The Socialist Party of Canada - A New Type of Party

The Socialist Party of Canada endeavours to be “the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.”

Under the rule of capital the world has become an armed camp. Between nations there is no peace, nor can there be any so long as human society rests upon a basis of slavery and the forcing of its proceeds upon the markets. This compels each capitalist nation to open the way for its expansion, by the conquering of additional markets. The whole world today is being pushed to the brink of a precipice, beyond which lies war and slaughter, with all their concomitant horrors.

The Socialist Party of Canda is a party seeking contact with the workers, a party in which the theorists and doctrinaires as such will find small place, a party of the workers, and with them in their struggles against capitalist exploitation, striving always for Industrial Freedom and Emancipation from wage slavery. The Socialist Party of Canada proudly declares itself a party of revolutionary socialism which stands for the abolition of capitalism, nothing more and nothing less. Its activities have always been directed towards the complete overthrow of capitalism, and to that end it has concentrated its attention upon the education of their fellow-workers.

 For the Socialist Party of Canada socialism has to be the work of the vast majority of the population or not at all. Socialism is inseparable from democracy, and was in their eyes, its full realization. The role of socialists is to educate and not lead. Sneered at as “out of date” with its ever-present language of class war, the SPC's libertarian message is more receptive today than the Leftist demands for nationalization and state control. The capitalist is frequently aided in its task of spreading confusion by reformers who declare their sole interest to be the protection and advancement of working class interests. The only hope of the working class is to turn class property into collective property, by seizing what stands in the way - the powers of government – and using them on its only behalf as long as necessary, and then discarding them. 

Our work is plain before us, the masters hold their place because they hold political power, they are few, we are many, we must then join hands with our brothers and sisters, go to the ballot and grasp political power to send our own men and women to parliament. The Socialist Party of Canada have this aim in view, not to engage with reform but to go straight to the goal and sweep the master class from power. The lesson is plain, fellow-workers, so we call on you to join with us in our mission of awakening and educating the working class to their slave position in society so that the day may soon dawn when we will be able to throw aside the chains which bind us and stand forth FREE men and women. with superstition and slavery behind it, its feet for the first time planted on the soil of freedom, humanity will pass through the doors of a new dawn

The Socialist party of Canada is the political expression of the interests of the working class. The immediate future does not look especially bright for the working class. It will grow darker even still unless the workers rise to the task of removing the curse of capital from the means of production, thus clearing the way for a better, a more decent civilization. The problem of production has been solved by the working class. The task now at hand is the solution of the problem of how to so handle the means of production and dispose of the product as to best conserve the interests of all. An understanding of the principles and program of the Socialist Party of Canada will point out the solution. How long will you dally? Knowledge is power. Read, study, think and then act. For things will go from bad to worse until you have sense enough to call a halt.

“The Socialist Party of Canada has been organized and is making excellent progress. This is a clear-cut and uncompromising socialist party, and is bound to be a party of the future.” - Eugene Debs