It is the Marxism-Leninism of the era in which modern revisionism and social democracy of the socialism and planned economy of the rich is the concrete force of bourgeois ideology, of class collaboration, and of malthusian degrowth agendas seeking to use anti-imperialist rhetoric to secure existing extractavist monopolies, in the midst of the world proletariat's forces. We must be wary of all these dangers.

Mao Zedong's qualitative development of the science of Marxism-Leninism has raised it to a new stage. Lenin analysed the development of capitalism to its highest and final stage, imperialism. Mao Zedong developed Marxism-Leninism to a new and higher stage in the areas of global struggle against revisionism and, critically, in finding in theory and practice the method of continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat which prevents the restoration of capitalism and the rise of stagnant and disloyal bureaucracy.

Lenin said, "Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat." In the light of the Cultural Revolution led by Mao, this has been further clarified.

The MCP holds that there is an objective existence of classes, of antagonistic class contradictions, of the bourgeoisie in the Party and of the continuation of the class struggle under the dictatorship of the proletariat, to which class struggle will necessarily be applied throughout the whole period of socialism. As Mao stated, "Lack of clarity on this question will lead to revisionism."

Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought is an invaluable weapon for the people - not only of China - but the entire world. It allows the masses to seize power and hold their own Party to account under the authority of Mao, without being branded as counterrevolutionaries.

The Maoist Communist Party takes Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as its theoretical basis guiding all its thinking. A total insistence on this guiding thought of the Party is the basis of the Party's activities; it ensures the victory of the revolutionary cause. Every member of the Maoist Communist Party should struggle to defend the Party's guiding thought. If we hold firmly onto Mao Zedong Thought, our victory is guaranteed.

This Constitution, in legal form, affirms the achievements of the struggles of the proletarian people of all nationalities throughout history and defines the basic functional system and basic line of the Party; it is the fundamental law of the Party and has supreme legal authority. All Party Members and all Party committees and commissions must take the Constitution as the basic standard of conduct, and they have the duty to uphold the dignity of the Constitution and ensure its implementation. Once this Constitution is passed into law, no legislation may contradict this Constitution and no Party Member or organ can act contrary to it.
We are confident that our Party can educate the masses, build up support, represent the interests of the masses in material reality, take advantage of any emerging revolutionary situation, and eventually build a powerful socialist state of the dictatorship of the proletariat so as to make a great contribution to humanity.

People of all nationalities, unite still to win greater victories!

1. TITLE
1.1. The organisation shall be referred to by the acronym "MCP" which may never change, and the guaranteed first and primary meaning of this forever is the "Maoist Communist Party". At present there is one additional meaning permitted to be understood by this acronym, that being "Maoist Culture Promoters", which may be used where the situation is more appropriate such as in media programmes and boards of representatives within other organisations or institutions. At any rate, the "Maoist Culture Promoters" is an alias of, media and advertising front for, and is totally subject to the control of, the Maoist Communist Party and its government.
1.1. a) This enables two ways to interpret the acronym, “MCP”, depending on context. MCP will become a sort of double entente. When speaking with strangers, or on public platforms, the acronym may be presented in what can be perceived as a more benign fashion. In this way, the Maoist Cultural Promoters "media cooperative", as it were, will be the media wing and serve as a public front for the Maoist Communist Party's propaganda, as potentially the Infrared media cooperative will for the CPUSA in the future. The advantage of this way of presenting ourselves to th eoutside world will be that less people will call us a LARP, and it also emphasises that we are also not exclusive, ie. there can be delegates from ourselves working to promote Maoist culture and our morals within various Marxist-Leninist parties and organisations holding membership in theirs and ours, so there could be a board of MCP Representatives sitting in GPGB-ML, in a future Infrared dominated CPUSA, and other such friendly groups, for example.

