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Historical References, Socialism

Capitalism: The Best of All Possible Worlds?

All for the best? The German philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Leibnitz thought that the way things were arranged in society...

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Socialism

Royalty: An Antidote

This year the working class of Britain were yet again urged to fly flags, put up bunting, join in with...

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Political Analysis, Socialism

The Strike Weapon Within the Class Struggle

In response to numerous potential strikes this summer, the Tories recently passed emergency regulations to allow employers to recruit agency...

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Capitalism Explained, Socialism

Tax the Rich or Abolish Capitalism?

The capitalist class increased its wealth during the world pandemic. The World Inequality Report said that 2020 saw the steepest...

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Capitalism Explained, Socialism

Marx: Surplus Value & Class Exploitation

Introduction: What is Surplus Value? What is surplus value? To understand this fundamental Marxian concept it is important first to...

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Socialism

Nationalism or Socialism?

One of the unique aspects of the socialist case against capitalism is that socialists reject nationalism, nationalist struggles and national...

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Socialism

Modern Economics: Neither respectable nor a science

The degeneration of modern economics The current economic crisis has also left modern economics in crisis. The Monetarists claimed that...

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Capitalism Explained, Socialism

Towards a Marxist Critique of Artistic Production

We live in, react to and confront different forms of artistic production which highly values individuality, uniqueness and abstraction. Artistic...

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Political Analysis, Socialism

The Science of Marxism

Neither Marx nor Engels wanted to be referred to as philosophers. Marx claimed he was a “Man of Science” and...

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Socialism

Socialist Ideas & Understanding

For some unexplained reason we are constantly being told that capitalism is so different from previous societies that it is...

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Object:

The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means of production and the instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interests of the whole community.
Declaration of Principles

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 (ie land, factories, railways, etc.) 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 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, 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 organise 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.
  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 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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The reconstituted Socialist Party of Great Britain adheres to the Object and Declaration of Principles of The Socialist Party of Great Britain”. Members who set up the journal “Socialist Studies” were expelled in May 1991 for taking political action in the name The Socialist Party of Great Britain” We all agree with its Object and Principles”. We have no connection with the Socialist Party of 52 Clapham High Street.

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