We are made up of people from many backgrounds, and we need your help to build the movement for Socialism! The Party for Socialism and Liberation is comprised of people from all backgrounds. Organized in branches across the country, the PSL brings together a new generation of revolutionaries alongside veterans of the people’s movements with decades of experience. The PSL is deeply involved in a wi
de range of struggles, from local battles over affordable housing and racist police brutality, to the fight for a higher minimum wage and union rights, to the global issues of imperialist war and environmental destruction. We are united in our belief that capitalism—the system in which all wealth and power is held by a tiny group of billionaires and their state—is the main source of the problems facing humanity today. These fundamental problems flow from the reality that most of the world’s wealth is privately owned and controlled by a tiny minority. This minority decides what will be produced and what will not. Their decisions are based on making profits rather than meeting human needs. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all of these are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself. There is no possibility that this situation can or will be turned around under the existing capitalist system. The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Capitalism must be replaced by socialism, a system where poor and working people have power and the wealth of society is used in a planned and sustainable way to meet people’s needs. Reformist hopes for a “kinder, gentler” capitalism, or solutions based on economic decentralization or small group autonomy, are merely illusions. Meeting the needs of the more than 6.5 billion people who inhabit the planet today is impossible without large-scale agriculture and industry and economic planning. There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism.
