We are up against global capitalism.

Even after almost two hundred years of theory and action, We are still at an embryonic stage of socialist ideas taken root. Nevertheless, the crisis of capitalism leads whole generations to question what is going on and what they can do to change things. It raises times for debate and discussion over reform or revolution and on how the socialists globally can make gains and what is the best strategy and tactics to take the struggle forward. There requires clarification on ideas, history and movement-building strategy with no time to waste. The working class continues to engage in the struggle and they are continuously forced to draw conclusions and rethink what they thought initially. People's consciousness is transformed by events and developments that lead to various conclusions. Consciousness can go forward or fall backward based on events. The growth of independent working-class politics is on the agenda with the re-newed confidence and re-vitalise fighting spirit of working class to change their conditions. We have many more dark days ahead of us. That's why we must engage in struggle. History teaches us when people become can't take it any more, people begin to move.  What is crucial for workers is building organisations for these battles in the class war. Socialism is a project that will demand the full participation and activity of the working class, on a daily basis. We in the Socialist Party can feel the winds of change and know what seemed impossible becomes possible.  Some of our members may not see socialism in their lifetime, but they have been proud played a part in the struggle for socialism and to stand alongside those around the world who have declared “ Enough is enough! We will build a new world” It is never easy to predict when a spark will catch fire when just the right set of circumstances will spur the growth of a movement. But we are seeing the writing on the wall about the beginning of the end of the capitalists' power.

Our aim is the creation of a new class-free, frontier-free, money-free society of common ownership. And our strategy for achieving this goal is for more and more of our fellow-workers to understand and consciously work towards this new society until the point of critical mass is reached where replacing capitalism with socialism is a real, concrete step for the working class. At that point, the question becomes how best to make that final move. And we believe that, once socialism has majority backing, a non-violent transformation is possible and preferable. The Socialist Party does not advocate violence because it is inconsistent with the end in view—a cooperative society of free labour and production for use. The end itself, however, determines the means. The function of the means is to overcome the obstacles which separate us from the end. Thus the real significance of any goal can only be understood in relation to the means necessary to attain it. An intelligent choice of ends can only be made when the consequence of the use of our means has been taken into consideration. If the end is a class-free commonwealth consciously brought into being by the vast majority, then the means can only be helping to bring this consciousness to the required majority. Violence is, in this context, inconsistent with these ends. To substitute violence as means would mean to change the ends. That there can be no basic separation of ends and means is integral to the Socialist Party principles. Socialist society cannot begin until the vast majority of the dispossessed realise that capitalist property relations and the division of labour which arises from it are the real barriers which hamper and frustrate the development of the individual in the widest sense, out of the energising of their knowledge and experience they will act accordingly.  The abolition of capitalist property relations is merely the necessary condition which makes possible the releasing of men's energies, capacities and will to re-integrate themselves in the new society.

We have thought long and hard about the state and its repressive forces. Our reasoning goes like this. We want the majority to run the means of production in the interest of all. However, at the moment these are in the hands of a minority of the population whose ownership and control of them is backed up-and, when necessary, enforced by the State and its repressive forces. The State stands as a barrier between the majority and the means of production because it is at present controlled by the minority owning class. They control the State with the acquiescence of the majority of the population, a consent which expresses itself in everyday attitudes towards the wealthy, nationalism, etc. and, at election times, in voting for pro-capitalist parties. In fact, it is such majority support expressed through elections that give their control of the state legitimacy. In other words, the minority rule with the assent of the majority, which gives them political control. The first step towards taking over the means of production, therefore, must be to take over control of the State, and the easiest way to do this is via elections. But elections are merely a technique, a method. The most important precondition to taking political control out of the hands of the owning class is that the majority are no longer prepared to be ruled and exploited by a minority; they must withdraw their consent to capitalism and class rule - they must understand and seek a socialist society.

Alternative ways of dislodging the owning class have been proposed in the past, such as insurrection or general strike and a head-on clash with the forces of the State. This is suicidal: the State wins every time. The plain fact is that you can't "smash” the State while it still enjoys majority support - and when those who control it no longer enjoy majority support there is no need to try to "smash" it: the majority can use the power of their numbers to take control of it via the ballot box, so that it is no longer used to protect private property.

To do so all we require to do is to organise politically into a political party, a socialist party. This is what we advocate. We don't suffer from delusions of grandeur so we don't necessarily claim that we are that party. What we are talking about is not a small educational and propagandist group, but a mass party that has yet to emerge. It is such a party that will take political control via the ballot box, but since it will in effect be the majority organised democratically and politically for socialism it is the majority, not the party as such as something separate from that majority, that carries out the socialist transformation of society. They neutralise the state and its repressive forces - there is no question of forming a government - and then proceed to take over the means of production for which they will also have organised themselves at their places of work. This done, the State is disbanded and its remaining administrative and service features, reorganised on a democratic basis, are merged with the organisations which the majority will have formed to take over and run production, to form the democratic administrative structure of the state-free society.

At the moment it is the peaceful activity of undermining people's support for capitalist ideas that is the most revolutionary and subversive activity that opponents of capitalism can engage in because it is precisely people's pro-capitalist ideas, not the repressive forces of the state, that maintain capitalism in being.