For social equality:

The capitalist class has always sought to disguise the class nature of its system. For decades, its political defenders claimed that social equality and justice could be achieved within the framework of the profit system, through the expansion of the welfare state. But today, as the social gulf between rich and poor widens, it is impossible to maintain such pretences.

The media and politicians justify every new attack against the working class - from factory closures to budget cutbacks - by invoking the demands of "the market". "The market" is held up as some independent arbiter impartially parcelling out rewards to those who deserve them. In reality, the market is an economic mechanism through which a definite social class pursues and satisfies its own material interests. The corporate chiefs, stock market speculators, real estate developers and established monied families control the basic levers of the economy, utilising them to pursue personal profit and wealth.

Contrary to the propaganda of big business, social equality does not mean reducing the living standards of the population to the lowest common denominator. The astonishing advances in science and technology over the last century have provided the material foundations for dramatically raising the living standards and cultural level of the whole of society. But for this to be realised the whole of economic life must be reorganised.

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