The World Socialist Party (India)
INTRODUCTION
The World Socialist Party (India)
257 Baghajatin ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata – 700086,
Tel: +91 33 2425 0208,
Email:
Website:
What we do
Yearly
By the end of the last week of February we hold our SpringSchool and Annual Conference and in the last week of October we hold our AutumnSchool and Membership Meeting and a Public Meeting as well. Over and above, in cases of important events we do have rules about holding Special Party Conference, Special Membership Meeting and Party Vote as necessary.
Monthly
The Executive Committee meets usually at 5 in the evening on a pre-decided date of a month.
Weekly
Every Sunday from 5 PM to 8 PM we sit in our Study Circle and Discussion Meetings. Agenda and subjects cover all theories of knowledge and information which include mainly: historical materialist analyses of evolution of human life and society, economics, Marxian theories, books and articles written by Marx and Engels and other socialists, Leninism, words and work of leftist parties, reform or revolution, and all various books and journals, organization and activities of our party and the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
Place
Except the Public Meetings and outdoor activities all other programmes are held at our Head Office.
Free Entry
All our programmes are open to all. In the Public Meetings too after completion of the speech by the speaker the listeners are allowed sufficient time to discuss on a question/answer session. Why waste time? Contact over phone, know our whereabouts and come up in any of our events. Persons eager to know us in details are welcome!
Contact:
The World Socialist Party (India)
257 Baghajatin ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata – 700086,
Tel: +91 33 2425 0208, M: +919433253582
Email: Website:
NO REFORMATION NO PROMISES NO RELIGION NO LEADERSHIP
We need ~
SELF-EMANCIPATION OF OUR CLASS
Through ~ Political class struggle,
In a peaceful and democratic way,
By applying our power of knowledge and number
Via ballot in elections,
And establishing a ~
stateless moneyless wageless classless
BASED ON
UNIVERSAL OWNERSHIP DEMOCRATIC CONTROLPRODUCTION FOR USE
FREE ACCESS FOR ALL ACCORDING TO SELF-DEFINED NEEDS
That is the end of unemployment, poverty, famine, environmental destruction, war and terrorism; and beginning of peace, freedom and participatory democracy:
The only practical alternative awaits recognition.
Socialism needs you – And you need Socialism.
Recognize Socialism – Vote only for Socialism.
THE WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)
OBJECT
The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community.
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
THE WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA) HOLDS:
1.That society as at present constituted is based upon the ownership of the means of living (i.e., land, factories, railways, etc.) by the capitalist or master class, and the consequent enslavement of the working class, by whose labour alone wealth is produced.
2.That in society, therefore, there is an antagonism of interests, manifesting itself as a class struggle, between those who possess but do not produce, and those who produce but do not possess.
3.That this antagonism can be abolished only by the emancipation of the working class from the domination of the master class, by the conversion into the common property of society of the means of production and distribution, and their democratic control by the whole people.
4.That as in the order of social evolution the working class is the last class to achieve its freedom, the emancipation of the working class will involve the emancipation of all mankind without distinction of race or sex.
5.That this emancipation must be the work of the working class itself.
6.That as the machinery of government, including the armed forces of the nation, exists only to conserve the monopoly by the capitalist class of the wealth taken from the workers, the working class must organize consciously and politically for the conquest of the powers of government, national and local, in order that this machinery, including these forces, may be converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation and the overthrow of privilege, aristocratic and plutocratic.
7.That as all political parties are but the expression of class interests, and the interest of the working class is diametrically opposed to the interests of all sections of the master class, the party seeking working class emancipation must be hostile to every other party.
8.The World Socialist Party (India), therefore, enters the field of political action determined to wage a war against all other political parties, whether alleged labour or avowedly capitalist, and calls upon the members of the working class of this country to muster under its banner to the end that a speedy termination may be wrought to the system which deprives them from the fruits of their labour, and that poverty may give place to comfort, privilege to equality, slavery to freedom.
