1.00 to 2.15pm The Dream of
Socialism
Ever since the break-up of primitive
society the notion of a society without
owners and non-owners has persisted.
The dream of a more equalitarian
society has persisted through the ages.
Dick Donnelly (Glasgow Branch)
considers some of these ideas and how
they relate to modern society, with its
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2.15 to 3.30pm Can We
Abolish World Hunger?
It is reckoned that millions of workers are
dying inside capitalism. Paul
Bennett (Manchester Branch) asks how
do socialists cope with the notions of
anti-globalisation and single-issue
politics? In a world where war and world
starvation is the norm how can a human
being deal with the nastiness of modern
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3.30 to 4.45pm Is There An
Alternative To Socialism?
In this session Brian Gardner (Glasgow
Branch) looks at various attempts to patch
up capitalism. He pays particular attention
to recent notions about anti-globalisation
and attempts to deal with world hunger
through various ideas about taxation and
wiping out debts. How practical are these
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Tea, coffee and light
refreshments will be available during the sessions. At all these
sessions a speaker will open up for 20 minutes and the rest of the
session will be taken up with questions and discussion.
COMMUNITY CENTRAL HALLS,
Youth Wing, 304
MARYHILL ROAD, GLASGOW.
Those requiring overnight accommodation should contact R.Donnelly, 112
Napiershall Street, Glasgow G20 6HT. Tel 0141 5794109 or Email
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Edinburgh Branch
West Lothian Socialist
Discussion Group
Meeting will be on
as usual.
at The Lanthorn in Kennilworth Rise,
Dedridge, Livingston 7.30 till 9.30
tea/coffee served.
Contacts:
The topics to be
decided will consist of,
as usual , of short discussions about
our current activity as well as:
May 11th
The Real Class Division
We're supposed to be moving towards a
more equitable society. Well how come
class division is worse than ever ?
May 25th
Could We Organise Things Without
Money?
When everything has a price it is
supposed to be easy to count costs.
So what happens when you take price
out of the equation ?
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Edinburgh
Branch
The G8 Summit
Speaker and title to
be announced .
3pm to 5pm, Sunday 3rd July,
Quakers Friends Meeting House,
Victoria Terr
(above Victoria St.)
contact email
This meeting will be held on the day after
the protest march against poverty in
Edinburgh,
Saturday 2nd
July.
We intend to have a literature table
at the march,
and circulate and sell
the Socialist Standard.
Also, we will distribute a special leaflet
to advertise Sunday's meeting.
This is an early call for all volunteers to
make themselves available and just to
generally spread the word. Check-out up
to date info for Edinburgh Branch and
West Lothian Group at:
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Manchester
Branch meeting
Monday 23rd May, 8pm
Hare and Hounds, Shudehill,
City Centre
Discussion
on Poverty
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Lancaster
Branch meeting
Monday 2nd May, 8pm
The Gregson Centre,
Moor Lane, Lancaster
What areas of science would be
stopped 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
evolution the working class is the
last class to achieve its freedom,
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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.
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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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