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  Alliance for Workers' Liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By 1983 the paper was dominated by Matgamna's supporters (by then in the Workers Socialist League) and was clearly identified with that faction.
Socialist Organiser was banned by the Labour Party in 1990 when it was not allowed to register.
In 1993 Socialist Organiser re-launched its organisation as the Alliance for Workers' Liberty and gradually moved away from a focus on the Labour Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alliance_for_Workers_Liberty   (1021 words)

  
 An Exchange witht the Spartacist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Workers Actions believes the Spartacist theory of interpenetrated people and the political program which flows from it are a significant departure from genuine Marxism, or Trotskyism.
Workers of an oppressed nationality are under no obligation to wait for their counterparts of the oppressor nationality to catch up with them.
There are Hebrew-speaking workers (this is an entirely different category) who would be granted full democratic rights to employ their language in schools, the media, etc., though all kids would also be taught Arabic as a matter of course.
www.workersaction.org /Spartacist.html   (3221 words)

  
 OpenTopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
League for the Revolutionary Party (US) - This is the U.S. section of Communist Organization for the Fourth International (COFI) and was formed in 1976 after its members were expelled from the Revolutionary Socialist League which, itself, was a split from the International Socialists.
Socialist Alternative (Australia) - Group split from the Australian International Socialist Organisation due to criticisms that the ISO is bureaucratic and undemocratic.
Socialist Alternative (U.S.) - Publishers of "Justice" a newspaper for "Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism," Socialist Alternative is a Marxist tendency active in the Labor Party and in the trade union and student movements among others.
www.opentopia.com /dir/Society/Politics/Socialism/Organizations   (1689 words)

  
 The Workers League and the founding of the Socialist Equality Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Workers League and the founding of the Socialist Equality Party
The Workers League and the Founding of the Socialist Equality Party: The Socialist Equality Party was founded in 1996 by the Workers League.
Socialist Equality Party 1996 Election Statement: This statement was distributed during the SEP's 1996 Presidential and Congressional campaigns.
www.wsws.org /sections/category/icfi/sepuscat.shtml   (115 words)

  
 Articles - Socialist Workers Party (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Of more importance was a loose liaison with the International Socialist League in the USA and the journal of that group, New International, was distributed by the SRG until it ceased publication in 1958.
This was the forerunner of Socialist Worker which was launched in 1968 with Roger Protz as editor.
The intention had been for the IS, renamed in 1977 the IS the Socialist Workers'; Party to stand a slate of at least 50 candidates in the then upcoming General Election.
www.x-moto.net /articles/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK)   (5348 words)

  
 Alliance for Workers' Liberty biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers' Liberty is a small Trotskyist group based in the United Kingdom.
Publication of this document led to his expulsion from the Revolutionary Socialist League, and with a handful of supporters, he formed the Workers' Fight group.
Outside the IS, the TT, much increased in size, again became known as Workers' Fight, until they united with Workers Power in 1975 to form the International-Communist League.
trotskyist-tendency.biography.ms   (707 words)

  
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The International Socialist League was founded in September 1915 and absorbed into the Communist Party of South Africa in July 1921, having played a central part in the processes that led to the founding of that Party over the previous year.
Although the International Socialist League is praised for its “Marxism,” it is also criticized (by Party ideologues Bunting, Forman and the Simonses) for its ostensible failure to recognize the supposedly revolutionary potential of African nationalism in favor of an “abstract” commitment to non-racial class struggle.
In October 1916, for example, the International Socialist League stood candidates in the municipal elections in the Witwatersrand. The candidates’ manifesto, entitled “Call to the Workers of South Africa,” argued that the key task facing the workers was the formation of industrial unions open to all workers.
cssaame.com /issues/19_1/2derwalt.doc   (10315 words)

  
 Glossary of Organisations: So   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
By 1895 the Socialist League had over 10,000 members, but declined after this and when the organisation disbanded in 1901 it was down to less than 6,000.
The agrarian programme of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, called the "socialisation of the land", envisaged the abolition of private ownership of the land, which was to be transferred to the village commune on the basis of the labour principle and egalitarian tenure, and also the development of co-operatives.
Soviets were representatives of workers, peasants and soldiers in a given locale (rural soviets were a mix of peasants and soldiers, while urban soviets were a mix of workers and soldiers).
www.marxists.org /glossary/orgs/s/o.htm   (2162 words)

