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  Workers Party (US) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Workers Party (WP) was a Marxist group in the United States.
It was founded in April 1940 by members of the Socialist Workers Party who opposed the Soviet invasion of Finland.
By 1941 the party had developed a minority tendency which was grouped around the figures of two leading intellectuals CLR James and Raya Dunayevskaya.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers_Party_(US)   (676 words)

  
 The Worker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Workers Party is already vigorously involved in mobilizing the workers to take an active part in building their own mass workers' press, with "The Worker" in the center, and in enhancing the role of the Party units as key organizations for the politicalization and organization of the people.
The Party comrades must be in the thick of such discussions, must master and rely on the entire ideological and theoretical treasure-house of modern communism in order to provide information, assist people in strengthening their convictions and finding the road of progress and socialism.
Workers spoke about the need to develop their movement on the basis of the political economy of socialism and to defeat the influence of the labor aristocracy which is the source of bourgeois political economy in the working class movement.
www.workersparty.org /road.html   (8673 words)

  
 Socialist Workers Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Socialist Workers Party broke politically with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International in 1990 though it had been increasingly inactive in the Trotskyist movement since Barnes' 1982 speech, "Their Trotsky and Ours." The SWP action followed the 1985 World Congress, and the SWP closed Intercontinental Press in 1986.
However the party put into practice the so-called Proletarian Military Policy of opposing the war politically while arguing that their members of military age, which meant most of the membership, should go with their class into the military and attempt to transform the imperialist war into a civil war while fighting the Nazis.
In the U.S. presidential election of 2004 the Socialist Workers Party ran RĂ³ger Calero for President and Arrin Hawkins for Vice-President.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States)   (4110 words)

  
 THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATORS WORKERS COMPENSATION
Workers’ Compensation Laws are similar in concept to that of liability without regard to fault.
All fifty states have developed comprehensive workers’ compensation statutes, although some states have allowed employees the option as to whether they want to be covered by the statute or whether they do not want the coverage.
Workers’ Comp has replaced the rights of recovery as it is normally conceived under common law.
www.insuranceclaimsconsult.com /workers_comp.htm   (817 words)

  
 Enter the workers' party in Nigeria?
Rather, the conditional registration of the parties reflects the enormous crisis brewing within society, the weakness of the Obasanjo regime and the fear of the impending struggles of the Nigeria workers.
Right now, the party is empty; it is not yet set up in the factories, campuses, wards, etc. It can definitely not meet up with the requirements for the coming elections but its state could change once the workers begin to move.
However, had the regime refused to register the party, the party did not have a mass base to protest or resist, as the NCP is not a mass party.
www.marxist.com /enter-workers-party-nigeria-2.htm   (5623 words)

  
 CPUSA Online - The Workers' Party of Ireland
The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Ireland, on behalf of the entire membership of the party, expresses condolences to the families of the deceased and offers sympathy to the injured and their families.
The Workers' Party with its long history of opposition to terrorism at home condemns unequivocally the terrorist actions inflicted on our fellow workers in the United States and expresses its sorrow and condolences to the American people and their progressive socialist and labour organisations.
The bombing of US cities will not put one enterprise in the hands of the workers; it will not win one political social or economic right for the working class and it will do nothing to bring into public ownership the means of production, distribution and exchange.
www.cpusa.org /article/articleprint/202   (489 words)

  
 The Johnston Forest Tendency in the the US.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
These two met in the Socialist Workers Party and had in common, firslty an experience theortically and practically with the so called "Negro Question" and secondly a belief that Russia was a not a "workers state" but the ultimate example of State capitalism.
In 1938 he moved to the US on a temporary visa (in the cricket off season) and ended up staying there for a decade or so (which is roughly theperiod we are concerned with) until he was kicked out by the authorities.
This was the official Trotskyist party in the US which started in the late 30s, with Trotsky himself as patron.
home.mira.net /~andy/seminars/aajames.htm   (2748 words)

  
 Socialist Workers Party (US) denounces Pinochet arrest
The claim that the US and Britain are behind the arrest of Pinochet is delusional.
It is no small matter that a new generation of socialist-minded workers and intellectuals should begin to familiarize itself with the events of 1973 in Chile and their political significance, above all the counterrevolutionary role of Stalinism, reformism and Castroism.
The SWP's candidate for Congress in Los Angeles claimed that efforts to expose CIA crimes "point workers away from developing a materialist understanding of how the social and economic crises they face are rooted in class-divided society," and that such efforts encouraged a "conspiracy theory" of history.
www.wsws.org /news/1998/nov1998/swp-n05.shtml   (963 words)

  
 Workers' Party, Uruguay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This party occupied the last place in the result of the 2004 elections and it received the 0,02 % of the votes.
The Workers' Party (Partido de los Trabajadores) was founded in 1983, and it was related in its begginings to the Argentine Trotskyist party named "Partido Obrero" or PO (Worker Party).
The Flag of the Workers' Party of Uruguay is a red flag with the acronym of the party (PT) in yellow "bold" typefont.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/uy}pt.html   (189 words)

