Debate in the DSP, Ecology, Socialist ideas, Economics, History, RSP documents
The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis
From Monthly Review February 2010
Martin Hart-Landsberg
Martin Hart-Landsberg (marty@lclark.edu) teaches economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, and is the author with Paul Burkett of China and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2005).
Reflections of Fidel: The world half a century later
Reflections of Fidel
The world half a century later
How could you NOT be a communist today.... John Percy
Rally talk at DSP educational conference, January 3-7, 1998
Perhaps around the Xmas dinner table this year, being quizzed by parents you haven’t seen for many months, or an aunt you haven’t seen for years, comrades have been met by a familiar refrain:
You’re a socialist? How could you be a socialist today?
How could you be a socialist after what happened in Russia? Isn’t socialism finished with now?
Or perhaps more regularly, as you’re arguing the point with a potential Green Left Weekly buyer, you get similar questions:
History of the DSP Part II: The 1980s - Our break with Trotskyism, and the processes of socialist renewal -- John Percy
By John Percy
History of the DSP Part I: The 1960s and 1970s - Our prehistory and Trotskyism -- John Percy
by John Percy
[This is the first of two talks presented to the 13th National Conference of the Democratic Socialist Party in January 1990. John Percy was a founder of the DSP, its national secretary from 1991-2005, and is now national secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.]
Introduction
The Democratic Socialist Party, formerly the Socialist Workers Party, is only a relatively new party, but we have a rich history from which we can draw many valuable political lessons.
The ALP, the Nuclear Disarmament Party and the 1984 elections -- Jim Percy
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[This article is based on a report to a September 1984 plenum of the national committee of the Socialist Workers Party.]
Who will control the 21st Century? -- John Percy
by John Percy
[This is the text of a talk given to a seminar in Canberra on March 3, 2001. 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 national secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.]We’re all here because we’re concerned about our society and our world — the horrifying poverty, the terrible oppression, discrimination, environmental destruction we see around us or read about and view on our TV screens each night.
The Campaign Against the Vietnam War -- John Percy
Vietnam Voices Exhibition --
Photographs and posters of Sydney anti-war demonstrations
by John Percy*
[This is the text submitted for the catalog of the Vietnam Voices Exhibition at the Casula Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Most of the posters used in the exhibition are from my collection and are now available at the image gallery on the RSP website http://gallery.rsp.org.au/main.php?g2_itemId=1957.]
