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France: `The new anti-capitalist party is on the march'
Appeal of the national coordination of action committees for a New Anti-capitalist Party
The “new anti-capitalist party” proposed by the LCR in France had its first national meeting on the 28th and 29th June in St Denis near Paris. About 1000 people were present including 800 delegates from local committees. After a first session of contributions from local committees, the gathering split up into workshops on different themes such as ecology, feminism, internationalism, work in local neighbourhoods, in work places, with the sans papiers...
The meeting ended with the creation of a national coordinating committee to prepare a further national meeting in the autumn and the adoption of a statement.
We will carry further reports on this meeting and the process of creating the new party but we publish here the statement adopted.
Britain: New left regroupment effort announced
An invitation to participate in the creation of a new Revolutionary Socialist Organisation
This text was voted on and passed at a meeting in London on Sunday 29th June. A Steering Committee was also elected.
The purpose of this document is to launch a regroupment process, which will culminate in a conference after a period of discussion. It registers the most important areas of agreement we have achieved at the beginning of this discussion. There are other areas, not included, which will have to be the subject of further discussion.
1. This is a proposal made by members of the International Socialist Group (ISG), Socialist Resistance (SR), a group of former members of the SWP and some independent Marxists not presently in any organisation. It is an invitation to everyone who would be interested in establishing a new revolutionary organisation based on an understanding of the need for Marxists to build a revolutionary organisation and to work for the widest unity of the working class on economic, social and political issues.
The DSP and the Fourth International
Introduction
On August 17, 1985 the National Committee of the Democratic Socialist Perpective (then named the Socialist Workers Party) voted to end the party’s affiliation to the Fourth International, the international organisation founded in 1938 by the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his supporters around the world.
Sudanese Communist Party on the crisis and tragedy of Darfur
June 19, 2007 -- In the ancient history of Darfur, the existing region had been characterized by waves of migrations due to the movements of Arab and African tribes. These waves of migrations had significantly influenced the shaping of Darfur history as well as its norms, traditions and customs. Clearly, migrants had brought with them cultural, social, economic and religious currents, some of which had made radical changes in Darfur. Due to Darfur’s natural and climatic diversity, a number of tribes had settled in different parts of the area. Each tribe had its own chief assuming the management of its affairs independent of any other authority. The tribal customs were the term of reference that had governed the relations between different tribes in Darfur. Indeed, Darfur had been known to the world since the ancient history. It has been mentioned that some pharos had once visited the area, while the Romans had made attempts to subjugate Darfur in order to exploit its resources. Admittedly, the 40 Days Road linked Darfur to the Egyptian Governorate of Asute. Moreover, a number
`Our struggle knows no borders!' -- South African left, unions respond to xenophobic attacks
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See also ``Xenophobia tears apart South Africa's working class'' by Thandokuhle Manzi and Patrick Bond.
Watch South Africa: The New Apartheid, on the South African government's treatment of migrant workers and refugees and the involvement of racist white farmers.
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May 21, 2008 -- According to the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, as of May 19, 2008, the death toll in a wave of attacks targeting foreigners around South Africa's main city of Johannesburg has risen to at least 32, with an estimated 6000 people seeking shelter in police stations, churches and community halls. The violence has spread to Zandspruit, northwest of Johannesburg, and Tembisa, Primrose, Reiger Park and Thokoza, on the eastern perimeter of the city, as well as other working-class communities.
Resolutions adopted at the Latin America & Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum in Melbourne, October 11-14, 2007
International Solidarity Forum resolution: Statement of Solidarity
http://solidarityforum2007.org/?q=node/32
We came and met together from many different countries.
We came because we are some of those who have to struggle.
We have to fight the capitalists. We have to fight and win.
To fight we need to meet, and talk about our problems.
The ways we get defeated, the ways in which we are winning.
We have to talk together about our common struggle:
The issues that unite us, and where we don’t agree.
We need to make a plan that is a clear way forward.
The world is really ours. But capitalists have stolen it.
Bolivia: Sign-on statement to oppose attempt to divide Bolivia
The conspiracy to divide Bolivia must be denounced
The process of changes in favor of
the Bolivian majority is at risk of being brutally restrained. The rise
to power of an Indigenous president with unprecedented support in that
country and his programs of popular benefits and recovery of the
natural resources have had to face the conspiracies of the oligarchy
and United States interference from the very beginning.
In recent days the increase in conspiracy has reached its climax. The subversive and unconstitutional actions of the oligarchic groups to try to divide the Bolivian nation reflect the racist and elitist minds of these sectors and constitute a very dangerous precedent not only for the country’s integrity, but for other countries in our region.
History shows with ample eloquence, the terrible consequences that the divisionary and separatist processes supported and induced by foreign interests have had for humanity.
Climate Crisis — Urgent Action Needed Now!
Statement initiated by participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference, Sydney, Australia, April 11-13, 2008. The statement is now available at to be signed online at http://www.petitiononline.com/Nelmezzo/petition.html. Please distribute this information to your networks, and get all who are serious about fighting global warming to sign on.
The conference was organised by Green Left Weekly. For video and audio from the conference, please click here.
