One Humanity, One Identity

 It is said that fools learn from experience, but the wise  from observation and reflection. The slave-morality promoted and engendered by the agents of the capitalists, is accepted without question by most men and women.

The Green New Deal has attracted perhaps the greatest attention of any proposal for decades. The GND is based on the assumption that the best way to provide for necessities of life is through market economics incentified by government intervention. 

The World Socialist Movement advocates producing according to need instead of according to profit. A major cause of unnecessary production is that decisions concerning what to manufacture and standards for creating them are made by investors and corporate bosses rather than community residents and workers manufacturing them. Socialism involves all citizens in economic decision-making, and not merely the richest. We have to look at the fact that capitalism is the problem.

For too many years there has been widespread confusion about what socialism really means. Workers cannot be blamed for rejecting the so-called case for a socialist economy when it is identified with nationalisation, state tyranny (as in the one-time so-called “Communist” countries where wage slaves were beaten up and imprisoned for organising in unions to defend wages and conditions) and wage freezes, union-bashing and austerity measures (as carried out by all previous Labour governments and by the bogus socialist governments elsewhere). To millions of workers socialism is regarded as having been tried and failed. Such ideas are reinforced by the popular Leftist conception of socialism, which amounts to a sterile vision of state capitalism — a centralised, bureaucratically-controlled market economy is the best that the Left is able to offer as an "alternative" to the so-called free market.

The objective of socialists is to abolish the market, not to regulate or humanise it. In a socialist society the production of goods and services for sale on the market with a view to profit will not exist. Commodity production. which is a feature of capitalism, will give way to production solely for use. There will be no buying and selling, but free access by all people to the goods and services which can be made available. Wealth in a socialist society will be produced according to people's abilities — with each person contributing voluntarily to the social effort without the need to work for a wage or salary — and will be available to all on the basis of their self-defined needs.

Socialism will be a wage-free, money-free world society. It will be a social system in which the means of wealth production and distribution will belong to the people of society as a whole (there will be no property) and be controlled democratically, utilising to the full the modern means of mass communication. Freed from the inefficient and wasteful structure of the property-money-wages system of production for sale and profit, socialist society will be able to set about the task of satisfying human needs. The countless problems caused by capitalism, such as mass starvation alongside food mountains and cuts in health services while thousands of doctors and nurses are on the dole, will be solved in a short time once society has eradicated the market and its priorities and is organised to produce for use.

Those seeking a real alternative to both private and state capitalism should not be afraid to state boldly the case for a completely new way of organising social affairs. Yes, we will be labelled as Utopians by conservatives of the Right and Left wings of capitalism for daring to propose a solution to the problems of present-day society which goes beyond the outdated barriers of the buying and selling system. But socialism, as defined by the Socialist Party, is the only alternative which offers a revolutionary challenge to the status quo. Not only is it the sole alternative to the futile attempt to reform capitalism, but it is an attractive and exciting option. Instead of the old Leftist demands for lower bus fares or cheap spectacles on the NHS or more slums to be built by councils, we argue for a social transformation which is really worth getting enthusiastic about: a society where there will be no fares, no rents, no prices; decent homes, food, clothing and amenities for everyone; free access to the wealth which money has always prevented us from having; the abolition of the wages system and its replacement by unalienated, cooperative and useful production.

If you think that such an alternative is practical, desirable and urgent you should investigate further by contacting your nearest branch of the Socialist Party.

Rangers fans are not "The People"

 A number of churches in and around Glasgow were subject to anti-Catholic vandalism as Rangers supporters "celebrated" their league victory. 

Establish the socialist co-operative commonwealth

 

Members of the World Socialist Movement are not emotionally insensitive on the pain suffered by many of our brothers and sisters around the world . But we refuse to be so emotionally committed that we lose sight of our own aim and object—Socialism. Emotion is only a positive and constructive force when it is controlled and directed. When it is misdirected its effects are negative and pernicious. We do not put forward our diagnosis of society merely because it is right, but because in the conclusions we draw from it are the humanitarian assumptions of remedying the social ills of today’s society. We are keenly aware of the many problems inflicted upon our fellow-workers, but we refuse in lieu of our own remedy to accept what we hold to be harmful soporifics based on a faulty diagnosis. To act other than we do would be to impugn our own humanitarian aims and falsify the reason for the  existence of our political organisation. We offer the universal unity of humanity. Others have paid lip service to this ideal. We have acted upon it and not to act on what you believe is not really to believe it at all.

