Who we are

The Socialist Party is the party of the working class despite not receiving its mandate at the polling booth. The working class, the only class without which society could not exist, is the coming ruling class, and its emancipation, which will follow the abolition of the wage system, will mean the freedom of humanity, based upon cooperative industry; and it will also mean the end of the brutal struggle for existence in human society and the beginning of the first real civilisation the world has ever known. If someone seeks to make his or her vote count against the private ownership of the earth and the tyranny of class rule and for industrial democracy and the freedom of the race will cast that vote for the Socialist Party. It is the only party that believes that the people have capacity for economic and political self-government; the only party that proposes to make this in fact a government of and by and for the people. The Socialist Party proposes to transfer the sources, means, and machinery of production and distribution from the private hands to the collective people, so that wealth may be produced in abundance, not to enrich a small class, but for the comfort and enjoyment of all. The Socialist Party insist that the basis of exploitation — the use of men and women for personal profits and power — lie in the capitalist system. Reforms do not remove the villain of the piece from the scene of action. 

The ideas, demands and movements of workers’ participation, workers’ control, self-management, direct workers’ rule, workers’ democracy, etc., are deeply rooted. These ideas imbue and permeate, in one way or another, the rise of world socialism. The Socialist Party’s declared purpose is to abolish the wage-system, and supplant it by a system of industrial co-operation in which the workers themselves shall have full control for the community’s benefit, and to this end recognise the necessity of organising the political power of the working class to attain industrial democracy. To gain control of production and distribution for the benefit of mankind instead of capitalism is the object of the Socialist Party. 

Socialism is not about getting more wages, less hours and better conditions, but of acquiring political power and social control as the means of solving social problems for the workers, and of making the workers themselves representative of a new society working for the good of all and the profit of none. Socialism is industrial democracy. The Socialist Party is the great foe of capitalists and is intent upon insuring the free development and the liberation for the workers in society and the liberation of society. The capitalists are a class, a useless, dangerous, parasitic minority that can be dispensed with. 

Socialism is not government ownership or control of industry. Socialism struggles for the end of the state, not the enlarging of its functions. The state is an instrument of capitalist class rule. The present parliament, army, police and courts serve the interests of the capitalists. Socialism, in the words of Engels, is not the government of persons, but the administration of things. Socialism is the reorganisation of society on the basis of ownership by the working people of the land, mines, factories, means of transport, as well as the health, educational and cultural services required to fulfill their needs.  A true socialist society must be change from a capitalist system of ownership, exploitation and control to one of ownership, administration and control of the affairs of a nation by the men and women who produce its wealth. In the place of the present system of society where crime and poverty are rampant, a new society will arise. Capitalism is based on the exploitation of working people. No attempts to reform the system can do away with this exploitation. The only way workers can come to control society and create a society based on freedom and a decent life for all is through revolution.

The Socialist Party is internationalist. The working class is an international class and socialism must be an international system. We campaign for solidarity with workers in other countries. We oppose everything which turns workers of one country against those of another. We are only "patriotic" for our class, the working class. We realise that as workers we have no country. The flags and symbols mean naught to us but oppression and tyranny. As long as we quarrel among ourselves over differences of nationality we weaken our cause, we defeat our own purpose. The whole world is now chained to the capitalist system. Socialism must be achieved by the independent action of the working class. The liberation of the working class can only be won by the struggles of workers themselves.