All the while the interests and propaganda published are directed by the central Maoist Communist Party, whose structure of Political Bureau Standing Committee, Executives, CCDI, etc. and shall work with a unity of will and direction, pushing a common line in all the different organisations her member sparticipate in. The continuity of symbolism and branding, flags and aesthetic allows total harmony with all past activity, and the Maoist Communist Party and Maoist Culture Promoters having the same acronym allows the whole operation to be referred
to as a single entity of the “MCP”. This would resolutely respond to all issues raised in August 2022, but in a sensitive way, and would not create rupture with the past activity and legacy of the organisation in the vulgar way that the attempt to morph the MCP into the PSWP did.

The August Congresses demanded some update to prevent confusion of the MCP with the Maoist Communist Party of China. To a great extent, a clear distinction already exists, with the MCP referring to Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, not Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and our usage of the hammer and sickle on our flag instead of the image of the young Mao used by the MCPC.

Although not formally mentioned, it is thought that a large part of the motive behind pushing this legislation through was the fear that presenting as a “Communist Party” may be intimidating to some propagandised members of the working class, or may appear as a LARP due to its small size.

Unlike the actions of those who, by their own admission, erred in trying to transform the MCP into the PSWP, and implemented changes prior to a Congressional approval, this arrangement is far less drastic and far more conservative and faithful to the MCP than those undemocratically thrusted upon - what was at the time the MCP - with no prior notice, by Lucas Mason, founder of the now defunct-PSWP [Who is now in good standing with us]. Yet, this addition more than satisfies all of the concerns included by raising this motion in August 2022.

1.2. The Chinese names of the MCP shall be, "毛思想共产党", and "毛文化宣传组", corresponding to the interpretations of the acronym as "Maoist Communist Party", and "Maoist Cultural Promoters" respectively.

2. OBJECTS
2.1. The objects of the MCP are:
2.1.1. To be an organisation of Communists that uphold Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as a third and higher stage of Marxism-Leninism, of universal significance. To hold a materialist view of reality and history, believing in an externally and objectively existing reality, outside of the subjective mind and taking this as the fundamental premise of all analysis. Consequently opposing the imposition of narratives on reality.
2.1.2. To support and defend the actions and aims of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao, and to publicly associate with such figures' legacies and personalities. To repudiate accusations of any Communist state engaged in Hitlerite genocide, deliberate extermination of any racial or ethnic group and to question widely accepted figures concerning numbers of deaths in famine in the Soviet Union and China.
2.1.3. To support the Chinese side of the Sino-Soviet split, uphold the one China policy, condemn separatism in Xinjiang, Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, reject narratives of Tibetan or Uyghur genocide, to maintain China is a socialist country to this day whilst permitting political, social, cultural and moral criticisms of Deng Xiaoping and Reform and Opening Up. To oppose Khruschevite revisionism and the alliance of the Soviet Union with global social democracy and the stale, sluggish, lifeless, ideologically disloyal, technocratic Soviet bureaucracy post-Stalin. Consequently, a large focus of the Party's activities will be investigation and study into the Sino-Soviet split and its resulting Cultural Revolution, drawing out its implications and upholding its positive content from when it was grasped in the rural grassroots, whilst condemning urban phenomena such as factional violence in the first two years, attempted imposition of pure culture from the Party centre, etc.
2.1.4. To oppose western leftists and the ideology of the professional managerial class and to be sympathetic with, and to support the work of Infrared - though not being a part of it and maintaining some minor differences. This entails opposing moral relativism and consequentialist approaches of the well-intended ends justifying evil means to achieve them.
2.1.5. To oppose imperialism and support patriotism as well as to reject belief in racial supremacy and discrimination based on racial background. To support multiracial civilisation-states (such as Russia and China), reject ethnonationalism, but advocate strong national identity and pride, and a homogeneity of morals, ethos and values. To resist attempts to dilute or unravel unique national cultures, but with an understanding that cultural outlook and worldview is not racially bound.

