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ELECTION ’80 I °LD MISTAKES REVIVED gold Election & leaders j j Nl)f CAPITALISM v°vr ballot 2______SOCIALIST FULCRUM______Voi. 13, No. |
Commonwealth Federation (the NDPj former name) was inaugurated in 195? ttu: xiinhjf IntheNews the CCFz'NDP stands for capitalism, n* state or the private variety being of Jim, Editorial Note; la common with her si>- concern. The NDP is more easily etp.-^-i rerx, Sylvia was a bit thin on theory. Class APPEAR TO BE DIFFERENT however, when spokesmen like Hovdebo at distinctions do not, as Sylvia contends, arise The death of former Tory Prime Minister inadvertantly candid. from differences of education but from John Diefenhaker brought about a bvelec- One of Hobdebo’s qualtftcatioos was sad ownership of means of production. There tion in the Prince Albert federal to be ",.. his vote-getting ability,’’ whahi are examples of poorly educated, even constituency. was the NDP’s choice in the May general stuped. children of capitalists who live with A “crowd" (to use the terminology of the election, where he took votes away powei and comfort N evert he leas the article Saskatchewan "Commonwealth") of 1,000 from Diefenbaker. To effect this, it hcJpt to makes interesting reading if only to compare attended an NDP convention to pick a can appear to be an alternative to the other par how fat her modern contemporaries have didate for the Nov. 19th poll. ties, and the "Commonwealth" (Oct. 2dtki fallen from her position. Stan Hovdebo, the chosen one said: as much as said so: “Sum flovdefo’i I believe tn a society where equality is approach was one of... confidence m sor THE FUTURE SOCIETY by Sylvia not only desirable, but possible. ting a process in motion that would preset# i Pankhurst A soaety where social equality is desirable clear alternative to the voters and product, The words Socialism and Communism describes present society: capitalism, a class as a logical result, an NDP victory." have the same meaning. They md cate a con divided system where the exploited majority Deception can be "tough sledding" snd dition of societ* in which the wealth of the vaguely longs for classless democracy, a per always demands a renewal of schemes to community the land and the means of pro centage of whom think the NDP is the vehi appear to be "a dear alternative." After aH duction, distribution and transport are held cle for achieving this end. The Socialist Party the years, when the CCF/NDP has been in common, production being for use and of Canada has known since theCo-operative shown to be anything but, both in andoot of no* for profit office, it has no choice. The instance of Soctthuu being an ideal towards which CCFers voting for John Diefenbaker in the we are working, it is natural that there ductive work to do purely administrative 1945 general election in l^ke Center, must should be some (inferences of opinion in that work. Thus useless toil is manufactured, and have been a tough one to play down in liter future society. Since we are living under the burden of non-producers maintained by years. They had been told by their leader of Capitalism it is natural that many people's the productive workers is increased. the time, M. J. Coldwell, that Diefenbaker ideas of Socialism should be colored by then Moreover social conditions are preserved was a better man for the west than the Lib experiesces of life under the present system. which are quite out of harmony with Com eral candidate and the CCF had no chaog We must not be surprised that some who munist fraternity. The wage system makes of winning there. recognize the present system is bad should the worker's life precarious. The payment of The establishment of a system of nail yet lack the imagination to realize the possi wages entails the power to dismiss the equality cannot be brought about by shop bility of abolishing ail the institutions of worker by an official or officials. follow-shepberds. The "crowd" at the P A Capitalist society. Nevertheless Lnere can be So long as the money system remains, nominating convention of course was no real advantage in setting up a half-way- each productive eoterprize must be run on a deceived by the slick phrase of the candidau house to socialism. A combination of Social paying basis. Therefore it will tend to aim at 1 believe in a society where equality.. .ft ism aud Capitalism would produce alt sorts employing as few workers as possible, in possible. of injustice, difficult* and waste, f hose who order to spend less on wages. It will also tend Political parties whose memberships «* happen to suffer under the an,n tabes would to dismiss the less efficient worker who divided into generals at the top, and ptivoo continually stniggle lor a return to the old becomning unemployed, becomes less effi or “the crowd” at the bottom, are commu system. cient. Thus an unemployable class tends to ted to social inequality The means tatties* Full and complete Socialism entails the grow up. the end. total abolition of money, buying and selling, The existence of a wage system almost and the wages system. inevitably leads to unequal wages; overtime, DAMNED IF THEY DO AND DAMNED If It means the community must set itself the bonuses, highei pay for work requiring spe THEY DONT task of providing rather more than the peo cial qualifications. Class distinctions are "Belgrade (Reuter) After three (toy* ple can use of aU the things that the people purely differences of education, material gloomy speeches about the state of tbtto** need and desae, and of supply ing these when comfort and environment national economy, world financial feeder and as the people require them. Buying and selling by die Government ending their conference here agreed Any system by which the buying and sel opens the door to official corruption. To hard times must continue in order to bwi ling system is retained means the employ check that, high salaried positions are inflation." (Western Producer, No* ment of vast sections of the