Editing Trotskyism (section)

=== Transitional program ===
{{Main|The Transitional Program}}

Trotsky drafted the transitional programme as a programmatic document for the founding congress of the Fourth International in 1938.<ref name="Pathfinder Press">{{cite book |last1=Trotsky |first1=Leon |title=The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution: Including The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International |date=1977 |publisher=Pathfinder Press |isbn=978-0-87348-524-1 |pages=38–40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rL8gAQAAIAAJ&q=the+transitional+program+trotsky |language=en}}</ref>

He explicitly emphasised the core need for the programme::<blockquote>

"It is explicitly necessary to help the masses in the process of the daily struggle to find the bridge between present demands and the socialist program of the revolution. This bridge should include a system of transitional demands, stemming from today's conditions and from today's consciousness of wide layers of the working class and unalterably leading to one final conclusion: the conquest of power by the proletariat".<ref name="Pathfinder Press"/></blockquote>

The transitional programme features three types of proposals for action. This includes democratic demands such as [[labor rights|the right of unions]] and [[self-determination]]; immediate demands which are concerned with everyday struggles such as [[equal pay|wage increases]] and transitional demands which are directed at the capitalist system such as [[Workers' council|worker's control of production]] .<ref name="Pathfinder Press"/>