What to resist

 The most basic right of the people in the new society, which it is impossible for them to exercise under capitalism, is the right to be the masters of society, in every sphere, and to transform it in their interests. The task of the Socialist Party is overthrowing capitalism and ending the exploitation of man by man. It recognises that there is a class struggle. But more than this, the Socialist Party understand that the capitalist class and the working class have no common interests. The survival of the capitalist class depends on its ability to drive the working class into deeper and deeper misery. Socialists understand that the role of the working class and their unions is to fight the capitalist class to the end, for political power, for an end to wage slavery. that there is a class struggle. But more than this, they realise that the capitalist class and the working class have no common interests. The survival of the capitalist class depends on its ability to drive the working class into deeper and deeper misery. The role of the working class is to fight the capitalist class to the end, for political power, for an end to wage slavery. The goal is overthrowing capitalism as a system. The fight is to end the system of wage slavery.

Surplus value refers to the following: In production the workers create all value but much, if not most, of that value is appropriated by the capitalist. That is, the owner of a capitalist enterprise pays each worker a wage (as little as possible) equal to only a small part of the value the worker creates. For instance, the value a worker produces in the first two hours of the work-day may equal whatever wage he or she may receive; the value created in the remainder of the work-day goes to the capitalist. That is what Marx called surplus value. From surplus value capitalists take their own profits and make payments to other groups of capitalists: interest on loans to banks (the banker’s profits); rent to landlords; payments for raw materials, and so on. Thus, most of the surplus value created by the worker becomes profit to all the capitalists involved.

What unites workers as a class is their relationship to the means of production. Workers produce all value. Bosses appropriate that value and pay the workers as little as workers let them get away with. All workers, no matter what their colour, gender, “race,” ethnicity, religious beliefs or capitalist-created nationality, are exploited by the profit system. This is our unifying characteristic. Anything that negates this class concept, that puts workers in alliance with “their bosses” against another set of workers and bosses, weakens the struggle to combat and overthrow the entire ruling capitalist class. Capitalism cannot be reformed.

For three centuries the capitalist system has destroyed the lives of billions of workers. Among its many evils it has waged unceasing wars for profit; caused hunger and disease, mercilessly exploited the workers in its factories, used racism to encourage prejudice. Ever since black slaves were transported from Africa right through to their use by the capitalists as a pool of low-wage labour, racism has become the foundation stone of the capitalist system. It is used to divide the working class and weaken the struggle against the bosses. It devalues human life by claiming that one group of workers is inferior and another is superior. Nationalism divides the working class. Workers must unite across all capitalist-created borders and not defend its “own” bosses against workers in other capitalist countries. There is no such thing as “progressive nationalism.” “National liberation” movements merely exchange one set of bosses (the colonial masters) for another set (local bosses) and retain the profit system.

Organise and Mobilise the Working Class

The capitalist system threatens the destruction of civilisation through manifestations like climate change and of course nuclear war remains an ominous scenario. All the interests of the capitalist class are tied up with and based upon preserving their ownership and control of the means of production. Their whole power over society is based upon this ownership. It enables them to exploit and oppress the majority of the population. It results in growing social inequality, economic scarcity and insecurity. The maintenance of capitalist property is the basic principle of every capitalist government.

Capitalism is the social form of the relationship between capitalists and workers. It is the private ownership of the means of production, denied to the vast majority, which enables the capitalist to expropriate a portion of the output which the workers produce In the form of profit. All production comes from the effort of workers. Since profits represent a certain portion of production it follows that all profits come from the efforts of workers. Machines which aid laboUr in producing goods and services are the result of past labour; in reality machines are nothing more than dead labour and it is physically and economically impossible to exploit dead labour. Workers need a certain quantity of what they produce In order to be able to work at all. They must eat, sleep and clothe themselves. They must also have sufficient quantities of goods and services to raise a family so that workers will be provided for the next generation. The amount of labor necessary to produce the goods required to maintain the worker and his family is what Marx called necessary labor. This amount is determined historically by the level of technology and the history of the class struggle in each capitalist country. However, because the means of production–the machines, mines, etc. – are owned by the capitalists and not the workers, the businessmen are in a position to demand a certain portion of the working day to produce goods and services for the capitalist. This portion of the working day represents profits and is what Marx called surplus labour. Profits enable the capitalists to invest and, therefore, control more workers as investment connotes more ownership. Thus, more and more people find themselves as workers under the control of the capital-owning class. This is a fundamental law of capitalist accumulation. It is obvious that the working class does not have the same material interests as do the capitalists. The former wants higher wages, better working and living conditions, etc. The latter want higher profits. But higher wages mean that the worker will spend a greater portion of the working day producing goods for his own use. Everything else equal (the working day remains the same length, speed-up is resisted, etc.), this means that workers will spend less time producing profits for the businessman; surplus labor and profits will fall. Now, how does the worker go about getting a higher wage? Does he ask nicely? Maybe, but this does not work. Because the class interests are contradictory and antagonistic, the workers must organize and fight for a higher standard of living, and in doing so they must fight the whole state apparatus. This fact, historically observed, is a product of capitalism, and it is capitalism that necessitates militant action on the part of the working class. The worker is, by the nature of the capitalist-worker relationship, militant. 

The capitalists do not rule by force alone. It is impossible for a minority to coerce a majority for any length of time by brute strength, for the real strength lies with the majority, the working class. All minority ruling classes depend primarily on fraud–conscious, deliberate lies–to maintain their rule. This fraud, which is basically an illusion, is perpetrated by the government, the education system, the churches, the media – every capitalist institution that exists. All these institutions are under the control of the businessmen, and, as these institutions pervade the entire fabric of society, we find that fraud is all pervasive. This fraud takes many forms, but the function of all fraud is to undercut resistance and militancy to capitalist rule, to reduce the awareness and knowledge of the working class. Generally, we find fraud either building up support for capitalism (“what is good for business is good for the country”, etc.) or slandering socialist ideas (“it's human nature to be greedy and lazy”.) Periodically fraud breaks down. Wars, recessions, environment crises, etc., all serve to show the true features of a capitalist society. Class conflict become clearer.

The decent into the capitalist abyss can be avoided only by replacing capitalism with the planned economy of socialism on a world scale. Capitalist crises have driven one fact home: capitalism is an outworn system that must be replaced with a new social system. To the evils of capitalism, the Socialist Party offers social progress and human welfare and advocates a system of society in the interests of all humanity. The aim of the Socialist Party is to assure society a high, continuous level of production which will permit the advancement of all, free of convulsive economic and financial crises Its goal is to assure abundance to all so that the nightmare of insecurity is dispelled and to provide everyone freedom from physical and intellectual enslavement of any kind. Are not these the things that all the people long for? Capitalist class rule has demonstrated to the hilt that it cannot, by its very nature, achieve this aim. Yet its achievement is not only necessary, but, as will be shown, it is quite possible. Now the question is for our fellow-workers what can and should they do to make this aim a living reality? Too many on the Left rarely utter a word about the necessity of the abolition of the capitalist system, and the establishment of socialism, confusingly presenting nationalisation or cooperatives as a type of “socialism” with the idea of not overthrowing capitalism, but merely the patching up of this system. The Left are complicity silent concerning the burning question of the era: capitalism or socialism. The best description that can be given this self-proclaimed vanguard of the working class is left-liberal reformists as it rests solely upon the struggle for immediate demands, and does not even place before the workers the need of a new society.

The Socialist Party declares itself for an altogether different task, convincing fellow-workers of the necessity of replacing capitalism by socialism, challenging fellow-workers still imbued with faith in capitalism, with the need for a new social system. The Socialist Party's purpose is to promote socialist ideas, i.e., consciousness of the necessity of replacing capitalism by a collectively-owned and operated economy. Only the working class is capable of overthrowing capitalism and establishing a socialist world. There is no other social force but the working class anywhere in the world capable of overthrowing international capitalism and establishing a social order founded on universal co-operation and solidarity. Here we are talking about the working class in the classic definition of the term, all those wage earners economically obliged to sell their labour power in order to obtain their means of consumption, since they lack access to the means of production and do not own capital). There are many that contend that workers are docile to the point of being reactionary; that they are not militant. If this is the case there is no point in building a revolutionary party because the working class is the only class capable of overthrowing capitalism and establishing socialism. Confusion arises because the “new” social movements such as the environmental movement which are organisationally and often ideologically, separated from the organised workers' movement. In fact, it is often the labour movements' fault since it is slow or simply unwilling to take up the objectives these movements struggle for. Hence we have fragmented and diverging movements. Single-issue movements often mobilise big numbers. But at the same time they are diverted into reformist dead-ends.