2.1.6. To oppose Abimael Guzmán (also known as Chairman Gonzalo), his murderous practice, his usurping MLM ideology, his opposition to Mao’s Three Worlds theory, his view that Mao turned revisionist in later life, his liberal followers, and all forms of terrorism, fascistic ideological violence and inhumanity, voluntarism and left wing adventurism.
2.1.7. To be friendly towards family and religion and oppose discrimination on the basis of religious background, provided morals are aligned with the Party's (even in a branch in alliance with a particular religion).
2.1.7. a) To support the existence of a marriage uncorrupted by capital and inheritance, as an exclusive, monogamous, permanent and lifelong heterosexual covenant between male and female, for the sake of procreation and/or nurture of children, born or adopted, or to be fruitful otherwise spiritually if the marriage is Josephite and abstinent. To support the flourishing of families with increased ease and all provisions to enable this.
2.1.7. b) To not advocate the persecution of religion, to support the admission to the MCP of those of any religion, or of none (falun gong/falun dafa, satanism and freemasonry however are not included as religions, and are prohibited), provided their moral outlook is in alignment with the Party's.
2.1.8. To oppose LGBT (both the astroturfed ideology, and also the practices in and of themselves), contraception, abortion, pornography and prostitution.
2.1.9. To support Russia in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

2.2. The Party seeks to represent the interests of the masses in material reality and organise them under a cohesive and unified line. Hence it works to create a membership of those who will remain devoted and loyal to the MCP, its aesthetic, and wish to preserve its use of the hammer and sickle, its acronym, flag, colour scheme, public support for the five heads of Marxism and public defence of the legacies of socialist regimes, and classifies those who cease to endorse one of these aspects as no longer satisfying conditions for Party Membership.

3. MEMBERSHIP
3.1. Party Membership is open to all lay persons of any, or no religion and both sexes who:
3.1.1. Are in agreement with the objects, morals and aesthetic of the Party.
3.1.2. Are living a chaste life, not cohabiting outside of marriage, not involved in same gender sexual relationships or unions, and who are not dressing or presenting themselves apart from their biological sex. This is known as the rule of life of the Party and ensures Communists can be respected and set an example in laudable and consistent conduct, raise our profile, break the mould and dispel common misconceptions about us by being living proof to the contrary.
3.1.3. Are not addicted to any substance or behaviour (also a requirement of the rule of life).
3.1.4. Conduct their speech in an honourable, respectable and dignified manner, treat people with good faith as much as is possible, and restrain swearing and vulgarity (also a requirement of the rule of life).

3.2. Individual members may in their minds disagree personally with elements of para 2., but should be respectful of the Party's stated position and not challenge it publicly. All applicants to membership confirm their allegiance to the line of the MCP, or if private disagreements are held mentally, that the line is submitted to publicly.

3.3. Persons in Holy Orders/clerics of various religions may be appointed as Associate Members of the Party and serve as Chaplains, consultants, advisers and supervisers. Local national branches may wish to establish clerical supervision, counselling and approval of their members with clergy of a nationally significant religion in that country. Other countries may have no such establishment and integration of religion at all where it is not culturally appropriate. Regardless of whether clerics are established by law in an advising/approving/supervising role, every national branch must maintain the Party’s policy on freedom of religious conscience in admitting those of any or no religion provided the necessary moral outlook and willingness to live out the Party's rule of life.
3.3.1. Associate Members shall have the right to speak and advise at all meetings but shall not have the right to vote or propose legislation.
3.3.2. As mentioned in para 3.3.1., Associate Members cannot propose legislation at their respective level, but according to the discretion of each national branch, may be afforded privileges in reviewing, vetting, approving and vetoing policy proposed by Party Members, out of a mark of respect, and to ensure it will not offend the dominant religious sensibilities of the country.

3.4. Persons who are broadly in agreement with the objectives and rule of life of the Party, but do not qualify for Party Membership or Associate Membership (such as currently being in the midst of battling drug addiction or some other vice) may become Affiliate Members.
3.4.1. Affiliate Members shall be affiliated to their local national branch (where one exists) and to the Party as a whole and shall be invited to branch and international meetings and events.
3.4.2. Affiliate Members must be sponsored for membership by an existing Party Member.
3.4.3. Affiliate Members shall have the right to speak at branch meetings and congresses, at the international Annual General Meeting (occurring in one of the biannual Congresses), at Extraordinary General Meetings and international Party Congresses, but shall not have the right to vote or propose legislation at any.

