Reading Workers World for the first time?
Then let us explain. Workers World is more than a newspaper.
It reflects the views of Workers World Party, which was formed
in 1959.
We're bringing you news about many different kinds of
struggles and issues, checked and documented for accuracy.
We're also bringing you a viewpoint. All newspapers do, but the
corporate press don't admit they do it.
What is our basic view? We're for socialism. We think that
ownership of the tremendous productive wealth built up by
hundreds of millions of workers can't remain in the hands of a
privileged few.
The capitalist profit system is unplanned and irrational.
It's wrecking the world. Improved technology brings layoffs and
poverty, not comfort and lighter work. Booms lead to busts.
The competition for markets produces devastating wars and
environmental destruction. Fabulous wealth alongside deep
poverty poisons all human relations, stimulating racism and
other blame-the-victim ideologies.
We put our ideas into practice. We are in the student
movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, the
lesbian/gay/bi/trans movement, the anti-war and anti-racist
movements. We fight hard for a better life right now, but we
know that nothing is secure--not our jobs, our homes, our
health care, our pensions, our civil rights and liberties--as
long as capitalism exists. So our goal is a society run by the
workers, not just as pawns in a capitalist political game but
as collective owners of the social wealth.
This is not a new idea. Karl Marx put socialist ideology on
a scientific footing a century and a half ago. The last hundred
years have seen many revolutions--and counter-revolutions--all
over the world. We try to learn from the successes and the
setbacks.
You might have read about Workers World Party recently.
We've been attacked a lot in the big business media. So we know
we must be doing something right.
We don't fit Fox News's caricatures of us. We're independent
Marxists who respect the struggles for self-determination and
progress of oppressed nations. We try to understand their
problems in a world dominated by Western imperialism. We don't
jump on the bandwagon when Third World leaders are demonized.
Our goal is solidarity of all the workers and oppressed against
this criminal imperialist system.
What do you want to know about Workers World? Ask us. Read
our newspaper. Our Web site has archives going back many years.
You can see our views on many issues. Drop us a line or contact
the branch of Workers
World Party that is nearest you. Isn't it time to take the
step from activism to a commitment to change the world?
Reprinted from the Jan. 23, 2003, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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