[Marxism] Documents re DSP/SA issues.

[Shane Hopkinson <chen9692000@xxxxxxxxx>]

For those following the deabte the latest edition of the Socialist Alliance 
journal includes the resolution presently being debated by the DSP.

The Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist Alliance: Draft 
resolution for the DSP congress
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/resources/idb/AV%20Vol%205%20No%2011.pdf

The following draft resolution, which is currently being discussed by the 
membership of the DSP before being voted on at the DSP?s Congress in January 
2006, was sent to the SA national executive on December 11 and submitted to  
Alliance Voices for SA members? information.

Introduction

1. In the wake of the decision of the May 2003 Second National Conference of 
the Socialist Alliance to adopt the perspective of transforming itself into a 
single, multi-tendency socialist party and to ?accept and welcome a strong  
revolutionary socialist stream as an integral part of our vision of a broad 
socialist party?, the Democratic Socialist Party declared itself an internal 
tendency in the Socialist Alliance and renamed itself the Democratic Socialist 
Perspective
(DSP) at its 21st Congress in Sydney, December 27-30, 2003.
2. The resolution ?The Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist 
Alliance? set the DSP on a course of  building the Socialist Alliance, 
progressing its transformation into a united, multi-tendency socialist party and
integrating as much of the resources of the Democratic Socialist Party into the 
Socialist Alliance as possible. However,  despite our best efforts, over the 
past two years we have not been able to build the Socialist Alliance into an 
effective
new party and our attempt to integrate as much of the resources of the DSP into 
the Socialist Alliance as possible has stalled. While the smaller affiliates 
have remained opposed to, obstructed, or abstained from most collective 
political
activity in the Socialist Alliance, too few leaders and activists have so far 
emerged from the majority of Socialist  Alliance members who are not in any 
affiliate group.
3. This resolution supersedes the 21st DSP Congress resolution ?The Democratic 
Socialist Perspective and the  Socialist Alliance? and resets our perspectives 
and objectives for work in the Socialist Alliance. Political space for the 
Socialist Alliance remains....





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