For the political independence of the working class: For far too long, the struggles of the working class have been confined within the political framework established by the profit system itself - parliament, the courts, the arbitration system, the Labor party and the unions. Politics has been restricted to pressuring the ruling class and its various institutions for concessions. The repeated failure of this perspective over the last decade and a half has created confusion and disorientation. The working class must start to think and act as an independent political force. Its social and economic interests must begin to find a genuinely independent political expression. Instead of accepting the framework of capitalist politics, workers must build a broad political movement which fights resolutely and uncompromisingly for their own class interests, regardless of the consequences for corporate profits, government budgets and the money markets. The Socialist Equality Party is not a substitute for the working class. It is an instrument to be built and utilised by the working class to achieve its historic interests. While the SEP will participate in parliamentary elections to win support for our policies, our principal task will be to educate and organise workers on an ongoing daily basis to fight for their class interests in every aspect of social life. Our aim is to mobilise the working class to end the political rule of the financial oligarchy and place into power a democratic government of the workers, for the workers and, above all, by the workers. The SEP strives for the formation of a workers' government, resting on the active and militant support of a politically aroused and vigilant working class, that will undertake those radical economic measures necessary to secure the social needs of the people. Back