4. INDUCTION OF MEMBERS
4.1. An aspirant for membership must:
4.1.1. Provide at minimum forename and surname, at any time generally, and also any other information requested on approved application forms in use at any specific time.
4.1.2. Be interviewed by their own local branch Chairman (if existing) or closest to him, ideally in their native language.

4.2. The local branch Chairman must be satisfied that the aspirant fulfils the conditions for membership and is resolved to keep the rule of life of the Party.

4.3. After appropriate consultation, which must include consultation with the relevant Chaplain if in a country where they are part of the Party’s structure, or other pastoral discernment, and consultation with the international Chairman general, national branch Chairmen may apply to the Central Committee for permission to exclude from membership any Party Member, Associate Member or Affiliate Member who fails to continue to satisfy the conditions of membership.

4.3. Associate and Affiliate Members shall be appointed to their membership by the International Central Committee and local branch Central Committees.

4.4. Any dispute must be referred to the international Central Committee, whose decision shall be final.

4.5. In order to ensure that amongst our membership trust in the Party is not undermined, faith in the integrity of the Party from infiltration is preserved, and that harmonious re-integration of those who make mistakes can occur, any person who has been involved in groups emerging from deviations from or disagreement with the wider MCP (namely, at the time of writing, the now defunct breakaway project of the PSWP), will be restricted to Affiliate Membership for a period of 1.5 years from when they become reinvolved with the Party again. This provides a period to demonstrate loyalty and trustworthiness aside from any power motives. Those who take part in radical experiments and wish to return at some point must accept the MCP's take on the conflict publicly even if privately they believe their position to be correct, if it is indeed the MCP they wish to rejoin. It is not possible to rejoin as if nothing ever happened and expect people not to hold suspicion as to true intentions and agendas or to experience scandal. The trust must be rebuilt and such individuals not immediately admitted to voting or governing roles.

5. GOVERNANCE AND STRUCTURE
5.1. There is a degree of autonomy on how national branches of the Party organise themselves beyond the minimal requirements. The minimal requirements are that each national branch will have a Central Committee, composed of a Political Bureau and its Politburo Standing Committee which it elects from amongst itself. The final national Standing Committee of each branch is to contain 5-10 members which automatically gain seats on the international MCP Political Bureau, ex-officio. The national Standing Committees shall each elect 2 executives, being the national Chairman and Premier. The local branch should also have a National People's Congress comprised of their national Central Committee, junior and senior Party Secretaries and also non-Party delegates of various interests, whose application to the seat is approved by the same Congress.

5.2. The Political Bureau of national branches takes suggestions from lower organs of the national Party and proposes policies to the National People's Congress for approval. These national Congresses are composed of delegates (typically including junior and senior Party Secretaries, and members of non-Party interest groups whose membership to the NPC is approved by the same Congress, which vote but cannot propose policy or run for election), as well as the Political Bureau and its Standing Committee. Motions are created by the delegates, and ones that pass in the House of Delegates are submitted to the Political Bureau who can approve or block the motion. If passing in the house of the Political Bureau, it is submitted to its Standing Committee which can approve or block the motion, if passed by the house of the Standing Committee, it is submitted to the Executives (Chairman and Premier) who can approve or block the motion. If the country has clerics by law established, a council of them may have the full proposal submitted to them to have the final say of whether it is acceptable to their sensibilities or not. If a motion passes all the way from the bottom to the top, it is passed into national Party law.

5.3. The general structure of the local Party branches in descending order and increasing number, below Political Bureau, is as follows: Senior Party Secretaries, Junior Party Secretaries, Auxiliary Party Secretaries, Party Members. These roles should be associated with larger geographical areas the higher the rank, by some organisation system, whether it be village, county, town, province, etc. For example, in Britain the aforementioned roles are associated with geographical Dioceses, Archdeaconries, Benefices and Parishes respectively. More or less of these roles may be applied according to the size and robustness of the Party in a given country. An example of how this has been done in Britain can be seen here: MCP-GB Structure
5.4. Where the local Party branch is by law established with a nationally significant religion, meetings and elections will be held in the appropriate place of worship such as Parish Church, Mosque, Synagogue, etc., or its accompanying hall, if it has one. More senior and larger attended meetings can be held in more senior buildings with more space, such as the Cathedral. For secularly established branches, some community meeting places of increasing order and size will need to be found to host these.

