Our demands are simple. We only want to control our destiny

 

Society is divided into two classes: the working class, doing all the labour; and the ruling class, living on the fruits of labour. We in the Socialist Party speak therefore to the workers, and above all to those workers who look forward to the emancipation of labour from wage slavery. There can be no appeal to any section of society. outside the working-class, as their interests are opposed to labour, and their opinions therefore of no account to us.

The Socialist Party aims at the complete emancipation of labour from the yoke of capital. This emancipation can be achieved by the transfer to common ownership of all the means and objects of production. This will entail the abolition of the present commodity production (i.e., the purchase and sale of products on the market) and its replacement by a new system of social production with a view to satisfying the requirements both of society as a whole and of each one of its members. 

This socialist revolution will introduce consciousness where there now reigns blind economic necessity; by simplifying and giving purpose to all social relationships it will at the same time provide each citizen with the real economic possibility of participating directly in the discussion and decision of all social matters. This direct participation of citizens in the management of social affairs presupposes the abolition of the present system of political representation and its replacement by direct popular administration. Male, female, young or old, black and white, let us march united forward to our common emancipation from wage slavery.

 Unity and organisation have to be the watchwords of the socialist movement. We know where nationalism leads towards - the disintegration of a unified workers’ movement, dividing trade unions according to nationalities, aggravation of national rivalries and cross-border strike-breaking.