Change
taking place in the world, in communities and in workplaces. There
has emerged of a minority of people who now question the global
capitalist system. The mood of the people is changing rapidly who
feel emboldened to demand more from governments. Suddenly there are
large numbers of people around who are moving in the same direction,
questioning environment policies, challenging their ineffectiveness,
asking why this is. If we look about us today we see that the world
is filled with suffering and despair. A new mood of resistance is
changing the political scene.
The Socialist Party does not only dream
of the day when the world shall know that men are brothers and that
women are sisters to each other, but it is working without respite to
make that dream come true. Socialism is the greatest thing in all the
world today. Those who are clear-eyed enough see that socialism is
coming and are at the battle-front fighting to overcome the
prejudices against it and to pave the way so that it may come.
The
Socialist Party is the only party that has the future of our children
and grand-children at heart; the only party that has a message for
them. The children of working people have always been poor because
the world has never been just. For ages and ages those who have built
the houses, cultivated the fields, raised the crops, spun the wool,
woven the cloth, supplied the food we eat and the clothes we wear,
and furnished the homes we live in, have been the poor and despised,
while those who profited by their labour and consumed the good things
they produced, have been the rich and respectable. The Socialist
Party says there has got to be some changes made. It says that the
world is big enough for all the people that are in it, with plenty of
room to spare for parks and playgrounds; that there is land enough to
go around without over-crowding; that there are farms enough, or can
be easily provided, to raise all we can eat, so that no child in all
the world need to go hungry; that there is plenty of minerals and
metals, stored in the earth; that there are forests and mountains and
water courses galore; that there are mills and mines and factories
and trains, boats and planes and railways and communication networks,
and the power supplied free by nature to run them all; that there are
millions of men and women ready to do all the work that may be
required to build homes, raise crops, bake bread – and cake too –
weave cloth, make clothes and everything else that is necessary for
everybody, and have time enough besides to build schools and provide
playgrounds for every child to make this earth a children’s
paradise.
For
real individual freedom, economic security is certainly necessary.
That is, to be really free, human beings must be secure from economic
want, the fear of unemployment, poverty and the misery that the
masses are heir to today. They must be free from the oppression of
the boss. They must be free, too, from the necessity of serving in
the ever-recurring wars of capitalist society. When, in the
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