5.5. The lower ranks of the Party vote from amongst themselves the necessary amount of people to be elected to the next rank. Eg. Junior Party Secretaries elect Senior Party Secretaries from amongst themselves, as the Political Bureau does for the Standing Committee and as the Standing Committee does for the Executives.

5.6. The national Standing Committees of all the local branches who automatically comprise the international Political Bureau ex-officio, shall elect from amongst themselves 10 members to compose the international Politburo Standing Committee. The international Politburo Standing Committee elects from amongst itself 2 members to serve as international general Chairman and Premier for the whole Party. This is pictured here: MCP International Structure

5.7. Legislation is passed up for approval on the international scale in the exact same manner as on the national scale. A motion must be suggested by a member of the international Political Bureau, however suggestions for the international Party policy can be made by members of the national Party, but much reach approval within the national branch itself, and then can be brought by one of the members of its Standing Committee to the Political Bureau of the international Party. Legislation proposed is then approved by the first layer of Congress, including the Political Bureau and the designated non-Politburo Congress delegates who vote but do not propose policy or run for election (to be approved for their seats at the AGM and whose seats, never comprise more than half of the Political Bureau membership). Legislation agreed upon in this house can then be submitted by to the Standing Committee who approve or veto it, and then if passing that house, may be submitted to the Executives, who approve or veto it. A veto here refers to the disapproval of a whole house by overall majority, not a disapproval individually. Individual members of the Standing Committee for example may oppose a motion, but if approved by a majority of the Committee, the motion will pass that house. If all houses are in agreement on a proposal, it becomes international MCP law, which is binding upon all local branches. There will be no clerical consultation at this level, as all laws made act upon national branches which align with various, and no religions.

5.8. Any legislation proposed on the national or international level must include full details on how it will be implemented at the time of submission, elsewise would have to get a further elaboration approved at a later date fully explaining how any change will be made, which the proposing body can be held to being faithful towards when carrying it out. This is so that vague notions cannot be approved without Congress participants knowing exactly what the implications will be and how the measure will look when it is carried out. This protect both the person who proposes legislation being accused of doing something else, or sneaking in an agenda and shoehorning things not approved in its name, and also protects to Party from bad actors who may use deliberately sparse language to be able to spring upon the Party unexpected results once a motion is passed that those who were voting for it were unaware of or did not imagine would occur in such a way.

6. PARTY CONGRESSES AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS
6.1. Biannual international Party Congresses will be held each year, one of which will contain the AGM also and the other will just be a legislative Congress. Each Congress will see the approval of proposed legislation rising up from the broad Party to the Political Bureau, to its Standing Committee, and finally, to the Executives. If it is approved in all houses, it will be made into law, as mentioned in para 5. Congresses by themselves only deal with approving legislation, whereas a Congress with an AGM deals not only with legislation but also with elections, reviews and reports.

6.2. At one of the two Congresses per year should be held the Party Annual General Meeting. At any rate this should never be later than fifteen months after the previous Annual General Meeting.

6.3. The Annual General Meeting shall be responsible for:
6.3.1. Reviewing and approving the minutes of the previous meeting.
6.3.2. Receiving a report from the international Chairman general.
6.3.3. Receiving a report from the international Treasurer general, to include a presentation of the accounts for approval.
6.3.4. Approving a budget (and setting the central subscription, if in force at the time)
6.3.5. Such other business as may be brought forward by the Central Committee or requested by branches.
6.2.6. Electing Central Committee members; Politburo Standing Committee, Premier and Chairman.
6.3.7. Review and approval of applications of designated non-Politburo delegates to participate in the international Congress' lowest house and AGM (to a maximum of ½ the number of members on the international Political Bureau at the time, and only in voting, not proposing positions or running for offices).
6.3.8. Appointment of Treasurer by consent of Chairman and Premier
6.3.9. Making arrangements for the next Annual General Meeting.