population in created tn order that those occupying them But inflation was caused to brat bra unproductive work It leaves the productive have too much to lose to make pilfering and times. w ork to be done by one portion of the people jobbery worth while. w hibt the other portion is spending its ener One Big Union Bulletin, Aug. 2, 1923. TO CAUSE PEACE, MANUFACW# gies in keeping shop, banking, making AND SELL ARMS advertisements and all the various develop Washington — “The U.S. announce -! ment! of commerce which, in fact, einplov VINTAGE VIEWS would sell helicopter gunships m4 sfl* Letter from Charles Lestor more than two-thirds of the people today. reconnaissance planes to Morocco, ... we can never forgive the founder of the Giv en the money system, the wage system naked King Hassan to join negotiaticw • is inevitable. If things needed and desired are third international for stabbing the revolu resolve the West Sahara dispute." obtainable only by payment those who do tionary movement in the back and handing Gymnich, West Germany — "Oww** over the proletariat of Western nations to the work must be paid in order that they may Helmut Schmidt told visiting 0>ifi*eb*d obtain the n* cans ot life. The wage system the forces of opportunism and reaction. Hu* Guofeng West Germany was entails such tnstrtu.ious as the old-age pen They have attempted to sacrifice the Social Revolution upon the alter of Russian mined to continue its pobey of detect**” sion, sick and unemployment insurance and the Soviet bloc on the basis of ** Nationalism. Th« the revolution!!'. can widow's pensions, or the Poor Law, and military equality," (Western Prodnc**^ probably plus the Poor Law Tliese involve never forget not forgive Charles Ltetor — burgs numbers of people drawn from pro One Big Union Bulletin, Dec 11,1924 1/79.) po-kxai po*er. whJ lx aotc y. Uaa the wc rk- IS MAN AN ENDANGERED SPECIES? Mg dam to socufecnu Tfey am » a brow aed czmcRsdc this they ha** a fee*’ at »o Never More in thr h-*ury of mankind of affam. for we are pevtieuety teetering ou codafisw and bare no titre to prepw aw b* the population of the world been faced the brmk of the war’d dettructK-n. And now foristou koowfcdge, These wV-MfUd -met- mth mass destruction and death. People are the U.S. A. hat the neutron bomb s weapon leetuato rnrefy define wter aoembam * to a* confused and confounded. They are not which will kill life but leave propenv mcact. in* sad the) are dtegbew^y dbhnnmt ahd rvea diseasing the question. To toem it Perha p» they and other pow its ate » ortnng uadwrecniir far, bow cog they, rran the* jecms to be an enigma — a riddle without a on an improved bomb; om that mil kill art elected to fa f yament, briny ahem * v-.w »
ELECTION ’80 iV tl«r» f'mnmwi meted product mo geared to profit alone They'll still be air conditioned against the vaoaatly defeated by ike Liberals, the NDP These Balts Ware Never Louse exhaust fumes of “fellow" drivers, nor, sad the abstention ot die five SooaJ Credi Whichever political faction of the rulers proof, commodious and pleasant Andilihe tors ‘O the House of Commons foramg a wine this ume, the hel» tightening on the part price of gas went up to $10.00 a gdloa or federal election. to be held Feb 18th. of the majority whose bate were never loose, hire, their owners could care lets. Neither The PC. » won ifai mmontv jo'ffn- will continue. I he situation wtil be different would a wage increase for their chauffeurs i»ent pouL- »n « the ekftux, of May >979. for those on top of the heap. Fsample- the bother them. These are the peop’e who with a bizarre program of increased spend new model Cadillacs and Roils Royces, paid belong to the privileged class, who grneraliy ing. m bt standard articles since 1920 show- 1 > of surplus values for the employing dass. allow The difference between being in and < ' ing bow Lenin and his contemporaries 1 The difference in the price level of marketa being out of office waa toon demooatrated I > departed from Marx’s ideas. ble skills between the inevitable boom and by the Tones. The cutback dictates of the < > Sl.M ' ' bust cycles is as nothing compared to the prcs*. at profit interests of the owning dass < ’ urder from: wage-slave’s ration in relation to the free ware soon apparent. But the P.C’l went Socialist Party of Canada access consumption of the system reccn- further than either cf thetr shadow-boxing ' 1 Box 4280A mended by the Socialist Party of Caaadi. buddxa advocated, at least w htle in their 1 1 VIX 3X8 Aside from the rediculoiis presentation poaitio— on the ndeiiaar ’ 1 special rate on volume order. made to the “little people” generally by the 1 he huge gasoline tax increase and other left-centre- right parties, the spectacle of the concealed excise levies on some ordinary Liberals and the NDP defeating the Tory commoditses would have an obvious as well ...... 4 government because it used too much of the u an immediate effect of lowering the con Liberals’ and NDP’s election program sumption levels ot the mass who drudge for borders on the sublime. Hair splitting aside, wages. Cor a time at least. Not sbek enough Is Man An Endangered Species? the bosses’ representatives are now down to to suit ibe "opposilion ” in a warlike manner but capitalism has cracking crumbs to differentiate one from These acton on the pohIicai stage of the twisted the minds of so many people that another. minority class that ow ns the means of hfe there may be a few gun-toting individuals Tired and disillusioned Pierre has opted to and calls the shots, do theu share in cultivat who would want to commit murder. head the Liberals one more time. In 1968 be ing the myth of an energy short age m terms in the past and to the present political descended, like Santa Claus, from the air ini of current technological ability. They power has frequently been seized by armed helicopter, to an audience of thousands in encourage the fairy ule that the poisonous might, changing one group of gangsters for Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, where