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The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) is a Trotskyist organisation in South Africa, affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International, and a founding member of the Workers and Socialist Party (WASP). ==History== The Democratic Socialist Movement was historically known as the Marxist Workers' tendency of the African National Congress and was formed by activists who had helped build independent trade unions and participated in the 1973 KwaZulu-Natal strikes.〔(Mine workers' hope lies in mass action ) - Retrieved 23/10/12〕 Members of the MWT included Nimrod Sejake,〔Taaffe, P. (1994) ''South Africa: From Slavery to Apartheid'' London: Militant Labour〕 Zackie Achmat, Mark Heywood and Martin Legassick.〔 The MWT was launched after Martin Legassick and others were expelled from the ANC in 1979.〔Legassick, M, "Debating the revival of the workers' movement in the 1970s: the South African democracy education trust and post-apartheid patriotic history", ''Kronos'' (Bellville), vol.34 no.1, Cape Town nov. 2008, http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902008000100010&lng=pt&nrm=iso〕 In 1981 they began publishing the journal ''Inqaba Ya Basebenzi'' (Fortress of the Workers) from exile in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Four members of the MWT were expelled from the ANC at the 16 June 1985 ANC Consultative Conference in Zambia.〔(Attack on ANC Marxists is an attack on ANC's socialist youth, Inqaba ya Basebenzi, February 1986, Issue 16/17 pg.82 ) - Retrieved 17/12/09〕 In 1989 it started producing the newspaper ''Congress Militant''. Former members of the MWT were involved in a number of the most significant social movements in post-apartheid South Africa with Zackie Achmat being a founder of the Treatment Action Campaign and Martin Legassick working closely with the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, Abahlali baseMjondolo (Cape Town branch) and being a founder of the Democratic Left Front. Both the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, often described as a Stalinist party, have been highly critical of the MWT.〔(Defeat the resurgence of the workerist tendency ), ''ANC Today'', 2007〕〔(Statement of the SACP on the recent launch of the ANC voters network. )〕 The DSM was refounded in October 2002 at a conference of 45 people held on the 5th and 6th of that month at the University of Durban-Westville.〔("Democratic Socialist Movement conference" ) - Retrieved 23/10/12〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Democratic Socialist Movement (South Africa)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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