Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) launched
The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) is a new organisation on the Australian left, a fusion between a minority expelled from the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Direct Action organisation, formerly the Marxist Solidarity Network, whose members, based in Melbourne and Geelong, left the DSP two years earlier.
To find out more please visit the Revolutionary Socialist Party website.
DSP leadership purges minority faction
On May 10, 2008, the national leadership of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (formerly the Democratic Socialist Party) decided to purge all of the members of a minority faction – the Leninist Party Faction – from the DSP. The LPF was formed at the end of the DSP’s 22nd congress in January 2006. Its platform was supported by a bit less than one-fifth of the DSP membership in the election of delegates to the 23rd DSP congress (held in January 2008).
The Political and Organisational Degeneration of the DSP
On May 10, 2008, a subcommittee of the national executive of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP – formerly Democratic Socialist Party) announced a predetermined decision to expel all of the members of a minority faction of that organisation. Those expelled represented a bit less than a fifth of the DSP's total members, and around one-third of its active members. They included a broad cross-section of the organisation, from relatively young and new recruits to revolutionary politics, to comrades with more than three decades devoted to the DSP, including founding members of Resistance and the Socialist Workers League (predecessor of the DSP) – party full-timers, union militants, students, blue collar and white collar workers, unemployed.
Related articles
- The charges brought against the LPF and the accusations upon which the charges were brought
- The LPF's statement responding to the charges
- The DSP's purge committee report (PDF Format)
- Direct Action Perspectives in Relation to the DSP and the Leninist Party Faction
- Response to the Melbourne Branch expulsion report
Also available on this website are:
- Documents and reports presented by the LPF to the last DSP Congress in January 2008
- Documents and reports presented by the LPF to the January 2006 DSP Congress
- Documents and reports presented by the DSP minority/LPF to DSP National Committee meetings 2005-2007
- Some LPF position papers and internal perspectives reports
- Selected contributions by DSP minority/LPF comrades to the 2005 and 2007 DSP pre-Congress discussion