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DSP leadership purges minority faction
DSP leadership purges minority faction On May 10, 2008, the national leadership of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (formerly the Democratic Socialist Party) decided to purge all of the members of a minority faction – the Leninist Party Faction – from the DSP. The LPF was formed at the end of the DSP’s 22nd congress in January 2006. Its platform was supported by a bit less than one-fifth of the DSP membership in the election of delegates to the 23rd DSP congress (held in January 2008).
The Political and Organisational Degeneration of the DSP
By: Allen Myers
On May 10, 2008, a subcommittee of the national executive of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP--formerly Democratic Socialist Party) announced a predetermined decision to expel all of the members of a minority faction of that organisation. Those expelled represented a bit less than a fifth of the DSP's total members, and around one-third of its active members. They included a broad cross-section of the organisation, from relatively young and new recruits to revolutionary politics, to comrades with more than three decades devoted to the DSP, including founding members of Resistance and the Socialist Workers League (predecessor of the DSP)--party full-timers, union militants, students, blue collar and white collar workers, unemployed.
Direct Action Perspectives in Relation to the DSP and the 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.
