“To convert the ballot
box from a means of fraud into a means of liberation”- Engels
The Socialist Party is fundamentally different from all
other parties. Its aim is revolutionary. It expresses in political terms the
aspiration of the working class to freedom. The only issue in this general
election is capitalism versus socialism. It is the question of the right of one
class of human beings exploiting another class of human beings to the very
point of physical existence. It is an issue of human freedom versus human
slavery. The workers have always been and still are the world’s slaves yet is they
who have produced all the world’s wealth. The people of the world have achieved
many great things except their own freedom. But an awakening is bound to come.
It will dawn upon them that society is divided into two classes - capitalists
and workers, exploiters and the employed; that the capitalists, while
comparatively few, own the nation and control the government; that the courts
and the soldiers are at their command, while the great majority of people
remain in slavish misery.
The Socialist Party candidates do not plead for votes but
expect that when workers fully understand their exploited condition it will be
freely given to them. We, in the Socialist Party, endeavor to dispel the
prejudice that exists and end the darkness that still prevails within the working
class. We offer the enlightenment of political education and the power of
political organisation. The appeal of the Socialist Party is to all, regardless
of nationality, sex or race. Economic
slavery is the world’s greatest curse today. Poverty and misery and crime are
its inevitable results. The Socialist Party is the one party which stands
squarely and uncompromisingly for the abolition of wage slavery; the one party
pledged to the industrial freedom of all the people. So long as the world’s
resources and technology are the private property of a privileged class the
mass of people will be at their mercy, poverty will be their lot. The struggle
in which the world is engaged today is a class struggle and that in this
struggle the workers can never win by giving their votes to capitalist parties.
The big vested interests, the plutocracy, rule the land and loot the people
with the same brutal defiance under either Labour or Tory governments. Too
often people make their choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. No longer can
the political harlots of capitalism betray the workers with manifesto promises manufactured
for that purpose. It is now time to abandon once and for all political parties
of whatever name which do not challenge the very existence of capitalism as an
institution.
The working class will never be emancipated by the grace of
the capitalist class, but only by overthrowing that class. It is self-defeating
for working people to turn to pro-capitalist parties on polling day as it would
be for them to turn to the employers’ associations when they are striking.
Businessmen despise the working class. Why should the working class give their
support to a pro-business party? Withdraw that support and capitalism begins to
die. The boss-class can enslave and rob the workers only by the consent of the
workers when they cast their ballots in elections. Every vote cast for a
capitalist party, whatever its name, is a vote for wage-slavery, for poverty
and degradation. Every vote cast for the Socialist Party, is a vote for
liberation. We urge workers to make their power felt in this election.
The Socialist Party’s objective is not only to destroy capitalist
despotism but to establish social democracy. Standing as it does for the
emancipation of the working class from wage-slavery, for social self-rule and
the equal freedom of all, the Socialist Party is the party of progress and the
party of the future. Its triumph will signal the birth of a new civilisation
and the dawn of a better days for all humanity. If you understand and accept
our case for socialism, join the Socialist Party and hasten the day of victory.
Don't wait until to-morrow. Join now! Its members are men and women who think
for themselves and have convictions of their own. If you want socialism, we are
inviting, nay, we are challenging you, to join us and do your part. The
Socialist Party offers the only remedy, which is socialism.
The Working Class Voice
Brighton Kemptown - Jacqueline Shodeke
Brighton Pavilion - Howard Pilott
Canterbury - Robert Cox
Easington - Steve Colborn
Folkestone and Hythe - Andy Thomas
Islington North - Bill Martin
Oxford East - Kevin Parkin
Oxford West and Abingdon - Mike Foster
Swansea West - Brian Johnson
Vauxhall - Danny Lambert
No comments:
Post a Comment