the desecration of thia planet can be contained another group of gangsters, and capitalism Socialist Party of Canada maintained » within the preaeni social arrsngr—rot that has remained firmly entrenched; or workers outdoor speaking spot The SPC dturdmed rrq uires it. Along with many other dubious have mtaguidcdly voted for reformist par a leaflet to that audience which pwtrayd tales cooked up for the cerebral cowsway ties, Tory, Liberal and NDP, all of which are Trudeau as a puppet in the bands of tht non of the nme-to-fiverj to heap them avid supporters of capitalism. country’s money bags. The adoriM thinking chat no workable alternative sys- The Socialist Party has never pandered to audience appeared to be oblivious to the tem is possible, despite their diaaat ufaction the electorate m order to cadge their votes. information in the election leaflet, ippst* with the effects of this one. We want your votes, but what is overwhelm catty seeing only the saviour who had d» The only short age of energy is within the ingly important, is that firstly you under oeoded from the heights. With a wive of Mh narrow context of profit production and a stand your class position ia society, and cape, the great man was off again, to roa- shift la the delicate political coatrof balances study the case for socialism, so that you mertze the millions. of oil neb areas of the earth U en^xfy pro know where you are going, and wdsrr you are As if more evidence was necessary. * duction was released from the confines of doing, thro you w »U no longer be led by intellectual, even a rich one, cannot res < the profit perogahve, there would be no leaders along the path to ruin. class divided, antagonistic society • Bi foreseeable shortage fot humanity Likewise We are not pacifists, we are realists and interest of its victims. Neither could with pollution The earth could he a clean, the only way to obtain socialism is to have Christ, if such an individual ever uiU^ abundant, happy home for the human spe socialists Our propaganda » directed to this And Karl Marx would know better thaa w cies if u consciously <, democrat icaily) con end try. That’s why he advocated the alternsti** trolled its social and technical processes. If you think you are worthy of a full life, a which doesn’t exist anywhere yet. This would mean common ownership, so life more conducive w human happiness and When the next boom looms, more W that each individual stood equally in relation well being, it is imperative that you join and subsidies will be allowed to fail in* to aU others in controlling social affairs. work with us so that cur propaganda, via the masters* banquet table, and life will ccnua^ Meaning that ail wou id pr od uce voluntarily written word, can be widely distributed for to be relatively bleak for the majority d* according to ability and cvnsunie according the purpose of winning over the majority to not only produces everything but mb* to their requirements, wuh no buying or elect socialist candidates to Parliament with system for their rulers. setting. This w ouid mean su ad nuc^tration a mandate for Penetrating the deceptive fog &iakrt ** for ail society replacing the coercive state This is not confiacaxiou, it is restitution turrour da the issues is tlu **.' $5it- . that forces she wit of a parasite owtung class If you sefi believe in reforms — try always, tinea 1M1, the SodaMM ***** now Present day pollution is aa unavoida reforming the neutron bomb; Canada stand* ready to sawn b ble part of capitalism’s cost cutting, rev t£. SOCIALIST FULCRUM J
hStmttlf Where it h a question of a complete OLD MISTAKES REVIVED ttanKormatiofl of the xucislorgsmns- iien. the masses themselves must ilr In today’s reiauvc political apathy it ia Communism that capitalism tuddenly be m it, must thrtwehes already hr pice to see some young auu'ta committed to becomes reinstated in Russia. IS. a being grasped whet iret stSfcc. what they see tkst they see »a social change to remedy the just as bewildered to assume that hi its going in for .. gi of the employe i class. planned “dictatorship of the proletariate,” NATIONALISM h Strvgglt is one oi several descendent there will be s working clew “in control ’ Patnotis m. in the words of a philosopher, goiuuvik types split off from their original and a capitalist class dethroned from stats is the last refuge of a scoagdrst h » ai» rieaiufy to part, by the developing capital- power, but exploitation of the propertilwss wed by the owners of the earth to camou cm of Russia The minority violent seizure class will end. How can there be a class of flage eke dh-mon and us xougomsfin. of power by the Leninists in 1917 in these owners otf capital without its exploitation of including the state capitalist coantnes. Io mteheHiistorical conditions allowed only the non-ownsn? Or as Marx said w ’’Wage- Canada, Z.5. is being as conservative at Joe the budding of state capitalism. Labor and Capital,” “The existence of a ClarkS party or the consemative tdeotof m On the positive side. Jit Struggle has disco class which possesses nothing but the ability of Moscow or Peking, in falsely advocating vered that capita'iim "has been restored” in to work is a necessary presupposition of cap national deter vnetton fw the workers of the USSR since 'be 1950’s. On the negative ital.” And, “thus, capital presupposes wage- Quebec or national liberation for third ade it h not aware that nothing but a class labor and wage-labor presupposes capital. world ’peoples.” f.C's ftrspt Fragrant divided system has existed there, feudalism They mutually condition one another; they repeatedly refers to Canada m ‘our coun up to 1917, and the building of state capital* mutually bring each other into existence." try, in massive contradicnoa to the Marxian ism since. l.S. is ambivalent in its Draft Pro What ia the difference betweenl.S.’j pro and obvious fact of propertilaw»eM of the gram, as the early ‘'Communist” parties posed “guaranteed minimum wage for ail” majority were (but they had a