Meet North London Branch

Thursday, 21 September  - 8:00pm

Thursday, 19 October  - 8:00pm

Thursday, 16 November  - 8:00pm

Thursday, 21 December  - 8:00pm

Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue. NW5 2RX

The Socialist Party's aim is to persuade fellow-workers to become socialist and act for themselves, organizing democratically and without leaders to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism. Over the years the Socialist Party has seen hard times and good ones; we have seen many so-called working class parties rise and fall. It is a tribute to our members that the Socialist Party of Great Britain is still in existence.

Class consciousness was never more needed than now.  Today humanity lives under a shadow without precedent. The working people of the world have it in their hands to end poverty, fear, hatred environmental destruction, and war.  For the Socialist Party, class consciousness is the breaking-down of all barriers to understanding. Without it, militancy means nothing. The conflict between the classes is more than a struggle for each to gain from the other: it is the division which reaches across all others. Class-conscious work ers knows where they stand in society. Their interests are opposed at every point to those of the capitalist class; their cause can only be the cause of revolution for the abolishing of classes. Without that understanding, militancy can mean little. It is not mere preamble that the Socialist Party's principles open by stating the class division in capitalism: it is the all important basis from which the rest must follow.

The Socialist Party’s proposition is the only practical one. Class-conscious people need no leaders. The single, simple fact which all working people have to learn is that capitalism causes capitalism's problems so that the remedy – the only remedy – is to abolish capitalism. In that knowledge they must take hold of the powers of government – for one purpose only: that the rule of class by class shall end. Socialism is not a benevolently-administered capitalism: it is a different social system. Reform is no answer, even though at times – rare times – it benefits working people. From the beginning, the Socialist Party has been intractable in its opposition to reformists. Working class action, in fact, must be revolutionary. That is the real message for people all over the world. The workers of Britain have common cause with the workers of every other country. They are members of an international class, faced with the same problems, holding the same interests once they are conscious of them. There is only one way of realizing those interests: the immense productive powers of the world must become the common property of every man, woman, and child.


The need for socialism grows more urgent each day. It awaits the conscious will of the workers of the world, and nothing more; when they desire it, it can be. In the clamour of rivalry between factions and nations, the voice of the socialist is a small one, but it must be heard. Exploitation and conflict must be ended; the catastrophe of worker killing worker must be prevented.  There are many who are with us but not of us. The struggle for socialism is a long and arduous one, needing the help of every class-conscious man and woman. We urge the need to work for socialism within the Socialist Party. To spread socialist understanding is the great task of our time: every fresh adherent to the Socialist Party principles is another step towards the emancipation of mankind.