Change the World - End Scarcity

 Socialism will triumph only when the working people take possession of all the basic means of production under their own control. The aim of the Socialist Party is a society based on equality of all persons without distinction of race, sex or creed. We hold that the necessary step to this society is that the means of production should be owned by no single individual or group but by the whole community with the recognition of the maxim ‘from each according to capacity, to each according to needs’. The Socialist Party speaks of ”world socialism”, as expressing that the we do not recognise the national distinctions made by our masters, and that in the society of the future, nation-states as political entities will cease to exist, and give place to the federation of communities bound together by locality or convenience. Here, the Socialist Party differs from some radicals who cannot see as far as the abolition of nationality.

The Socialist Party puts before our fellow workers its aims, plainly and honestly, and has the confidence that however strange these aims may be at f first sight to many, the time will come when circumstances will force our fellow-workers to accept them as their own, and that it is not a waste of our resources and energy in the meantime to familiarise them with these aims to quicken the revolutionary process. 

The Socialist Party has declared over and over again the futility of reformists wasting their time in getting palliative measures passed by Parliament, which, even if desirable and temporarily useful, they would be brought about much more readily if we did not mix ourselves up in the matter. Also the Socialist Party does not believe it is of any useful purpose to be  campaigning for the votes of those who do not understand the ideas of socialism, and of those who would be attracted by election promises which could not be fulfilled if by any chance such candidates were returned to Parliament.

People are today inundated with appeals to help feed the starving masses of the world. It is clear that we must find a solution to our food problems. Although we are mostly poor, our planet is potentially extremely rich. We have the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty, and scarcity in the midst of abundance. Capitalists refuse to make the things that people need unless they are guaranteed profits. We live under an economy of production for profit rather than for use, it thrives on scarcity. All of the poverty and greed, bloodshed and suffering on this capitalist-dominated planet is a part of a world the wealthy claim they never made. But we’re going to change it for them. The bosses are the dis-organisers of production as they are the dis-organisers of the lives of working people. The only real organisation of production that can take place is when the workers have control of production. That’s why the capitalists are so touchy about the truth on production. They require absolute deception. The capitalists do not answer with their real argument – that their sole concern is profits – because that can’t stand the light of day. Instead, they counter by casting doubts and laying down a smoke-screen.

The Socialist Party wants to abolish poverty, insecurity, unemployment and war; we do not want totalitarianism in any form. We want a planet free of the war-breeding struggle for capitalist markets, a world in which goods are produced for the use of the producers and not for sale with a view to profit. We want a society in which machinery will become a blessing to multiply our output and give to the producers leisure in which to study, travel and enjoy the product of our labour. We want to live full lives relieved forever of want and fear of want.

The workers possess the right to agitate freely for the overthrow of the capitalist system and to advocate and agitate for the establishment in its place of the Socialist Cooperative Commonwealth.

Socialism means the abolition of the State with its hordes of politicians and establishing the ownership and operation by the workers of the means of wealth production of the land, the factories, communications and transport. It means an end to exploitation and the inauguration of true democracy, the establishment of industrial democracy. Administration over things, as opposed to the capitalist state rule over men and women.

We demand life in socialism not death under capitalism. The struggle for socialism has become the fight for the very existence of mankind. For economic security and for permanent peace – World Socialism.

It is Time for Change

 

What lies ahead?

Reimagining the world. Only that.’

 Arundhati Roy

 We oppose all wars with all our might. The Socialist Party is determinedly against any war between peoples. No matter where they may find themselves, the socialist’s role is to carry on proclaiming that there is but one war of emancipation: the one waged in every country by the oppressed against the oppressor, by the exploited against the exploiter. Our task is to summon our fellow wage- slaves to revolt against their masters. To every soldier from every country convinced that he is fighting for justice and freedom, we must explain that their heroism and their valour will serve only to perpetuate hatred, tyranny and misery. To their mothers, daughters wives and sweethearts we will show who bears the real responsibility for the carnage and their grief and bereavement. There has been enough bloodshed, enough destruction.

Socialism is our principle aim. The goal of pacifism is a society without war, but under exactly the same form of production, in the same political, social and economic conditions as at present. The goal of socialist is the class-free society, that is, a society without exploitation, the society in which the demand for the complete abolition of private property in the means of production will be realised. A socialist society provides the condition for permanent peace. War must be made impossible by destroying its deepest and best hidden roots. The continued existence of the capitalist system of exploitation, brings with it new wars, new international conflicts, recurring economic crises, and the unavoidable impoverishment of working people, unending slaughter and killing of all kinds by war or in peace, killing of those us who belong to the overwhelming majority of mankind—the working class—by those who belong to a  small minority which, the idle exploiting class. They stand for bloody terror and oppression. It is the same everywhere. How can it be otherwise?

For the Socialist Party our aim is not the improvement of condition but the change in position of the working class.  We will not work with the capitalists and but against them. Reformists believe that the cause of war is rooted in mankind – that is, in “human nature.” Greed, malice, jealousy, hate – these factors, says the reformers, make war inevitable. 

The welfare of the working class is diametrically opposed to that of the ruling class. Where they erect walls and fences it is our interest to bring them down. Where they prepare for wars, it is our interest to build the fraternal collaboration of all peoples in a world federation. Only world revolution can obliterate the root-cause of war, capitalism.To save humanity from being plunged into wars of mutual extermination workers must face up to the task of creating socialism.

