{"id":220386,"date":"2021-07-27T13:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?page_id=220386"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T14:04:46","slug":"august-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 30px 50px 0px; width: 50%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 400px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">Capitalism will not solve your problems<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.5em; color: cornflowerblue;\">Capitalism <span style=\"color: darkblue;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> the problem<\/p>\n<p>The Socialist Party is made up of people who want to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism &#8211; a <strong>post-scarcity society of common ownership<\/strong>. Our aim is to <strong>persuade others<\/strong> to become socialists and act for themselves, organising democratically and <strong>without leaders<\/strong>, to bring about socialism. We are solely concerned with building a movement of socialists for socialism. We are <strong>not a reformist party<\/strong> with a programme of policies to patch up capitalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/august-21\/\">Socialist Standard-Events-Blogs \u27a4<\/a><\/h5>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 0px; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 100%; padding-top: 30px;\">\n<h5><strong>SPGB<\/strong><strong> online Live \u2013 Audio talks \u2013 Meetings \u2013 Debates<\/strong><\/h5>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-212964\" title=\"Download the software\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Discord-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a>Forthcoming events for August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/2020s\/2021\/no-1404-august-2021\/meetings-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here \u27a4<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/div>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:stephenfinch@waitrose.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Discord Admin<\/a> for special invite or email <a class=\"moz-txt-link-abbreviated\" href=\"mailto:spgb@worldsocialism.org\">spgb@worldsocialism.org<\/a>.<br \/>\nCheck our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/audio-index\/\">Audio page<\/a> for some recordings of these talks.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Whether you are new to socialist ideas or not, these links provide both introductory as well as in-depth analyses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/welcome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">|Welcome|<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/what-capitalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">|What is capitalism?|<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/what-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">|What is socialism?|<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/article\/introductory-articles\/reform-or-revolution\/education-introductory-articles-reform-or-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">|Reform or revolution?| <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/2020\/2020s\/no-1391-july-2020\/the-case-for-socialism-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">|The Case for Socialism|<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/publications\/in-depth-articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">|In Depth articles|<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/publications\/study-guides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">|Study Guides|<\/a> <a 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Our aim is to persuade others to become socialists and act for themselves, organising democratically and without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/august-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2605,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-220386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220393,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220386\/revisions\/220393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}