How to fix things. Let every struggle be a school of socialism

The capitalists rob you and all but starves you and there is only one way you can get out of their strangle-hold. That is by making the world a socialist one. The importance of a systematic fight can hardly be overestimated. It is not worth while to try to reform capitalism even if it were possible. Capitalism climate crisis is getting worse day by day. If they stand together the workers can bring peace and happiness to every home. The Socialist Party is giving the solution to capitalism many crises. It consists in eliminating capitalism itself. Socialism is the abolition of capitalism and is the only solution that human beings can give to the current crises. The development of the productive forces on a global scale has made the world overripe for socialism. Only a socialist planned world economy can deliver civilisation from the threat of extinction, and assure a world society of enduring peace, of boundless plenty, the unlimited expansion of culture and the achievement of full freedom for all. Without socialism, capitalism will continue to waste enormous resources, to hold the earth's population in abject poverty, to maintain social and racial inequality, and to support dictatorial regimes. To complete this grim perspective of hunger, insecurity, inequality and oppressive rule, capitalism offers the permanent threat of environmental destruction.

Capitalism succeeded in winning temporary stability after the Second World War. However, this temporary stabilisation of capitalism has disappeared and now we face austerity and the sharpening of competition in the world market with the necessity to attack the workers' standard of living, job conditions, and employment opportunities in order to strengthen competitive efficiency. These point to increasingly fierce class battles which could be raised from the economic to the political level under favourable conditions, arouse the labour movement to a new upsurge, challenging capitalism. We believe that the present system, of capitalism, is not part of an eternal “natural order” of things, not a consequence of “human nature”. It is a recent arrival in mankind’s history. The problems we face are not some “illness” of capitalism, they are an essential part of how it works. All these evils are the direct result of the private ownership of wealth, and the consequent exploitation by a few of the mass of the population, the workers who produce all wealth and whose reward is a tiny pittance. The capitalist minority of the population holds complete control of the economy and political power, and effectively controls all the machinery of the state. The working class, beset by unemployment, lower standards of living, and repression, with growing awareness of purposes constantly broadening and deepening emerge as a class conscious of itself and waging war upon capitalism. For if the revolutionary workers do not act, if the basic economic drive of capitalism – production and realisation of surplus value, the accumulation of capital – is left to work itself out unchecked, then as Marx described if there is no “revolutionary reconstitution of society” in favour of the working classes, then the “common ruin of the contending classes”

What do we mean by socialism? Not the phoney socialism of the Labour Party with its history of betrayal, and its attempts to make capitalism work, nor is it the “socialism” of the former USSR which uses pseudo-socialist phrases but where in fact one huge capitalist state monopoly, exploited the mass of Soviet workers on behalf of a small ruling elite of Party and State bosses. We are fighting for a working class democracy in which the producers of wealth, the working class will own the factories, the land, the hospitals, the schools, the courts etc. and will run them themselves according to the will of the majority, in which the working class will exercise dictatorship over the former capitalists in order to abolish capitalism’s forces. The unity of mankind is an age-old dream. This is our aim, a class-free society in which classes and therefore the state have finally disappeared. the Wage-Slave Abolitionists of to-day are fighting to abolish capitalism.

Socialist principles rests upon the following propositions:

1. Capitalist ownership of the facilities of production is the principal obstacle to the development of the means for achieving economic security, social solidarity and human happiness.
2. The working class is the only social force which, by virtue of its economic position and functions, is vitally interested and consistently impelled to transcend capitalism.
3. Capitalist power and property can be abolished only by carrying the mass struggle on a world scale.
4. The road to a harmonious and class-free society has to pass through the gate of the world socialist revolution in order to eliminate the root causes of conflict between one part of mankind and another.

What Now?

