Here's the manifesto
we put out in Vauxhall for the 2005 General Election. It is still appropriate
today.
The Socialist Party is contesting this election as a part of
our campaign to establish a new system of society:
One based on the common ownership and democratic control of
the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the
interest of the whole community.
That is our sole object.
By common ownership we don't mean that everyone should have
to share a toothbrush, but that in a society built upon our mutual effort, we
should all benefit and have a say in how it is run.
We currently live in a system of society based on a tiny
number of people owning the productive wealth of our world, organised and run
by a handful of bosses for their benefit. Their profits come first, our needs
come second.
In Vauxhall nearly half of all workers are employed in
administering business as compared with only a quarter in social services and
looking after ourselves (derived from 2001 Census).
Because of this we have endless problems of poverty, poor
services and all the issues politicians love to spend time telling you they can
solve, if only given the chance.
We don't believe any politician can solve these problems, as
long as the flawed basis of our society remains intact. In fact, we believe
only you and your fellow workers can solve these problems.
We believe that it will take a revolution in how we organise
our lives, a fundamental change. We want to see a society based on the fact
that you know how to run your lives, know your needs and have the skills and
capacity to organise with your fellows to satisfy them.
You know yourselves and your lives better than a handful of
bosses ever can.
With democratic control of production we can ensure that
looking after our communities becomes a priority, rather than something we do
in our spare time.
We all share fundamental needs, for food, clothing, housing
and culture, and we have the capacity to ensure access to these for all, without
exception.
If you agree with this aim, then we ask you to get in touch
with us, get involved and join in our campaign to bring about this change in
society.
Together, we have the capacity to run our world for
ourselves. We need to build a movement to effect that change, by organising
deliberately to take control of the political offices which rule our lives, and bring
them into our collective democratic control.
Our candidate makes no promises, offers no pat solutions,
only to be the means by which you can remake society for the common good.
Danny Lambert
The Socialist Party
candidate.
Danny Lambert is once
again your Vauxhall constituency Socialist Party candidate for the May 2015 General Election
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