6.4. A notice of the upcoming Congress, Annual General Meeting, or both, shall be sent by the Premier to all national branches no later than six months before the date of the meeting.

6.5. Motions and other items for inclusion on the agenda shall be sent by members of the international Political Bureau (members of national Politburo Standing Committees) to the Premier no later than two months before the Congress.

6.6. Nominations for election to vacant positions on the Central Committee shall be invited by the Premier no later than two months before the Annual General Meeting. Nominees shall notify the Premier of their standing for election in advance of the Annual General Meeting, with the names of the member nominated, and two other members who support the nomination.

6.7. The Premier shall send the agenda for the Annual General Meeting to branches no later than one month before the meeting.

6.8. Elections to the Central Committee shall be held following the receipt of the relevant nominations (see para 6.6.) and election shall be secured by a simple majority of the voting members present.

6.9. Both sole Congresses, as well as Congresses with an AGM will be subject to external inspection by the CCDI. New CCDI members are appointed by an existing member of the CCDI and are not subject to the Central Committee's control. They also may not be members of the Central Committee. The CCDI may comprise of up to five people, terms are indefinite and only ended by resignation or malpractice.

7. CENTRAL COMMITTEE
7.1. The international general Central Committee shall comprise:
7.1.1. The international Party Chairman general (Executive).
7.1.2. The international Party Premier general (Executive).
7.1.3. The international general Political Bureau Standing Committee (10 members, 2 of which are the Executives and 1 of which must be the international Treasurer general).
7.1.4. The international general Political Bureau, comprising:
7.1.4. a) All members of the Politburo Standing Committees of national Party branches.
7.1.5. The Political Bureau will elect from itself the Standing Committee, and the Standing Committee will elect from itself Executives and a Treasurer.

7.2. All members of the national Standing Committees are part of the international Central Committee in its Political Bureau and elections shall be held at the Annual General Meeting.

7.3. A simple majority of members present and voting at the Annual General Meeting shall secure election.

7.4. Central Committee members shall hold office for the following year and may stand for re-election without term limit.

7.5. The Central Committee shall be responsible for the day-to-day management of the affairs of the Party and any matters not specifically reserved to the Congress or Annual General Meeting under para 6.

7.6. The Central Committee shall have power to co-opt up to two additional members to undertake specific tasks. To become permanent appointments, these must be ratified by a vote at the next Annual General Meeting and election shall be secured by a simple majority of the voting members present.

7.7. The Central Committee shall have power to exclude from membership any MCP Party Member, Associate Member or Affiliate Member who fails to continue to satisfy the conditions of his respective membership. This exclusion shall only be used following discussion of the international Chairman general with the national branch Chairman and Chaplain concerned (where applicable, or else, whoever was involved in pastoral and supervisory roles for the member concerned), see para 4.3., and an application from the said branch Chairman to the Central Committee.

8. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
8.1. The Party shall designate a bank account, to be administered by the international Treasurer general, for the handling of the MCP International's funds. Financial business on behalf of the MCP International shall be transacted through this bank account alone.

8.2. The Party shall have a financial operating period of 1st January to 31st December each year.

8.3. The international Treasurer general shall keep records of the financial business of the Party.

8.4. Finances must be examined by an independent examiner from the CCDI at each Annual General Meeting.

9. BRANCHES
9.1. A minimum of five persons in one nation eligible for full membership of the Party (see para 3.1.), may apply to the international Central Committee for permission to form a national MCP branch, and submit a flag design based upon the standard MCP flag template with some pattern or symbol of national significance included.

9.2. Branches must uphold the bare minimums of the governing structure mentioned in para 5., most especially possessing a Political Bureau and Politburo Standing Committee is indispensable, of which the Standing Committee must contain the two Executives and a Treasurer. The Standing Committee members are ex-officio members of the international Political Bureau, according to the same paragraph. Other roles are there for the branches disposal, and may be made use of to greater or lesser extents according to their discretion and needs, and supplemented with creative local solutions in the lower ranks, but remain a suggested and commended framework.