There is a prevailing assumption that the media is not to be relied on; that it is full of fake news and distortions. That assumption is largely a correct one and socialists have often exposed the veracity of the capitalist media. If there is any movement that is and must be based on objective truth it is the world socialist movement. No one should be able to question the facts which form the foundations of the theory and practice of that movement. To be a socialist means to be so scrupulous about factual matters that no listener or reader would assume to raise any doubt about them. The Socialist Party has earned for accuracy which is spotless. Nothing more dangerous to our movement can be imagined than the absurd thought that we should not report the exact truth. Any movement that is based on principles that cannot stand the test of critical examination is bound to rely on deception. The Socialist Party must be honest if some mistake do creep in it should be be immediately acknowledged and corrected. Only in such a way can the Socialist Party gain the confidence of the working class.

Socialism was born out of a criticism of capitalist conditions and capitalist theories. The emancipation of the working class from capitalism and from their degradation is the paramount problem of society. The only road to freedom for the workers and to equality is through their common struggle for the abolition of capitalism. The owning and employing class use every trick known to politics to dominate the state, from bribery and intimidation to fraudulent control of elections. Civil liberties nor human rights mean nothing if they stand in their way.

The Socialist Party maintain that our society is divided into classes based on groups of people standing in the same relationship to the means of production. Secondly, it holds that the interests of these classes are antagonistic and irreconcilable and that a constant struggle goes on between them over the division of the wealth that. society produces. Thirdly, the Socialist Party understands that the ability of the present ruling class, the capitalists, to maintain their power is due to their using their economic strength to control the government and use it as “an instrument of oppression” against the rest of society. We say that the ability of the present ruling class, the capitalists, to maintain their power is due to their using their political and economic strength to control the government and use it as “an instrument of oppression” against the rest of society.

To summarise, we live in a class society, that the dynamic force of that society is the class struggle, that the capitalist class maintains its position by control of the government, and that labour can only free itself by wrestling political power from capital for the purpose of building a class-free society. We accept that the possessing class is the ruling class by virtue of its control of the State. The government protects the capitalist class by protecting the source of its economic strength private property. It uses its control of government to decree what is called the law. It uses its control of government to enforce the law. The law is the will of the ruling class and its interests. Democracy literally means “rule of the people”. The master class maintains its privileged position because it controls the “rule by the people” by ensuring that the majority of people support the present system. Therefore the capitalist class controls the government only as long as the majority of the voters permit them to. Socialism cannot be introduced without public opinion supporting the socialist ideal. One thing seems evident. If we cannot get people to vote for our aim, there is little hope of getting them to take to the streets, much less to take up arms on behalf of the socialist cause.

The Socialist Party differentiates itself from the reformists in their conception of the state and the road to power. Gradualists argue that we can change society introducing one good law after another; and one fine day the workers will wake up pleasantly surprised to find themselves in the midst of a socialist world. The Socialist Party rejects the idea that socialism can be introduced by the constitutional amendments and the enactments of legislation and regulation. We say the State is an instrument to serve and protect the interests of the capitalist class and it is pure utopianism to expect that the working class can use that instrument for the ushering in of a socialist world. Socialists must be constantly teaching the workers that is not capitalist democracy and not the capitalist state which will bring us socialism.

The politics of the Socialist Party is utterly different in KIND from all other politics. Its aim is not to “improve conditions” or gain reforms or stop corruption or accomplish any other end within the framework of existing society; nor does it aim to win a parliamentary majority in “the government.” Its aim, the expression of the interests of the revolutionary class, is quite precisely to overthrow existing social relations, to abolish the existing state, and to engage in the task of establishing a new society. Non-revolutionary political parties, contesting for votes and office, represent different sections of the ruling class struggling for the major share of profits and privilege They are different groups seeking the lucrative control of the governmental bureaucracy, offering different theories of how best to maintain the existing order and keep for it the support or at least the acquiescence of the working class, with attempts to secure this by that reform or this concession for this for a particular section of the population. ALL varieties of non-revolutionary politics PRESUPPOSE the continuance of the existing order in its fundamental structure: that is to say in capitalist society. Non-revolutionary politics presupposes capitalist property relations, the exploitation of working people by the propertied minority, the continuance of their class domination and the maintenance of the capitalist state.

The Socialist Party breaks with the deceptions of conventional politics and opposes all reformist delusions, to pose directly the central issue: the class struggle for workers’ power and for socialism.

