The
Socialist Party is irreconcilably opposed to capitalism and works for
the establishment of world socialism. The workers' movement
needs
a party of its own to capture the political power of the State.
Aspirations means nothing without a political party to fight for
them.
Big
Business has its political parties representing its interests.
Workers must have its own too.
People
want a change from the misery and uncertainty of the system of
capitalist exploitation and profit, and all the capitalist parties
can offer is the preservation of the old, discredited and bankrupt
system.
Socialists
do not hide the fact that as enemies of capitalism, we aim to replace
capitalism, not only because it is possible to do so but because it
is absolutely necessary that we do so. We are convinced that if
capitalism is allowed to continue, we will be plunged into barbarism.
We hold that capitalism has outlived its usefulness and that if
humanity is to advance it must move on to socialism which means
peace, security, prosperity, freedom and equality - all the things
that the working people have always wanted and longed for. Decades
ago, socialism could be looked upon as a noble ideal, but it is an
urgent necessity. Peace
is fleeting. War is an ever-present threat or a monstrous reality.
Our environment is being raped and pillaged.
Capitalism drives society to a new barbarism.
Socialism
is the common ownership of the means of production and their
democratic organization and management by all the people in a society
free of class division and class rule. Socialism is the democratic
organization of production for use, of production for abundance, of
plenty for all, without the exploitation of man by man. Socialism is
the unity of the whole world into federations of free and equal
peoples, disposing in common of the natural resources and wealth of
our earth. Capitalism has already established the great industrial
capacity of the machinery of production and distribution. It is only
necessary for the working class, in the name and interests of society
as a whole, to take these enterprises out of the hands of the
capitalists and place them into the common ownership of the people as
a whole. Socialism means abundance for all. Where there is abundance
for all, the nightmare of insecurity vanishes. There are jobs for
all, and they are no longer dependent on whether or not the employer
can take a fat profit. There is not only a high standard of living,
but every industrial advance is followed by a rising standard of
living and a declining working-day. Where there is abundance for all,
and where no one has the economic power to exploit and oppress
others, the basis of class conflict vanishes. The basis of a ruling
state, of a government of violence and repression, with its prisons
and police and army, also disappears. Police and thieves, prisons and
violence are inevitable where there is economic inequality, or
abundance for the few and scarcity for the many. They disappear when
there is plenty for all, therefore economic equality, therefore
social equality. Where there is abundance for all, and where all have
equal access to the fruits of the soil and the wealth of industry,
the mad conflicts and wars between nations and peoples vanish. With
them vanishes the irrepressible urge that exists under capitalism for
one nation to subject others, to rob it of its rights, to exploit and
oppress it, to provoke and maintain the hideous national and racial
antagonisms that cling to capitalism.
Abundance
for all means freedom. Where mankind is free of economic
exploitation, of economic inequality, of economic insecurity, it is
free to contribute to the unfolding of a new culture and a new
humanity leaving capitalistic war only as an ugly, sordid and
horrible memory. To the achieve this is a burning necessity, and the
Socialist Party addresses itself to our fellow members of the working
class. This struggle cannot be conducted consistently nor, in the
long run, successfully, unless it becomes a conscious fight against
the whole rotten edifice of capitalism and for laying the foundation
of socialism. We in the Socialist Party are organised to make the
working class conscious of its historical mission, of the great part
it must play in leading and reorganising society itself. We are part
and parcel of the working class. Marx
believed that the working class would lead in the transformation of
society because it was at once the most dehumanized and alienated
class, and potentially the most powerful, since the functioning of
society depended upon it.
The
defeat of the capitalist class, the rule of the working class, the
inauguration of socialism - that is the aim of the Socialist Party.
That is the task of the working class. Under the wage system, you
and your children, and your children’s children are condemned to
slavery and there is no possible hope unless overthrowing the
capitalists by voting for the Socialist Party. What you want to do is
quit every capitalist party of every name whatsoever. What you want
to do is to organise your class and assert your class interests as
capitalists do the interests of the class that is robbing you.
Arouse, ye slaves! What is wanted is not a reform of the capitalist
system, but its entire abolition. Declare war, not on the individual
capitalist, but on the capitalist system, and if it should be your
fate, your misfortune to suffer in years to come, that suffering will
not be the result of your own voluntary act of submission and
subservience. Only the working class itself can achieve its own
emancipation. Socialism will give humanity a new world.
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The Socialist Party will be contesting three seats in the up-coming General Election:
Islington North (Bill Martin), Battersea (Danny Lambert), and Swansea West (Brian Johnson).
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