Only in the socialist commonwealth, will vanish the ills we desire to end, and how ever distant it may be, we must travel that road. For ourselves, it is our hope and  wish that we may live to witness the establishment in many lands of that cooperative commonwealth, and the expansion of human happiness. Being socialists, we have an attainable ideal. Socialism, we say, is the only practicable solution for abolishing the many evils that are the product of the operations of capitalism. Socialism, we suggest, is the only system that can effectually realise for the world’s millions a real, true and full life, such as should be theirs who are the wealth producers.

We seek a world where here is peace  from pole to pole; a world where war and the very causes of war are abolished. We desire a full, joyous and unfettered life for all peoples everywhere. We campaign for the complete emancipation of the world’s workers from their wage-slavery, so that all these desirable things should be ours. We must overthrow the capitalist system, and establish in its place the socialist cooperative commonwealth of the world.

So long as we continue to tolerate this system of private ownership and production for profit, so long will the needs of humanity be disregarded. The hungry want food, and they cannot buy it because of their poverty. They are ill-housed and yet the race-horses of the wealthy are splendidly stabled and cared for. “Man's inhumanity to man,” as Burns so aptly phrased it, is exemplified to the nth degree by the social system we know as capitalism. In time of ”peace” or war, human considerations are the last things the ruling-class think of. We must have a goal to reach, a splendid purpose to fulfil far beyond the petty idea of working for wages in order to get a living; or the parochial ideas of reformers. Socialism, alone, opens up an immense vista of boundless development for the individual and for the world’s multi-millions. For socialism will come to free Mankind from bondage. We know that the socialist commonwealth, alone, can realise in full a social condition of equality and concord that is expressed by the phrase: “Each for all, and all for each!” 

Do you want joy and peace and freedom in full splendour?

You will get these only through your own wise and determined efforts—by establishing a worldwide socialist cooperative commonwealth. To those who understand and agree with our case for socialism our we extend an earnest invitation to assist in the efforts we are making to build up a vigorous and healthy socialist organisation.

bound together by a common understanding, with the bond of class-conscious solidarity, determined to wage uncompromising war on all who bar our way toward the goal of our ambition—the establishment of the socialist co-operative commonwealth, where poverty will give place to comfort, privilege to equality, and slavery to freedom.

The Capitalist Class Has A Problem!

Canada's Supreme Court has ruled Justin Trudeau's carbon tax is constitutional, thereby setting aside the legal arguments of the governments of, energy rich provinces, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

 Saskatchewan Premier, Scott Moe wants the federal government to provide his province with equal to what other provinces have received from the Low Carbon Economy Fund; to quote, ''We have $126 million that Saskatchewan has not received and we've asked for those dollars and that funding to be put forward so that we can continue with our emissions reduction plans.'' 

It’s typical; the capitalist class has a problem and they can't get their little heads together to solve it, even if it were possible.

S.P.C. Members.

Trying To Solve Their Problems Within Capitalism!

In March Joe Biden delivered his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, which included his aforementioned contention, ''We're going to make sure we buy American.'' United Steelworkers’ international president, Tom Conway, reacted quickly, vowing to protect businesses and workers in Canada from the threat of protectionism in the U.S.

 On April 1, Conway issued a joint statement with his Canadian counterpart Ken Neumann, stating: ''Canada is not the problem facing U.S. manufacturing and workers. Co-operation between Canada and U.S. will build on our long standing and productive trading relationship.''

 Exactly how they will achieve this, they didn't say. 

Obviously, this is a case of workers trying to solve their problems within capitalism, though it is good to see a declaration of working-class solidarity. It would be better still to see such solidarity in an effort to abolish the cause of their problems.

S.P.C. Members.

Who Will Change The World?

