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Manchester
Day School
Saturday
23 April,
1-5 pm
Friends Meeting House, Mount
Street, City Centre (off Albert
Square)
Theme::
''World Poverty''
Speakers:
Adam Buick ('Third World Poverty and
the Anti-capitalist Movement')
Paddy
Shannon ('Can Socialism End
World Poverty?').
Refreshments available.
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Manchester
Branch talk
Monday
25 April, 8 pm
Hare and Hounds, Shudehill, City
Centre
'What Capitalism Does to Your
Food'
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SWANSEA
BRANCH
Monday 11 April. 7.30 pm.
"Election activity. Is it worth it?"
Unitarian Church, High St, Swansea
(next to Argos).
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LANCASTER
Public Meeting
Monday 4th April, 8pm.
WHAT WILL THE ABOLITION OF
CAPITALISM DO TO THE ARTS?
The Gregson Centre, Moorgate,
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WEST LONDON
Tuesday 19 April, 8pm
THE ELECTION: DON'T BE A MUG:
VOTE FOR YOURSELF FOR A
CHANGE.
Committee Room, Chiswick Town Hall,
Heathfield Terrace, W4
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NORWICH
Discussion Meeting
Saturday 30 April, 12 noon
Welcome. Questions and discussions
for new visitors
1.00pm Meal, followed by
assessment and discussion of items
on recent Annual Conference
Agenda.
The Conservatory, back room of The
Rosary Tavern, Rosary Road,
Norwich.
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Election
News
By the time you read this the general
election campaign will be officially
under way. As announced, the
Socialist Party is standing a candidate
(Danny Lambert) in the Vauxhall
constituency in South London. Our
Head Office, which is in the
constituency, is serving as the
campaign rooms.
If you want to
help
get the socialist message across
against the Gang of Three (Labour,
Liberal, Tory: Same Old Futile Story)
and their apprentices in the Green
Party (and other would-be managers
of capitalism such as RESPECT and
VANITAS), phone 0207 622 3811 or
call in at 52 Clapham High St, SW4
(nearest tube: Clapham North).
If you are connected to the
internet you can also follow the
campaign on a daily basis by visiting
the site of our campaign blog "Vaux
Populi"
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LONDON
DAY SCHOOL
Saturday 9 April. 11am to 5pm.
PRACTICAL SOCIALISM:
COMMON OWNERSHIP
11.30am What do we mean by
common ownership?
Speaker: Adam Buick
1.30 - 2.30pm Lunch Break
2.30pm How distribution could be
organised without money.
Speaker: Bill Martin
Room 11. Friends House, Euston Rd
(Side entrance), NW1
Nearest tubes: Euston, Euston
Square
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Declaration
of Principles
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This
declaration is the basis of our organisation and, because it is also an
important historical document dating from the formation of the
party in
1904, its original language has been retained.
Object
The
establishment of a system of society based upon the
common
ownership and democratic control of the
means and
instruments for producing and distributing
wealth by and
in the interest of the whole community.
Declaration of Principles
The
Socialist Party of Great Britain holds
1.That society as at present constituted is based upon the
ownership of the means of living (i.e., land, factories,
railways, etc.)
by the capitalist or master class, and the consequent enslavement
of the working class, by whose labour alone wealth is produced.
2.That in society, therefore, there is an antagonism of interests,
manifesting itself as a class struggle between those who
possess but do not produce and those who produce but do not
possess.
3.That this antagonism can be abolished only by the
emancipation of the working class from the domination of the master
class, by the conversion into the common property of society of the
means of production and distribution, and their democratic
control by the whole people.
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4.That as in
the order of social evolution the working class is the
last class to achieve its freedom, the emancipation of the working
class will involve the emancipation of all mankind, without distinction
of race or sex.
5.That this emancipation must bethe work of the working class
itself.
6.That as the machinery of government, including the armed
forces of the nation, exists only to conserve the monopoly by the
capitalist class of the wealth taken from the workers, the working
class must organize consciously and politically for the conquest of
the powers of government, national and local, in order that
this machinery, including these forces, may be converted from an
instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation and the
overthrow of privilege, aristocratic and plutocratic.
7.That as all political parties are but the expression of class
interests, and as the interest of the working class is diametrically
opposed to the interests of all sections of the the master class,
the party seeking working class emancipation must be hostile to every
other party.
8.The Socialist Party of Great Britain, therefore, enters the field
of political action determined to wage war against all other
political parties, whether alleged labour or avowedly capitalist, and
calls upon the members of the working class of this country to
muster under its banner to the end that a speedy termination
may be wrought to the system which deprives them of the fruits
of their labour, and that poverty may give place to comfort,
privilege to equality, and slavery to freedom |
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socialist
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1904)