There will, however, be a stall in Canterbury on Saturday, 20 July - same time and place.
Across
the world, the left radicals have turned toward reformism. We are
not speaking of supporting reforms under capitalism, which many
socialists have done. Instead, what we are seeing today is the wholesale
embrace of the anti-working-class reformist ideology, along with
attempts to create whole new reformist institutions to replace the
discredited ones while openly building or supporting populist
parties.
Reformism by its nature means class collaboration. They are
creating political traps for the growth of the world party of
socialist revolution. The emancipation of wage-slaves is the task of
the wage-workers themselves. ; it is a task it must carry out without
those “condescending saviours.” Reformism is not a moderate or too
slow form of socialism. It is its mortal enemy. At every turn, we
insist our war-cry should be “abolish the wages system.”
Reformism
and reforms are two different things. Reforms are legislative and
other enactments deemed necessary for governments in running the
various forms of capitalism. The Socialist Party is opposed to
reformism – the policy of advocating reforms, either as a way of
‘improving’ capitalism or as a means to socialism – but we are
not necessarily opposed to individual reforms which may be of benefit
to the working class. However we do not advocate any reform, because
we hold that to do so would lead to a socialist party changing into a
reformist party, attracting the support of non-socialists.
Today
the class struggle is very simple. A handful of capitalists and
financiers are in control of the factories and the natural resources
and they are steadily whittling away at the living standards and
democratic rights of all the working people. It is clear that the
systematic nature of the capitalists’ attack is not meeting with
the necessary opposition from the working class. The bosses divide
our class with reformism. As a result of this reformism we find
fellow-workers trying to made adjustments in their situation, trying
to get capitalism off their backs by reforming it rather than uniting
to face their class enemy.
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Unfortunately this Street Stall has had to be cancelled at the last moment as one of the two participants needs to attend to other urgent party business. There wiil, however, be a stall in Canterbury on Saturday, 20 July - same time and place.
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/street-stall-canterbury-12noon-2/
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