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No to nationalism
Today nationalism rears its ugly head around the world. It is an ideology which conceals and distorts the exploitative social relationships of capitalism. One of the biggest obstacles to the establishment of socialism is nationalism ― the loyalty felt by many members of the working class to “their” country. As such, socialists are hostile to it…
The Patriot Disease
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” – Einstein The toxic virus of nationalism is spreading. Socialists, whose country is the planet Earth, do not underestimate the importance of cultural diversity. The notion of the whole world conforming to one uniform way of life is far from appealing. It is the profit system, with its inevitable…
Einheitsfrontlied (music)
Song of the United Front in English. Composer: Hanns Eisler Year composed: 1934 Lyricist, Bertolt Brecht.
Arbeiter von Wien (music)
Workers all over the world have been moved to admiration by the heroic resistance of the Austrian workers, fighting in defence of their trade union and political organisations. These men were organised in a party to which we are opposed, a party whose policy we know to be wrong, but that should not, and does…
Neither exploiter nor exploited
Our age is one of continuous discoveries in science and technology yet the problems of humanity seem to be unmanageable. Despite global communications men and women are still divided by nationalism and racial prejudice. Science serves the ends of the capitalist system. It serves the military might of nations. It serves industrial efficiency not by satisfying community’s needs, other than by…
Don’t be a nationalist
Capitalism is completely out of control. It is. as the World Socialist Movement has always said, a system of economic and social anarchy. Capitalism is an unplanned system. Each company chases after profits, quite without any care of how this affects others. Each nation-state (which is a gang of capitalist thieves dominating one territory) carries on regardless…
A world socialist administration
It is sometimes argued that world socialism would mean the power of central control over local democracy. There is a lot of debate over different options where the control should be placed. But a system of world democratic administration in socialism need not be based in either world, regional or local spheres. We can envisage an integrated system…
Bundeslied Bet und arbeit (music video)
Bundeslied für den Allgemeinen Deutschen Arbeiterverein – Eines der bekanntesten deutschen Arbeiterlieder. Es entstand 1863, als Ferdinand Lasalle den Schriftsteller und Dichter Georg Herwegh (1817-1875) aufforderte, für den Allgemeinen Deutschen Arbeiterverein (ADAV, einen Vorläufer der SPD) ein Lied zu verfassen, das die Gemeinschaft stärken sollte. Das Bundeslied fand schnell Aufnahme in Arbeiterkreisen und wurde ebenso…
Socialism: One World
The World Socialist Movement consists of individuals who have come together for one purpose: to assist in the urgent task of establishing worldwide socialism. We define socialism as a society in which all the resources of the world are used in common to meet all the needs of all the people of the world, without…