Author: alanjjohnstone
SENDERO LUMINOSO
Muerte (en prisión) de un guerrillero En septiembre, el ex líder guerrillero maoísta Abimael Guzmán murió en una prisión de Perú donde había estado durante casi treinta años. Ha sido retratado por la prensa peruana y mundial como uno de los líderes “marxistas” más criminales y brutales del mundo, culpado por la muerte de más…
Awake! Arise! Arouse! Organise!
The World Socialist Movement (WSM) view the international gathering in Glasgow at the COP26 as an opportunity to share information across borders, worldwide, building links from a common global pool of knowledge and strategies, inter-linked and in opposition to the corporations of international capitalism and all the agencies, institutions and governments that they control. Within such a context the WSM seeks to become a more effective force in local, regional and…
Antifascismo y fascismo
Fascismo ¿Qué es el fascismo? O, más pertinentemente, qué fue el fascismo desde que la ideología y el movimiento de ese nombre se desarrollaron en las condiciones históricas específicas del período entre las dos guerras mundiales del siglo pasado. La palabra en sí se originó en Italia como el nombre dado por un grupo ultranacionalista…
A Socialist Movement For All
“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” – Thomas Paine (1737-1809) “Nature made us relatives by creating us from the same materials and for the same destiny.”– Seneca (4-65 A.D.) The World Socialist Movement rejects allegiance to any State and regards themselves as citizens of the world. We…
A MESSAGE TO THE WORKERS OF ALL LANDS
A socialist society must, by its very nature, be of a worldwide character, which is a truism that the World Socialist Movement has persistently affirmed. It is a recognition of the fact that production in the world today is based on a systematic division of labour that integrates and interlocks the whole world. Our rulers do not…
Revolution Without Borders
‘Who are the oppressors, but the Nobility and Gentry; who are oppressed, is not the Yeoman, the Farmer, the Tradesman, and the Labourer? Your slavery is their liberty, your poverty is their prosperity.’ Laurence Clarkson, 1647. The small size of the World Socialist Movement and its lack of any political prominence within the workers’ organisations may be important…
¿QUÉ ES EL MARXISMO?
El propio Marx no llamó “marxismo” a sus teorías de la historia, la sociedad y la economía capitalista. Eso habría sido arrogante y, además, atribuir los puntos de vista que desarrolló a la mente de algún individuo excepcionalmente grande sería contrario a su propia teoría de que las condiciones sociales daban lugar a ideas que…
The Socialist Cooperative Commonwealth 8/8
Since its origin in the early 19th century by followers of Robert Owen, the term “socialism” has evolved to mean many different things to many different people and has been misused by dictatorships to describe their draconian management of capitalism. At the present time “socialism” is an unpopular word. Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have poisoned our…
The Socialist Cooperative Commonwealth 7/8
The private property of the capitalist class, in order to become the SOCIAL property of the workers, cannot be turned over to individuals or groups of individuals. It must become the property of ALL IN COMMON. The industries, too, which supply the needs of all the people, are not the concern only of the worker,…
The Socialist Cooperative Commonwealth 6/8
We say that this class struggle must finally end in the downfall of the capitalist system, and the building of the cooperative commonwealth. We say that if the cooperative commonwealth is to be brought about it is a social revolution. There is a simple way to get hold of the machinery of government. It is by voting…