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The Communist Workers' Party (CWP) was a far-left Maoist group in the United States. It had its origin in 1973 as the Asian Study Group (renamed the Workers' Viewpoint Organization in 1976) established by Jerry Tung, a former member of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) [ 2 ] who had grown disenchanted with the group and disagreed with changes ...
The Communist Workers' Party (CWP) had its origin in 1973 in New York as a splinter group of the Communist Party USA. "The CWP was one of several groups which were established as part of a Maoist revival within the radical community. To the Maoists, the pro-Soviet Communist Party USA was soft on capitalism and it also lacked militancy."
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is an American political party with a communist platform that was founded in 1919 [1] Its history is deeply rooted in the history of the American labor movement as it played critical roles in the earliest struggles to organize American workers into unions, in leadership of labor strikes, [2] as well as prominent involvement in later civil rights and anti-war ...
Foster, William Z., History of the Communist Party of the United States. New York: International Publishers, 1952. Howe, Irving and Lewis Coser, The American Communist Party: A Critical History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. Isserman, Maurice, Which Side Were You On?: The American Communist Party During the Second World War.
The Communist Workers' Party was a Maoist group in the United States which had its origin in 1973 as the Asian Study Group (renamed the Workers' Viewpoint Organization in 1976) established by Jerry Tung, a former member of the PLP [217] who had grown disenchanted with the group and disagreed with changes taking place in the party line.
As the Communist International entered the Third Period, the principle of a leftist united front was abandoned in favor of a single above-ground Communist Party. The above-ground Workers Party and underground party were thus gradually merged in a series of party conferences in the late 1920s into the Communist Party USA.
The Decline of American Communism: A History of the Communist Party of the United States since 1945. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1959. Starobin, Joseph R., American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Zumoff, Jacob A. The Communist International and US Communism, 1919–1929.
Communist Party USA Chapter 6. Socialist Workers Party Chapter 7. Spartacist League Chapter 8. Workers League Chapter 9. The Guardian Chapter 10. Black Panther Party Chapter 11. Students for a Democratic Society Chapter 12. Progressive Labor Party Chapter 13. Workers World Party Chapter 14. Communist Party USA (Marxist–Leninist) Chapter 15.