9.3. Each branch shall be guided by the principles and shall ensure the following:
9.3.1. Branches should hold at least one legislative Congress and an Annual General Meeting per year (ordinarily these would be the same event), which will be responsible for the approval of policy into local Party law, election of officers and appointment of Chaplains and acommittee of clerics to refer to, who are Associate Members (where appropriate in the national context), and the management of all branch affairs.
9.3.2. Branches shall designate a bank account through which all financial business shall be transacted and shall ensure that their accounts are independently examined by a member of the CCDI on an
annual basis and that the international Central Committee is notified.
9.3.3. Subscriptions collected from Party Members and Affiliate Members (if in force at the time), along with any other income derived through the work of the national Party shall be divided equally between the local branch Central Committee and the international Central Committee.

9.4. Local branch Central Committee members shall hold office for one year and may stand for re-election without term limit.

9.5. Nominations for election to vacant positions on the local branch's national Central Committee shall be invited by the branch's national Premier no later than two months before the branch Annual General Meeting. Nominees shall notify the branch Premier of their standing for election in advance of the Annual General Meeting, with the names of the member nominated, and two other members who support the nomination.

9.6. Elections to the branch Committee shall be held following the receipt of the relevant nominations (see para 9.5.) and election shall be secured by a simple majority of the voting members of the appropriate body (eg. Political Bureau elects Standing Committee, Standing Committee elects Executives, etc.) present at the branch Annual General Meeting.

9.7. National branches should endeavour to meet at least four times a year in person for an act of worship (where applicable) and fellowship, and also the consideration, education in and activities contributing to matters related to the objects of the Party, as well as work in the community and charity to raise our profile and the good association with the image of Communists.

9.8. If the branch has in its local Party by law religion established, the branch shall appoint Chaplains to pastorally care for each level of Party authority as well as a group of clerics with a final veto on national Party policy. If not already an Associate Member at the time of their appointment, the Chaplains and advising clergy shall be appointed to Associate Membership of the Party. The Chaplain or advising/supervising clergy shall have the right to speak, guide, question and suggest at branch meetings but shall not have the right to vote.

10. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETINGS AND EXTRAORDINARY PARTY CONGRESSES
10.1. An Extraordinary General Meeting or Extraordinary Congress of the Party are for urgently arising and pressing matters of election or legislation respectively, which cannot wait until the next AGM or Party Congress. Either may be called in the same way at any time by the request of a majority of members of the international Central Committee, one third of the local Chairmen of branches or 15% of the whole Party.

10.2. The date and venue for such a meeting shall be arranged by those requesting the meeting.

10.3. The business of such a meeting shall be indicated to the international Premier general who shall take immediate steps to inform all members of the Party. At least two weeks’ notice shall be given.

10.4. Only previously notified business may be conducted at an Extraordinary General Meeting, or previously submitted motions be voted on at an Extraordinary Congress.

10.5. The meeting shall be chaired by the international Chairman general.

10.6. Elections to offices at Extraordinary General Meetings and resolutions at Extraordinary Congresses, other than those to which para 12. applies, may be passed by a simple majority of those present and voting.

10.7. The international Chairman general, shall, in the event of an equal number of votes being cast for and against a candidate or motion (or a motion under para 12. attaining exactly 66.7% of the votes cast), have an additional casting vote.

11. INTERPRETATION AND DISPUTES
11.1. The interpretation of this Constitution rests with the international Central Committee. The decision of the international Central Committee shall be final.

11.2. Any dispute within a local national Party branch or between branches shall be referred to the international Central Committee, whose decision shall be final.

12. CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES
12.1. This Constitution shall not be altered or added to except by the consent of two thirds majority of the members voting in every house at a biannual Party Congress or at an Extraordinary Party Congress.

