For world socialism!

A WORLD TO WIN,
 A PLANET TO SAVE 

 For world socialism! To this inspiring task, we summon the workers of the world, all who are oppressed by capitalism. Only a socialist world can give us peace and plenty. Look how the capitalist world totters on the brink of destruction. The capitalist parties are as rotten and bankrupt as the system they uphold. They can maintain themselves and that system today only by piling additional burdens upon the people with continued insecurity and increasing hardships. The myriad evils of capitalism will disappear only with the building of socialism. The only road is the socialist road. The word “socialism” still carries the stigma of the distortions by those usurping the name. There are people fearful of the word, all across the political spectrum yet socialist principles are the values and aspirations that most people share. The change from capitalism to socialism, from capitalist dictatorship to rule of the working class, is a revolution, the most far-reaching revolution in human history. By socialism we understand the transformation from ownership and control by a few capitalists to ownership and control by the whole community of all the industries and services essential for the satisfaction of the people's needs. Capitalists are not interested in production to benefit the peoples of the world. They are interested only in profits. If the productive forces in the world were to be used for the purposes of construction, the entire planet could be transformed and the standards of living and level of culture raised to undreamed of heights. This is not possible under capitalism. Capitalism promises the people not amelioration of conditions but austerity, oppression, and the environmental destruction of mankind. Only through an irreconcilable struggle against capitalism, towards its elimination and the establishment of socialism, will the people of the world find the full freedom, equality and democracy for which they aspire.

The Socialist Party says that all the problems people experience in our present society — war, poverty, pollution, economic crises— flow from a cause, the nature of this profit-oriented society. We see that there are no real solutions to these problems until the entire society is changed. We should be very clear about the kind of change that we are talking about. When we say that we are revolutionaries we are not talking about a change in society that would take place when a small group takes over Parliament and runs up the red flag. We are talking about a change that will involve the vast majority of workers consciously acting to change the entire society and all the relationships in it, from the way people relate to each other to the way that people relate to their jobs. We're out to change the whole system. A few workers see the need for socialism yet many more don't see that need. They think their problems can be solved by electing a government to enact reforms in their interest. Despite the campaign of lies and distortions about the socialist viewpoint we are confident that developing realities, together with the conscious participation of all who consider themselves socialists will bring a powerful leap forward on the march to a socialist society.

The Socialist Party, if it is to fulfill its mission, must be uncompromising so far as its principles are concerned, true to the interests of the workers in every phase of the struggle, clean and above-board in all its methods. Support the Socialist Party, the only party that keeps the revolutionary banner unfurled. Forward to the Social Revolution!

‘Banish gods from the skies and capitalists from the earth.’