Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1917-11-01
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note: Western Clari The Official Organ of TiS:f* v/^ No. 798] THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANAC^ *>% V*. Vancouver, B. C, November, 1917 [Month m "We who address you have a policy distinct and different from that of any other party engaged' in this election. As workingmen to workingmen we wish to point out certain facts with regard to conditions as they .exist today. Society as at present constituted is based upon the ownership of the means of life—the land, mills, mines, railroads, etc.—by the capitalist class, in consequence of which the workers* by whose labor wealth alone is produced, are enslaved. There is, therefore ,an antagonism of interests between those who possess but do not produce, and those who produce and do not possess. This .antagonism can be abolished only through the emancipation of the working class from the domination of the master class, by transforming the property of the master class into productive forces controlled and administered by the whole of society for the benefit of all. The machinery of the State, in- eluding the armed forces—army navy,« police, judiciary, etc.—exists only to conserve the interest of the master class. The workers ,therefore, must organize on class conscious lines for the purpose of capturing the powers of government, so that these forces may be converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation. Since all political parties are the expression of certain olass interests, and as the interests of the workers is opposed to the interests of all sections of the master class, the party whose object is working class eman- Dominion Election Manifesto TO THE WORKERS OP CANADA cipation must be hostile to every other party. The Socialist Party of Canada, therefore, enters this election campaign for the purpose of giving expression to the war it must wage against all other political parties, whether alleged LABOR or avowed- by CAPITALIST. f| That was the position put forward by the party three years ago. And that pos…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
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language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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