Australian socialists join mass protests against the war drive
active socialist politics. grain of real potential and real opportunities, then we will actually retard and even potential. Continuing to build the DSP as potential for building the Socialist Alliance as the site of socialist advance. into opportunism or reformism, we're
If we find ourselves convinced that swinging the DSP's accucollaborating in anti- mulated resources into building the war and refugee work and beginning to collab- socialist project. orate in union work,
tionary program must be self-defeating. left get Socialist Alliance that it leap from having a platform of immediate demands to adopting an exhaustive revolutionary prorevolutionary organisation' in one hit. Alliance to smithereens. Alliance adopt a socialist vision statement' - an articulation of the basis on which we have been able to collaborate. Any development of the program beyond this level should proceed on the basis of increasing levels of practical collaboration. state of consciousness and potential level any pet schemas we may have, but by that specific course of action which actually draws as many people as possible into
If we try to impose our own preferred model' for left collaboration against the extinguish the chance of realising that a public organisation undermines the
Because we're confident that the Alliance isn't suddenly going to nosedive
be defended. that the Alliance should Alliance is the best way forward for the restrict itself to presentWing 'old
A number of objections have been demands in a purely raised in the discussion around our pro- electoral way. posal. The first is that any attempt to That was recogequip the Socialist Alliance with a revolu- nised right from the
beginning
The DSP is not proposing to the Alliance.
Because the only way any of our gramme, thereby converting itself into a That would be a recipe for blowing the
Rather, we are proposing that the
This objection misjudges the actual