I am one of the candidates on the Socialist Party list in the European elections on May 22 but I am just a name as for us it’s the case not the face that counts. We are standing — not so you can vote for us — but so you can vote for yourselves.
While UKIP and the BNP seek to gain votes with nasty ‘racist’ blaming of immigrants and “foreigners”; while Labour, Tories and Lib-Dems irrelevantly froth about being in or out of Europe; and while Greens futilely dream of nicer, greener capitalism, we offer you the chance for real change.
Millions of people no longer bother voting since nothing changes. And nothing ever changes because, no matter who gets elected, those given power always leave capitalism to continue.
If you seriously want to see an end to unemployment, long working hours for inadequate pay, a rapidly deteriorating health service, zero-hour contracts, insufficient decent housing for those who need it, grotesque inequality, pothole-strewn roads, the rising cost of living, insufficient and unaffordable nursing homes for the elderly, and numerous other economy-based problems, then show you want to end all this misery by selecting the only anti-capitalist list of candidates standing in the May 22 election.
Capitalism is obscene. It enables a tiny few to own all the vital assets (natural resources, factories, power stations, transport systems etc) which provide all the food, goods and services we need.
And through this totally unjust ownership — and with assistance from politicians bought with big party ‘donations’ and personal bungs — this capitalist elite are able to profit by forcing everyone to buy from them, even though it is working people (forced to toil for a wage) who do the actual labour.
We pledge that Socialist Party candidates who become MEPs will do everything possible to denounce and end outdated and immensely damaging capitalism, and work with you to replace it as quickly as possible with a genuine socialist system where we all directly own and control the vital assets for producing what we need.
Production within a real socialist economy will be carried out solely to meet needs.
Money will then be obsolete, since when we all collectively own what we produce, everything produced is ours, and you don’t have to buy what’s already yours.
There will then be free access to what is needed. This socialist system has never existed anywhere before.
Work within moneyless real socialism will be far easier, since without production for profit, there will be no unemployment (or employers).
Additionally, millions of people currently doing fundamentally unproductive money-related work (banking, insurance, sales, accountancy, welfare benefits, taxation, cash manufacturing etc) will also then be available to contribute something of real benefit to society.
The capitalist demand on people to work as hard and long as possible, in order to maximise their profits, will be gone forever.
Please don’t waste your vote. If you want a real change, and something infinitely better than capitalism, vote for The Socialist Party/World Socialist Movement and then get in touch with us at www.worldsocialism.org/spgb to work for this.
Socialist GB aka The Socialist Party of Great Britain are fielding ten candidates: Dave Chesham, Les Courtney, Rob Cox, Sean Deegan, Max Hess, Claudia Hogg-Blake, Danny Lambert, Andy Matthews, Howard Pilott, Mike Young
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