Most believe the sickness of war can be sorted out within the
usual channels offered – either a UN force moves in or the troops come
home. The former will only compound the problem. The latter can only
leave the region concerned more unstable, with warlords and the varying
shades of the region's religions vying for political power.
We need to address the root of the problem – the capitalist
system itself and vicious competition for profits – and how the
problems capitalism creates can only be solved when we abolish the
capitalist system itself.
While it is important that workers oppose war, we need to
recognise in whose interests wars are waged. It's hard to think of a
single war that did not have its roots in the need of small elite to
make profits. All wars, even small-scale conflicts tend to be fought
over resources, outside markets and areas of influence, trade routes or
the strategic points.
To end war – and the need to demonstrate against it – capitalism
has to be ended. It needs to be replaced by a global system where the
resources of the Earth are common to everyone. Competition and conflict
between elites over resources must give way to cooperation for the
benefit of all the world's inhabitants.
If you lend your support to a political party or organisation
that fails to oppose the real nature of capitalist society, how our
world is organised for production and how power is distributed, then
you are, in effect, supporting a system that breeds wars.
The Socialist Party asks: Do you want to protest endlessly
against each new war as it arises? Or work for a new world of common
ownership, democratic control, peace and human welfare?
If you are opposed to war, either oppose capitalism in all its
forms or settle down to a life of protests . . .
THE SOCIALIST PARTY aims at the establishment of a system of society
based on 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.
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