Humanity’s
and civilisation's survival can only be guaranteed by the vision of
world socialism. If the goal is turning out more billionaires with an
ever-growing GDP, giving control of the planet to profit-maximising
corporations. If your goal is the well-being of people and the
community then abandon capitalism. It's a straightforward choice if
you are concerned about the interests of the people. We the people
will need to make our demands for a sustainable thriving future and
organise the path to its achievement. Let us not be distracted from
that cause by political debates to divert our attention from
proposals that replaces the capitalist system with a series of
palliative reforms, to do so, too risks mankind's possible existence.
Let’s make people's potential central to our vision of the
future—a future that offers hope instead of a doomsday scenarios.
There’s no guarantee that we can still solve the climate problem.
One can understand for pessimism, but not for apathy, especially at
these most desperate moments. Through creative visionary forms of
action and political struggle, we can halt the climate-driven
collapse, and point the way toward a different world. It is more
necessary than ever to sustain a hope that humanity can unite to
reject false solutions to the climate crisis.
Capitalism
demands we pretend all is well and carry on business as usual while
climate chaos breaks out all around us. Industrialised agriculture
‘works’ by externalising environmental costs. Manufacturing
‘works’ by externalising pollution and waste. Commercial fishing
‘works’ by externalising the costs of over-netting and depletion.
Transportation 'work' by the externalising of greenhouse gas
emissions. Environmental devastation is fundamental for capitalism to
make ‘work’ at all. Markets and prices mystifies the social
costs. Loot and pillage is far more profitable than sustainable
methods of production.
Many
still believe that the crisis isn’t actually that critical and we
can still avert an environmental catastrophe by some lifestyle
changes, a few pieces of regulatory legislation and a bit of
geoengineering technology. Many turn a blind eye to the climate
emergency as they also do to the rising wealth disparity between the
rich and the poverty-stricken, worsening racism and xenophobia and
the intensifying migrant and refugee crisis. Wherever you look in the
world today you will see suffering. Millions live in misery because
they lack sufficient money to buy the necessities for a decent
comfortable life. Poverty and insecurity face the great majority. We
face a grim future of a capitalist race to the bottom, with
increasingly extreme deprivation on a global scale. But there is a
better path to take. Humanity's solidarity is required to realise a
liberated and truly interdependent global cooperative commonwealth of
socialist communities.
If
capitalism is permitted to continue, say goodbye to a livable world.
Many people imagine some kind of post-apocalyptic nightmarish
dystopia where the horrors of our own past return, the
collapse of infrastructure and industry, disruption to food supplies
and healthcare, leading to famine and plague. Our popular culture of
movies, TV shows and computer games are full of such scenarios. It is
a terrifying depiction of the future. The Socialist Party offers an
alternative vision. There exists another possible sustainable
society. We advocate something better and argue it is something
that works.
Socialism
means producing wealth solely and directly for free use by all. All
the resources and machinery for producing wealth will be taken into
the hands of the community as a whole, and work will be organised
through voluntary co-operation, not the economic force of the wages
system. Society's principle will be: "from each according to
ability, to each according to need". It is only by free and open
discussion that the workers can grasp the essentials of their present
condition of servitude and the way to abolish it. Until they have
this knowledge it matters little which of the capitalist parties they
support. The only sensible way to organise society is for the
satisfaction of human needs—that is, on the basis of ownership by
everybody of the means of life and access for everybody to everything
there is.
There
is nothing intrinsically wrong with humans as a species which makes us
incompatible with our surroundings. It is not innate within us to
destroy and devastate the environment that sustains us. We can shape
the world to fit our desires that does not jeopardise our survival.
We are caught up in a cancerous capitalist system, driven by the
demands of growth and profit that it must devour, exploit and expand
at the expense of the environment. Undoing this is beyond the scope
of any series of laws or single country. It requires the
transformation of our global economic system to bring it into balance
with the planet. We need socialism the only means to achieve a
sustainable steady-steady economy required for survival of our
civilisation if not our species. Our challenge now is to address
global problems like climate change and, at the same time, create an
economy that it meets the needs of people and the planet. We need
to take on those Green catastrophists and promote technology and real
democracy to face down the spectre of austerity green capitalism in
order to kill this pernicious and dastardly capitalist system once
and for all.it is not the ongoing climate catastrophe that is
destroying the Earth. It is capitalism. The climate catastrophe is
being generated by the behaviour of capitalists. But 24-hour news
channels can’t tell us about the true story because they are bought
and paid for, owned and controlled by the elite. It is impossible to
offer alternatives for a better tomorrow without understanding
present times. We live in a world where Vox
Populi (the
voice of the people) is replaced by the commands of capitalists where
the market and money dominate the social, economic, political,
cultural spheres. We live in a society where people are imprisoned by
economic laws. Capital is free and labour in chains.
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