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The World Socialist Movement (or WSM) consists of people who have organised themselves democratically with one objective: to bring about a complete change in world society. We are made up of companion parties and groups in several countries.

The WSM is a global socialist movement that believes capitalism cannot meet the needs of the majority of us, the workers (or proletariat) of the world, no matter how progressive it might become in the future.

To meet these needs we contend that capitalism must be replaced by socialism.

Publisher of Britain's oldest Socialist Journal   (Published since 1904)
November 2009 Volume 105 Issue 1263


Socialist Standard,November 2009 Vol.105 Issue No.1263.

Contents Editorial  Also here as PDF

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Features
  • The fall of “communism”: Why so peaceful?  
    Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall came down, symbolising the collapse of state capitalism in Eastern Europe...Read

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  • The Myth of Soviet “Socialism”
    Vladimir Sirotin from Russia explains how that country was never socialist.    .Read

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  • Workers State? Pull the other one
    How could anyone have seriously argued that the workers ruled in Russia?    .Read

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  • Joining the killing machine
    The campaign to win the young to war has come a long way from the ‘Your Country Needs You’ poster with the pointing finger of Kitchener used in the ‘First Great War’.    .Read

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  • Afghanistan – lying about dying
    The pressure to misinterpret the deaths, as the bodies come back, as nobly purifying is a cynically orchestrated propaganda exercise intended to justify the war.    .Read
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