better excuse) which (Z.S.’z concept of Socialism) and the “Fair In its efforts to perceive the political daenbes th* precess of capitalist exploita days’ pay for a fair day’s work” deser bed by source of their problem*, working peopk do tion of the working clas- accurately, but Marx as a conscrv stive motto io “Value, not nerd a minority telling them that on does not apply this process, with its wages Price & Profit”? In the same sentence Man emancipation (cod of expiooatknri is to be system, banks, money, rent, interest, profits, adds “abolition of the wages system" as a found in a different variety of capitalism rua etc. to pre- 1950’s Russ ion or to present day condition of Socialist/Commurust society. by a "tonynuout” patty. China. I.S.’s goal to expropriate the banks and It is debates blc as to which groups retard It passively accepts Lenin’s and Stalin’s industrial monopolies is nicrelv state capi working class thinking the RK’it. the nguist* pass distortion of Marx, that there is a dif talism, and the owning class won’t mind a who adnir their capitalist support. or the ference in the meaning of the terms Social hypothetical Canuoian Communist party in Wttsrs who ambiguously pmadc i Soaalitf ly (social ownership) and Commimum office saying the capitalist class is no longer wind ow dressing which conceals then sup (common ownership, both of which cannot in control and that exploitation has ended port of capitalist ideas in the back office t moneyless, wageless, classless, frontierless To qualify for their 'minimum wags" the Like the old CCF and other enreent Bol world of free access, voluntary work and class that possesses nothing but their ability shevik splinters, /.5 caopeagns for imme democtatic contioi. They accept the Lcni- to work will have to regularly present them diate demands'* no*, or concessions for nat/Stalinist concealment of Russian state selves at the boss’s premises to expand capi workers, reforms to capaalam, and a class capitalism under the guise of “Socialist “ dic tal via profits, exactly as /.S. explains it on less society id/ima/r/y—-(at the very too; By tatorship of the pi oletariatc or long transi papes 34 A 35 of ito Draft Program. Likstbe not knowing that Socvabsm/'Comoiuc*m » tion period to ’'Communism” (which was early Leninists A leftists in general, l.S. Urn answer now, IS.'i promotion of capital- promised by Krushchev by 1980 and would thinks privet* ownership is the sole form of tsm now means that m effect it means capi ensure every Russan worker an egga day). It class ownership and that state ownership is talism always accepts the early French capitalist revolu something different. W. tionary Bianquist come Leninist view of an According to LS. “exploitation of man by eaigbteodcd leadership at the head of politi- man” has ended in <~hina. The 303,000capi c*L*> unconscious followers, which, in the talists of that country (in 1969) would smile PRODUCTION PROBLEMS hatonco-materia! conditions of the French at this one. (Barry Richman, Capitalists and Production problems m 1979 R lusaiao feudalism ripe for capitalism Managcis in Communist China.) So exploi tamed only two (isans of SOCIA L- cwdd oily result in a dictatorship of a few tation has ended in a country where one rich IST FULCRUM to be produced. Nor wrr the workers and peasants. In the milieu family can spend more on a single meal ir. a mal production of tour issues skouid °f the present highly industrialized and eco- high clasv restaurant man some worling resume to i9fttt The rttimated low to “onucally integrated e* rth, this outlook i, as class famines receive in wages for eight subscribers n 75« sad SOCIALIST Jrievent to working people’s problems as the months! (Victoria Times, May 27/75). The FULCRUM u prepared to tnske resh- hofM sad buggy is in terms of today’s Chinese constitution guarantees the right to tutwn to Hs jubscribers as boow tampon. own private property in the means of pro (please check choice) . The level of consciousness which xeescap- duction Though strikes am outlawed, they 1979 SOCIALIST FULCRUM Pro or social inequality only in big power do take place Against whom doth*, workers duction Resottuioe ®vu»on of satellites (when they threaten to •trike if there ia no exploitation by a masta ht disloyal) is in for further disillusion ment NAME: ______das*, themselves? Jjea its new idol, China, matures as a full Contrary to M«rx Sid common sense, ADDRESS: ..... e ■^ed capitalist power and behaves claxskssness cannot be established through toMtdingly unconscious violence by sheep following Fuse credit my 1979 production father contemporary logic nor Man's blind leaders, “the leadership of (their) tb-jrtage (75«) to future thud □ **hlyhs can support (be contradiction that party,** (Draft Frogtam), but inly by the Fkue refund tbe 7J< 3 ^‘riism is ' nothing but state capitalist “self conscious, u.dependent movement of 1 wish to donate Uk !5« to expand ®°&>poly made to benefit the whole pcc- the immense majority, in the interest ot the sodaliu ptenture *H to use Lenin’s words. immense majority.” (Marx Eagdi, Commu breathtaking absence of reason is nist Manifesto). Or as Engels put it in Us The So'.’ahst Party of Caada apxbg- rj^ed in the view that after 42 yean of .introduction w Marx’s "Class Sir Aggies In ritt (or t tacoom race *^°itsiionless Socialist transition toward France.'* SOCIALIST FULCRUM
