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Doug Lorimer Index

Obituaries

A revolutionary intellectual
Red Flag – October 31, 2013
Vale Doug Lorimer, veteran socialist, 1953-2013
Green Left Weekly #975 – July 26, 2013
Doug Lorimer, 1953-2013
Red Flag – July 24, 2013

Debates in the DSP 2005-2007

The fight against Work Choices: Where the DSP majority went wrong
The Activist – Volume 17, Number 15, November 2007
The state of the class struggle and the main character of our work: a reply to Comrade Graham Matthews
The Activist – Volume 17, Number 11, October 2007
On Comrade Dave Holmes’ ‘transitional approach to party building’
The Activist – Volume 17, Number 9, October 2007
Counter-report on DSP constitution & organisational principles
The Activist - Volume 16, Number 5, May 2006
Comrade Benedek argues for continuing with a failed party-building perspective
The Activist – Volume 15, Number 15, November 2005
From building two ‘parties’ to building two ‘organisations’ – what’s the meaning of Comrade Boyle’s latest ‘clarification’
The Activist – Volume 15, Number 13, October 2005
On the NE minority’s ‘cynical manoeuvre’ – a reply to Comrade Brewer
The Activist – Volume 15, Number 11, October 2005
An unexplained interpretation, a dodge, a shock and an unacceptable dichotomy
The Activist – Volume 15, Number 10, October 2005
How the NE majority fails to face up the reality of the Socialist Alliance
The Activist – Volume 15, Number 9, October 2005
Why DSP congress should rescind the constitutional changes at last DSP congress
The Activist – Volume 15, Number 4, August 2005

Conference & Internal Party Reports

International political situation
February 11, 2012
Report on RSP Program amendments
December 20, 2010
RSP Program report
June 5, 2010
Report on DSP liquidation 2009
October 3-4, 2009
‘Transitional demands’
March 2009
The Iraq war and US imperialism’s drive for global domination
The Activist – Volume 13, Number 5, May 2003
The coming imperialist war on Iraq and the new ‘American Century’
The Activist – Volume 13, Number 1, January 2003
War and austerity: Capitalism in the 21st century
The Activist – Volume 11, Number 1, January 2001
NATO’s Balkan war and the Kosova liberation struggle
The Activist – Volume 9, Number 5, 1999
The class nature of the Chinese state
The Activist – Volume 9, Number 1, 1999
Theses on the class nature of the People’s Republic of China
The Activist – Volume 9, Number 1, 1999
The evolution of economy and state in China
The Activist – Volume 7, Number 9, 1997
‘Globalisation’, Neo-Liberalism and the Capitalist Austerity Drive
The Activist – Volume 7, Number 1, 1997
Report on the Draft Perspectives Resolution
The Activist – Volume 6, Number 11, 1996
The DSP’s Movement Work Perspectives and Tasks
The Activist – Volume 6, Number 1, 1996
SWP Policy in the 1987 federal elections
Socialist Worker's Party Sydney Branch Meeting – June 30, 1987
The 12th World Congress of the Fourth International and the future of the Socialist Workers Party’s international relations
Socialist Worker’s Party National Committee – August 1985

Articles & Discussion

The role and history of party programs for Leninists
Written in 2010
The state & transition to socialism draft
Written in 2008
Some comments on the February NE Venezuela report
The Activist – Volume 17, Number 3, April 2007
Government, state and the socialist revolution
The Activist – Volume 17, Number 3, 2007
On the socialist character of the Venezuelan revolution: A reply to Comrade Janicke
The Activist – Volume 16, Number 2, February 2006
The Bolshevik Party and democratic centralism: A response to Murray Smith
Links No 29 (2006)
The Russian Poor Peasants’ Committees – were they a ‘failure’?
The Activist – Volume 14, Number 5, December 2004
The Bolshevik Party and ‘Zinovievism’: Comments on a caricature of Leninism
Links Magazine – September-December 2003
The Democratic Socialist Party: A response to David Glanz
The Activist – Volume 13, Number 7, August 2003
Some more comments on Peter Taaffe’s Cuba book
The Activist – Volume 10, Number 9, October 2000
How the Communist Party of Australia exposes the Democratic Socialist Party’s ‘Trotskyism’
The Activist – Volume 10, Number 7, August 2000
Imperialist economism, democracy and the socialist revolution
The Activist – Volume 10, Number 2, February 2000
In defence of Lenin’s Marxist policy of a two-stage, uninterrupted revolution
The Activist – Volume 9, Number 8, November 1999
In defence of Lenin’s Marxist policy of a two-stage, uninterrupted revolution
The Activist – Volume 9, Number 8, November 1999
Marxist theory or misconceived tradition? On Comrade Merkenich’s view on who can and who cannot be a feminist
The Activist – Volume 9, Number 7, October 1999
‘Left-wing’ dogmatism & East Timor crisis
Green Left Weekly #376 – September 15, 1999
China now ruled by capitalist state
Green Left Weekly #346 – January 27, 1999
Marxism or Bauerite nationalism?
Links No 13 – 1999
The Cuban revolution and its leadership: A criticism of Peter Taaffe’s pamphlet ‘Cuba: Analysis of the revolution’
The Activist – Volume 9, No 4, 1999
Why socialists oppose terrorist actions
Green Left Weekly #287 – August 27, 1997
Terror and terrorism: the Marxist view
The Activist – Volume 7, Number 8, 1997
Parliament versus democracy
Green Left Weekly #271 – April 23, 1997
It takes more than words to deconstruct capitalism
Green Left Weekly #258 – December 11, 1996
In Defence of the Bolsheviks’ Two-Stage Revolution Policy: Or What’s Wrong With Comrade Slee’s Attempt to Have Two Bob Each Way
The Activist – Volume 6, Number 12, 1996
Two letters on the debate on ‘permanent revolution’
The Activist – Volume 6, Number 3, 1996
Letter to Phil Shannon
November 19, 1995

Books & Pamphlets

Introduction to Marxism
Compiled in 2010
Cuba Venezuela and 21st Century Socialism
Written in 2009
The class nature of the People’s Republic of China
Resistance Books 2004
Imperialism in the 21st Century
Resistance Books 2002
The Democratic Socialist Party and the Fourth International
Resistance Books 2001
The Cuban revolution & its leadership: A reply to a sectarian criticism
Resistance Books 2000
Fundamentals of historical materialism
Resistance Books 1999
Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution: A Leninist critique
Resistance Books 1998
Selecting a National Leadership Team
Written in 1998
The collapse of ‘communism’ in the USSR: Its causes and significance
Resistance Books 1997
The role of the united front tactic
Resistance Books 1995

Introductions to Books

Introduction to Lenin’s State & Revolution
Revised in 2010, originally written in 2003
Draft introduction to The Birth of Bolshevism Volume 2 – Bolshevism verses Menshevism
Written in 2007
Introduction to Birth of Bolshevism Volume 1 – Lenin’s Struggle Against Economism
Resistance Books 2004
Introduction to V.I. Lenin’s Marxism and nationalism
Resistance Books 2002
Existentialism and Marxism – Appendix to George Novack’s Understanding History
Resistance Books 2002
Introduction to Lenin’s ‘Democracy & Revolution’
Resistance Books 2001
Introduction to Frederick Engels Socialism: Utopian and scientific
Written in 1999
Introduction to V.I. Lenin’s ‘Left-wing communism’ – an infantile disorder
Written in 1999
Introduction to ‘Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism’
Resistance Books 1999
Introduction to Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution’
Resistance Books 1999
Introduction to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels The Communist Manifesto: its relevance for today
Written in 1998
The degeneration of the SWP in the introduction to Building the Revolutionary Party: An introduction to James P Cannon
Written in 1997

Talks & Workshops

Marxism Lecture: How to change the world
RSP DA forum – May 2011
Vietnam seminar talk
August 21, 2010
Capitalist economic crisis and finance capital
January 2-5, 2010
War, Imperialism and Revolution
DSP Summer School – January, 2007
The 1905 revolution and its lessons
January Marxism Summer School – Links No 28, 2005
Imperialism in the twenty first century
Education Conference January 2002 – Links No 21
Imperialist capitalism and neo-liberal globalisation
Marxism 2000 Conference
Marx and Engels on the Proletarian Party
The Activist – Volume 8, Number 3, 1998
Nation and Class: Marxism and the National Question
The Activist – Volume 5, Number 9, 1995
Mass Action, Alliances and the United Front Tactic
The Activist – Volume 5, Number 6, 1995