From: "John Thomson"
Subject: [marxist] WHO  WE  ARE?  WHAT  WE  DO? - socparty text


WHO  WE  ARE

The Socialist Party is like no other political party in
Britain. It is made up of people who have joined together
because we want to get rid of the profit system and
establish socialism.

Our aim is to persuade others to become socialists and act
for themselves, organising democratically and without
leaders, to bring about the kind of society that we are
advocating in Socialist Standard for the last 97 years.

We are solely concerned with building a movement of
socialists for socialism. We are not a reformist party with
a programme of policies to patch up capitalism.

WHAT WE DO

We use every possible opportunity to make new socialists: We
publish literature; we write to the press and state our case
where possible on phone-in programs and other parts of the
media; we run week-end educational conferences; we sell
tapes and pamphlets; we hand out leaflets at meetings and
demonstrations run by other organisations; we stick up our
posters; we talk to our fellow workers wherever we can,
including trade unions, tenants’ associations and student
bodies – and we contest elections in order to make
ourselves known to an even broader number of people

As we say that socialism can only be established globally
(to replace global capitalism), we are linked with
like-minded socialists in other parts of the world. Long
established sister parties exist in Australia, New Zealand,
Canada and USA and more recently in Austria and
India. Socialist literature is available in Arabic, Bengali,
Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
and Turkish as well as English.

THE NEXT STEP

The more of you who join the Socialist Party the more we
will be able to get our ideas across, the more experiences
we will be able to draw on and greater will be the new ideas
for building the movement which you will be able to bring to
us.

The Socialist Party is an organisation of equals. There is
no leader and there are no followers. So, if you are going
to join we want you to be sure that you agree fully with
what we stand for and that we are satisfied that you
understand the case for socialism.

If you want to know more about the Socialist Party, its
ideas and activities please see our web

     http://www.worldsocialism.org