oe. of fine gold. So that 1 U.S. I bill was pening at a faster or slower rate ill GOLD equal to 1/21 ot. gold. Then President the 44 years since 1935. until. "The pace* Roosevelt, m an attempt to inflate the U.S, gold rocketed past $ U.S. XW in oun« Octi prt re& have now reacted and passed out of Pom World War 1 slump raised to 35 terday as the finance world sought Rfe, the mystical figure of $300 per fine ot. Pa the •nnnber of $ nenes io equate with I or. from the weakening UX dollar" (ft bap* sow *the time to have another look at gold. This would appear to lie r a is i ng the i eports came in from Hong Kong, Lonfo to* particular commodiiy that appears io price of gold, but such is merely an illusion. Sydney. Tokyo. “The price of goto has p&Mcaa peculiar-ues, some merely apparent Actually the exchange value of the $ U.S. risen by more than $100an ounce ta Imdm and others quite real One of these is us token note had '•Med from 1/21 to 1/35 of a a full year." (2) changing prices This u the true barometer goRl or This deflating of the token value of laking a look at a few cardmsf poi* o( deflation or inflation but mainly the latte' the I note, (and a proportionate inflation of during the past 44 years the followingcirbe over the past 45 > ears Moreover, since the commodity pneat) just kept right on hap UX A. has cmciged as world leader tn mdtis seen: tr», com ox rue, and finance for weh over half a cent wry it is he re ve ran look i n oar efforts Roosevelt esrlv to unravel the mystique of gold. It » trom inflation July July 1979- ____ «*»...■ .J 1935 . 1978 1979 that oouotty *« are able most systemati W cally. regulari) and clearly 10 read. almost No of S' U.S Notes per owe ounce poa. daily. of the gold prior reports. 21 35 200 300m of goW 315 First of all gold ia a commodity in that hui >
A Tucson. Arizona Radio broadcast— Letter From Jamaica
Election & Leaders The build up of political tension through January 1979 when the NPM iNati ml To socialists one of the most depi easing, out *78 between the PNP government (Peo Patriotic Movement) an affiliate «f fb* HP lad 'm a tense intellectually humiliating, ples National Parry) and their supporters organ,ud an island wide deAftreuautm txjeneiices is to observe the attitude of (including Communist) On one band, and against increasing gas prices. The success of workers who subscribe to the philosophy of the JLP (Jamaica Labour Party) opposition the demonstration probably fnghte »ed '.he -leadership " At election time the political and their supporters culminated in dashes in Manley government, on the following day parties representing the capitalist system, the Police and government supporters (bn- sad the capitalist class, insult the intelligence 1 gadiatt*) began forcibly breaking op bfcrrt- ol the voters by claiming that their leaders Left-wing antics in Winnipeg * cades, and fmng shots on de monst rators an solve your insoluble problems. Each During the recent mayoralty election (About four people were shot.) The wide* party deprecates the leaders of the opposi here, we saw the bilanous spectacle of three suppon ofSiademonstretiea wt»not tion, and each party claims to have the best NDP’ers falling over each other to lay hold so much any proof tbt opposition »
brains, and to be the reservoir for the leaders of the mayor’s chair, each denouncing the strength, m ....it reflected how fed up peopw villi the most ability. What hogwash! It is other as being unqualified and incompetent had become, from all section* of aoetety deception of the worst kind to claim that for the mayor’s jb. Then there was Joe about the constant price increases, and the leaden can solve any ol the real working Zuken, representing the "Communist'’ general decline in living standard. class problems. Party of Canada. Joe, too, wanted the may Things certainly ain't what they used to The working class have continuously or's seat and decided to lead a wheel chair be, in this sunshine paradise. To simplify ptaced their faith, hopes, and lives in the parade across Portage and Main St. to prove matters one could say that the cause of this hands cf their so-called leaders, and history his concern for the handicapped. present atmosphere of tension and fear has recorded that the leaders have led the (Anne) started with one word. “Socialism.” Yea, in workers through decades of blood, sweat, 74 Michael Manley declared hsmsc-ff a toil, tears, and misery. This was one promise “Democratic Socialist” and promised hi* inctdenully which Winston Churchill was government to Fight to end exploitation ibk to lulfitt. It js now 79 and a lot of water has flown The working class should realize that they under the bridge since then. While workers lionc arc responsible for producing and dis a waited this new era of abate more for a lot tributing all the wealth that is owned and more as indicated by Manley, rnvesters for controlled by the capitalist class, and that eign; and local became frightened and uncer tins is accomplished through their efforts tain. As the tide of “anti capitalist” feeling alone and without “leadership,” and that swelled and grew investment fell off, facto leaden do not exist and function to serve the ries and businesses closed and the cream of interests of the workers. We urge our fellow the leisured class moved on to Miami, tak workers to explore the case for socialism and ing with them people with technical skills. h so doing we hope that you will join with us As the exodus, and closures increased so the a rejecting anyone who claims absurdly to ranks of the unemployed. As capital flow possess qualifications for leadership. We dried up so did foreign currency to p»y for bve no leaders in the socialist movement— basic imports. As wealth teemed threatened « are self-educated socialists who have so has currency mraggtmg, and bureaucratic obtained whatever little socialist knowledge bribery become a pastime. we have mainly through the educational Manley's dream is now oar nightmare. lowoes of our party and by recommended The total pettiness of his scope wvul3 have reading and study. Our need for leadership is made bad Fiction, in the way it has inieiai- ■oo-extatent — we know what we want and fied hard life. (In fact it has, be has written we know how to get it. two books.) Without foreign exchange The Worki Socialist Party rejects com class, because we are the only party that is dwindling production, increased uocmpfoy- pletely any claim that the Republican or opposed to. and not interested in reforming, roent, Manley begged the IMF to come m. Democratic Parties might make, cither in capitalism, and '.he ony party that has as it’s they now have him and hit government the past, or in the present, to any fundamen objective — socialism. The only way that the under “heavy manners." (A slogan Manley tal difference> They exist as expressions of working class throughout the world can used against hisopponems in thtlart geoerti the interests of different sections of the prop obtain it’s emancipation and solve ail it** elections.