  
 Industrial Workers of South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For the white workers drawn to the mines and cities of the vast new Witwatersrand complex from across the world, it is worth risking endemic silicosis for unmatched wages for skilled men.
It is issued by the International Socialist League, a revolutionary syndicalist organis- ation influenced by the IWW and formed in 1915 in opposition to the First World War, and the racist and conservative policies of the all-white South African Labour Party and the craft unions supporting it.
Supported by the Industrial Socialist League, the strike by more than 2000 workers demands better wages and opposes food exports, which many workers believe is contributing to the country’s high post-war inflation rate.
www.circlealpha.com /library/IWSA.html   (1293 words)

  
 Workers' Revolutionary Party biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This led them to form the Socialist Labour League in 1959, independent and for the first time openly Trotskyist, although still with most of its members in the Labour Party.
The WRP (Workers Press) led by Cliff Slaughter meanwhile entered into a period in which its press became the focus of debate on the history of the WRP/ICFI for the members of the WRP and other Trotskyists in Britain and abroad.
This which split in February 1988 to form the International Socialist League as a section of Argentinian Trotskyist leader Nahuel Moreno 's International Workers League (LIT).
workers-revolutionary-party.biography.ms   (1047 words)

  
 :: SOCIALIST VOICE :: Paper of the International Socialist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We say that what is needed is the development of the workers’; revolution, not the deepening of ‘democracy’, and that for that reason the central task cannot be a Constituent Assembly.
And, in the case of the PO (Workers Party), they raise it as a central demand, as the great solution to the revolution, as a demand for power.
Without seeing that there are no shortcuts for power, and that, when there is not workers’; alternative, the solution is not to propose a bourgeois alternative, a more democratic institution than the present one, but to assist the development of the embryos of workers organisations that are arising.
www.socialistvoice.org /argentina/argentina_democratic.html   (988 words)

  
 Permanent Revolution in the U.S. Today
Seeing as "real" workers only the backward elements led the SWP inevitably to a fatal erosion of belief in workers as a revolutionary power, a corollary reformism and opportunism in the labor and social movements, and finally, degeneration into Stalinism and deserved political death in the 1980s.
This stratum of bourgeoisified workers, or the "labour aristocracy," who are quite Philistine in their mode of life, in the size of their earnings and in their outlook, serve as the principal prop of the Second International, and, in our days, the principal social (not military) prop of the bourgeoisie.
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP), under the influence of radical laborism and habitually tail-ending the anti-feminists, homophobes, and Black cultural nationalists, was slow to respond to the militancy and rage of the gay rights upsurge.
www.socialism.com /library/perm1.html   (10360 words)

  
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In the meantime he wrote material for the Socialist League and was elected to its executive in 1936.
The Socialist League held its inaugural meeting on Sunday 2 October 1932 at the Co-operative Hall, Leicester, on the day before the Labour Party's annual Conference opened in the same town.
The dissolution of the Socialist League can be regarded then, as an act of immolation on the altar of the "United Front", or as an of murder.
www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /backiss/Vol1/No1/Socleag.html   (4535 words)

  
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In reviving the labor party demand, the Workers League was striving to reassert the central and leading role of the American working class in the struggle against US capitalism and, at the same time, to elaborate a viable strategy for the development of the revolutionary movement.
Briefly, in presenting this party to the working class, we must explain that its goal is the establishment of a workers government: and by that we mean a government for the workers, of the workers and by the workers.
That is, the Workers League shall intervene in the 1996 elections with presidential and congressional candidates.
www.wsws.org /public_html/prioriss/iwb5-6/wlsep.htm   (6634 words)

  
 International Communist League
With 1.6 million workers, Wal-Mart is the largest employer in the U.S. and Mexico as well as the largest retailer in Canada.
The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) is a proletarian, revolutionary and internationalist tendency committed to the task of building Leninist parties as national sections of a democratic-centralist international.
The origins of the ICL are in the Spartacist League/U.S., which began as the Revolutionary Tendency in the SWP and was bureaucratically expelled in 1963.
www.icl-fi.org   (281 words)

  
 The Militant - a socialist newspaper - July 18, 2005 -- front page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was the latest of such picket lines that the miners have organized during their 22-month-long battle to organize the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) at the mine, owned by C.W. Mining.
All the workers coming out of the mine at the end of day shift, however, were relatives of the mine owners, according to the pickets.
Mark Downs is a retired longshore worker and ILWU member in Seattle, Washington, where he is active in building solidarity for the Co-Op miners.
www.themilitant.com   (608 words)

  
 Communism Research Wiki: Socialist Equality Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Led by Tim Wohlforth, the Workers League was a split from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), one of two to develop around SWP evaluations of the Cuban Revolution.
By the mid-1970s, the Socialist Labor League / Workers Revolutionary Party and the United States' Socialist Workers Party were enemies.
As the Workers Revolutionary Party's American affiliate, the Workers League attacked the SWP at every opportunity, claiming that SWP leader Joe Hansen had helped kill Trotsky in 1940 and that many of the SWP's leadership were CIA agents, including national secretary Jack Barnes.
www.yardley.ca /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Socialist_Equality_Party   (268 words)

