Socialist Workers Party (United States)
political party in the United States
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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is known as a communist party in the United States. It started as a group in the Communist Party USA that supported Leon Trotsky against Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. They are known as "solidarity work" and support strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba.
Socialist Workers Party | |
|---|---|
| National Secretary | Jack Barnes |
| Founded | January 1938 |
| Split from | Communist Party USA |
| Newspaper | The Militant |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Castroism (from 1959) Trotskyism (until 1982) |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | Pathfinder tendency |
| Colors | Maroon |
| Website | |
| themilitant | |
The SWP publishes The Militant, a weekly newspaper that dates back to 1928. It also maintains Pathfinder Press.
Other websites
change- The Militant homepage
- Pathfinder Press homepage
- James P. Cannon Internet Archive. Marxists Internet Archive.
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections - Vietnam War Era Ephemera. Includes ephemera produced by the SWP.
- Catalogue of the SWP publications within Tony Whelan's papers. Held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick.
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