The Socialist Party of Great Britain
Part of the World Socialist Movement
July 23, 2025
Peter Joseph, the person whose 2007 film Zeitgeist inspired the Zeitgeist Movement, has moved on or, rather, has moved backwards. The Zeitgeist Movement at least spread the idea of a world based on no ownership and open access for all to what they needed without having to pay and in which modern technology would be …
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August 2, 2024
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September 27, 2022
When there is little benefit to states, particular treaties that promote the interests of humanity as a whole can usually be concluded. Such would be the Antarctica Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty, or the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone. If, however, there exists a potential for profit, good intentions will be tossed aside. For …
May 28, 2020
Introducing the Socialist Party The Socialist Party advocates a society where production is freed from the artificial constraints of profit and organised for the benefit of all on the basis of material abundance. It does not have policies to ameliorate aspects of the existing social system. It is opposed to all war. The Socialist Standard …
January 29, 2020
Introducing the Socialist Party The Socialist Party advocates a society where production is freed from the artificial constraints of profit and organised for the benefit of all on the basis of material abundance. It does not have policies to ameliorate aspects of the existing social system. It is opposed to all war. The Socialist Standard …
December 22, 2019
Introducing the Socialist Party The Socialist Party advocates a society where production is freed from the artificial constraints of profit and organised for the benefit of all on the basis of material abundance. It does not have policies to ameliorate aspects of the existing social system. It is opposed to all war. The Socialist Standard …
May 31, 2019
Can Walmart Tell Us Anything About Socialism? Internationally, there is a resurgence in discussing socialism, not just in the American sense of faintly looking at a welfare state, but credibly and seriously taking on the idea of a co-operative democratic abolition of market allocation of goods and resources. Books like Four futures: life after capitalism …
November 8, 2018
1. Is Globalisation avoidable? 2. Keynesianism 3. The ‘East Asian Model’ 4. Regulation of the world financial system 5. Trade Zones and Regulations 6. Conclusion 1. Is Globalisation avoidable? The real impact of this ‘globalisation’ does, of course, extend well beyond the negative or positive impact on economic growth. Growth statistics are of no direct …
1. Before the IMF 2. What are SAPs? 3. Did S.A.P.s achieve their aims? 4. Increase in Foreign Direct Investment 5. The effect on growth 6. The effect of S.A.P.s. 7. Reduced state subsidies 8. More exports 9. An S.A.P. example: Vietnam 10. Currency devaluation 11. S.A.P.s—for the minority interest 1. Before the IMF The …
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Globalisation Part 2 – The move towards free trade 1. What does ‘free trade’ mean? 2. The ‘benefits’ of free trade 3. Start of the post-war shift 4. G.A.T.T. and the liberalisation of trade 5. Trading Regions 6. The 1970s: Retreat to protectionism 7. W.T.O. from 1995 8. Agreement on -Trade-Related Investment Measures (T.R.I.M.s) 9. …
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