[A-List] DSP Congress reaffirms commitment to broad left regroupment

[glparramatta <glparramatta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 23rd Congress of the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a Marxist endency in the Socialist Alliance in Australia, reaffirmed its commitment o broader left regroupment.

The Congress noted that a new political terrain was opening up with the
election of the Rudd Labor government on the back of a mass campaign of opposition to the anti-worker "Work Choices" laws introduced by the former Liberal-National government.

A resolution supported by 80% of delegates affirmed: The sweeping defeat of the Howard government and the election of Rudd Labor in November 2007 brought in another government that is anti-union and Conservative. After promises made by Labor after mass mobilisations against the attacks by the Howard Coalition government, in particular Work Choices, most workers expect the new Labor government to reverse the Howard government's policies. However, Rudd's announcement that a Labor government could keep the sections of Work Choices which severely limit industrial action and the right of unions to enter worksites, means that there needs to be a new stage in the fight for these fundamental rights. The challenge will be for socialists to engage with other militants in the trade union movement and activists in other movements to build an extra-parliamentary struggle to fight for workers' rights, and against attacks on welfare recipients and indigenous communities, for serious action to stop global warming and to withdraw all Australian troops from the wars that they are engaged in under the imperialist alliance with the US plus a refusal to support future US military plans."

The DSP reaffirmed its commitment to building the Socialist Alliance as a broad left party project and decisively rejected a minority view that such an orientation today risked "liquidating" the DSP's revolutionary program.

Full:
http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/247