tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-360919512024-03-13T12:39:56.633+00:00Socialist CourierThe Glasgow & Edinburgh Branches Blog.
Towards a better understanding of the world, in order to change it.egoutturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04285628269132662150noreply@blogger.comBlogger11178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-73185448970228260262023-03-23T09:35:00.003+00:002023-03-23T09:35:36.089+00:00Mike Foster Interview (video) ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-81553400970883219522023-03-19T01:49:00.001+00:002023-03-19T01:49:24.182+00:00After Capitalism?Right now there are hundreds of campaigns globally for fossil fuel divestment as a strategy in the fight against climate change. Many are proposing that when institutions divest from fossil fuels, they should then "reinvest" in clean energy and low-income communities. The debate about divestment raises important questions about how we bring about social and economic change and how much we should ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-4115285040236899182023-03-18T11:00:00.001+00:002023-03-18T11:00:00.264+00:00Danny Lambert (video) ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-2060550068260277362023-03-18T01:00:00.002+00:002023-03-18T01:00:51.400+00:00SOCIALISM: NOTHING LESS WILL DO The world is dominated by a well organised gang of greedy capitalists which has become an object of fear to the eyes of many working people. Capitalism will always be unstable and dangerous to people’s well-being. Its very structure operates against workers’ interests, all the time. The capitalist system is incapable of producing nothing but insecurity, poverty, ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-68739790071916005182023-03-16T23:38:00.001+00:002023-03-16T23:38:54.697+00:00Winning the Battle of Ideas “For our party, and for our party tactics, there is but one valid basis: the basis of the class struggle, out of which the Socialist Party has sprung up, and out of which alone it can draw the necessary strength to bid defiance to every storm and to all its enemies. . . . We may not do as other parties, because we are not like the others. We are—and this cannot be too often repeated—ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-69451753316094352202023-03-16T00:04:00.001+00:002023-03-16T00:04:39.957+00:00The future of humanity rests in socialism “The real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself. It is the fact that capital and its self-expansion appear as the starting and closing point, as the motive and aim of production; that production is merely production for capital, and not vice versa, the means of production mere means for an ever expanding system of the life process for the benefit of the society of producers.” -ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-26945738879182813952023-03-15T00:00:00.002+00:002023-03-15T00:00:00.260+00:00Our Road Towards Socialism Ending of the exploitation, cruelty and injustice caused by class society in all its various forms is the goal of the Socialist Party. Socialism alone can end the exploitation of man by man. The aim we have set ourselves can be realised only with your active participation. Socialism will be when the means of production—the factories, mines, land, and ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-759631767269610162023-03-14T00:00:00.001+00:002023-03-14T00:00:00.248+00:00IT’S ALL UP TO THE WORKERS The foremost principle of socialism is the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment in its place of a cooperative commonwealth. The aim of socialism can hardly be better expressed than by the formula of Marx and Engels that the basis of the new society will be the administration of things, as opposed to the existing order which consists of the ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-29362100229806300372023-03-13T00:00:00.001+00:002023-03-13T00:00:00.242+00:00End Capitalism Now Capitalism is in crisis. The only vision remaining is the one put forward by the Socialist Party. The only credible alternative to running capitalism is to not run capitalism at all and thereby not let capitalism run our lives. What is important about socialism is its profound credibility.Firstly, it has never been tried. Secondly, the idea of production for use rather ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-30904287362133275252023-03-12T00:00:00.001+00:002023-03-12T00:00:00.278+00:00Capitalism - Each Against All A few can rise out of their class and become traitors and renegades to their own working people; the mass is going to remain where they are. They can rise when the whole class rises together, to real social power. That’s why Eugene Debs said: “I want to rise with my class, not out of it.”We are a class-stratified society and are getting more so. And no amount of media&ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-56709259505557432852023-03-11T00:00:00.006+00:002023-03-11T00:00:00.230+00:00Daniel De Leon The following is the preface by the author to his biography of Daniel De Leon, which was part of Manchester University Press' Lives of the Left series. Thanks go to La Bataille socialiste blog for originally putting this on the net.This biography is a study of uncompromised revolutionary hope and dismal political failure. The story of Daniel De Leon is not that of a populistajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-36705662100745625502023-03-10T01:43:00.001+00:002023-03-10T01:43:20.514+00:00War on War The international crisis is escalating at the present time. The drive towards war is assuming irresistible dimensions. Elaborate preparations, hidden and open, are being made for a new showdown. Diplomatic and military preparations are going on in every country in Europe. There is only one way to prevent war and if it breaks out to end it, namely, by the overthrow of capitalism, ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-45578612658104779082023-03-09T06:25:00.006+00:002023-03-09T06:25:43.023+00:00The Future Belongs to Working People Capitalism’s defenders convey the idea that capitalist class society and capitalist exploitation will continue to exist forever. In other words, that it is a system of society that is natural and eternal, and there is no use in anyone thinking of making fundamental changes to it or replacing it with any other social system. This is completely mistaken. A rationally ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-34096104532649497662023-03-06T23:19:00.001+00:002023-03-06T23:19:41.635+00:00What we need is socialismThe Socialist Party has stated numerous times if we are to prevent the 21st century from becoming a more violent re-run of the 20th, which witnessed two world wars, the first use of nuclear weapons and many hundreds of smaller conflicts—all in the name of profit—it is essential we, the victims, the cannon fodder, the people that have the biggest price to pay to satisfy the whims ofajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-77626164320285052242023-03-06T05:29:00.002+00:002023-03-06T05:29:45.178+00:00A vote for the Socialist Party is a vote for yourself. Don’t vote for your masterToday the worker creates everything, does everything, produces everything, and yet has nothing. Labour produces all wealth and to labour, it should belong. The resources of the earth and the machinery of production are held as the property of the capitalist class. Its ownership is determined and defended by the power of the state, i.e., the government. By ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-9898445286282957262023-03-04T19:28:00.001+00:002023-03-04T19:28:08.270+00:00What Socialism Can Bring We know that the cause of the oppression of the working class and of all the atrocities of capitalism such as war is that the world has been enslaved by a few capitalists who own all the wealth of the earth as their private property. The capitalist ownership of the means of production – this is the reason which explains the barbarity of the present ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-830693690693987882023-03-04T00:10:00.002+00:002023-03-04T00:10:42.911+00:00We go after the system! Times are changing. Old political parties are transforming. Working people are looking beyond capitalism. Confronted with the catastrophic destruction of the environment by the logic of the profit motive, many seek an alternative. Capitalism creates a situation where large masses of the people are dissatisfied, embittered, emboldened by intolerable hardships. Capitalismajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-70022569860572218792023-03-02T23:30:00.001+00:002023-03-02T23:30:00.256+00:00The Capitalist Contradiction We are drowning in a sea of poverty, thousands of families are living in abject poverty, food banks, low pay, homelessness and much, much more The ruling class are beating us with a great long stick, many have got their heads down and are happy as it seems taking the beating being handed down to us. Things will not change if we change our socks and elect a government of the&ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-35574904543821066642023-03-02T00:37:00.003+00:002023-03-02T00:37:34.099+00:00Catastrophe Capitalism Everywhere you look, people appear to be extremely obsessed with wealth and money. It has always been a problem getting our message across to others, that capitalism is not working, or better put that another way, has never worked in our interests ever, let me clarify that and make it less confused and more clearly comprehensible; it does not work in the interests of the majority in ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-52813264500446398972023-03-01T11:00:00.001+00:002023-03-01T11:00:00.283+00:00A Poetry Podcast https://groups.io/g/spintcom/files/9.%20Miscellaneous%20&%20Archive/Miscellaneous/SPGB%20PODCAST_Ep2%201.mp3ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-89645508667918838322023-03-01T00:13:00.001+00:002023-03-01T00:14:47.128+00:00You do have choices Anxious about the state of the planet and worried what capitalism is doing to it? Want to do something about it? But don’t know what?Capitalism has taken us as far as it can go, but there's a lot further we can go without it. It doesn't really matter whether you call it post-capitalism, world socialism, or post-scarcity anarchism, it is feasible and desirable. And given that some ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-89784721313568963102023-02-28T00:07:00.002+00:002023-02-28T00:07:17.583+00:00We Need Socialism Faced with a social system which creates problems faster than its politicians can make promises, responses range from the stupidly complacent to those whose self-righteous radicalism leaves no time for actually solving the problems they shout about. Would-be "leaders" the world over, rush to defend the indefensible. Political parties compete to run a system of organised poverty and ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-46634397892900662092023-02-27T11:30:00.001+00:002023-02-27T11:30:00.262+00:00Marx by Mark Steel 3/3 (video) ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-2572815433530354552023-02-26T23:30:00.001+00:002023-02-26T23:30:00.257+00:00Defeat nationalism We live in an age of possible social revolution – the rise of world socialism and the overthrow of world capitalism. There is no middle way between the capitalist system and socialism.Nationalism is an outlook that preaches to the people of a nation or national group that regardless of class they have more in common with one another than they do with the people of other nations. ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36091951.post-44450106023697220152023-02-26T11:00:00.002+00:002023-02-26T11:00:00.484+00:00Marx by Mark Steel 2/3 (video) ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0