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THE WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)
257 Baghajatin ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata 700 086,
Tel: 091-33-2425-0208, Email: , Website:
Who we are
The World Socialist Party (India) is totally different from all other political parties. It was established atthe inaugural conference held on 1 – 3 March 1995 at the Students’ Hall beside the College Square in Calcuttawhen the Lal Pataka working since January 1983 and the Marxist International Correspondence Circle organized since May 1990 were transformed into this new party. This party has been initiated by men and women who have discarded capitalism and instead of the production for profit have adopted as their aima new social system – socialism.
Problem
There can be no socialist organization without socialists and no socialism either. To run the activities of the World Socialist Party (India) we need new and moremembers. We need writers, speakers and members to carry on discussions, debates, educational conferences and study circles and distribute leaflets, pamphlets, journals and literature as well. We are against secrecy, simply because socialists have nothing to hide. We work for socialism only, for building up socialist organization and movement. We don’t have any programme of retaining capitalism through patchwork based on reformist policies; we are not a reformist party. We say – capitalism is a world system, establishment of socialism by negating it is possible only on a world scale. We need really responsible members who, in agreement with us, are ready to preserve and apply the Object and Declaration of Principles of the World Socialist Party (India).
Solution
The solution is very simple. If you agree with us and to our explanations of the contradictions of capitalism and as their necessary consequence the advent of socialism and to the political measures we have proposed to get to socialism, that is, a democratic system of universal ownership over the means of production and distribution, then you have already become a socialist. However, an individual socialist cannot spread notable influence over capitalism. The struggle for socialism will have to be organized and for that what is necessary is united action by the working class. It is for this reason that one world socialist organization is all the more important. This party seeks to draw everybody’s attention to the class struggle and make workers active with class consciousness and integrity of action. If you are a socialist, your very first step will be to join the World Socialist Party (India). We are not a faction, nor a religious sect. This party has no intellectuals; instead it has only intelligent men and women who share the same class interest, same socialist ideas and socialist objective. If you agree with us, then we want you among us as a member.
Then what?
As soon as you agree with us your next step will be to apply for membership. We don’t have any leader. There is none to direct you about what you will do and what you will think. On the whole what we expect is your conviction and inspiration to work in association with other socialists to establish socialism. Joining the World Socialist Party (India) will be the most significant political decision of your life. One more socialist means one less vote for the whole lot of capitalist parties – the leftists including the so-called communists and socialists, liberal democrats, centrists and the right wingers. Gradually enlivened with growing number of membership the World Socialist Party (India) will gradually spread greater and greater sway over political class struggle. If you want to get a world free of unemployment, poverty, famine, exploitation, crisis, war, terrorism, pollution, uneasiness, unhappiness and inequality, then you should closely consider the question of joining with us without having to wait more.
Think a while
Capitalism is a system of legal plunder.
Capitalism is the most wasteful system of production, such as – unemployment, poverty, famine, destruction of food, money and accounting, banking, insurance, advertisement, war-production, pollution etc. Unemployment, poverty, famine, crisis and wars are not unfortunate accidents. All these are the essential characteristics of capitalism.
War breaks out on the questions of markets, opportunity to invest capital, sources of raw materials, and capture and control of trade routes and strategically significant places. Workers should refuse to fight, because each drop of blood of the working class expended on capitalist wars and terrorism is a waste. War is a social retrogression. There is no ‘just war’; it doesn’t’occur.
Solution to war and terror is the elimination of state interests and borders. The interest of all workersof the world is the same– to end the very system that causes wars over and over again. It is only by that way that any war including the class-war too will be uprooted.
The profit system is responsible for the pollution of land, water and sky; and for that matter its elimination is the only way out from pollution.
The capitalist class comprises those who employ workers in order to exploit them with a view to profit by means of their ownership and/or control over means of production and distribution.
The working class comprises those who sell their labour power – any ability to work in exchange for a wage or salary in order to survive under compulsion of being exploited.
The capitalist class possesses, but doesn’t produce.
The working class produces, but doesn’tpossess.
Under capitalism all workisdone by the working class, yet a part of them die of starvation because they become incapable of buying the food stuff that they themselves have produced.
Workers are obliged to buy the goods and services which they themselves have produced as a collective worker – as a class in the first place for the survival of the whole humanity.
The reason for starvation of the members of working class is not any want of production and articles of consumption, but want of ownership.
