World for the Workers, Workers for the World

Working people built this world and all its industries. The World is rich in natural resources. It is capable of satisfying the needs of all its people. The two classes in our society, the working class and the capitalist, are locked in a bitter struggle. A handful of capitalists control our planet and make fabulous profits off the labour of working people. All the major means of production - the factories, the mines, communications and transportation are concentrated in the hands of a few thousand capitalists who employ millions of workers. The capitalists represents the system of exploitation and oppression. The working class represents progress and the struggle to eliminate capitalism. For the workers, the future is less and less certain. The exploitation and oppression gets worse every year. All this misery is created by a clique of very wealthy individuals so they can continue to fill their pockets

Capitalism is a system based on exploitation. A handful of parasites live off the backs of the workers and could not care less about their situation. This is how they came to pocket their profits. Every bit of capitalists’ vast possessions was stolen from the people. It’s the capitalists that get rich by appropriating the fruits of our labour. At the end of a work week the worker collects his pay. The capitalists claim this is a fair exchange. But it is highway robbery. In reality, a worker gets paid for only a small part of the value he produced. The rest, the surplus value, goes straight into the boss’s pocket. The bosses get rich, not because they have “taken risks” or “worked harder,” as they would have us believe. The more they keep wages down and reduce the number of employees with speed-ups, the more they can steal from us and the greater their profits. And if the boss thinks he can make more profit somewhere else, he just closes his factory and throws the workers out on the street. The idea that everyone can get rich under this system is a lie invented by the rich themselves. Under capitalism, the only way to get rich is to trample on someone else. This is why workers have only one choice: either submit to this wage slavery or fight it. The idea that everyone can get rich under this system is a lie invented by the rich themselves. Under capitalism, the only way to get rich is to trample on someone else. This is why workers have only one choice: either submit to this wage slavery or fight it.

The reformist Labour Party having rejected socialist revolution, has no alternative but to try to patch up, to bolster here and there the crumbling capitalist economy of England. Nationalisation has nothing in common with socialism; on the contrary, it has as its purpose the perpetuation of capitalism. When one sector of the capitalist economy becomes obsolete, incapable of yielding profit, and without prospect of a profitable recovery under private auspices, then the State takes over that part of the private economy, “compensating” the former owners. The capitalists unburdened of the debts of their former holdings are enabled to invest anew and in more profitable ventures. The State bears the expense of running and renovating the obsolete industries and later when once again a going concern, they can be privatized.

The working class has always fought against the capitalists. Under capitalism, the fundamental contradiction in society is between the social character of production and the private ownership of the means of production. More and more workers conic to work together in modern industry, which is capable of providing for the needs of all the people. But the means of production are in the hands of an ever-smaller number of billionaires whose only goal it to maximise profits. In class terms, this contradiction translates into the struggle between the capitalist class and the working class. There can never be class peace between exploiter and exploited, between boss and worker. The working class, for its part, cannot eliminate exploitation and poverty unless it overthrows the capitalist system. We must wipe away the nightmare of capitalism and build socialism. Only socialism can respond to the aspirations of the working people.