Author: alanjjohnstone
Class War 2/3
Our declaration of class war “The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another’s labour by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.” — Leo Tolstoy With all the media’s nationalistic coverage of our masters’ wars, it is easy to…
There are no “good” wars
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher НЕТВОЙНЕ, NO WAR The World…
Class War 1/3
Demand Nothing – Take Everything Evolution never brought one class into being for the purpose of working all their lives just for the comfort and enrichment of another class. The way to turn people into wage slaves was to dispossess them. The land was forcibly taken from them and a person deprived of the right to share the commons would become much…
One World, One People 2/2
“The Socialist Party of Great Britain…wholeheartedly supports the efforts of workers everywhere to secure democratic rights against the powers of suppression, but the history of the past decades shows the futility of war as a means of safeguarding democracy.” 1939 Inside every country, there is a far deeper division than that separating nation from nation –…
One World, One People 1/2
“THE SOCIALIST PARTY of Great Britain pledges itself to keep the issue clear by expounding the CLASS STRUGGLE, and whilst placing on record its abhorrence of this latest manifestation of the callous, sordid, and mercenary nature of the international capitalist class, and declaring that no interests are at stake justifying the shedding of a single drop of…
The Anti-War World Peace Party 3/3
“The fraternisation of the workers of the world is for me the highest and most sacred thing on earth; it is my guiding star, my ideal, my fatherland. I would rather forfeit my life than be unfaithful to this ideal!” – Rosa Luxemburg People’s blood has been spilt in a squalid war again and again. The World Socialist Movement (WSM) has opposed every…
Кто виноват? Who is to blame?
Кто виноват? Для людей нав Украине ужас только начинается. К скрывающимся от бомбардировок в подвалах скоро придут голод, а потом эпидемии… И наверху, на улицах — будут взрывы, пожарыпламена, гром танков, свист пульей, щебень разрушенныхпавших зданий, крики раненых и умирающих, отвратительныйзлой запах непогребенных трупов. А кто виноват? Ответ известен всем. Виноват Путин виноват. БесспорноНет спора,…
The Anti-War World Peace Party 2/3
“The nature of military warfare is determined by the class directing it. An army fighting in defence of a bourgeois state, even if it should be anti-fascist, is an army in the service of capitalism…War between a fascist state and an anti-fascist state is not a revolutionary class war. The proletariat’s intervention on one side…
Еще одна война для осуждения
Российская Федерация начала полномасштабное нападение на Украину. Всемирное социалистическое движение не волнуют так называемые права и неправа этой войны, были ли нарушены тонкости международного права или был проигнорирован суверенитет Украины. Как рабочие, мы с болью осознаем, что именно наши братья и сестры по классу заплатят кровавую цену за геополитические игры, разыгрываемые великими державами. Украина не является…
The Anti-War World Peace Party 1/3
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government’s ambitious and mercenary, aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense and conscience by! the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold-power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is…