Socialist Workers Party
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The Socialist Workers Party is a communist political party in the United States that publishes the weekly newspaper, The Militant, that dates back to 1928. They are covert members of the Trotskyite "Fourth International" based in Paris. The SWP also maintains Pathfinder Press, which publishes titles by SWP leaders like James P. Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, Evelyn Reed and Jack Barnes as well as by Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Malcolm X and Che Guevara.[1]
Its youth arm in the 1960s and 70s was the Young Socialist Alliance YSA. The printing house for SWP publications was known as Pathfinder Press.
Congressional Record Articles on the SWP/YSA
In the mid-1970's, Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA) began to insert into the Congressional Record scores of articles his staff wrote about communism in America and around the world. Among them were a series devoted solely to the Socialist Workers Party, its youth arm, the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), and it fronts and activities. Below is a listing of many of those inserts. The page numbers listed for many of them are from the online retrieval service known as "HeinOnLine" and differ from the original pagination found in the Congressional Record. An attempt will be made to provide both when possible.
- "Trotskyism and Terrorism: Part X - Socialist Workers Party Structure and Ideology"
C.R. HeinOnLine, Sept. 10, 1976, 122 Cong., pages 29792-29794; C.R. pages, "Extension of Remarks" -
Pathfinder Press/Bookstore
A celebration of their publication of "Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution: Writings and Speeches of Ernesto Che Guevara" was to be held on Sunday, December 6, 1987 in Manhattan, New York City, sponsored by the Pathfinder Bookstore, 79 Leonard Street, NYC, NY.[2] Speakers for the event were listed as:
- David Deutschmann - book editor
- Gus Newport - former mayor of Berkeley, Cal.
- Roger Green - NY State Assemblyman, NY State Assembly
- Teresa Walsh - Venceremos Brigade
- Ray Santiago - Secretary-Treasurer, FLOC Farm Labor Organizing Committee
- representatives of SWAPO and ANC
Solidarity with Sept. 24 FBI Raid Activists
The Committee to Stop FBI Repression lists Socialist Workers Party as one of the organizations that has issued a statement of solidarity in support of the activists raided in the September 24, 2010 FBI Raids.[3]
SWP fronts
Socialist Workers Party fronts.
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References
- ↑ About
- ↑ Guardian, December 9, 1987, p. 8, ad.
- ↑ Committee to Stop FBI Repression: Solidarity Statements (accessed on Oct. 6, 2010)
