Merry Marxmas

It's that day of the year again. This is the time when everyone is caught in a deluge of hypocrisy. Christmas is supposed to be a time of good cheer when the harsh reality of this world is briefly forgotten. But it is impossible to disregard capitalism even at Christmas. It is the time of the year when the consumer goods market is stuffed with a mass of gadgets and gifts of all kinds, when shops are anxiously stocking their shelves in the hope of a sales boom. Once more we suffer the customary sentimental piffle in the media regarding Christmas. This is the season of goodwill in the midst of hunger and wars. The ugly truth is it still be a capitalist world. You will still be members of the working class and the problems you have will still face you on Boxing Day.

We will be told again and again that Christmas is for the children. Yet while we fill our bellies with turkey and trifle, millions of children are going hungry and thousands are dying of hunger. The reality is that Christmas is for the food and drink industry and the toy businesses. Capitalism has reduced a festival of making merry to a celebration of consumerism. Charles Dickens's Scrooge had it right -  its all humbug.

Socialist Courier wishes all a speedy end to the degrading, inhuman society we live under. We address our Christmas message to the working class, enjoying yet another wretched holiday under capitalism―the system they chose to perpetuate. Socialism will be like one long Christmas Day, a world where the needs of everybody—young and old. man and woman, black and white—will be satisfied.