Share the World, Spare the Planet

The fundamental basis of socialism is that being at the end of the long chain of exploitation workers have no alternative but to fight back. It is the working class that acts, not the revolutionary political party independently of the class. It may prepare the ground for that action by education and agitation, try to support and strengthen that action when it arrives, unite the diverse sections of the class but the emancipation must be the work of the people themselves.

The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of every form of domination and exploitation, whether based on social class, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. It is committed to the transformation of capitalism through the creation of a democratic socialist society based on compassion, empathy, and respect.  Socialism will establish a new social and economic system in which workers and community members will take responsibility for and control of their neighbourhoods, their local administrations, and the production and distribution of all goods and services. We call for common ownership and democratic control of productive resources, for a guarantee to all of the right to participate in production, and to a fair share of society's product, in accordance with individual needs. The Socialist Party stands for a fundamental transformation of the economy, focusing on production for need not profit. The Socialist Party believes that art is an integral part of daily life, and should not be treated as a commodity produced by the activity of an elite group.  All members of society should have ample opportunities for participation in art and cultural activities. From each according to ability to contribute; to each according to needs. That is the best principle that can guide the life of our society today.

Working people have no country, but rather a bond based on class. Workers throughout the world have far more in common with each other across national boundaries than with their bosses in their own countries. A socialist revolution must be a world-wide revolution that cannot survive if confined to individual countries amidst global capitalism. It is evident that the workers urgently need to burst the bounds of the nation state and organise on a world scale. The Socialist Party works to build a world in which everyone will be able to freely move across borders, to visit and to live wherever they choose. We advocate the common ownership (non-ownership) and democratic control of all our natural resources in order to conserve resources, preserve our wilderness areas, and restore environmental quality. Socialism means the protection of the earth, and the celebration of community. Sharing the means of production and distribution makes for a classless society. When people who collectively own the means of production work toward a common goal and share their products in common, when they contribute labour without wages and enjoy the fruits free of any charge, that is socialism.

The Socialist Party recognises that it has no hope in the capitalist economic system. Capitalism subordinates people’s welfare, such as the present pressing urgency to address climate change, to private, short-term and pecuniary interests. Capitalism generates large-scale unemployment, especially as technology erodes the need for labour, as is the case today. For anyone who has a rational, organisational mentality capitalism is actually an embarrassment. Socialism is now the only means of healing the rift between humanity and the environment that seeks harmony amongst people and between people and nature. Socialists intends to emancipate on a world scale and socialist ideas are weapons in the hands and brains of the exploited.

The capitalist system continues to plunder the riches of the planet at the expense of the majority merely to enrich a small wealthy elite. Our passion to destroy capitalism to free ourselves from this exploitative and to advance to a society that is democratic, co-operative and communal remains unwavering. Socialism is the only viable solution to the capitalism, replacing greed with human need. Socialism is the future and we must build towards it NOW, to join together to create a world solidarity movement, organised and structured, assertive and militant. We commit ourselves to promote popular participatory democracy, an alternative to the barbarism of capitalism and based on cooperation and not competition.

Socialism: All Power to the Imagination