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The SWP hoped to change American values and ensure each citizen had equal rights under the law. "Many black nationalists turned to the Socialist Workers Party because the SWP proposed that its black members collaborate with other militant African Americans", according to a group of historians studying the public service of African Americans. [34]
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded as the Socialist Review Group by supporters of Tony Cliff in 1950, it became the International Socialists in 1962 and the SWP in 1977. [ 3 ]
The Socialist Workers Party was founded on December 31, 1937, by Trotskyists following the expulsion of the "Socialist Appeal faction" from the Socialist Party of America. The SWP's newspaper continued to be known as Socialist Appeal until 1941 when it was renamed The Militant. This publication has continued without interruption. [citation needed]
Martin James Smith (born October 1963 [1]) is a British political activist, and a former National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP); a position he held from 2004 until January 2011. [2] He is reported to have left the SWP in 2013, following accusations of the rape of a much younger female member of the party. [3]
In Scotland SWP members joined the Scottish Socialist Party as an officially recognised platform in 2001 known as the Socialist Worker Platform. However membership of the SSP does not seem to have increased the influence of the SWP and it has been claimed that the group has declined in numbers since joining.
Mark Stanton Curtis [1] (born 1959) [2] is a former member of the American Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Curtis was the subject of a defense campaign by the SWP after he was charged and convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in 1988.
Jack Barnes (born 1940) is an American communist and the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Barnes was elected the party's national secretary in 1972, replacing the retiring Farrell Dobbs. [1] He joined the SWP in the early 1960s as a student at Carleton College in Minnesota and
Linda Jenness (born January 11, 1941) [1] is a former Socialist Workers Party (SWP) candidate for president of the United States. She was the party's nominee in the 1972 election. She finished fourth in the general election, with 83,380 votes to 47,169,911 for the winner, Richard Nixon. [note 1] [2]