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	Weekly Worker 482 Thursday May 29 2003
		The ‘Resignation statement’, signed by 25 members of the International Socialist Organisation in Australia, is only a foretaste of what will sooner of later happen to any sect - big or small - that stands in the way of left unity and the fight for a revolutionary party of the working class.
		The Socialist Alliance in Australia - led by the Democratic Socialist Party - is set on a course to establish a multi-tendency socialist party.
		Unfortunately reports reaching me from Australia indicate that this is largely intended as a wrecking operation - not in the spirit of carrying through the decisions of the annual conference to establish the alliance as a party.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/482/saa.html (1345 words)

	DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE \| a Marxist tendency in the Socialist ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The DSP seeks to build a mass revolutionary socialist party that is capable of organising the Australian working class to bring into being a socialist society through replacing the political rule of the capitalist class with a working people’s government.
		ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries’ attack on friends of Cuba in a Senate adjournment speech on October 10 is an ominous reversion to McCarthy-era red-baiting and intimidation”, warned Peter Boyle, the National Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Perspective, one of the groups accused by Senator Humphries of being "Castro's cheer squad in Australia".
		Socialist Alliance candidate Sam Watson scored 1.9% of the vote in Brisbane Central but the real successes were what we achieved on the ground, raising issues that the other parties ignore - from Aboriginal stolen wages to Black deaths in custody to homelessness and the prioritisation of corporate handouts over public health.
	www.dsp.org.au (609 words)

	Dateline Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With the founding of the new Socialist Alliance, Australians will have the option of voting for genuinely radical, pro-workingclass candidates in the upcoming Federal election, due by January 2002, and in local and state races around the country.
		Socialist Alliance (SA) was born on the initiative of the Democratic Socialist Party and the International Socialist Organisation.
		Socialists in Australia, as elsewhere, have tended to orient narrowly to trade unions with primarily white, male memberships.
	www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol22no3/Australia.html (899 words)

	What is the Socialist Alliance
		The Socialist Alliance is made up of ordinary people who, like millions of others, are sick of being ruled by warmongers, racists, union bashers, and barely distinguishable Liberal and Labor politicians, and who are determined to doing something about it.
		The Socialist Alliance was formed on February 17, 2001, by eight socialist groups and parties that saw an urgent need for greater left unity in Australia at a time of escalating government attacks on the rights and living conditions of workers and the poor, in Australia and overseas.
		Socialist Alliance members are leaders in the trade union movement, and in the anti-war movement.
	www.socialist-alliance.org /page.php?page=286 (588 words)

	The Australian Socialist Alliance is abuzz \| Workers' Liberty
		The Democratic Socialist Party, the biggest of the organised groups within the Alliance, sent out a letter on 3 September saying that it planned to "cease to operate as a public organising and begin to operate as an internal tendency in the Socialist Alliance from January 2003.
		At that first Socialist Alliance conference a sort of "consensus" was reached by the DSP withdrawing its motion in favour of disaffiliation.
		The Alliance must have its own paper, with its own name and its own way of operating, its own editorial board, and its own rules which establish both the right to controversy inside the paper and the obligation to focus the paper's front-page agitation on themes and policies where there is large consensus.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/256 (6434 words)

	Letter of resignation from Socialist Alliance (Australia)
		In contrast, while pretending to become a "tendency" inside the Alliance, the DSP tightened its "Leninist" political, financial and organisational discipline, and caucused to advance its own interests against the independents and other groups in the Alliance, supposedly as we step-by-step increased mutual respect and trust among comrades.
		Socialist Democracy opposed this forced pace because we maintained that there were issues to be sorted out first, primarily the way the DSP operated.
		The DSP flouted the unanimously agreed "united front" position of the Alliance in the lead up to the federal elections, and hyped its sectarian stance of the main enemy being the ALP and the factionally left unions.
	members.optushome.com.au /spainter/mschem.html (1083 words)

	The author is a National Executive member of the of the Socialist Alliance in England
		For the socialist, activist community around the country, Liz and Mike were more significant recruits to the SA and represented more than an individual maverick like George Galloway MP, so their loss was deeply felt.
		Socialist Unity is desirable and necessary as a stepping stone to class unity in the struggle against the boss class and to achieve a socialist future.
		In Coventry the Socialist party have a base, in Walsall the Socialist Alliance are still strong, the Alliance for Green Socialism (AGS) has a base in Yorkshire, in other areas deals with the greens are being considered, and in Liverpool there is an initiative for a new workers’ party.
	www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /voices/prospects.htm (7418 words)

	Socialism Today - Australia: half a million strike against anti-union laws & the unions
		Initial reports are that Socialist Party members taking part in the huge rally in Melbourne sold out of copies of their paper, The Socialist, and sold many of their popular anti-Howard stickers and badges.
		But the Socialist Alliance has generally performed poorly in elections since it was set up a few years ago, and it remains a small formation that has failed to attract the new generation of workers and youth.
		Steve Jolly, on behalf of the Socialist Party, argued that the ALP is no longer a vehicle for workers’ struggles and carries out pro-market policies when in power, including neo-liberal cuts and attacks on workers’ rights and conditions.
	www.socialismtoday.org /97/australia.html (1117 words)

