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The Workers World Party (WWP) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in the United States founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy. [3]
Marcy grew discontented as a member of the Communist Party, viewing the Third International as increasingly detached from working class interests and instead a mouthpiece for Joseph Stalin, whose oppressive bureaucracy he despised. He joined the Trotskyist movement in the 1940s, building a branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Buffalo. [1]
The 1957 meeting occurred in the aftermath of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at which Joseph Stalin had been denounced, and revolts in Hungary and Poland. [8] The 1957 meeting sought to reaffirm communist unity, demarcating against the revisionism represented by the Yugoslav party and the hardliners resisting " de ...
Polish Workers' Party Polska Partia Robotnicza: PPR Władysław Gomułka: 5 January 1942 () 16 December 1948 () Marxism–Leninism Stalinism: Merged with the Polish Socialist Party to form the Polish United Workers' Party: Polish United Workers' Party Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza: PZPR Bolesław Bierut (first)
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a communist political party in the United States. PSL formed in 2004, when its members split from the Workers World Party. PSL describes itself as a revolutionary socialist party, as the party believes that only a revolution can end capitalism and establish socialism.
Henry Judd India in revolt New York, N.Y., Workers party 1942; Ernest Erber The role of the party in the fight for socialism New York, N.Y., Educational Dept., Workers Party, U.S.A., 1942; Max Shachtman For a cost-plus wage New York; The Workers party 1943; Paul Temple ABC of Marxism. New York City, Workers Party, National Education Dept. 1943
Trotsky argued that Russia was a genuine workers' state from the 1917 October Revolution until Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power. [ 3 ] The bourgeoisie had been politically overthrown by the working class and the economic basis of that state lay in collective ownership of the means of production .
The phrase has overlapping meanings: first, that workers should unite in unions to better push for their demands such as workplace pay and conditions; [11] [better source needed] secondly, that workers should see beyond their various craft unions and unite against the capitalist system; [12] and thirdly, workers of different countries have more ...