January 2-5, 2010, Sydney

Shop 72/65 Myrtle St Chippendale

Feature talks:

Jorge Jorquera
International capitalism and its crises – long & short term trends;
Kathy Newnam
Australian Politics: the crisis of labour and the role of Marxist intervention;
Marce Cameron
Cuba’s revolution – 51 years and still going strong
Max Lane

The capitalist system’s multiple crises remind us that we are living in the epoch of decline and decay of the global capitalist social order. Capitalism’s contradictions are profound, insoluble and explosive. The revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the building of socialism – a global society of common ownership of productive resources and democratic planning to meet social needs – offers the only hope for the survival of civilisation. But such a revolutionary transformation of society will not happen spontaneously. It requires conscious revolutionary socialist leadership.

[Adopted by the First Congress of the RSP, June 6-8, 2009.]

The Revolutionary Socialist Party is a revolutionary Marxist party, based on a definite program, whose central aim is to organise and lead the working class and its allies to overthrow the rule of the capitalist class and to build a socialist society. All of the party’s activities, methods and internal organisation are subordinate to this aim and designed to serve it.

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.