Democratic Socialist Party
National Office
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Ph: 02 9690 1230
Thursday, January 25, 2001
To all left parties and individuals
Socialist Alliance candidates for the coming federal election
Dear Comrades,
A federal election is fast approaching and all the major parliamentary
parties -- including the Australian Labor Party --- are even more firmly
committed to the reactionary political agenda of social austerity,
privatisation, tax "reform" for the rich and attacks on the rights of
indigenous Australians, refugees, women and other oppressed groups. We wish
to propose urgent discussions between all serious socialist parties and
individual socialists about fielding Socialist Alliance candidates around
the country, in upper and lower houses of Parliament.
The success of the S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne
last year has given a new confidence to the radical left in this country.
In Britain, following the success of the London Socialist Alliance, most of
the active left (including the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers
Party) is united in Socialist Alliances for the next national elections. To
the north, the Scottish Socialist Party has achieved a higher degree of
left unity.
In Australia, socialist candidates from a number of parties have attracted
votes between 5-12% in several seats in recent years. Loose alliances and
non-aggression pacts have been formed in Melbourne and Perth.
We would envisage holding discussions over the next couple of weeks at the
national and local levels and proceed to organising a series of public
meetings around the country to launch and build a significant campaign.
Please get in touch with us as soon as possible if you are interested in
discussing further. This letter has been sent to the parties listed below
and advertised in Green Left Weekly and a number of progressive internet lists.
Yours in solidarity
John Percy
DSP National Secretary
Peter Boyle
DSP National Election Campaign Organiser
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Sent to:
ISO Socialist Worker
CPA Communist Party of Australia
CPA Maritime Branch
WCPI Muzafar Abdulla
WCPI Melbourne
Socialist Alternative
Socialist Party Militant
Freedom Socialists
Progressive Labor Party
Workers Power Australia
Workers Liberty Australia
Craig Johnson
Klaas Woldring
Bill Deller
John Tully
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