	The Socialist Issue 174
		The aim of the Socialist Alliance should be to encourage as many political organisations, groups of trade unionists and anti-cuts campaigners as possible to take part in the Alliance election challenge.
		By contrast the movers of the majority proposals (Greater Manchester Socialist Alliance) are intending to stand in one or two seats, and their primary backers, the SWP, are intending to stand in around four.
		However, the Socialist Alliance is currently, although it includes a number of important local campaigning organisations and alliances, primarily made up of members of existing political organisations.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /TheSocialistIssue174.htm (5028 words)

	Latest News from NAPNT: Socialist Alliance statement on NT elections
		The Socialist Alliance supports the fight for the repeal of these laws and for the decriminalisation of personal drug use, the policing of which is a massive waste of social resources.
		Socialist Alliance supports the community’s Kumbutjil Association in their fight for the community to determine its own future.
		The Socialist Alliance opposes all Australian links with the US military which is presently engaged in illegal wars of occupation against Afghanistan and Iraq.
	www.napnt.org /2005/06/socialist-alliance-statement-on-nt.html (1070 words)

	Socialist Alliance Tasmanian State Conference 2003
		Alliance branches need to be working with Labor and Green supporters in peace groups and unions and show in practice that our ideas and initiatives can take the movement forward.
		The Socialist Alliance is an important initiative which has achieved much on electoral front in its short 2 year life.
		That this conference resolves to endorse the campaign priority of the Socialist Alliance to prioritise participation in the campaign to stop the war including supporting the call for Australian troops to be withdrawn and support for the demand on the senate to block the budget.
	users.intas.net.au /reshob/sa/stconf.htm (1618 words)

	State of the left in Australia
		The left in Australia I would assert can be divided into the "vanguardist" and loosely organised left.The vanguardist left encompasses the organisations such as the DSP, ISO and Socialist Alternative, Militant, and a number of grouplets such as Socialist Party,and formations emanating from the maoist tradition,and on the periphery some anarchist groups.
		Since the mid 1990's a realisation has grown that to be tied into the "build the revolutionary party" schema was not relevant to the real state that existed, that working in organisations where the primary focus was this rather then building a movement had proven to be self defeating.
		A friend of mine was expelled in the early 80's while on a party school because she would not move out of a house in which a person who had previously been expelled lived.
	www.marxmail.org /archives/june98/australia.htm (2991 words)

	Socialist Alliance (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Socialist Alliance was founded in 2001 as an alliance of socialist organisations in Australia, initiated by the Democratic Socialist Party and the International Socialist Organisation and founded along with 6 other socialist groups.
		The Socialist Alliance publishes a quarterly journal, Seeing Red, and supports the newspaper Green Left Weekly, which runs a regular Socialist Alliance column called Our Common Cause.
		The Alliance was formed to contest the 2001 federal election, however candidates were listed as independents on the ballot as its application for electoral registration was cut off when the election was called early.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Alliance_(Australia) (268 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		Australia's been undergoing a long period of political polarization, beginning in the late 1980s when the Accord plus interest rates and union bureaucratisation and mergers gutted the trade union movement.
		According to Lisa Macdonald, a national coordinator of the alliance and its candidate for Reid, these voters and the large number of progressive people who voted for the Greens, mean that the alliance is better prepared to fight the inevitable attacks of the incoming Coalition government.
		She said that the Socialist Alliance will be ``aiming to connect as many as possible of these thousands of left voters into grassroots campaigns against unjust wars, detention of refugees and privatisation, and in defence of union and democratic rights”.
	www.indymedia.org /or/2004/10/112114.shtml (2222 words)

	Welcome to the Socialist Alliance website
		The fifth Socialist Alliance national conference held at Geelong Trades Hall on October 29, 2006.
		The Alliance will campaign for the defeat of the Howard government in the next federal election and for its replacement by a Labor government.
		Socialist Alliance members in Tasmanian are campaigning for Vanessa Ceren and Nestor Rodriguez and their four children to be granted permanent residency in Australia.
	www.socialist-alliance.org (478 words)

	Reply to a reader The SEP's attitude to the Socialist Alliance in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		You write that the Socialist Alliance wants to unite the “various Marxist parties and groups under a single electoral ticket.” But an examination of their history and program reveals that none of the nine groups that comprise the Socialist Alliance has ever been based upon a Marxist program.
		A joint discussion paper on the Socialist Alliance, put out by the ISO and DSP in February, declared that the “primary thrust of the campaign must be anti-Liberal.” It went on to make clear that Socialist Alliance electoral preferences would go to Labor Party candidates.
		Likewise, the Socialist Alliance is aggressively pursuing the unions, seeking to co-opt them as partners in its election campaign despite the fact that the unions have been transformed, over the past two decades, into nothing but appendages of big business, responsible for monumental betrayals of the working class.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/soca-m24.shtml (1481 words)