} The big thing cow for Manley ia erty owning class, and when they take on the mainprobtems is by the creation of a new io secure a social con tract with the opposi job of running capitalism the system itself system in which there will exist no classes. At tion, untoos, big business. The kind of pre* At tjits the course that events and govern all times never consider settling for anythiug cription needed to “get the econo my on it* ments must follow. The manipulation of less. feet" wifi need a large measure cf agreement capiialam, whilst intricate and complex, can Please make contact with us. We want because of its expected harshaww to the only be made to operate against the interest your questions and your comments, if you working class. All this coming at a time of the majority. The appointed controllers think that we are incorrect in our analysis when people hoped that the wont was per find themselves more at the mercy of the and conclusions let us know, and tell us why. haps behind them. aiariabie and repetitious problems of the And if you think that we are right — then There » fear in Jamaica today. Yirfenf Estero than they will ever admit, with the join with us in what we consider to be the enme a at epidemic proportion, chaw consequence that, as always in the past, dec- grandest endeavour with which human threaten* institutions, political coemption » ton promises are broken, and solutions beings can be associated. We need your help the order of the day. People of eoauw are materialize as expected. wb tow in these broadcasts If have In any way teaming, for the first time pohbaaa* are sparked your support, and you wish to iden The World Socialist Party of The United being viewed with. serious c/wcuks How Shta, aad it’s companion parties in Aus- tify with «ts in our > truggk, which is yours ever, it if only the achieving of a aocMdat Australia, Canada, England, New Zcs- also, don’t hew ate to send us your contribu werid that cao make any suih severe pre*** and Ireland is the only political body tions. You wtil find fib setter cause. of undertUadicgjustiiiabte. represents the interests of the working samuei Letght Gw-rge Doipfcy yOUr SOCIAUSTLE
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Vancouver - Box K& Station A, Vancw.ei. B.C, VIC IFi or The r«t«nneas of capitaSsm is bound to permeate it* politic*. WNto tslaphonc MM2SG W*w*nes» increased toward the end of the eider Bennett’* term, «»• fa not atop hb eon ft om saying he could get B.C on It* feet again, •fa unemployment had increased under the NDP. Whftr the CoeuMtoor. Pvtia* in • Austin, AmtrUo, USA. Tnfand, freonc fatoe** stamp has remained under the new Socred government, enc New Zealatw The May 2M .. ELECTION AND NDP CAPITALISM
Oatwafly toe majority of people see From this it osn be seen that it rakes Socle* services are usually riijskijek to •lections a* • ohance to make • relatively little difference now the system is run, or wage* and during periods of dapreufcft, tiny »mp» Twnwti *«fe ex there In the* whether the ordinary people follow S such as the present, fewer willing hew* general lot Or, during a depreewon. charismatic leaoer who has a at ring of are requtred to produce profits therefore •tactions are loc* ad upon at an urweretiv degrees and wars s Mower In (ess state charity to keep them In umbh opportunity to prevent thek personal ws (apel or whether capitalism is condition is dispensed. The books mi* situations *»om dot*mating In this last •QMinutereO by Joe Blow. The function be balanced and labor-power, is an federal pn*i there appeared to be a of toe system is to deprive the majority economic category, a commodity that wgrutican’ minority which was who do not share in the ownership of the must be bought at its value, despite the dissettstiad c* dreiaiettuJ of all politic* means of life, of everything they produce, troublesome fact that is exists in orgamzatone who contested The m in that is, to the extent that they are allowed containers known as human beings, t? addition to me l&rge minority of voters. to produce. Government statistics show labor power w as a inanimate s» materia (as ft«gti m 2ft paicent of toe EngHeh that the dlstntut'on of wealth In the and p«ant. possibly capitalism could •peeking araes in the previous election; decades of toe past has changed very function smoothly. And the NDP, being a who hebitual’y do not vote The reasons little, and in the pest few years has slightly unordinary capitalist party, kai besng tost they are nc»interesled to •tiered slightly in favor of the privileged no choice buf to listen to the masters' politics or they realize all the parties few despite toe massive reforms of the voice. known to them are the same and no past hetocentu y The answer then Is But every in superficial matters, , basic »mproveiitent can be made to their whet the Socialist Party has said in all Broadbent, as have other CCF/NOP lives by voting elections, that toe issue for the vast leaders, had little fear that his followers The stn mped rwnom, pr obab’y voted for majority of peopleIs emancipation from would not ride the waves of a teeeer evil, imbued as they appeared to wage-servitude to an exploiting class. inconsistency. For instance, in B.C. he be. wtth the value of Vie electoral system Their subservient position in a class was full of praise for the province's fcreti end not wanting to jeopardize it by not divided society is the cause of their giant, MacMillan Bloedel, as “an example voting The Socle** Party of Canada problems. of a corporate citizen doing a good job’, agrees with toe non-voters who say little PROMISES in contradiction to his predecessor Davit can