DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE

The Activist - Volume 13, Number 1, January 2003

By Doug Lorimer, National Executive

[The following report was adopted unanimously by the 20th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party.]

For a year now, US President George W. Bush’s administration has had as its top foreign policy goal achieving violent "regime change" in Baghdad.

The Activist - Volume 13, Number 1, January 2003

Pip Hinman, National Executive

[The following report was adopted by the 20th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party with two regular and one consultative votes against, and three regular delegates abstaining.]

Comrades, this report is divided into two sections: the first deals with our

The Activist - Volume 13, Number 1, January 2003

By Kerryn Williams, National Executive

[The following report was adopted unanimously by the 20th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party.]

This report aims to further our attempts to relocate the question of women’s oppression and how to best fight it back to a materialist framework.

At the October NC meeting we opened up an ongoing discussion on this question

By Doug Lorimer

Doug Lorimer is a member of the National Executive of the DSP. This article is based on a report adopted by the 14th National Conference of the DSP, held in Sydney, January 2-6, 1992.

©Resistance Books 1997; first published 1992, second (revised) edition 1997

Contents

Stalinism in the Soviet Union

Statement by the Democratic Socialist Party (Australia) The economic crisis in Asia has exposed the myth that the so-called "New Industrialising Countries" (NICs) of the region provided a model for a capitalist road out of neo-colonial subjugation. Once again the division of the world into exploiter and exploited nations has been underlined (and reinforced) as a handful of Asian nations which were said

Perspectives resolution adopted by the 17th National Conference of the Democratic Socialist Party, January 1997.

• What the Coalition victory means
• Bipartisan foreign policy
• Right-wing ideological offensive
• The ALP's response

The Activist - Volume 9, Number 2, 1999

By Max Lane

[The general line of this report was adopted by the 18th Congress of the DSP, held in Sydney, January 5-10, 1999.]

Comrades, the basic proposal of this report is that the DSP substantially increase its efforts in the area of solidarity with the Indonesian revolution and East Timorese national liberation struggle. The key proposals of this report in this regard are:

The Activist - Volume 9, Number 1, 1999

By Doug Lorimer

[The general line of this report was adopted by the 18th DSP Congress, January 5-10, 1999.]

The purpose of this report is to motivate the adoption by the party of the "Theses on the Class Nature of the People's Republic of China" approved by the National Committee at its October plenum last year.

Since 1993 our party has held the position that the ruling Chinese bureaucracy has been presiding over the restoration of capitalism in China. However, our policy toward China has been ambigious: while taking an oppositional stance in our public press toward the ruling bureaucracy's restorationist course, we have left it unclear as to whether we continued to believe that China is still a bureaucratically ruled socialist state.

The Activist - Volume 9, Number 1, 1999

By Peter Boyle

[The general line of this report was adopted by the 18th DSP Congress, held in Sydney, January 5-10, 1999.]

At the time of our last decision-making conference we had less than a year of experience of the Howard Liberal-National government but already the main features of the period were clear. The Coalition government was seeking to escalate the attacks on the working class -- to accelerate the capitalist neo-liberal offensive -- and the conservative leadership of the trade union movement had shown that it was unwilling to lead a resistance to these attacks let alone contemplate going on the offensive to regain some of the ground conceded under the previous 13 years of Labor federal government.

The Activist - Volume 9, Number 5, 1999

By Doug Lorimer

[The general line of this report was adopted by the June 12-14, 1999 DSP National Committee plenum.]

On Wednesday March 24 the secretary-general of NATO, former Spanish social-democratic minister of culture Javier Solana, told a press conference: "I have just given the order to the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, United States General Wesley Clark, to begin air operations against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."