  
 For a New, Revolutionary, Workers’ Party! Why we’re not signing the Socialist Party’s ...
The Labour Party, while organisationally independent of the capitalists, could never be ‘reclaimed’ by revolutionaries; it has only ever provided a voice for the reformist misleaders of the working class – the labour bureaucracy or ‘labour lieutenants of capital’ as Lenin called them.
For a workers’ party to be of any use to the working class it must give no political support to any section of the bourgeoisie, no matter how ‘radical’ they may seem.
The party must be internationalist and it would be necessary to win its members to understand the importance of actively defending the remaining deformed workers’ states – China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam – while also recognising the need for workers’ political revolutions to overthrow the bureaucratic regimes in those societies.
www.bolshevik.org /Leaflets/revolutionaryworkersparty.html   (591 words)

  
 Nigeria: Workers' Party Now! Workers Need To Take Power!
It is not a law or a pronouncement that can unite the Nigerian workers, but a genuine struggle for the actualisation of their collective interests, under a sincere, clear and determined leadership that is prepared to fight to the end.
The Nigerian workers won independence for us, and they would be the direct beneficiaries of a better Nigeria, but they are also the major victims of ruling class misrule.
For what Labour needs is not a party formed for them, by unknown politicians, but their own party; a party built by labour, financed by labour, under the control of Labour and in the interest of Labour.
www.marxist.com /nigeria-workers-party130704-2.htm   (1322 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Ken Livingstone and a new workers' party
Mass parties of the working class have either not existed (the USA), have been severely weakened, or have moved towards the right under the pressure of neo-liberalism, and a vacuum has opened up.
Non-Labour Party members in the factories and the workplaces exerted a powerful effect on the union leaders in London to vote in favour of Livingstone.
From the campaign against racism and the neo-fascist British National Party in the 1990s, to the student field, to the trade union field and now the electoral field, what is transparent is that it is not possible for genuine socialist alliances to be established with the SWP.
www.socialismtoday.org /46/workers_party.html   (3463 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Towards a new workers' party
Membership of the party has officially halved from (a fictional) 400,000 in 1997 to 200,000 today, which is a gross exaggeration of the reality of the Labour Party on the ground.
The Taff Vale judgement by the House of Lords in favour of the railway bosses, with its swingeing financial impositions, was decisive.
The Socialist Alliance floundered similarly on the innate sectarianism of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) and the manoeuvring characteristic of that organisation.
www.socialismtoday.org /96/party.html   (5205 words)

  
 Workers Party, USA
The U.S. government took the same position a year earlier at the world housing conference, declaring that people did not have the right to shelter.
In commenting on their position, U.S. government officials said they were afraid that by recognizing such a right, the government would be obligated to take certain actions to guarantee it.
Today, aside from millions of unemployed workers, there are tens of millions only able to find part-time and temporary jobs, and practically every worker lives with tremendous job insecurity, worrying about what will happen when her/his company downsizes and restructures.
www.workersparty.org /cer.html   (1958 words)

  
 Politics1: Presidency 2000 - James E. Harris (Socialist Workers Party - Georgia)
Socialist Workers Party nominee for President, 1996 (on the ballot in 11 states - 8,500 votes - 0.01%).
Socialist Workers Party nominee for US Congress (Michigan), 1992.
The Socialist Workers Party has been in electoral decline in recent years, capturing a dwindling number of votes in each Presidential election.
www.politics1.com /swp2k.htm   (392 words)

  
 Workers Revolutionary Party - US THREATENS NORTH KOREA WITH WAR
To underline its aggressive intentions against North Korea, the US refuses to sign a non-aggression treaty with it, meaning that the North Korean armed forces are in a state of full alert for 24 hours every day.
Meanwhile, the US and the UK have thousands of nuclear weapons, and far from seeking talks aimed at securing a nuclear free planet, are working to develop new generations of nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them to their target.
The US and the UK have assisted Israel in building an arsenal of over 200 nuclear weapons, plus other weapons of mass destruction that are in Israel’s possession.
www.wrp.org.uk /news/1575   (808 words)

  
 Building a workers' party? Lessons of the MDC experience for Nigeria
Therefore any worker or youth in Nigeria who is intent on struggling for the formation of a Nigerian Labour Party should study the experience of Zimbabwe, because it is full of both lessons and warnings.
The leader of the party, Morgan Tsvangirai (also leader of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions), believes that it is necessary to accept these policies in order to widen the base of support of the party.
Therefore, the workers of Nigeria should be forewarned: the party must be controlled by the working class and it must have a socialist programme.
www.marxist.com /workers-party-mdc-experience-nigeria-2.htm   (1072 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Testing Times for the Workers Party
The party was seen by most people as the only one capable of carrying out a clean up of municipal governments.
The PT still has a worker and people base and organises the vast majority of the workers and activists currently involved in the social movements.
In general, the position of the party was not to prioritise attacking the federal government.
www.socialismtoday.org /55/brazil.html   (2691 words)