Wage-slavery or starvation death – these are not alternatives but threatening options.
Working class means world working class.
A worker belongs to a country, but the country belongs to the capitalist class.
Working class has no country – neither to live on, nor to die for. Home country/foreign country divide, patriotism and nationalism are obstacles to class consciousness and class unity.
“Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels,” wrote Dr Samuel Johnson long ago in the eighteenth century.
A patriot is one who wants you die for one’s own country.
Existence of the wages system means existence of capitalism.
Since the workers don’t have anything else other than their labour power, they have to seek employment, and attaining old age to retire. The capitalists have neither employment nor retirement; they run their rule by inheritance.
Workers produce more than what they receive in terms of wages; it is that surplus which various sections of the capitalist class share among themselves as profit, interest, rent, tax and philanthropy.
The employers endeavour to enhance that surplus – by enhancing working time, getting workers work harder and more intensively and by installing more and more improved machines to get many workers’ works done by fewer and fewer workers.
They call it ‘work culture’– which means more toil and moil, more pressure, overproduction and unsold stocks, as a result retrenchment, unemployment and “epidemic of overproduction”.
Capitalism doesn’t work in the interest of living labour, it works in the interest of capital that is accumulated dead labour.
Actually workers work not in their own interest, but in the interests of others.
The real interest and historical responsibility of the workers is to abolish the wages system.
That’s the only way to end employment.
The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas of society. It is for this reason that the entire propaganda machine – educational institutions, news papers, radio, television etc. uphold and campaign for the very ideas of the ruling class – the whole lot of garbage of falsehood, triviality, ignorance, violent vanity and selfishness.
Current education is education for wage slavery; it is by ending wage slavery that introduction of humane education will happen.
Processions demanding crumbs are called “agitation” by the ‘right’-‘centre’-‘left’ parties in a chorus; actually those are tantamount to praying for alms; alms remain alms even if those are shouted for by a combined body shouting.
The workers produce, store up and preserve entire wealth of the world, and even defend the capitalists; what should they demand – and from whom? The capitalists live by mounting on workers’ shoulders, by exploiting them. Can they give anything to them? Workers can get whatever they need simply by becoming owners themselves collectively.
Does it bother capitalists if workers agitate for employment and demands?
Rather they might offer more reforms in order to save their class existence, inthe face ofworkersspreading their struggle for socialism.
“Human nature” and “human behaviour” are not the same; environment is responsible for behaviour of humans; if environment changes so changes the behaviour.
All men are simply men; nobody is a ‘great man’.
Socialism stands upon the Materialist Conception of History; whereas religion stands upon the Idealist Conception of History. Naturally, socialism and religion cancel one another. Religion is not personal, but a social matter. Decay of religion is an index of progress of humanity, for the height of blind faith is at the same time the depth of ignorance. Religious ideas will end in socialism.
Socialists are not ‘secular’, but anti-religion. Their only task is to develop the historical materialist mode – the real mutual understanding.
Modern state is the person incarnate of total national capital, organized power of national oppression – no matter what its form, and its governing body or the government is just a managing committee of common affairs of the capitalist class.
For that reason socialists cannot and do not take side with any state; they work in support with oppressed people – not selectively – but wherever they live, in order to establish a stateless society by organizing worldwide unity of the working class.
State capitalism is not socialism, not even a ‘step forward’ towards socialism either.
The theory of passing state capitalism as socialism and in the service of its Russian national interest the theory of so-called ‘oppressed’ nationalities have been conjured up by Lenin; for Russian state capitalism is the basis of Leninism. In Lenin’s opinion “socialism is merely the state capitalist monopoly which has been made to serve the interest of the whole people”.
Whereas capitalism –‘state’ or ‘private’– runs through exploitation of the working class. Therefore its task is not to serve the interest of the whole people, but to serve the interest of the capitalist class.
In Marxian conception socialism and communism are synonymous. Marx and Engels have used the two terms alternatively to mean the same thing. In Marx’s view the principle of communism or socialism is: From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
Marx and Engels have said, “the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy. … In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”
Leninism demands: “unquestioning obedience” … “that people unquestioningly obey the single will of the leaders of labour” – Lenin.