Bill Pritchard

Featured in the Western Socialist, 1975 Shall I give thanks? To Whom? For What? This Mad Chaotic World, its Schizophrenic Society, Where Affluence Parades and Struts side by side The Unmitigated Poverty of Stinking Ghettos; And holy clerks pour the Slime of their Hypocritical Blessings Over the Horrendous Fetid Mess?     For this...
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We socialists are often accused of being accused to reforms: social legislation to ameliorate some more or less intolerable situation – Medicare, Social Security, etc. “Not so,” we respond. We of the World Socialist Movement are not opposed to reforms per se, any more than we advocate them. We do not support or agitate...
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I have been bombarded throughout the past half-century from many quarters to write about this event. Hitherto I have refused, being reluctant to do so, feeling that one cannot deal with events in which one may have been involved and do so with the objectivity necessary. For the same reason I refrain from reviewing...
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From the Western Socialist, #2, 1969 “PRODUCTION FOR USE” – a phrase uttered so often by socialists as to become almost a cliché, yet understood (in a superficial fashion) by both enquirers and opponents. It describes our concept – our visualization – of a future social system superceding the present “un-social” system we call...
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Water! The life-giving fluid without which man perishes! A dire necessity for any society and its use (or misuse) a serious problem for this one. While society as a whole has persisted down through the ages, societies have, for various reasons, disappeared from the face of the earth – “The place that knew them...
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IN THE LAST DAYS of 1915 a request came to the DEC from the Alberta executive that I be sent to that province for a three months’ propaganda tour. The DEC agreed, urging me to accept. I talked it over with my wife, since it meant leaving her with two small boys, the youngest...
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