Independent socialist press publications for the Worker's Party and the Independent Socialist League, 1940-1958.

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Independent socialist press publications for the Worker's Party and the Independent Socialist League, 1940-1958.

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This collection of socialist publications includes primarily mimeographed bulletins, produced for the Worker's Party between 1940 and 1949, and the Independent Socialist League from 1949 to 1958. The collection includes numerous position papers and reports on topics such as labor, trade unionism, and racial tensions after World War II. Approximately one third of the collection concerns youth and young socialists. The bulk of the collected materials consist of serials such as Bulletin of the Worker's Party, Party Builder, Independent Socialist League Forum, and Young Socialist Review, among others. There are also proceedings from conventions and published constitutions.

3 cubic feet.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6956223

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Independent Socialist League

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The Workers Party formed in 1940 in opposition to the Soviet invasion of Finland. In 1949, it renamed itself the Independent Socialist League (ISL) and in 1957 joined the Socialist Party of America. From the description of Independent socialist press publications for the Worker's Party and the Independent Socialist League, 1940-1958. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 191029158 The Workers Party (1940-1949), a Trotskyist organization founded and l...

Workers Party (1940-1949)

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The Workers Party (1940-1949), a Trotskyist organization founded and led by Max Shachtman, split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1940, holding the Soviet Union to be a novel exploitative social formation, bureaucratic collectivism. Opposing the "two camps" of imperialism, the WP led struggles against the World War II no-strike pledge, and published Labor Action, a rank-and-file newspaper, and The New International, a political/theoretical journal, both continuing until 1958, when the success...