The Movement of the Dispossessed and Propertyless

The world we live and struggle in confronts us with an immense set of paradoxes. Conditions exist which should result in very favourable ground for socialist activity. Yet a real mass socialist movement does not exist. The absence of a vibrant socialist movement today is an indisputable (and depressing) fact. This is hardly a profound observation. It has been noted by many others. Dozens of explanations abound. Some argue that the problem is theoretical and doctrinaire in character while many blame sectarianism. In the meantime, socialists remain marginalised and ineffective. The absence of a thriving socialist party in have been driven many activists to delude themselves into pursuing a strategy that envisions capturing the Labour Party or the Democratic Party and transforming it into a socialistic party. Those who advocate such a strategy are hard-pressed to provide evidence of those parties receptivity to any socialist agenda. Such a strategy is an exercise in futility.

There is anger stirring among discontented people, particularly as their living standards and working conditions implode. Yet at the same time, there is widespread despair. The media spreads the notion that history has indeed ended, and capitalism is the only alternative. It has led to a society that is, by and large, depoliticised, apathetic and passive, often unaware, misinformed, or downright uninterested in many aspects of social life beyond their narrow personal existence. People are absorbed in attaining the fruits of the “consumer society.”

The lack of general agreement and understanding on what socialism means and when there is the question then becomes what needs to be done to achieve it and there is no clear sense of how to go about doing that. The day-to-day struggle continues, whether it be in centred on the environment civil disobedience, work and the unions , anti-sexism, anti-racism organisations. At the same time, a socialist party must look beyond the immediate situation and be willing to outline a vision of a future society yet not present some sort of messianic vision of socialism.

The issues must return to the basic tenets of socialism on how goods are produce and distributed, who owns the means of production or how work itself is organised and administered, while overcoming scarcity and meeting people’s material needs for food, clothing, shelter, etc. It must also encompass questions on the very way we spend our lives in a never ending and deadly process of expanding production and consumption, the mindless consumerism and the ever-expanding creation of “needs” that is foisted upon us by the ubiquitous advertising apparatus. Besides being ecologically unsustainable, it transforms people themselves into little more than another expendable commodity. We must not only transform the “relations of production,” but build towards a model of socialism based not on ever-expanding production and consumption, a socialism that is not only democratic, non-exploitative, egalitarian, and internationalist but one that establishes a new ecological relationship between human needs and the environment.

The struggle for socialism in this country and worldwide is a formidable task, to say the least. Moreover, there are no guarantees of success. Nevertheless, we must keep the ideal alive and struggle to make it a reality. Socialists need to propose a way forward to avoid the path of barbarism.

The Socialist Party is a genuine workers’ voice, speaking out against the very system which exploits all of us. We proclaim the goal is not to reform capitalism, but to eliminate it.

The Socialist Road Beckons

Socialism means a world without classes, without the exploitation master of wage-slave, without a production system operating for the purpose of producing profits for a few.

 By eliminating private ownership of the means of producing the things of life socialism could end poverty, unemployment and war. The Socialist Party exposes the evils of capitalist society, its murderous exploitation of the workers, its utter hypocrisy, and the impoverishment of the masses and the enrichment of a small class of capitalists. Hired intellectuals of big business, professors and economists of every variety try to explain why capitalism is such a wonderful society and socialism an unattainable utopia. As the capitalist world system heads towards a terrible climate crisis the socialist goal of a new society. The Socialist Party aim for the overthrow of capitalism, and the building up of the socialist co-operative commonwealth.

Present society is capitalist where the world is divided up into two opposing camps, the camp of a small handful of capitalists and the camp of the majority—the workers. The working class toil day and night, nevertheless they remain poor. The capitalists need not work, nevertheless they are rich. This is not because workers are unintelligent and the capitalists are geniuses, but because the capitalists appropriate the fruits of the labour of their employees, because the capitalists exploit the labour-power of their workers. The capitalist system is based on commodity production: here everything assumes the form of a commodity, everywhere the principle of buying and selling prevails. Here you can buy not only articles of consumption, not only food products, but also the labour power of men, their brains and their muscles and often their consciences. The capitalists know all this and purchase the labour power of workers, they hire them. This means that the capitalists become the owners of the labour power they buy. Workers, however, lose their right to the labour power which they have sold. That is to say, what is produced by that labour power no longer belongs to them, it belongs only to the capitalists and goes into their pockets. The labour power which you have sold may produce in the course of a day goods to the value of 100 pounds, but that is not your business, those goods do not belong to you, it is the business only of the capitalists, and the goods belong to them—all that you are due to receive is your daily wage which, perhaps, may be sufficient to satisfy your essential needs if, of course, you live frugally. Briefly, to sum up the capitalists buy the labour power of the proletarians, they hire the proletarians, and this is precisely why the capitalists appropriate the fruits of the labour of the proletarians, this is precisely why the capitalists exploit the proletarians and not vice versa.