	Libertarian Socialist Alliance for Self Managed Energy Systems : 1978-1979
		The Libertarian Socialist Alliance for Self-Managed Energy Systems was an excellent example of what could be done when anarchist groups were able to put their theoretical differences aside and work together on a specific campaign.
		The Alliance produced and distributed material in four states and in its own small way helped to expand the debate about uranium mining and nuclear energy that was such an important part of Australian politics in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
		As Libertarian Socialists who will be consistently presenting our viewpoint over the coming crucial months, we see the only hope for humanity in the development of a co-operative society that not only challenges the state - be it corporate capitalist or state communist - but also the constricting hierarchies of the workplace.
	www.takver.com /history/libsoc_uranium.htm (2843 words)

	Socialist Action newspaper
		Socialist veteran Barry Sheppard developed that impulse into an insightful and instructive book that should be required reading for any young revolutionist who wants to learn from the successes and failures of the "Sixties Generation."
		Sheppard was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) for three decades, from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
		His book explains the rise of the Socialist Workers Party into a significant force on the American left after long years of relative isolation during the McCarthy-era witch hunt.
	www.socialistaction.org /auciellomackler1.htm (1768 words)

	Workers Online : The Soapbox : 2001 - Issue 93 : John Passant on the Socialist Alliance
		socialist basis to those dissatisfied with the impact of economic rationalism and the pro-globalisation policies of both major parties.
		Socialist Alliance has adopted policies Labor might have put forward before it was taken over by the economic rationalists.
		While the Alliance is putting forward concrete measures to benefit working people under capitalism, its members believe there can be no ultimate solution to the problems of humanity without a fundamental re-ordering of society.
	workers.labor.net.au /93/a_guestreporter_socialist.html (1211 words)

	ISO Australia
		SOCIALIST WORKER asked four climate activists to talk about the upcoming election in NSW and practical steps that can be taken to cut emissions.
		They also comment on the impact of An Inconvenient Truth and discuss the balance between mass campaigning and direct action for the climate movement.
		We involve ourselves in activities that strengthen the self-confidence, organisation and socialist consciousness of workers and the oppressed.
	www.iso.org.au (346 words)

	Green Left - Socialist Alliance prepares for new challenges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Another highlight was the address by Queensland Murri leader and alliance member Sam Watson, who said that the "partnership" in Brisbane between the Socialist Alliance and the Murri community - particularly around the police murder of our brother Mulrunji on Palm Island - had moved up a few notches this year.
		Amelia Taylor, alliance member and a founder of the United Casual Workers Alliance (UCWA) on the Gold Coast, which is unionising workers who have previously never heard of unions, reminded us about the reality of life under Work Choices for many in her region.
		But delegates were conscious that the Socialist Alliance is still in its early stages of building a political alternative to Labor.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2006/689/35772 (1371 words)

	Socialist Alliance Brisbane: August 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Watson is standing as the Socialist Alliance candidate in the September 9 state election in Premier Peter Beattie’s seat of Brisbane Central.
		Socialist Alliance Indigenous spokesperson Sam Watson said the changes would impact badly on the already atrocious living conditions for so many Aborigines in remote communities.
		While he will be standing for the Socialist Alliance we’re calling on anyone who believes in justice or who thinks that we need drastic solutions other than what will be on offer from the major parties, to sign up for Sam Watson and involve themselves actively in this election campaign.
	socialistalliancebrisbane.blogspot.com /2006_08_01_socialistalliancebrisbane_archive.html (4691 words)

	Resignation from Socialist Alliance (Australia)
		There has been increasingly less reason for any socialist to remain wihin the Socialist Alliance unless you share the delusion of the DSP that the building of its sect is the only way forward for the building of socialism.
		The farcical standing of an SA candidate in the recent Marrickville bye-election, a decision made by a meeting of the Marrickville branch of the SA stacked by DSP members, which I detailed in a recent piece on the Ozleft website.
		The repeated denigration by leading DSP member Peter Boyle of a long-standing socialist opponent of the DSP as "whitey" and even worse than the fact that Boyle stooped to such abuse is the fact that not a single member of the Socialist Alliance has openly objected to his crude practice.
	members.optushome.com.au /spainter/gadler.html (377 words)

	History of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia
		In relation to party building and alliances, he states that the problem is not of building a revolutionary party but of clearing obstacles from its path.
		The Socialist Workers’ Party announced their withdrawal from the Fourth International and the cutting of ties with their U.S. counterparts and declared themselves to be a party of Lenin.
		Out of this process a ‘Socialist Alliance’ was born, its purpose was to run candidates in parliamentary elections.
	www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv8n2/dsp.htm (1490 words)

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