Skip to content
  • Home
  • Categories

    Categories

    View all articles →

    Capitalism Explained

    Historical References

    Political Analysis

    War and Conflict

    Socialism

    Religion

    Back issues

  • About
  • Donate

Category: War and Conflict

  • Image Credit: Jaber Jehad Badwan, Gaza. Forced displacement 29-1-2025

War and Conflict

Gaza, Iran and Capitalism:  Forever Wars in the Middle East

Following the massacre of Israelis by the terrorist organisation known as Hamas on October 7, 2023, the Israeli government set...

Read more

  • Image Credit: Dsns.gov.ua, Kyiv after Russian drone attack 2022

Socialism, War and Conflict

“What Are We Fighting For?”

A socialist statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine During the Vietnam War, Country Joe and the Fish sang “What...

Read more

  • Image Credit: Public domain, Spain 1936

Historical References, War and Conflict

The SPGB and the Spanish Civil War

Unlike the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Socialist Party of Great Britain did not encourage any of its members...

Read more

  • Image Credit: Various,

War and Conflict

State Terrorism

Introduction In 2001, The Socialist Party of Great Britain published a pamphlet – It was the time when, following the...

Read more

  • Image Credit: Charles Levy, Nagasaki 1945

Historical References, War and Conflict

Whoops Apocalypse Now

The four capitalist horses of the apocalypse spread their misery, death, and destruction across the world. War, global warming, poverty,...

Read more

  • Image Credit: Yairfridman2003, Gaza. 4th Jan 2024

War and Conflict

The Socialist Position on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

War, conflict, and genocide are all consequences of capitalism. Periodically it means indiscriminate massacre of men, women, and children like...

Read more

  • Image Credit: Noir, Berlin Wall, 1986

War and Conflict

“I have seen the future and it works”.

At their Berlin Concert in December 2016, King Crimson gave their rendition of David Bowies’ hit single “Heroes” in which...

Read more

  • Image Credit: National Archives at College Park - Cartographic,, Russian Artic 1947

War and Conflict

A New Cold War?

Receding Ice sheets and ocean currents are reaching a tipping point as global heating push temperatures beyond a critical threshold,...

Read more

  • Image Credit: Memmingen Articles of War 1525

Historical References, Political Analysis, War and Conflict

Engels: ‘The Peasant War in Germany

The Materialist Conception of History & Class “The parallel between the German Revolution of 1525 and that of 1848–49 was...

Read more

  • Image Credit: Homoatroxderivative work Kim Khánh Hoàng, Feb. 2022

War and Conflict

Conflict and War in Ukraine

A Socialist Response “The Socialist Party of Great Britain, like a voice crying in the wilderness, has always maintained that...

Read more

Previous Page1 Page2 Next

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.

Disclaimer:
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.

Socialist Studies

PO Box 70259
London
N4 9DS

Email:
enquiries@socialiststudies.org.uk

Knowledge is everything! Socialist Studies is run entirely by unpaid volunteers and writers but running and maintaining the website does cost money. So, please help us keep this important journal and reference library alive and free to all by contributing anything you can. Thank you!

Donate

Categories

  • Capitalism Explained
  • Historical References
  • Political Analysis
  • War and Conflict
  • Socialism
  • Religion
  • Back issues
  • Capitalism Explained
  • Historical References
  • Political Analysis
  • War and Conflict
  • Socialism
  • Religion
  • Back issues

Useful Links

  • Home
  • About
  • Categories
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Home
  • About
  • Categories
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy

2026 – Made by Sector106

Home

About

Donate

Categories

Capitalism Explained

Historical References

Political Analysis

War and Conflict

Socialism

Religion

Back issues

View all articles →

Loading Comments...