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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)

December 2009 Volume 105 Issue 1264

Socialist Standard,Decemberr 2009 Vol.105 Issue No.1264.


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    Features
  • Down and out in Mayfair
    We still live in a society that if you don’t have the ability to pay you ‘goes’
    without.

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  • Capitalism and food security – an oxymoron
    Food security for all the people of the world will only be possible when
    the profit motive is taken out of food supply.

  • The world around you
    Someone employs you, and you work for them, and they control a big
    part of your waking hours.

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  • Too good to be true
    We are conditioned to accept the absurdities and contradictions that
    capitalism throws up.

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  • Debating the “S-Word”
    Is any word more over-used and misunderstood today than “socialism”?

  • Editorial
  • Contents
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