Everywhere people are waking up and fighting against the
oppression and exploitation which is a daily fact of their lives. The lies of
the ruling class about “prosperity” in this country are being further exposed
every day. There is prosperity alright – but it is for a handful of rich
capitalists – the conditions of the working people are getting worse and worse
yet profits continue to rise. The situation in health care, housing and welfare
services is rapidly deteriorating. The source of all these conditions and
injustices in the predatory system of capitalism. This system of capitalism is
set up with one thing in mind – to make the most profits possible for the
handful of people who own Big Business, the global banks and corporations. It
is the economic system under which we, our parents and grandparents before us,
have done all the work. We mine the mines, build the buildings, manufacture all
the products: and then get just enough to live on. On the other hand, the small
capitalist class accrues great fortunes off of our labour. The Socialist Party stands
for the complete overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment by
the working class of a socialist system. Once it is no longer possible to make
a profit from the sweat and toil of working people the general misery and problems
caused by capitalism can be quickly resolved.
The aim of the Socialist Party is to replace world
capitalist economy by a world socialism. Socialist society will abolish the
class division of society, the abolition of anarchy in production, and abolish
all forms of exploitation and oppression of man by man. Society will no longer
consist of antagonistic classes in conflict with each other, but will be a unified
cooperative commonwealth of labour. For the first time in its history mankind
will take its fate into its own hands. Instead of destroying innumerable human
lives and incalculable wealth in struggles between classes and nations, mankind
will devote all its energy to the development and progress of humanity. After
abolishing private ownership of the means of production and converting these
means into social property, the world socialism will replace the world
capitalist market, competitive and blind processes of social production, by
consciously organised and planned production for the purpose of satisfying
social needs. With the abolition of competition and anarchy in production,
devastating crises and still more devastating wars will disappear. Instead of
colossal waste of productive forces and spasmodic development of society there
will be a planned utilisation of all material resources and a pain-free
economic expansion to eliminate deprivation and poverty. The abolition of
private property and the disappearance of classes will end exploitation. Work
will cease to be toiling for the benefit of a class enemy. Want and inequality,
the misery of being a wage-slave, and a wretched standard of life generally
will disappear; the hierarchy created in the division of labour system will be
abolished together with the antagonism between mental and manual labour; and
the last vestige of the social inequality of the sexes will be removed. At the
same time, the organs of class domination, and the State in the first place,
will disappear also. The State, being the embodiment of class domination, will
die out in so far as classes die out, and with it all measures of coercion will
expire. This new culture of a humanity that is united for the first time in
history, and has abolished all national boundaries. Unlike the alienation of
capitalist culture, socialism will be based upon clear and transparent human
relationships. Hence, it will bury forever all mysticism, religion, prejudice
and superstition. As socialist we are distinguished from other working men and
women only by this: At all times we point out the aim of the class struggle –
socialist revolution - and we strive achieve this aim.
There is only one revolutionary class in the world capable
of a successful socialist revolution. That class is the working class. In order
to accomplish a socialist revolution, our class must have a political party so
to capture the political power to carry through the revolution. The socialist party
must be of class-conscious men and women of the working class who seek
socialism and socialism alone. The
capitalist class is highly organised – they have the government, the courts and
the army to protect their interests. The experience of the working class
movement here and elsewhere confirms that it is impossible to make and
consolidate a successful revolution without control of the State machine. The
Socialist Party is a political party, which means that its concern is the
struggle of the working class as a whole for State power. Whereas the primary
concern of the trade unions is the economic struggle for better conditions;
whereas the primary concern of the many reform organisation is the fight for amelioration
and palliatives, the Socialist Party concerns itself with unifying them and
giving them direction towards the overthrow of the capitalist system.
The Socialist Party participates in the election campaigns
as a separate and distinct political party. It solicits votes to have its
representatives in the legislative bodies. But its election campaigns and its purpose
to be within parliament are fundamentally different from other parties. The
Socialist Party not here to help the capitalists govern over the masses. We do
not spread the false notion that there can be cooperation between the exploited
and their exploiters. On the contrary, we go to the legislatures to prove to
the workers that such cooperation must not be because it is good only for the
bosses. In other words, we go to the legislatures — and we conduct our election
campaigns — in the spirit of the class struggle. We use the platform of the
legislatures, from which our voice can be heard better than the voice of
private citizens, to advocate and promote socialism. For sure, we would help defend
fellow-workers and press their masters to offer the maximum of concessions. At
the same time, we’d endeavour to force the law-makers to pass legislation that
would bring relief to the workers, not by pretty speeches, not by pleading with
the law-makers who are servants of the ruling class, but by urging great
movements of the masses which would make those gentlemen sit up and take
notice. In other words, the Socialist Party does not beg for votes in order to
reform the State and thereby to make it more effective for the capitalists. The
Socialist Party practice revolutionary parliamentarism, by which is meant
strengthening the working class and weakening its enemies. We go to the
law-making institutions, not to tinker them up for the benefit of the
capitalists, but put a monkey wrench in their State machinery, preventing them
from working smoothly on behalf of the masters. We expose the agents of the
capitalists before the people, to show what these so-called representatives of
the people and what all these so-called democratic institutions actually are.
We will use Parliament to abolish Parliament.
There are several parties around that call themselves
“communist” or “socialist”. These parties all have one thing in common – they
all dress themselves up with high-sounding revolutionary language, but
underneath they are defenders of capitalism. The Socialist Party make it their purpose
to communicate with our fellow-workers explaining to them the meaning of the class
struggle so that they can recognises the truth of that explanation from their
own experience. Understanding the nature of the class struggle, is the first
step to actual participation in the socialist movement. Our critics say the
workers are difficult to mobilise and that there is no hope of workers putting
up a stiff resistance. We say, but let the worker recognise his or her class
interests, and they will fight their lives, for freedom, for the liberation of
all oppressed.
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