Leninist Party Faction

Direct Action Perspectives in Relation to the DSP and the Leninist Party Faction

A Call for a united organisation of the Leninist Party Faction & Direct Action

May 2008

Our history and place on the left

Direct Action left the DSP because we considered the opportunist and sectarian turn it had taken after its 22nd Congress in January 2006 could not be reversed through waging an internal factional debate.

In essence, our analysis put greater emphasis than the Leninist Party Faction on the significance of the left's retreat since the late 1980s. We estimated that much of the cadre of the DSP - who were mostly recruited in this period of retreat - would not respond well to a written debate about Leninism. Our view was that only by practical example, or more likely by a major change in the course of the movement, would these comrades open themselves to the debate.

We want our party back!
Rebuild the DSP as a public revolutionary Marxist
party again.
By John Percy
[The following is an edited version of the counter-report on
DSP perspectives presented on behalf of the NE minority to the
22nd DSP Congress. The vote for the general line of the report
and summary was regular delegates: 15 for, 0 abstentions;
consultative delegates 10 for, 0 abstentions.]

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On May 18, James Crafti, a member of Resistance, the youth organisation led by DSP members, was expelled from Resistance by the organisation’s national council for having organised a Palestine solidarity club at La Trobe University. Below we reproduce Comrade Crafti’s response to the report by the Melbourne Resistance branch executive’s report recommending his expulsion.

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