The following statement was started by the participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference. It is being distributed to environmental, trade union, Indigenous, migrant, religious and community organisations to help build the movement against global warming.
Climate action now! Socialist Climate Change Charter
Climate action now! Socialist Climate Change Charter
It happens to be an emergency...Climate action now!
SUMMARY:Warnings that can’t be ignoredClimate scientists have been warning us about global warming for Greek socialists: A just solution in Kosovo requires multinational co-existenceStatement by OKDE-Spartakos, Greek section of the Fourth International Today, a real just solution for Kosovo comes through the restoration of multinational co-existence (an aspiration that unfortunately has been lost in most part) and the full respect of the rights of all ethnic groups and minorities, including their right to define the level of their autonomy and self-defense. Statement of the POR, Spanish state: `We welcome an independent Kosovo!'Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Workers Party, Spanish state (POR) February 19, 2008 -- The independence of Kosovo was necessary. This independence has come after 1989, when Milosevic suppressed the autonomy of the region, and after 1999, when Milosevic started a war of ethnic cleansing. When Serbia lost the last Balkans war, it was a fact that the people of Kosovo would fight to get ride of the Serbian boot. Revolutionary appreciation & respect to Comrade Fidel CastroBelow are salutes to Cuban President Fidel Castro following his announcement on February 18 that he will not stand for the position again. The first is from Australia's Democratic Socialist Perspective, followed by a message from the Socialist Party of Malaysia. *** Greetings to delegates at the PSUV founding congressDear comrades, We in the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) — a Marxist organisation in Australia — wish to offer our greetings and revolutionary solidarity to the delegates at the founding congress of the provisionally named United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Malaysia: PSM supports Chavez in building socialism; inspires the people's movement worldwideFebruary 6, 2008 -- This morning, Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) leaders met with Venezuela mbassador, Manuel Guzm'an and first secretary, Carlos J. Paez to express our continued support for the revolutionary efforts undertaken by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in his move to build ``socialism in the 21st century. Germany: Die Linke electoral breakthroughStatement by Die Linke central office, Berlin January 28, 2008 -- DIE LINKE (The Left) emerged successful from regional elections on Sunday, January 27, 2008, in the German federal states of Hesse and Lower Saxony. After the state of Bremen, where the party in May 2007 for the first time entered a West German federal state parliament, DIE LINKE will have parliamentarians in two further West German states. In Lower Saxony (capital: Hannover), the party got 7.1% of
the vote, while in Hesse (capital: Wiesbaden) it just stepped over the 5%
threshold with 5.1%. In both counties, the big parties had tried to prevent
DIE LINKE entering parliament with anti-communist campaigning. Venezuela: Draft program and principles of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)[Below, Links provides translations of the draft program and principles of the provisionally named United Socialist Party of Venezuela, which are currently being discussed at its founding congress. The documents were drafted by the provisional leadership of the PSUV. Malaysia: Continued repression by governmentStatement by Sivarajan Arumugam on behalf of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) Statements on BurmaStatements on the Burmese struggle for democracy from the Socialist Party of Malaysia, the Indonesian solidarity movement, the Australian Socialist Alliance and the Philippines' Partido ng Manggagawa. Socialist Party of Malaysia PRESS STATEMENT : 27 SEPTEMBER 2007
The Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist AllianceThe following resolution was adopted by the DSP's 22nd Congress in Sydney, January 5-8, 2006, following extensive internal discussion about the experience as a leading force within the Socialist Alliance since its formation in 2001. *** Theses on the class nature of the People's Republic of ChinaThis resolution was adopted by the 18th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia, held in Sydney, January 5-10, 1999. I. Theoretical framework1. For orthodox Marxists, as Lenin explained in his 1917 book The State and Revolution, the state is a centralised organisation of force separated from the community as a whole which enforces, through special bodies of armed people and other institutions of coercion, the will of one class, or an alliance of classes, upon the rest of society. The role of Australian imperialism in the Asia-Pacific regionDemocratic Socialist Party This is the text of a resolution adopted by the 19th Congress of the Australian Democratic Socialist Party, held January 3-7, 2001. Except where specified otherwise, dollars in this article are Australian dollars. At the time of writing, A$1 was approximately US$0.55 The Cuban Revolution in the epoch of neoliberal globalisationResolution adopted by the nineteenth Congress of the Australian Democratic Socialist Party, January 2001 Axes of Marxist internationalismBy Murray Smith Murray Smith is an international officer of the Scottish Socialist Party and a leader of the International Socialist Movement, a Marxist current within it. This paper has been adopted by the ISM. Resolution on work in the Socialist Alliancefrom the Democratic Socialist Party This resolution was adopted by the Twentieth Congress of the Australian Democratic Socialist Party [DSP], held in Sydney from December 28, 2002 to January 1, 2003. For an explanation of its background, see Peter Boyle's article in this issue. This Twentieth Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party: Australia: Letter to Socialist Alliance National ExecutiveSeptember 3, 2002
Dear comrades, I am writing to you on behalf of the National Executive of the Democratic Socialist Party to advise you that we have initiated a discussion in our party about making a radically bigger commitment towards left unity within the Socialist Alliance.
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