Socialism means to administer the affairs of society on the basis of human requirements, suppressing the exploiting capitalists and their yearning for profits. If you examine the problems facing the working people today, you find, first, that they are not new, but only another phase of the difficulties as old as capitalism itself; and second, you discover that they would disappear if the capitalists were out of the way. Workers are in poverty while warehouses are bursting with goods and produce. Human society can reorganise itself for the peaceful development of the bounty of nature and of the ingenuity of mankind. Once our fellow-workers conceive the function of production is to provide the basic needs of the population and to achieve a higher level of civilisation and culture for the people, they can take a broom and sweep away the capitalist state. Who is better able to organise society for production than the producers? Who knows machinery better than the operators? Who knows mining better than the miners? Who knows land better than farmers? Who knows the problems of education better than teachers? Who is more competent to represent a factory than choosing its administration from shop-floor, workers, technicians, engineers and other specialized workers indispensable to industry, all have the knowledge required to be shared for production. They would be elected to sit on representative bodies. Manual and brain workers could thus run and control every department and phase of industry, public service, education and the whole of community life, both locally and on a wider scale. Will the working class make mistakes? Perhaps but all the blunders that the workers could possibly make in the course of building the socialist society will be like a drop in the ocean of major crimes against humanity committed by capitalism in peace and in war. The capitalist system can no longer handle the things which it has itself created, unemployment insecurity hunger, mass discontent 

When working people rise up from their passivity and acquiescence and start to intervene in events and decide them – that is the time of revolution.

How to be Anti-War

 

Working people feel the impact of the changing world on their daily lives and search for an answer to their problems. 

What is blocking the way to economic and social progress? The Socialist Party reply: The system of profit-making, the ownership and control of industry by a few industrialists and bankers for their own gain and not for the benefit of the people.

Much of the anti-war movement is a mixture of Utopian pacifism and still a slavish loyalty to capitalism. The mass butchery of war can only bring hunger, misery and poverty to the workers of the world. Only the class war for the overthrow of capitalism can end wars by ending the cause of war capitalism. The solution for the ills of present-day society is common ownership of the industries and production for the social good, instead of profits for the few.

Socialism can be achieved only by the will of the people when the conditions have become ripe for the historical changeover from capitalism to socialism. Socialism will thus triumph as the result of the will and actions of the  people, and cannot be imposed from outside. 

We explain to the workers the irreconcilability between their interests and the interests of bloodthirsty capitalism. We propagate the unity of the workers. It is only workers who can guarantee real peace. Only socialism can end war by ending the cause of war – the capitalist system. We must fight against the real cause of war, and against the class that benefit from it. Our enemy is not the Russians, the Chinese or Iranian workers. It is capitalism everywhere. The economic processes of capitalism lead, we repeat, to war. The political processes of capitalism, based upon its national and territorially structured State, cannot create peace. Peace can only come from a worldwide commonwealth. 

Capitalism is the basic cause of war in modern times. Capitalism controlled the entire globe and the war resulted from the struggles of the corporations in the leading capitalist countries to re-divide the world, to wrest from each other colonies and markets, cheap labour and raw material supplies. It is capitalism which gives rise to the danger of more wars. Socialism gives a correct analysis of the fundamental reasons for the wars and miseries of our times. The solution is to end the private ownership of the means of production and replace it with social ownership and production planned to meet the people’s needs, that is, socialism.

Socialism puts an end to wars and the danger of wars because under socialism there are no capitalists who are interested in war profits and the conquest of new markets. and colonies. Socialist planned economy abolishes anarchy of the market and thereby puts an end to depressions and unemployment.

Social ownership ends exploitation of man by man because it is through private ownership of the factories and workshops, mills and mines, the banks and lands that the wealthy minority exploit the great mass of the people. Common ownership frees the energies of the people and productive forces for mighty economic, social and cultural advances by means of socialist planning. With common ownership, instead of production for profit there is production for the benefit of the people.

Socialism does not destroy democracy, as the servants of the wealthy assert but, on the contrary, enormously extends political liberties. The only “liberty” which Socialism ends is the liberty of the privileged class to own industry and amass wealth at the expense of the great majority. Socialism ends all exploitation and oppression of the producers by a privileged parasitical class. By ending the political, economic and financial domination by the clique of millionaires, socialism, for the first time, creates the conditions for the free expression of the people’s will. The dictation of policy by the wealthy few makes way for the dictation by the many. Nor does Socialism “worship the State” and aim at domination of the individual by any all-powerful State. Socialism involves the abolition of  capitalism, socialisation of production and distribution and their use for the benefit of society. Only the organised power of the people can achieve this aim. Our aim is to achieve socialism by peaceful means. The Socialist Party at all times stands for a peaceful solution of the political, economic and social issues of our time.

We are here to fight to build up this new society, to create a new spirit in the world, to end war, to end murder, to end suffering, to end the destruction of millions of lives, and bring into existence a brotherhood to inspire the hearts and minds of all men and women, in which we will have fraternity and equality, and in which for the first time the people will be endowed with those inalienable rights of life, liberty, and happiness. We ask you to stand with us. We ask you to work with us to achieve this goal of socialism.

Winning Promises.

The result of the Provincial election in British Columbia on Oct 24 was a win for the NDP which won 55 seats. 

The Liberals took 27 and the Greens 3. Returning Premier, John Horgan, said he would, ''Steer the province through the pandemic''; what else could he have said? He also said his party had won because of their promises in relation to seniors care, child care, transportation, education and health care. 

In other words business as normal under capitalism.

S.P.C. Members.

“Buy American” Problems for Alberta.

 

 It’s Oct. 31 and in keeping with the date things are a little scary. 

Whatever the outcome of the American election things do not bode well for Canada.

 Biden said that no government agency will buy anything not made in America. He announced a $400 billion, "Buy American'' plan, which has won him some plaudits. Biden promised to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a decision which will not go down well in Alberta. All this will affect employment in Canada. 

Not exactly a rosy picture, but there is an alternative - to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism, which if the worlds working class wants it can be done very easily and quickly.

S.P.C. Members.