be done “beceuse they ere el the Socialists, were not surprised when both Lewis's image of "corporate welfare same,' but ft does not agree that the tfkrftDP’s Broedbent and the Liberals' bums". In the past, the villains hove been be*tot should be ignored, beoeues the Trudeau accused the Conservatives’ just the big businesses, not the owning ballot is toe only exist ng met hod Clark of promising more than the class as a whole; just big profits, not whereby a conscious majority can national purse coud afford, on their TV profits par se; and what ware perceived become repreeer ted m Pa rhament for the confrontation. Broadbent, as the alleged to be extrema evils within capitalism, but purpose of solving their social probleme friend of the workers, must have been not the system Itself No wonder the The SPC Instead suggests that el: miffed at being out-promised by the Tory Con serve tive Party called toe NOP a workers teem that the* probieme ere not ene my of the worfcers. "Liberal farm team" during the recent caused by how society is run or by who Like aii nations however, the nation of election. runs I but by the way society is Canada is an outmoded geo-political On one TV interview, in defending organized. division of the earth, whose purpose s to government deficits, Broadbeht said, Socialists do not regard Socialist society administer toe exploitation of the “...government spending could not bt as being the wages, prices protit system ordinary people who wage-slave within compared to a family budget because the with the meant of production being Ito boundar es The .-.ational purs® is tied average family was not making annual ’ owned by the state and capitalism being to the national Possei ba nquet table, and capital investments" Nothing like toe same economic institutions being run the volume of crumbs allowed to fall to advising frugality and Jiving within owl by prtvatefy owned bueineeees. Socisbet the eevertia below is dependent upon the means to the workers, whII to the owning percieve State ownership and private volume of bounty that graces the class nc such thought would enter ifwft ownership as being two forme of the expensive been Despite the fact that the heads, except that their meant are same thing • class ow nership of the CCF/NOP has pioneered a lot of reforms fantastic. "He preferred to compare tM moans of We. with wages being paid to (that the ‘ old-line' parties have Canadian government to General Moton maintain the towe» cteee of people as Inaugurated Socialists were not ... because corporation* make efficient producers of profits for the surprised at Broadbvent's conservatism In investments for the purpose of earning a owning class Tne worker produces this area o* fnnge cut-backs. The long-term pay back." (Earning?) {Victoria surpluses above the value of the rations CCF/NOP has always carr^aigned on an Times. April 28/79) Deflate helped W paid for the upkeep of hia energies and *mp©ss»b<« program of trying lo run stimulate the (profit mamg; eoonemy I* this surplus is the source of profit- Money captaiism for tie victims, the workers. said. Menwhlle in toe same paper he w* eneMes toe exchange of commodttiae so Unavoidably it has catered to the profit reported to have poked tun at Trudeau's that profit can be realized as cash. needs of society’s masters, both in office promise of tax breaks for workers who The logical outcome of this analysis is provinciaiiy and out of office. buy company stocks, white apeaktog to that Sccifliis1, society will be free of the Striving for right® for exploited people Is an Ontario Federation of labor women's economic inetituttoni of world caprtaNam, well meaning and seams to be practical meeting. such ee money, wages, profits and their on the surface but it ignores the cause of Broadbent accurately pointed out that Suhs'dierese With toe disappearance of toe workers’ plight and is not Socialism. Canadian workers and particular^ classes an c«t tzene wtti nave free eccwee The ordinary oe jpie comprise a Canadian woman can hardiy afford to pd according to nee to the abundance subservient data, and it is their food on the table. They are not internet* wfi■ch they wiii produce according to emancipation from this position that will in atocks, abtilty Voluntary co-operation throogn oeal with tos mteanea finally. conscious »eff interest ea nsa audience of workir g * omen SOCIALIST FULCRUM tl
know than for the one yo< don't know. laughed. Mr. ere retrad U pottos, V»fr eem - ncouio M wor>o**d W trie laughter w« As one Seekat shewen eto time put it pethtw tidU:nirta.Hj in -ihe ysr&et they , narvou* titter m «oroe of the women when referring to the CCF'NDPt gbR Ar cajolery gad chicanery &*cee* ^av have pa*c‘vt J the phony implication opportunism: is (amalgr to them m the ect« Mm tMitmy would ba eb'e to buy stocks W Now the socialists are generally more hand*. They aenwt nm thmsrtvs* to life w reoaived high *ag*> That the NOP capitalistic than the capitalists, but they U being used, ee biocktol brnki, S&cfe* omq knlgW mounted on his white charger waa take on the name because -t gees big . ana peSbeerert, end to using eQura looking tor non-eatotent Oregon* to stay, Utility to the narraot that drives them, The CCF • NOP with its Social Democratic builds their mates, provides ynrduea ir^awmy •» due to the wages ayatem. companions to other countries has for the ladder's ascent They speed their nxntttmM high wage* sometime* »ow compounded the difficulty of helping tha productive sears as shameless buyers ^•QM. of Which the NDP ia a champion. workers to understand that ending the and sellers in a free mark?! of buiaao TOMMY OOUQ'-AS capital vs. wage-labor relationship is the 'flesh, muscle and no lad. answer to their problems, D-I'OO Cemp-POWTS OF UBfcfcP-R6 tm CCF/NDP’s third national shepherd. Tommy Douglas hat just retired from the propaganda scene aa a Member of the Houaa of Commons. He admitted during a SO Cl AL1ST VISITOR a sociaust statemint $6P campa jn that 75 per cant of the propouK in tha Regina