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Meetings
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Manchester
Branch Meeting
Monday 26 February
RACISM
Hare and Hounds,
Shudehill,
City Centre
All welcome
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Central London
Sunday 25 February
THE REVIVAL
OF RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM
Speaker: Pat Deutz
Socialist Party,
52 Clapham High St,
SW4 (nearest tube: Clapham North). |
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Macmillan must go
If we were Labour or Communist vote-catchers we would be campaigning
for "Macmillan Must Go!" and telling anyone silly enough to believe it,
how successful we had been with our last campaign for "Eden Must Go!"
Since the S.P.G.B. was formed in 1904 there have been ten such campaigns
for getting rid of a no-good Prime Minister.
There have been rather more than ten governments because some of
them, after being pushed, pulled or squeezed out have managed to get
back again. When we survey the list we marvel at the rich variety.
Scots, English, Welsh, and half- American (Churchill);
spellbinders like Lloyd-George, and others who didn't know how to gild
the lilies of oratory; philosophical types like Balfour and Asquith and
"plain, blunt men" like Baldwin; semi-Pacifists and war-mongers;
business men and professional politicians; the relatively poor and the
passing rich; religionists and agnostics; aristocrats and commoners;
Tory,Liberal, and Labour.
There are the differences:What of the similarities? They have all
had a strange belief that the country was very lucky to have them at
the helm. They have all come in generously promising how much better
they will make life for the people and have all gone out little
lamented.
And what difference has it made in the one thing that ought to be
of paramount concern to the
workers, the question of establishing Socialism in place of Capitalism?
Just no difference at
all. That job has yet to be done and it won't matter in the least
whether the next Prime Minister who tries to administer Capitalism is
Mr. G., or Mr. B., Mr. X or Mr. Y.
("Notes by the Way" by H, Socialist Standard, February 1957).
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Object
and
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because it is also an important historical document dating from the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.
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 producebut 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.
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 be the
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 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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