The RSP held a very successful first national congress in Sydney June 6-8. Delegates attended from Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth, and some comrades returned from working overseas to attend. International guests came from Mauritius, LALIT Central Committee members Lindsey Collen and Cindy Clelia, and from Indonesia, KPRM-PRD leader Zely Ariane.

The Congress also heard solidarity greetings from the Cuban Communist Party, presented by Cuban Consul General in Sydney Nelida Hernandez, and from the Communist Party of Vietnam, presented by Vietnamese deputy Consul General in Sydney, Tran Khanh. The public meeting held during the Congress was addressed by Nelson Davila, Venezuelan Charge d'Affaires in Australia, as well as Lindsey Collen and Zely Ariane, and Max Lane representing the RSP. The Congress also heard greetings by phone from Heryk Rangel, a youth leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) who will be coming to Australia on a speaking tour in August.

Written greetings to the Congress were also received from comrades in India, Malaysia, USA, Britain, Denmark and Hong Kong

The main resolution adopted by the Congress, on perspectives for Building the Revolutionary Socialist Party, is now available on this web site.The amended Constitution adopted by the Congress is also posted.

CAPITALIST CRISIS - SOCIALIST RENEWAL!

Speakers: Lindsey Collen, LALIT Mauritius Zely Ariane, KPRM-PRD Indonesia Nelson Davila, Venezuelan Charge d"Affaires Max Lane, Revolutionary Socialist Party

Global capitalism is in crisis -- financial meltdown, wars, looming environmental disaster. What can we do to prevent the ruling class making us pay for their crisis with our money, our lives and the life of the planet. Venezuela's revolution is showing the way for the people of Latin America and the world. Hear why socialism is also the only solution to the capitalist crisis, in Australia, and around the world.

This very successful meeting was organised by the Revolutionary Socialist Party as part of its first national congress, on June 6 in Brown St Community Hall, Newtown, Sydney.

Imagine if the Australian government provided all education, from pre-school to post-graduate level, and all medical care, free of charge. Imagine if factories that were to be closed by their owners were taken under public control and put under the management of their workers to produce for the benefit of society. Imagine if, rather than stealing East Timor’s oil and gas, and sending troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to prop up US-imposed puppet governments, the Australian government sent doctors, teachers and sustainable development engineers to help lift Third World countries out of poverty. Such things are happening, not in Australia, but in two countries still struggling with underdevelopment: Cuba and Venezuela. Their achievements — in tacking poverty, disease and illiteracy; in giving ordinary people a real say in how their community services and workplaces are run; in reversing environmental destruction; and in providing medical care and cheap heating oil to the poor of other countries — show that there is a real alternative to a world based on greed, corporate profit and social inequality.

No to Israel’s war crimes

Stop the Massacre! End the Siege

A statement by the Revolutionary Socialist Party

www.rsp.org.au

The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) condemns the Israeli massacre taking place in the Gaza Strip. Since Israel began its latest round of bombings on Saturday, December 27, more than 400 Palestinians have died and more than 2000 have been injured, the vast majority of them critically.  

Israel’s airstrikes against Gaza’s 1.5 million civilian population comes on the back of Israel’s illegal and brutal two year siege of Gaza, which has denied the people of Gaza adequate fuel, food, electricity and medical supplies. 

By Shua Garfield

Imagine if the Australian government provided all education, from pre-school to post-graduate level, and all medical care, free of charge. Imagine if factories that were to be closed down by their owners were taken under public control and put under the management of their workers to produce for the benefit of society, rather than having the workers thrown onto the scrap-heap of unemployment and the machinery lie idle. Imagine if, rather than stealing East Timor’s oil and gas, and sending troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to prop up unpopular US-imposed puppet governments, the Australian government sent doctors, teachers, and sustainable development engineers to help lift neighbouring Third World countries out of poverty?

What we stand for

We stand for the transformation of human society, from its current basis of greed, exploitation, war, oppression and environmental destruction, to a commonwealth of social ownership, solidarity and human freedom, living in harmony with our planet’s ecosystems. Such a transformation requires the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and its replacement by socialism — a classless society based upon a worldwide system of democratically planned production to meet human needs.

In fighting for revolutionary change, we base ourselves on the scientific theory of social development developed by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, and further developed by subsequent generations of revolutionary socialists. We seek to learn in particular from the experiences of the Russian, Vietnamese and Cuban socialist revolutions, and from the Bolivarian socialist revolution now unfolding in Venezuela.

Announces publication of Direct Action

The Leninist Party Faction, a dissident minority expelled from the Democratic Socialist Perspective on May 13, and Direct Action, an organisation established by former DSP members in Melbourne and Geelong after they left the DSP in June 2006, have united to launch a new party, the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), with members in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Geelong, Adelaide, Newcastle and Cairns, and others currently residing overseas.

This is a principled unification of our two organisations. Both the LPF and Direct Action support the Program of the Democratic Socialist Party, a program that the DSP remains formally committed to but which it is abandoning in practice. Together, LPF and Direct Action members waged a common struggle against the degeneration of the DSP until June 2006, when six LPF members decided to leave the DSP to establish Direct Action.