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Manchester
Branch Meeting
Monday
22 January,
8.15pm
'Discussion on Anxiety Culture'
Hare and Hounds,
Shudehill,
City Centre
All welcome
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East Anglia
Saturday
20 January,
12 noon to 4pm
12 noon: informal discussion/branch
business
1pm: Meal
2pm: THE CASE FOR A
MONEYLESS
SOCIETY
The Conservatory,
back room of
Rosary Tavern,
Rosary Rd, Norwich.
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Central London
Saturday 6
January from 7pm
NEW YEAR SOCIAL
Socialist Party Head Office,
52 Clapham High St, SW4
(nearest tube:
Clapham North).
Central London
Sunday 28
January, 3pm
THE CASE FOR A
MONEYLESS
SOCIETY
Speaker:
RIchard Headicar
Socialist Party,
Head Office,
52 Clapham High St, SW4 (nearest tube:Clapham North).
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Joint
Edinburgh & Glasgow Branch
Free
Software
dot.communism..?
A socialist
analysis of
the Free Software and Open Source movements.
Tuesday 30 January 2007
at 20:00
Quakers Hall
Victoria Terrace (above Victoria Street)
Edinburgh
Wednesday 31 January
2007
at 20:00
Maryhill Community Centre
304 Maryhill Road
Glasgow
About the speaker: Tristan Miller is a research scientist in the field
of computer science and digital information
management. He has been an active developer of free software since 1999.
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ENFIELD & HARINGEY
BRANCH
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
Due to refurbishment, our regular meeting place will be closed for a period during January to March 2007. We have been allocated a venue at Raynham Road School
(around the corner) from 16 January.
For further information please contact the branch at the details given in Contact Details.
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The
complete lack of grasp of the general situation from a Socialist
point of view, screams from every line of Driberg’s reports.
Kruschev,
having taken the Labour Party to task for being “reformist”
and failing
to educate the masses in the “revolutionary spirit,”
Driberg enters the
defence by saying “though Britain had certainly
not been transformed
into a Socialist State, the Labour Government
had taken substantial
steps towards Socialism—taking basic
industries into public ownership, introducing comprehensive social
security measures, and so on”
The
only “revolutionary spirit” in which workers need educating will
come from a knowledge of their class position under the wages
system
and a realisation on their part of the need to use that knowledge
to
vote for the abolition of this system. Far from drawing attention to
the real nature of Capitalism, at every election the so-called
Communist
Party uses exactly the same stunts as the rest of them,
promising houses,
jobs and peace, etc.
As
we stated earlier, to the Labour Party nationalisation means
Socialism, but
perhaps workers are beginning to see that the
so-called “public ownership” is
two steps forward, three steps
back and does not mean that they own any
more of the means of
living than they ever have.
The
term “social security” has a nice sound but only insecure
people need it.
No reform can give workers security because their
insecurity does not arise
from lack of reforms but is basic to their
wage slave position under Capitalism.
(From an article by
‘H.B.’, Socialist Standard, January 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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