12.2. To bring forth a motion to alter the Constitution, the amendment to be submitted shall be sent by members of the international Political Bureau (members of national Standing Committees) to the Premier no later than two months before the Congress, or simply as soon as possible if it is an extraordinary Congress. The one proposing the amendment will move the motion standing in his name at the designated time on the agenda. The Chairman will then sustain or resist the amendment. If he sustains it, it proceeds immediately to vote as per para 12.1. If he resists it, the amendment will lapse unless 25% of the Congress participants stand in their place or elsewise indicate they wish the debate to continue to which the Chairman will organise speakers in turn, for and against the motion, to give their case. If many people want to speak, or all of one side has exhausted their speakers, so the debate cannot continue in a balanced way, the Chairman will test the mind of Congress to see if the matter is deemed sufficiently debated, if 25% of the participants do not stand, the Congress proceeds to voting by houses. If the passes in all houses according to the requirements of para 12.1., it will be added to the Constitution. If 25% of people stood to indicate they wish the debate to continue, it shall, and the Chairman will proceed to test the mind of Congress after every five speakers until Congress is satisfied the amendment is sufficiently debated and can proceed to voting hy houses, or until all willing to speak have been exhausted after which voting by houses will automatically occur.

12.3. Once this Constitution is approved, protected from alteration are those aspects which are considered moral, ideological or aesthetical (not merely cosmetically, but in the deeper sense of how we make sense of world in coherent and unconscious way, but this does include major changes to the flag which are not just improving quality of the same design, changing the protected acronym and primary understanding of its meaning, etc.), as they are defined as being intrinsic to the nature of what the MCP is. this especially applies to para 2., which in content must remain the same, even if phrasing is altered. The general principle is that they may be added to and elaborated upon but not changed or subtracted from.

12.4. Procedural matters are under no such protections aside from those basic functions which define a Communist Party; the general existence of Chairman, Premier (and them having vetoes), Politburo Standing Committee and Political Bureau comprising the Central Committee and remaining the main thrust of the Party Congresses and AGM. But any changes even to mundane and non-ideologically important procedures still must reach the sufficient majorities mentioned in para 12.1.

13. MISCELLANEOUS CONCLUDING NOTES
13.1. Party organisations and all in authority must earnestly study Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, firmly put proletarian politics in command, combat bureaucracy and liberalism, uphold morality absolutely, promote the red culture, maintain close, down to earth ties with the masses and wholeheartedly serve the people.

13.2. Every organ of the Party must apply the principle of efficient and simple administration.

13.3. No laws or administrative regulations/practices may contravene this Constitution.

13.4. All Party organs and institutions must abide by the Constitution and other laws. All acts in violation of the Constitution or other laws must be investigated by the CCDI who will commend a conclusion to the international Central Committee and a decision will be made by the Central Committee, potentially involving dismissal, which shall be final.

13.5. No organisation or individual is privileged to be beyond the Constitution or other laws, including the members of the Central Committee, and especially the Executives.

13.6. Aesthetical elements not free to be disposed of include:
13.6.1. The acronym, “MCP”.
13.6.2. Our Maoist aesthetic, including the use of Chinese characters alongside native vernacular languages and translations of red songs, other media from the Cultural lRevolution, and usage of its propaganda style as our starting point and basis for further development.
13.6.3. The usage of the hammer and sickle.
13.6.4. The flag of the organisation (in content and design, not necessarily aspect ratio, quality or resolution).
13.6.5. Our colour scheme.
13.6.6. Our public support for the five heads of Marxism.
13.6.7. Our public defence and association with socialist regimes.
Note: Protected characteristics can never be subtracted from, only added to or supplemented in a non-contradictory and non-abolishing way, or with non-contradictory materials, that preserve the characteristic in its full.[//i]

[i]13.6. Note on propaganda: Party propaganda should obviously relate to Mao Zedong Thought in a clear way and incorporate predominantly features of the Party aesthetic as well as adoptions and implementations and developments of it to specific contexts, whilst maintaining clear likeness and origins in the original. The vast majority of propaganda should be for external use dealing with misconceptions and such but also motivational propaganda should be made for internal use as well. The Party promotes the use of Chinese characters alongside local language in propaganda as it draws intrigue, points to our Maoist roots and can be a universal common thread across all branches as characters are related to meaning not sound, so can be read in the vernacular way and rearranged in the order of the vernacular language.

全世界无产者, 联合起来!
PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

MCP INTERNATIONAL
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