Manifesto wre a The world scope of the Socialist move part 01 the iawa of Canada by that time. ment is emphasized when a comrade from ON RUSSIA Mu-xhowaajuaiaab :nd as those he led. another country addresses local audiences. for ha said at a picnic lest July 23rd. at Comrade Cyril May of the Socialist Party-of fee today to toe average pewee efcewt mm «ie» or Boggy Creek near Regina, in what seemed Great Britian visited North America in Sep co—end mart peegle «dl toe* ef 1—. The to be a burst of Insight, that poverty and tember of 1979. He used his extensive speak Co—id Party bee attempted to d—Se toe wwhe« injustice can never by ended. AH that can be ing experience, gained at the Speakers into befcHeg toot Stoke CegdeB— fo radetfee* aw toet expected is guerrilla attacks against them. Corner in Hyde Park, to spread the Socialist co— •» the ent doge 5n its develop*—. Thfo it (CfMS Radio News Report, that evening). case. pothcol garbage of the won* <*nd- Than he told the S.998 followers in the sun After soapboxing in Boston Common he fte wetMmown Wyrcs ef capfedtom toed erart in toe Uottori Stotts, Cngtend, Europe, and toe «hcJe wedd that" ..the bright raw world many of them arrived by plane in Victoria on Friday. Sep first started to work for in the 1930's is still as ever, ore HonsporenfSy evident >a Rs»s»*». to Avmo yee tember 21. That everting the S P.C. Spon have a dew Msnapeiy a* the ween ef peedechee eed bnghl and still as achievable." (The sored a program on the focal cable teievwron distobubon. Whether the etededartee ef toe wortdHf commonwealth, July 26th/78). station where Comrade May gave a short cbes »s by individual repitoltoi, Ml per tones, er ee to Not to let little contradictions bother him, talk presenting-the principles of the Com Kyssia eieduMaduw by the State, vtob the CtoWtodel he made a comment in an interview for panion Parties. Following there was a ques Party aMioaling as toe Owxmean of the Bored, the poe- #w*w»d (May 19/79) which may indicate tion and answer session where the viewers hee of toe wetoen is toe swe. The hntoeesetod onto of he was away of his deadly rote against the phoned in their questions. toe issue " a* *bo or whet euptort t yea, or to vtoto degree, but toe very eeMeeee of vApaedtoie» itself, to vorkara. Mtohend said: The following day Comrade May had a kvssia you hove n wages »>stem, and toe «rert- He reflects on the difficulty of inspiring his lengthy interview with a reporter from the mg doss, jinr like weraers oeeiynhers etee. bewe to sbi Wtoeers with a vision of society without Victoria Daily Times, which appeared on Ibeir owtolaf end phydeei ensrgras to on MBjIeyer tor raising expectations to a level no the front page of the second section and ■eget or salary, to toe V S.S.R, d b toe Store «toe » gowmmtnt can fulfill. included a picture of Comrade May, his per the employer, echeg ee ague fee the totntoe bidtog A little problem afflicting at ‘ leaders, whose sonal background, his involvement with the Oos* fee ho»e nd ineagnkAea of weoSfi and Meeew bnc&on Is to deceive, to protect the profit Speaker’s Corner and a description of to fettee end. just >toe esntosrv. predeedee of ewe- modlttes tor sale end peto*. interests of the owning class. Socialism as, "a world without money, with out class, without leaders, and where eve The neto hndwe that beede hes, tost ewet *jrtu#wSe*y THE CLC ew don't have here, ie toe deepedc JkSeiaieWg of toe | il is presumed the CLC spent its annua’ ryone is equal." Considering the usual CaeeMwst Party, -torch iq be hidety hn pepperisded $2 million bequest from the Trudeau minimal press coverage given the S P.C., this toe sooal aiew of toe ewgpseednA of Jnescncy and flwemment for political "education" on article was reasonable and was probably has committed murder egehwt the rtsu that d chew* te helping to keep the workers loyal to inspired by the, “exotic,n i.e. foreign, nature represent. Soueim «d| etoeleeoe doeen, raters «»d rated. Once capitalism, plus much more from of the subject. yew endentond toe trite weeeing of sooaiom toe troMh J*nberanip dues, it was observed that On Sunday evemg there was a public meeting at the Union Centre where Com cd enoaeerade in tomb end CMneeto be eoely reneg- Jn®n offices across the country had the nixed by yew tor whet » is — dale coprhMtm. dneed •PDaarance of NDP campaign centers, rade May gave a lengthy talk followed by a of dnemecy, and dtoekrtefty etotoitaMrad by toe a Sadly for the union leaders* personal discussion session. On Tuesday there was ndi iwtowictoK Communist Party. Ration#, their rank and file expressed noon hour public meeting at the University Year mtereeh and eura are idendato —toe emeMae. 8*r support for the rat-race through the of Victoria and the subject was etervetion. peeceMy ond daewaredaely. ef capdelem, and toe M bos parties instead of the NOP. Comrade May’s speaking experience was edabbtoment ef a symam Mwre w sdb eem to caemwe ^oadbent was disappointed over the evident in the direct manner in wbih he the meirameNts of weebh pradwedea and tototnetoA, handled some disrupt ive Bolshevik types and we wiP ad eem what to pradeeed, w to free eeoeee gam of a mere 3 percent of the to whaNMr we need. This system we cod aoctalem **<*er fast time. And on his Party's He then went to Vancouver where, on Craa a* with year gmmltoM and to—It’ wipe-out in Ontario despite the Wednesday, he was interviewed on e radio yew sepgmd — toe atoieito of hemandy «—# teesefr union aid plus government show, taped a segment for an evening talk toed _ 'Wi«i a}d to the three big parties show on Channel 21 (CKVU-TV), and flew Tke WifMSecMbt available a fancy government jet east to Toronto. There he spoke at one ** Hound the country in and a spot indoor meeting and soapboxtd at Alba Party Of Th» Unlltod Sfat«> ly tf* Q/»to and Tories on prime time Gardens before returning to Britian. MunHufPan Artoftbw hsom the assurance that older Visiting speakers are always welcome end •ecbg^ M
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