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Socialist Party – campaigning for a socialist world
Being
a Socialist Party member: What will it mean for you?
So you want to change the world and are
thinking of joining the Socialist Party. Well, you will want to know
exactly what it is you’re joining and what will be expected of you.
You’ll want to know what we’re about,
what do we say on the main issues of the day, how do we campaign? How
do we raise money?
What does being a member involve –
how much time and money?
What is being a member of the Socialist Party
like and what work is the party involved in, how does it
democratically arrive at decisions?
And also how does the Socialist
Party organise its members?
If you want to know more, read on...
The Socialist Party – campaigning for a socialist world
We want you to join
the Socialist Party. Every new member is a vital addition to the
building of our Party and the struggle for socialism, which can
liberate humankind from the unequal and unjust society we live in.
The Socialist Party is a party that is
committed to getting rid of the capitalist system worldwide and
introducing a democratic socialist society, where the rule of the fat
cats, who line their pockets with the profits they gain from
exploiting the majority, is abolished.
Now that the capitalist system has been
struck by economic and social crisis on a world scale, it is becoming
clear to an increasing number of people, who are questioning the
capitalist system, that there is an urgent need for a viable
alternative.
Attacks
Anger at the global capitalist system has
grown rapidly in recent years. This anger has also been reflected
against governments who uphold the money-grabbing, people-exploiting
big businesses which dominate the world economically and socially.
Opposition to the attacks that these governments, like New Labour in
Britain, have carried out on the living standards of ordinary people
is growing too.
Attacks, such as those on free education -
abolished with the introduction of tuition fees and the ending of
student grants – and on the NHS continue. Labour entirely accept the
capitalist free market economy and see big business as their allies,
therefore the wealth of the super-rich minority is left untouched.
On a day-to-day basis we are involved in many
campaigns in workplaces and working-class communities, against these
attacks and fight to win every improvement we can for working-class
and middle-class people.
Our campaigns include supporting
anti-capitalist activities, campaigns for free education, against low
pay and for a decent minimum wage; against privatisation; on the
environment; against injustice in the courts; and anti-racism.
We always link these day-to-day struggles
with the need for socialism, with the need for a society based on the
needs of the majority rather than the present capitalist system, which
provides huge profits for a rich minority.
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alternative to Blair and Capitalism (March 2004)
Being a Socialist Party member: What will it mean for you?
If you are reading this and agree with our
ideas, then joining our party is your next logical step. You can
already see what’s wrong with the world and are thinking about what
you can do to change it.
Karl Marx once said that "philosophers
only interpret the world, the point remains to change it".
Changing the world needs all those who want
to get rid of the capitalist system to get active and build a new type
of political party, untainted by careerism, corruption or sleaze. This
new party has to be one that fights unstintingly for the interests of
the majority of people on this planet and is not bought off by the
millions of big business.
Our party is based on ordinary working-class
people who fund it through their weekly subscriptions and selling our
publications and raising funds for our party’s fighting fund.
We encourage all our members, where possible,
to attend weekly branches and do some campaigning with us once a week.
But we understand that every member’s contribution will vary. Some
members cannot always participate in these activities but find other
ways to help build our party.
Party members are also entitled – as long
as they are up to date with their party subscriptions – to stand as
delegates for local and national conferences of the Socialist Party.
At these conferences we elect the party
leaders, such as our National Committee, which meets regularly with
day-to-day responsibility for building our party. But, most
importantly, the conference democratically decides the policies and
strategy for the year ahead.
Members pay a regular subscription ranging
from 50p a week for those who are on a very low income to hundreds of
pounds a month from our members who have higher-paid jobs.
How much you pay depends on your
circumstances. We ask every member to pay as much as they think they
can, given their individual circumstances. Such a level of sacrifice
means that our party can organise national events and campaigns with
full-time party workers without relying – like most parties – on
donations from "fat cat" rich businessmen who will always
want something in return for their money.
Big business would never consider financing a
party like ours because we want to end the tyranny that big business
inflicts on working-class people.
Discuss how much you can afford with a local
party representative who will explain what the money is used for and
how much other party members who are in similar circumstances to
yourself pay. Once you have decided on your starting level of
subscriptions then request a standing order form and return it to our
national office.
Also, we ask members to buy copies of and, if
possible, sell our party publications, our weekly paper the
socialist, our monthly magazine Socialism
Today. We think these publications
give the best week-by-week and month-by-month analysis, argumentation
and organisation to assist working-class activists in the struggle for
socialism.
We ask members who can to take out a direct
debit for our publications. This is the most straightforward way of
ensuring you get local and national party mailings, and our party’s Members’ Bulletin,
every time
they are published.
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E-mail
us
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Write to us at the Socialist Party, PO Box
24697, London E11 1YD
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Call our national
office on 020 8988 8777
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Ring our Regional Organisers:
London and south-east: 020 8988 8786
North-East: 0191 421 6230
Yorkshire: 0114 264 6551
Manchester / Lancs
(email)
Merseyside: 0151 922 6077
Wales: 01792 476 246
West Midlands: 02476 555 620
East Midlands: 0116 223 0534
Bristol and south-west: 0117 965 6591
Southampton and south: 02380 495 266