The capitalist system is based on the private ownership of the instruments and means of production. Because the factories, mills, the land and minerals, the forests, the transport and communications, machines and other means of technology is the private property of a small handful of capitalists. Because the proletarians lack all this, it is why the capitalists can employ the proprtyless and the dispossessed to keep the factories and mills running—if they did not do that all their means of production would yield no profit. That is why the working people sell their labour power to the capitalists—if they did not, they would suffer deprivation and misery. Such is the basis of present-day capitalist society. Future society will be built on an entirely different foundations. The future will be socialist where there will be no classes, neither master or slave and, consequently, there will be no exploitation. In such a society people engaged collectively in the tasks of providing for the community. This means also that, with the abolition of exploitative commodity production, buying and selling will disappear and, there will be no more buyers and sellers of labour power and the end of wage-labour. There will be only free producers. It will be accompanied by the complete abolition of the private ownership of the instruments and means of production and the creation of common ownership of the wealth and resources of society. The main purpose of production in socialism will be to satisfy the needs of society and not to produce goods for sale in order to increase the profits of the capitalists. There will be no place for commodity production, struggle for profits, etc. Production will be socialistically organised and take into account the needs of society and will produce as much as society needs. There will be no room whether for socially wasteful production, competition, economic crises, or unemployment. Where there are no classes, where there are neither rich nor poor, there is no need for a state, there is no need either for political power, which oppresses the poor and protects the rich. Consequently, in socialist society there will be no need for the existence of political power.

If everybody receives according to his needs, we assume that the level of the productive forces of socialist society will be adequate for this. We presuppose an adequate development of productive forces and socialist consciousness among men and women, their socialist enlightenment. At the present time the development of productive forces is hindered by the existence of capitalist property relations, but if we bear in mind that this capitalist property will not exist in future society, it is self-evident that the productive forces will increase tenfold. Nor must it be forgotten that in future society the hundreds of socially unnecessary jobs, and also the unemployed, will work constructively and augment the ranks of the working people; and this will greatly stimulate the development of the productive forces. As regards human-nature's "savage" sentiments and opinions, these are not as eternal as some people imagine; there was a time, under primitive communism, when mankind did not recognise private property; there came a time, the time of individualistic production, when private property dominated the hearts and minds of humanity; a new time is coming, the time of socialist production—will it be surprising if the hearts and minds of men and women become imbued with socialist strivings.

Such is the picture of future socialist society

May Day...May Day

“Labour creates all wealth, All wealth belongs to labour”

Working people need to learn and understand that truth. 

The capitalists need us, we do not need them.

The rich will continue to get richer and we will continue to march on May Day until we decide that enough is enough. 

Capitalism is killing us and it is killing the world.

There is enough to go around for all and provide everybody with a decent life.

Abolish the Wage System!

No More Masters

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” Audre Lorde

There will not be a one-size-fits-all model of social change but there is a requirement to re-imagine the very foundations of the world around us.


Capitalism operates from a framework that assumes there is simply not enough to go around — that it is impossible for everyone to have all they need, even though some people possess unthinkable amounts of wealth. Socialists imagine the possibilities of a world without exploited labour. The working class is the only thoroughly revolutionary class. Its exploitation brings it face-to-face with the fundamental contradiction of capitalist society – the contradiction between the private ownership of the means of production and the social character of production. It is the only class which can carry the revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie through to the end and replace it as the ruling class.

Simply stated, the working class (or proletariat) is defined as all those who:

1) Do not own the means of production;
2) Have to sell their labour-power to the capitalist class to make a living; 
3) Directly, or indirectly, create surplus value which is expropriated by the capitalist class.

