Party News: The Socialist case in other languages

The latest issue of the Paris-published Economies et Sociétés (Marxology Studies. No.25) includes a translation of the 1885 Manifesto of the Socialist League, drafted by William Morris (see Socialist Standard, July 1985). Appended to this is the French version of our Object and Declaration of Principles, introduced as follows: “We add as a complementary document the Declaration of Principles of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, founded in 1904, whose action and thought is inspired by the political work of William Morris. This issue, as with the others in the same series, also contains interesting articles on Marx’s ideas written from the standpoint of his aim of seeing established a moneyless, stateless society.

The first issue of Voluntad, published in Barcelona earlier this year, contains a Spanish translation, from the September 1983 issue of the Socialist Standard, of a letter from Maximilien Rubel on Marx’s “ethics” together with our reply. This publication too favours the establishment of a stateless, frontierless world community without money, but we are obliged to record serious differences with them over how to establish this.