  
 Workers International Vanguard League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Workers International News is a newsletter that has been around for some time and this website mainly an online edition of the newsletter.
Subscribe to Workers International News and feel free to comment on the content in the articles by making contact with us
The extent and depth of this hope will be the key to the political fortunes of many of our “leaders”.
www.workersinternational.org.za   (414 words)

  
 Socialist Appeal - Official Organ of the Workers International League
Even though the majority of American students are a part of the public education system, there are large numbers of students who are not being given the adequate tools for an effective education.
Based as they are on a vast array of often-contradictory data, economic perspectives are extremely difficult to make with any precision.
Bush has outlined an aggressive foreign and domestic agenda for his second term.
www.socialistappeal.org   (1401 words)

  
 Thompson + Lewis: Revolution Unfinished? (Glossary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was the official 4th International Group but was removed in the early 1960s.
Took over Labour Party Young Socialists in early 1960 s, was expelled and now controls Young Socialists as junior junior WRP.
Smaller group formed mainly from two expelled Trotskyist tendencies from IS – Workers Fight and Workers Power in 1970s.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/critiques/bigflame/glossary.htm   (394 words)

  
 CAC Manuscripts: MS 468
Chicago Socialist Party of the U.S. 000386 Tucker, Irwin St. John Now it must be done.
Chicago Socialist Party of the U.S. 000494 Trachtenberg, Alexander American socialists and the war.
003811 Workers and Peasants of the Soviet Union To comrades and brothers from the workers and peasants...
www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/cac/ms0468k.html   (8824 words)

  
 Red Piranha - Socialist Information Pages
The purpose of Red Piranha - Socialist Information Pages is to collect information about the history, leadership and current politics of left-wing parties and movements around the world.
Sveriges Kommunistiska Arbetareförbund (Communist Labour League of Sweden, 1956-1967)
Sveriges Kommunistiska Arbetarförbund (Communist Workers' League of Sweden, 1977-?)
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/1884/e-index.htm   (239 words)

  
 Communist League of America
In 1938 the party changed its name to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
Cannon remained as national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party until replaced by Farrell Dobbs in 1953.
As a result, in the recent years we have seen everywhere a strengthening of the opportunist elements, an enormous development and entrenchment of bureaucratism, and wholesale expulsions of the proletarian left - the core of the workers' vanguard.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcommunistleague.htm   (1610 words)

  
 Socialist Appeal - Join the Workers International League
Socialist Appeal - Join the Workers International League
Membership in the Workers International league starts with agreement with and commitment to the program, theoretical ideas, and organizational structures and goals of the WIL.
Political agreement with the ideas of Marxism as explained in our websites and is the first step towards becoming a member.
www.socialistappeal.org /join.html   (186 words)

  
 Trotskyist Parties and Organizations of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Socialist Left Force (Fuerza de Izquierda Socialista, FIS), Peru
Socialist Action Group (SAG), Australia, split from SA added May 05
Workers' Party (Partido de los Trabajadores, PT), Paraguay
www.broadleft.org /trotskyi.htm   (798 words)

  
 Holt Labor Library - Collection Description
Audio tapes of speeches and classes by socialist and labor activists
Socialist Workers' Party &endash; U.S.A. Sojourner Truth Organization
Crossroads: The Mine Workers Fight for Jobs with a Future.
www.holtlaborlibrary.org /Collection.html   (1123 words)

  
 Trotskyist links
Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo(Party of Workers' for Socialism, Argentina)
Spartakist Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands(Spartacist Workers' Party of Germany, unofficial(written by right-wingers), Germany)
Arbetarförbundet för Socialism (Workers' League for Socialism, Sweden)
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/1884/tro-links.htm   (218 words)

  
 D.C.'s Political Report: Inactive Political Parties
Industrial Government Party affiliated with the Socialist Labor Party
Militant Workers Party affiliated with the Socialist Workers
Workers' League - changed name to the Socialist Equity Party
www.dcpoliticalreport.com /inactive.htm   (250 words)

  
 Socialist Workers Party (Britain) - anti-capitalism, liberation and socialism
Socialist Workers Party (Britain) - anti-capitalism, liberation and socialism
» Northampton post workers celebrate a crucial victory
The fact that some 4,000 people made it to the Marxism 2005 event in central London in the wake of the bombings and with most having been in Scotland protesting against the G8 just days before shows a enthusiasm for ideas that was evident wherever you turned.
www.swp.org.uk   (255 words)

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