Only a political party _of the working class_ can be SINCERELY committed to this work of industrial reconstruction _for the working class_. INDEED, NO POLITICAL PARTY STANDING FOR ANY FORM OF CAPITALISM WILL PERMIT ITSELF TO BE SINCERELY COMMITTED TO THIS PROMPT, THOROUGH INDUSTRIAL RECONSTRUCTION. Therefore, banded together in a political party of the working class the workers must seize the political powers to make laws, must seize the political powers to interpret laws, must seize the political powers to enforce laws. Then and then only shall we _be in position by legally possessing the power_ to defend ourselves, our class. Then and then only shall we be _in position_ to destroy the parasitic class aggression, the class robbery, out of which grows the class struggle—the civil war in the shop, and the war, the civil war, of the toil-stained brothers of the working class on the battlefield. Then, and then only, shall we be in best position to declare war against war. Then we shall cease forever to foolishly wet the earth with our blood and tears and cease to be robbed in the shop and factory; and then we shall claim our own, a greater life. The only safety therefore for the working people in all lands is to organize themselves into a political party, an international political party, of the working class, _and patiently build their party big enough_ for each national group of workers to seize the political powers of government in their own country—always, everywhere, loudly declaring war against war. There is but one working class political party on all the earth. That party sincerely proclaims: “Freedom for the working class! No more war!” And loudly and patiently that party sounds an immortal call of brotherhood to all the workers on all the blood-stained earth:—“Workingmen of all countries, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains; you have a world to gain.” That working-class party is the Socialist Party. Already this working class party, loudly calling, “Freedom in the shop and freedom from the battlefield”—already this party is beginning to save the blood and tears and homes and joys of the working class. Every working man and woman should learn—and teach the children to recite at school—the following page of history, four historic events: