Search Results: Authors starting with P from Resistance Books

Sydney: New Course Publications, 1994. 1. Paperback. New. This book contains four talks by Jim Percy, the founder of the Democratic Socialist Party. Given between 1990 and 1992, they focus on the continuing need for a revolutionary socialist party and reaffirm the basic approach to building such a party in an advanced capitalist country like Australia. Percy outlines how, in the difficult conditions of the 1990s, a party dedicated to the cause of socialism can survive and grow through the political and organisational methods first developed by Lenin but so often misunderstood.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2008. 1. Paperback. New. This volume of writings and speeches by Jim Percy, one of the founders of the Democratic Socialist Party and its longtime central leader until his death in 1992, spans the years 1980 to 1987. This was a period of considerable ferment in Australian and world politics. This collection focuses on how the party should relate to the new situation, especially on the question of left unity.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2005. 1. Paperback. New. A history of the Democratic Socialist Party and the youth organisation Resistance in the tumultuous period from 1965 to 1972, when first Resistance and then the DSP developed out of the youth radicalisation and the fight against the Vietnam War. John Percy was a founder and longtime central leader of the DSP.