March 3, 2010 -- Olivier Bonford and Eric Toussaint are members of the International Council of the World Social Forum (WSF) and of the the Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM). In this interview with Marga Tojo Gonzales, they discuss the future and role of the World Social Forum as it enters its second decade. They also examine the relationship between the WSF and the call for a Fifth Socialist International by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Translated by Vicki Briault and Christine Pagnoulle.

by John Percy

[This talk was presented on a panel at the  Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, April 10-13, 1998, in Sydney. At the time, Percy was national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party. Along with others he was expelled from the DSP in May 2008, and is now the national secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.]

Capitalist crisis

By Doug Lorimer

"Capitalism and imperialism can be overthrown only by economic revolution. They cannot be overthrown by democratic transformations, even the most `ideal'. But a proletariat not schooled in the struggle for democracy is incapable of performing an economic revolution. Capitalism cannot be vanquished without taking over the banks, without repealing private ownership of the means of production.

By Phil Hearse

"The International of Crime and Treason [i.e., the counter-revolutionary co-ordination of imperialism - PH] has in fact been organised. On the other hand, the indigenous bourgeoisies have lost all their capacity to oppose imperialism -- if they ever had it -- and they have become the last card in the pack. There are no other alternatives: either a socialist revolution or a make-believe revolution." -- Ernesto Che Guevara, Message to the Tricontinental 1967. (my emphasis)

By Doug Lorimer

By Phil Hearse

By John Percy

This article aims to look at the experience of the “broad party” tactic or strategy as implemented by revolutionary socialists internationally over recent decades.

Dear Comrades,

I was preparing to write greetings to Green Left Weekly on its 800th issue, when I received the leaflet issued by Socialist Alliance on Iran. GLW reflects the views of SA. Subsequently, I learned that the Democratic Socialist Perspective was in agreement with the SA leaflet.

As a long-time supporter of Green Left Weekly over the years I strongly urge SA and DSP to issue a correction.
My major objection to the leaflet is that it calls on the imperialist Australian government to intervene in Iran in the name of “democracy.”