“The fraternisation of the workers of the world is for me the highest and most sacred thing on earth; it is my guiding star, my ideal, my fatherland. I would rather forfeit my life than be unfaithful to this ideal!” – Rosa Luxemburg People’s blood has been spilt in a squalid war again and again. The World Socialist Movement (WSM) has opposed every…

Кто виноват? Для людей нав Украине ужас только начинается. К скрывающимся от бомбардировок в подвалах скоро придут голод, а потом эпидемии… И наверху, на улицах — будут взрывы, пожарыпламена, гром танков, свист пульей, щебень разрушенныхпавших зданий, крики раненых и умирающих, отвратительныйзлой запах непогребенных трупов. А кто виноват? Ответ известен всем. Виноват Путин виноват. БесспорноНет спора,…

“The nature of military warfare is determined by the class directing it. An army fighting in defence of a bourgeois state, even if it should be anti-fascist, is an army in the service of capitalism…War between a fascist state and an anti-fascist state is not a revolutionary class war. The proletariat’s intervention on one side…

Российская Федерация начала полномасштабное нападение на Украину. Всемирное социалистическое движение не волнуют так называемые права и неправа этой войны, были ли нарушены тонкости международного права или был проигнорирован суверенитет Украины. Как рабочие, мы с болью осознаем, что именно наши братья и сестры по классу заплатят кровавую цену за геополитические игры, разыгрываемые великими державами. Украина не является…

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government’s ambitious and mercenary, aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense and conscience by! the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold-power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is…

What happens to workers anywhere is the business of socialists everywhere. Peace is always better than war because wars are never fought in the interests of ordinary people. And because in wars it is always ordinary people who suffer. So, irrespective of the issues involved or the terms agreed, socialists, can only welcome the ending of…

The current conflict between Russia which has invaded Ukraine purportedly to protect two breakaway Russian-speaking regions requires an answer and an analysis. Most people are opposed to war. War is so terrible in its practice that even politicians, at least, must pretend to be against war. But we have seen that wars do not result from…

The WSM and Social Democracy The simplest definition of democracy is that it is decision-making by the whole people involving procedures such as free and open debate, full disclosure of information, one person-one vote, and the accountability of public officials and elected representatives. Such a decision-making system can be regarded as desirable because one key…

WSM and Socialist Planning When describing the new society we are working toward the World Socialist Movement is frequently asked the question of “How will it work?”. The actual question of how far it will be possible to localise production and decision-making will remain a matter for debate both before and after the accomplishment of the socialist revolution. When we…

 The World Socialist Movement is not proposing the abolition of money alone, nor a return to barter. In fact, the abolition of money alone, would solve no problems and undoubtedly create many difficulties. But what it does propose is that the whole system of money and exchange, buying and selling, profit-making and wage-working be entirely abolished and that…