Revolutionary Socialist Party (Australia)
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Revolutionary Socialist Party
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| Leader | John Percy |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Dissolved | 2013 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Ideology |
Revolutionary socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Marxism–Leninism |
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| rsp.org.au | |
The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) was a small socialist organisation in Australia, formed in 2008 by a split from the former Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP). Members of the split were expelled from the DSP over debates about the organisation's participation in the Socialist Alliance. While the RSP saw the project of the Alliance as liquidationist, it still maintained the basic politics of the DSP.Van Thanh Rudd, the nephew of former Labor Party (ALP) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was a member and unsuccessfully ran against ALP Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the Victorian seat of Lalor in the 2010 federal election. The RSP eventually dissolved and joined former rival organisation Socialist Alternative (SA) in March 2013, after lengthy unity discussions.
On 13 May 2008, The DSP National Executive expelled 39 members of the Leninist Party Faction (LPF) of whom went on to form the RSP. They claimed to have established branches in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Due to slow growth, six members left the party in September 2011 and called for broad left support instead behind Green Left Weekly—a journal which supports the Alliance. Other members went on to join SA from September 2012, which was later followed by the party's formal dissolution in March 2013, where the remaining RSP members joined SA. Like the former DSP who broke with Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution in the 1980s, the RSP were advocates of the two stage theory, as Doug Lorimer of the RSP outlined in In Defence of Lenin's Marxist Policy of a Two-Stage, Uninterrupted Revolution:
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