This exploitation, or expropriation of surplus value, creates an irreconcilable, antagonistic class contradiction between the working class and the owning employing class. Only the emancipation from capital itself can liberate the working class. Its mission, therefore, is to overthrow the ruling class and replace capitalism with socialism. The working class constitutes the majority of the population. A socialist world would be run for people, not for profit - for the benefit of the majority, not a handful of big businessmen and financiers. Production would be socially controlled and planned. All the big social and economic problems which we face today can only be finally resolved by putting an end to capitalism and establishing socialism. This socialist revolution can be carried through in conditions without civil war, by a combination of a socialist parliamentary majority and mass struggle outside parliament. Under capitalist society the Socialist Party exists to fight against the exploitation of those who toil by hand and brain, to strengthen the working-class organisation and political understanding of the need of ending capitalism and establishing socialism. We represent the future. The future is ours. never more determined to achieve the goal of Socialism than we are on this day in the year 2019.

The Socialist Party's goal is;
1) The abolition of the private ownership of the means of production.

2) Elimination of competition and production for exchange value and its replacement by democratic planning and production for use.
3) Workers’ and people’s management of the economy and society.
4) The abolition of wage labour.
5) The elimination of classes.
6) The disappearance of the state.
7) Full development of the productive forces .
8) From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.

Working people must end PRIVATE PROPERTY in the means of production and operate industries for the benefit of the PEOPLE.
Every person who has the courage and the daring to dedicate to the greatest of all ideals – the emancipation of mankind – must come forward and take his place in the ranks of the Socialist Party. On our banner we inscribe this single, simple word: Socialism.

WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE

A growing number of Scots believe that too many people are entering the UK. In June 2018 found that 38 per cent of respondents believed that immigration levels were too high. In the latest survey carried out by YouGov, 45 per cent of respondents now say that the level of immigration into Britain over the last few years has been too high.

A total of 37 per cent of those polled said they thought the level has been “about right”, with 6% saying they thought the level was too low, whilst 11% said they did not know whether the level was right or not.

Research suggests that 45 per cent of people who voted Yes in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum believe that immigration is too high.

A total of 77 per cent of Leave voters in the Brexit referendum said they thought the level is too high, whilst Conservative voters are most likely to be opposed to more immigration, with 65 per cent stating that view.

The Scottish Government has repeatedly warned that a more restrictive migration system could send Scotland’s recent population growth into reverse, with birth rates north of the Border falling to historic lows. Last week, latest figures revealed Scotland’s population hit 5.44 million. Migration was the main reason for the increase with 20,900 more people coming than leaving, from both overseas and the rest of the UK, over the year to mid-2018. Although Scotland’s population increased by 0.2 per cent over the year, the rate of population growth has slowed for the second year running. This is due to a reduction in overall net migration.

People do worry about the deterioration of their lives and many blame newcomers for the reason. The Socialist Party has never been afraid to take a minority position that is correct merely because it is unpopular with the working class at present. It has never pandered to the prejudices of the working class. Many politicians have indulged in attacks on immigrants over the years as it is necessary for them to have a scapegoat to blame for the ills of the political system that we live under and the immigrant has always served as such a scapegoat. You will not find a Socialist Party member in that number.

We hear it only too frequently; ‘I’m no racist but  I’m in favour of some sort of immigration control. Why give them houses  when we haven’t enough houses for our own people?Why spend money on schooling for them, when the class-sizes are too big for our own children.?’ ‘Why let them use our hospitals when the waiting times are already long enough...’ How often we hear this?

Even some on the Left demand tighter border controls to prevent ‘our jobs’ being stolen by foreigners at a cost to the disadvantaged unemployed.

We know that the politicians who blame the immigrants for the shortages in our society are exactly the same people who are responsible for those shortages. We know that in capitalist society the numbers of people coming into any country will be regulated by the number of jobs available in that country, and we know that overcrowding in that country – bad housing, hospital conditions and the like – are caused not by the numbers of workers in that country but by a system of society which plans its priorities and makes its decisions in the interests of profit and a minority who benefit from that profit. So we know that immigration controls cannot possibly assist the workers already in that country. We also know that immigration controls create all kinds of hardship for workers and their families who want to come here.