  
 Carl Davidson: Left in Form, Right in Essence (Vanguard party)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This “party of a new type” is seen as the proletariat’s “general staff” in the class struggle with the bourgeoisie.
Lenin clearly aimed at defeating the petty bourgeois character of the party and it is precisely the petty bourgeois view of both the party and state as an ideal form of radical democratic parliament that Trotsky was never able to abandon.
The direction of some, like the Socialist Workers party, has been in the direction of the modern revisionists, liquidating the leading role of the party into a “revolutionary nucleus” that aims to become a mass party playing simply a “catalytic” role in forming an anti-monopoly coalition.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/critiques/guardian/pt12.htm   (1759 words)

  
 Socialist Worker.org
The escalating carnage in Iraq and rising U.S. casualties are turning the November elections into a referendum on the war and one-party Republican rule in all branches of government.
A protest by hundreds of students and workers at the University of California-Santa Cruz was attacked by campus police wielding clubs and pepper spray.
Aaron Dixon, the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Washington, was arrested for protesting his exclusion from a candidates’ debate.
www.socialistworker.org   (530 words)

  
 A.J. Muste: The Workers Party Is Founded (1934)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was born of the merger of the Communist League of America and the American Workers Party, itself the outgrowth of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action.
Build the unions; organize the workers; develop their militancy: broaden, deepen, intensify, politicalize the day-today struggles; fight the bureaucrats; build the Left-progressive wing – this is the program of revolutionists today, the program of the Workers party.
The fact that the workers continue to organize in the AF of L does not mean that they have a naive confidence in the present leadership.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/muste/1934/12/wpusa.htm   (1836 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Even if you aren't in a position to be very active, every person who signs up to the Workers Party gets us one person closer to being on the ballot for the party vote in 2008.
This means for the first time ever in NZ history, people in every electorate in the country will have the chance to cast a vote for a political party which represents the interests of the working class against those of capital.
Joining the Workers Party also means that, if you want to, you can get involved much more involved in the struggle for a new world.
www.workersparty.org.nz /joinus.html   (249 words)

  
 Socialist Workers Party (US) denounces rescue of Elian Gonzalez
The US Socialist Workers Party has publicly solidarized itself with the right-wing Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez, denouncing the April 22 raid by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) agents which rescued the six-year-old boy and returned him to the care of his Cuban father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez.
In the 1980s the US government moved to deport Nazi war criminal Karl Linnas to the Soviet Union, after evidence was presented that Linnas was guilty of mass murder while leading a Latvian fascist detachment allied with Hitler's regime.
We have already before us the example of Lenora Fulani, a self-proclaimed socialist and fl nationalist, presidential candidate of the New Alliance Party in 1992, serving as a major leader of Buchanan's campaign for the Reform Party presidential nomination this year.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/may2000/swp1-m23_prn.shtml   (2658 words)

  
 Ibiza workers party - Shit05
Hundreds of workers turned up to the event and had their best day of the season.
The day started off by the poolside, DJs played their tunes to the gathering from the top of a converted Hummer, and the workers enjoyed the cool tunes while cooling off in a swimming pool which was covered in massive Black beach balls which were supplied courtesy of Black Aftershock.
By the time the sun had set, the party was in full swing, with almost everyone up dancing and milling around.
www.digitalibiza.com /shit05   (338 words)

  
 Workers World Party
Although the WWP theoretically supports worker revolutions, the WWP supported the Soviet actions that crushed worker uprisings in Hungary in the 1950s, Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and Poland in the early 1980s.
The WWP was largely an issue-oriented revolutionary party until they fielded their first candidate for president in 1980.
WWP Presidential nominee Monica Moorehead was on the ballot in 12 states in 1996 (29,100 votes - 0.03%) -- and was again the WWP's Presidential nominee in 2000 (ballot status in 4 states - 4,795 votes - 10th place - 0.004%).
www.joson.com /politics/politicalparties/workersworldparty.htm   (243 words)

  
 Socialist Party of New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The SOCIALIST PARTY strives to establish a radical democracy that places people's lives under their own control -- a non-racist, classless, feminist, socialist society in which people cooperate at work, at home, and in the community.
The Socialist Party of New Jersey strongly condemns the Israeli assault on Lebanon and the invasion of Lebanon’s southern cities.
The US government and the international community must call on Israel to withdraw from all occupied lands in Syria and Lebanon, to withdraw to its 1967 borders, and to dismantle all settlements and its illegal Security Wall.
www.njsocialistparty.org   (665 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the 2004 Socialist Workers Party Presidential Candidate
Since they weren't going to be elected anyways, the Socialist Workers Party didn't care that they nominated a ticket entirely ineligible to be elected.
They regularly do likewise in US Senate and Congressional races by nominating candidates too young to be eligible to serve.
the only voice for workers, farmers, and young people who are standing up to the brutal effects of the deepening global crisis of the capitalist system." As for ideology, the SWP has evolved into a hardline communist party advocating the brand of authoritarian politics espoused by Cuban President Fidel Castro's style of Marxism.
www.politics1.com /swp04.htm   (718 words)

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