London
Branches Dayschool
Saturday 25 June, 11am to 5pm
THE POST-WAR LABOUR
GOVERNMENT:
HOPE AND DECEPTION
11.00
Welcome. Tea, coffee, biscuits.
11.30 HOW LABOUR GOVERNED
1945-1951
Speaker: Steve Trott.
13.00 Lunch break
14.00 DOUBLE-DEALING DEFENCE:LABOUR
AND THE ATOM BOMB
Speaker: Richard Headicar
15.15 Tea break
15.30 TONY BLAIR: THE GOD
THAT FAILED
Speaker: Simon Wigley.
Room 11, Friends House, 173 Euston Road
(side entrance), NW1.Nearest tubes: Euston,
Euston Square.
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Manchester
Branch Meeting
Monday 27 June, 8pm
Hare and Hounds, Shudehill, City Centre
'Globalised Capitalism and World Socialism'
Central
London
Monday 27 June, 7.30pm
THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN
HISTORY
NO. 1: THE SPARTACUS SLAVE
REVOLT
Speaker: Bill Martin.
Carpenters Arms, Seymour Place, W1 (nearest tube: Marble Arch).
Lancaster
Branch Meeting
Monday 6 June 8pm
The Gregson Centre, Moor Lane, Lancaster
What will constitute criminal behaviour in a
socialist society?
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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This declaration is the basis of our organisation and, because it is also an important historical document dating from the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.)
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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.
4.That as in the order of social
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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
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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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