Month: February 2023
Has the WSM Failed?
The World Socialist Movement has campaigned tirelessly for the establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means for producing and distributing wealth. In all its years we have not compromised our position once on any issue. So how have we faired? Just what have we achieved? What can…
SOCIALISM MEANS ONE WORLD
Just as capitalism is a world system of society, so too must socialism be. There never has been, and never can be, socialism in just one country because its material basis is the world-wide and interdependent means of production that capitalism has built up. The bulk of the wealth produced in the world today is…
OUR CASE FOR WORLD SOCIALISM
The world we live in is one that is fraught with contradiction. Many of our fellow humans are chronically malnourished and many, on any one day, will go without food. At the same time, the governments of the world order the destruction of vast mountains of food to keep prices high, stockpile food until it rots…
It’s human nature, isn’t it?
Imagine this scene: The High Courts of Justice, London. On trial is a 30-year-old man, charged with three armed robberies, three counts of attempted murder, and twelve charges of assaulting police officers and another of incapacitating a police dog. The prosecution has finished summing up. He sits down, satisfied he had done enough to see…
Only Sheep Need Leaders
At a World Socialist Movement stall at a miner’s gala, talking to a member from one of the many left-wing groups in attendance who had been sent out to try and sell their weekly paper. He was clearly a new member, for he had not yet been told to avoid our stall – an instruction pummelled into the…
Socialism through the ballot box?
Many detractors of the socialist case criticise Marx and Engels and their early followers as being advocates of violent revolution and are wont to cite statements they made in support of this claim. And it is not uncommon for these same critics to claim that socialists/communists (the words mean the same) of today still hold out…
