The World Socialist Movement (WSM) is an international organisation of socialist parties. They are revolutionary Marxist but not Leninist. All the parties, except the Austrian BDS, began as offshoots from the Socialist Party of Great Britain; WSM members in countries without a companion party of their own are as a rule SPGB members. It is made up of the following parties:
The first Socialist Party of Canada existed from 1904 to 1925; the second has existed since June 1931 when it was relaunched by some members of the first party, but has not run a candidate at the federal level since 1961.
The founding of the Socialist Party of Canada began at the Socialist Party of British Columbia 4th annual convention on December 30 and 31, 1904.
The Socialist Party of Canada is a member of the WorldSocialistMovement along with its "companion parties", the Socialist Party of Great Britain, the WorldSocialist Party (Ireland), WorldSocialist Party of Australia, WorldSocialist Party (New Zealand), and WorldSocialist Party of the United States.
Socialists long ago realised that the problems we face are in fact social problems, not natural ones or the vengeance of gods - social problems because they have their roots in the way our world is organised for production, that is production for profit, not need.
Since 1904, the WorldSocialistMovement has been advocating the establishment of such a world system: a global system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth, by and in the interests of all people.
Socialists maintain that human behaviour is determined by the kind of system people are conditioned to live in, that it is not the consciousness of man that determines his social existence, the way he behaves, but his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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