Our attitude to the coming year should be both sober and optimistic. The old year saw the working class poorer than ever. It saw millions crawling humbly to pick up the crumbs that fell from the table of plenty during Christmas. It saw more destitution, more misery, more men, women and children murdered through the criminal and wanton carelessness of the capitalist class. It is not a question of changing our principles, it is a question of carrying them into action. Despite any weaknesses our movement may have, our brightest hope for the new year is that every member will take his or her stand in the class struggle. The ruling class will bring doom and gloom.
There will be ample opportunities are for us to seize upon and that the new year may be as bright as we choose to make it. The only ray of hope that brightens the hope of the working class is the burning torch of socialism that has been dimmed but never extinguished. The hope of a happy New Year to the working class rests on it, and on it alone. It will be a happy New Year in which the workers turn to the socialist vision. The coming year will be a time when the fortunes of capitalists may well take a turn for the worse, creating new openings for education. We must intensify our political work and bring socialist knowledge to every part of the world.
On behalf of all Socialist Party and companion party members, we send fraternal greetings to the world’s working people for the New Year 2018, wishing them success in the struggle against exploitation and oppression in the coming year. We face the new year of struggle in conditions where the workers' cause is only beginning to revive from the all-out war waged by the capitalists on the working class. We once more take the opportunity of the New Year to renew its pledge of unconditional support for our fellow-workers engaged in the class struggle. We salute the just resistance of the oppressed. But from the point of view of the working class there is another solution–REVOLUTION–getting rid of capitalism and establishing socialism.
Hoping that this is the profit system’s last year, that we will overthrow capitalism around the globe, and that we will celebrate the establishment of a free, equal and humane society in the next new year, the Socialism Or Your Money Back blog wishes you a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. A Happy New Year, comrades, to one and all everywhere, in the spirit of class solidarity. May 2018 bring enlightenment and progress. The Socialist Party looks forward to the coming new year with optimism about the growth of our party and the growing prospects for working class revolution. Our New Year’s commitment is to take revolutionary politics to workers everywhere and to make the prospect of the socialist cooperative commonwealth in our lifetime a certainty. Let us hear from you.
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