As soon as someone says ‘Keep them out’, as soon as he or she talks about ‘Our own people’, they have committed discrimination between one set of workers and another. Our people, cannot be defined by their place of birth, the place where they live, the language they talk or the colour of their skin. Our people are the plundered and the dispossessed all over the world who speak a multitude of languages and have many different coloured skins. The common factor of their exploitation binds them together far closer than the trivial differences of skin colour or language. It is the system of capitalist production that produces unemployment, homelessness, destitution and crumbling health services, not workers, be they 'indigenous' or 'foreign'.

WORLD SOCIALISM

We perform no miracles – We promise none.

‘Who are the oppressors, but the Nobility and Gentry; who are oppressed, is not the Yeoman, the Farmer, the Tradesman, and the Labourer? Your slavery is their liberty, your poverty is their prosperity.’ Laurence Clarkson 1647. 

WORLD SOCIALISM? No way! Face it. Every country that used to be socialist/communist has gone capitalist. We say socialism/communism has never been tried

The Socialist Party says to the workers: Unite into your own economic organisations, free from the control and influence of your class enemy. Organise your own political party. Challenge your enemy not only on the economic field but also on the political. Send your own representatives into Parliament to fight for your interests. We say, with Engels, that “universal suffrage is the best lever for a proletarian movement at the present time”. We say, with Engels, that “universal suffrage is the gauge of the maturity of the working class”. We will therefore do everything we can to raise the red line in that thermometer which measures the maturity of the working class. “On the day when the thermometer of universal suffrage reaches its boiling point among the labourers, they as well as the capitalists will know what to do.” The Socialist Party wants to make sure that on the day the thermometer boils over – not today, not tomorrow, but on that day – “the labourers. .. as well as the capitalists will know what to do”. We want to make sure that on that day the workers not only have enough votes in their hands, but enough power to enforce their will.

We are fighting for socialist freedom, and in this fight we are now on the defencive. The working class is on the defencive all over the world. The Socialist Party rejects the panaceas of capitalism. Society is in constant recurring crises. As Marxists, we understand that the underlying causes of this crisis lie within the capitalist system itself. The various economic difficulties cannot be “reformed away” through Keynesian or monetarist economic policies, because they flow from the fundamental contradiction of any capitalist society: the fact that production is social in character, yet the appropriation of social wealth is in private hands. As long as there remains capitalism people will suffer from unemployment, low quality social services, high military budgets, racial and sexual oppression, devastation of the environment, and all the manifestations of the chaos of production under the capitalist system.

As Marxists we understand that the real solutions to the economic and political difficulties of society lie in overthrowing capitalism and establishing a socialist system, that force in the revolutionary process must be the working class, owing to its position within capitalist society, and its objective interests in destroying the system which exploits and dominates it. Yet the working class remains incapable of playing its revolutionary role. The working class remains seriously divided, and dominated by ruling class ideas of racism, nationalism and sexism. The basic economic organisations of the working class are seriously under attack. Not only is the working class weak in its economic position in relationship to the bourgeoisie, but in the political field it is weak as well. On the whole the majority of workers are still under the influence of the pro-capitalist parties, primarily the British Labour Party and the Democratic Party in America. The awareness of the need for socialism will not come about spontaneously as a result of people’s disillusionment. It is the task of the Socialist Party, continually propagate for the socialist alternative. We argue for socialism not as a Utopian alternative to the evils of capitalism, but as the next logical step in human development. We continually try to show now the people’s problems are rooted in capitalism and that only a rationally planned economy, run by and for the working class, can overcome the present difficulties. The question arises as to how can the worker be transformed from a wage -slave, taught to obey the orders of his master, to can develop class-consciousness. A worker may live in extreme misery, yet his experience will not make him conscious of his own social status and of the necessity for class action. The conditions under which the worker becomes more or less receptive to notions of revolutionary class-consciousness vary greatly. When the worker opposes his or her exploiter and the state it makes it easy to open the workers' eyes and they become more susceptible to the socialist message that they are part of a social class of exploited and suppressed workers.

We have listened to the capitalists' promises for years and years. We shall listen no longer. Economic democracy and social justice are our demands based, first and foremost, upon the abolition of the capitalist system and exploitation, fully laying bare the innate rottenness of that system. The Socialist Party spread the hope of a world dedicated to peace and plenty.