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Corporate body
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Democratic Socialist Party (Australia)
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History
Democratic Socialists: Born out of the anti-Vietnam War movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the Democratic Socialists were originally formed as Resistance in 1967. In 1972 the Socialist Workers Party was founded and Resistance remained an organisation for radicals under the age of 26. The party suppports revolutionaries in Cuba and Nicaragua and raise money for the pro-democracy movement in Indonesia and East Timor, campaign against uranium mining and French nuclear testing, support women's rights and the union movement and helped set up the Nuclear Disarmament Party.