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Socialist Workers Party (Australia)
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Socialist Workers Party (1971-). Formerly Socialist Workers League.
Objectives - To replace capitalism by an international co-operative system of social organisation (socialism) in which production satisfies human needs Parliament and the present state apparatus will be replaced by organs of workers power. S.W.P. supports the fight against all forms of oppression created or perpetuated by capitalism.
Publicists Mark Carey, Renfrey Clarke, Ron Poulsen
Notes: S.W.P. is a trotskyite party associated with Resistance and, previously, the Socialist Youth Alliance. In 1975 another trotskyite group, the Communist League, merged with S.W.P.