Revolution – Our Only Future!

The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world—unite!

 This is the world of competition, of exploitation, of production for profit.  Hunger, disease, and death stalk all peoples. This is the capitalist world. Capitalism outlived its usefulness long ago. It is no longer capable of progress, of raising the standards of living of the people. Capitalism is only capable of guaranteeing new wars, mass unemployment, and misery.

Under capitalism the production of wealth is carried on for profit. The desire for profits is the motive force which drives the capitalist class to use its capital in the production of wealth. In order to secure profits the workers must be exploited. Part of the product of their labour must be turned over to the capitalist class in the shape of dividends and interest. The task falls to the Socialist Party to take the anger and the hatred that our fellow workers have toward the capitalist system and arm them with a deep understanding of why we have to live this way, whose fault it is and what we can do about it. There are two roads we can follow. One is to say: “Well, that’s too hard to deal with and let’s just deal with the easy problems, just with the day to day problems. Let’s just talk to the workers about things they can agree with us and understand, not about revolution and socialism because that turns them off.” Others will say, “This system’s too big, it’s too powerful what we’re up against, I got enough problems in my factory, in my community. I got enough problems in my home, man, don’t talk to me about that kind of political stuff.”

It is only by understanding how capitalism is against the interests of working people, of how capitalism must be fought by the working class and when the people are equipped with an understanding of capitalism as the enemy–then we can progress on the road to revolution. Only by completely getting rid of this system of wage slavery and its law of profits and the system in which the capitalists own and control everything, including us and our labour can we advance towards socialism. There’s no way step by step we can win, it’s only by getting rid of the whole source of these problems, the system of capitalism, that we can build a new society run by and for the working class. The only power that can save humanity from the peril of barbarism is the working class. It must free itself of all dependence on the possessing classes. It must cease all collaboration with the exploiters and embark on the road of class struggle, the road of socialist victory. The class struggle is a political struggle. It cannot be fought successfully by the workers unless they have a political weapon, which means, their own political party. The capitalist class has its own political organizations. The workers need a party of their own.  The workers have their own political party, which openly calls itself the party of the working class – The Socialist Party of Great Britain.  It is the first big step in breaking from the capitalist parties and capitalist politics, and toward independent working-class political action. The maintenance of the sacredness of private property is the basic principle of every capitalist government. To this principle, it subordinates everything else. The Socialist Party holds a basically different principle. To the evils of capitalism, it must propose social progress and human welfare. Against the interests of a ruling minority, it advocates the interests of all humanity. Its aim must be to assure abundance for all and peace to all. Are not these the things that all the people long for? Capitalist class rule has demonstrated it cannot, by its very nature, achieve this aim. Yet its achievement is not only necessary, but it is quite possible.

Civilisation hovers at the edge of an abyss and socialism is the only possible salvation. Private property generates war. Private Property is the enemy. Production must be released from the fetters of private property. The resources of the world must pass into the possession of humanity. All other problems, the problems of nationality and of race and colour will be solved once society is freed from exploitation and class divisions. A socialist system will bring real democracy. The people of the world want an end to this capitalist system. They want jobs, peace, freedom, security. They want a new life; they want a change from the chaos of the profit system which has proved its incapacity to maintain a high level of peacetime production in the interest of the people. A new social, system, that is, socialism, is the only hope for humanity.