We hold these truths to be self-evident

The Socialist Party reflects the great human impulse towards the world-wide co-operative commonwealth. There are certain words which have a magical charm. Let us take “freedom”. Our goal is socialism and freedom, freedom from hunger, from poverty, freedom from war, from endless toil, from exploitation, from racial and sexual oppression, freedom from the coercive State. These can only become a reality when working people run society. In a socialist society crime will, to all intents and purposes, disappear, not because under socialism everyone will become angels and saints but because the motives for crimes will disappear.

The Socialist Party aim at destroying the present capitalist system to its very foundation. We intend to destroy the machinery, the various institutions, organisations, traditions, science and art etc which are accessories to the capitalist system. We intend to build a society that has neither rich nor poor, without classes, a society whose members possess free access to food, clothes and dwellings, the realisation of free, equal, peaceful, and fraternal communities. Believing that all the important and real power in this class struggle lies with the workers themselves, we shall strive for their awakening and organisation. We shall advance boldly and courageously toward the new society. As soon as socialism becomes an accomplished fact, the Socialist party will then cease to exist as a party.

The Socialist Party recognises certain truths

1. We teach that the wage earners and their employers have nothing whatever in common.
2. That there is no community of interest between the wage earners and their employers.
3. That a state of class war is the natural relation between the wage earners and the employers.
4. That the wage earner should never be satisfied with the wages he or she gets, but should strike at all opportune times in order to secure whatever wages can be extracted from the employers.
5. That “right” and “wrong” are meaningless terms in the wage earner’s war for higher wages.
6. That a “fair return” on the capital invested by the capitalist is a joke, as is the idea of “fair wages. ” Whatever the employee gets is less than he or she deserves, since the entire product is theirs anyway, it being assumed that the product is the result wholly of the labour of the wage earner
7. This warfare, unremitting and bitter, is to be regarded only as a temporary expedient until the wage earner shall eventually, by ‘socialist revolution’ take over all wealth assumed to be wholly the product of labour which denies every right of the capitalist to live on the wealth produced by his wage slaves