 

Hunger and poverty in the world is the price we pay for the continuing capitalist system. Capitalist governments evade the life-or-death problem of feeding food to millions of  hungry people, preferring instead to feed the profits to the capitalists. Only a society that produces for use instead of profit can truly give the whole world its gifts of health and concern for the well being of all the earth’s people. That would be a socialist society controlled by the world’s producers, working people.

This is a beautiful, bountiful world, abundant in natural resources. But they do not belong to the people. They belong to the capitalists and the corporations with their network of interlocking businesses --thousands of companies, big and small in every sector of the economy. There is the highest degree of centralisation of ownership of the resources and the industrial and financial system by a numerically small group. There is the highest degree of technological development and of productive efficiency. But nothing belongs to the people.

The  health and welfare of working people is not a consideration for  capitalist owners. Automation and artificial intelligence that could be blessings to humanity to eliminate drudgery and heavy work, deprive workers of their livelihood and many inventions are not fully implemented  for the commercial reasons of profit. Plenty can be produced for all, an abundance of food, shelter, health-care, education, leisure and travel. "Paradise on Earth" is not a hyperbole. The material basis is in the rational use of labour, machinery and resources to full capacity in planned socialist production and in socialised distribution. Produce for use and not for profit. In today’s capitalist world, no matter how much is produced, none of it belongs to the people. 

It is difficult to explain such a crazy system where tight-fisted, granite-faced, flint-hearted business-owners condemn millions of waged-workers to a mere existence and permits millions to suffer poverty. We work only to live and support our families and only when the employers allows us. This is the profit system, this is the private property system; this is capitalism. It has resulted in war and more war, hunger and more hunger and misery and more misery, in the midst of untold wealth. Capitalism offers no answer to solve the welfare of the people. Should any person dwell in a slum, go short of the necessities of a decent life just for the continued existence of a privileged few? Is that an ideal world?

Socialism will abolish private ownership of the means of production which are today the property of a small group of capitalists and used by them to exploit the labour of millions for their own private profit. By socialism we mean common ownership by the whole people of all the socially necessary means of production (land, natural resources, factories, transport, communications, etc.) and their operation through a planned economy which will guarantee an ample supply and equitable distribution of all commodities and services to all the people. Socialism does not exclude ownership of personal possession; in fact, most of us would have far more individual belongings in  socialism than we have now. Socialism denies the right to exploit the labour of others. To bring about a world where all people are safe, normal, happy, is the World Socialist Movement. We extend our invitation to our fellow-workers to join us.

"The people do not know their power…The union of twenty million is irresistible. Such members, such resources can enforce anything that is just." - Ernest Jones (Chartist), 1854

Possible Environment Disruption? Where Money Is to Be Made?

Eight of Ontario's most powerful land developers own thousands of acres of prime real estate near the proposed route of the controversial Highway 413. Four are connected to Doug Ford’s Conservative government, one of whom, John Di Poce employed the head of the Ontario Progressive fundraising campaign for several years. Associated with them is Caroline Mulroney, now Ontario transportation minister. The proposed 60-kilometre route will extend from near Milton looping around the greater Toronto area to Highway 400 north of Vaughan. The price tag could be anywhere between $6 billion to $10 billion, all to save drivers about 30 minutes. If built, it will raze 2,000 acres of farmland, cut across 85 waterways and pave 400 acres of protected? Greenbelt land in Vaughan. It will also disrupt 220 wetlands and the habitats of 10 species at risk, according to the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. 

At present the matter is under consideration, but nobody should be surprised if the deal goes through. Where money is to be made, since when do the capitalist class and their political stooges care about the environment.

S.P.C. Members.

When Did Any Government Care About Any Aboriginals?

In 2015 Justin Trudeau was elected promising that he would solve problems relating to drinking water for Canada's indigenous peoples. At present 58 indigenous communities across Canada do not have drinking water, nor has any date been set when they will. Families are separated due to imposed evacuations and relocations. The loss of homes creates overcrowding and increased danger of disease such as tuberculosis and COVID-19. 

The Federal government complain of lack of funding, but since when did any government care about aboriginals who lived on the land for thousands of years before the capitalists invaded.

S.P.C. Members.