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Workers Party of Canada [textual record]

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Date:

1934-1938.

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R9194-3-8-E, MG28-IV11

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

807671

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Canadian Trotskyist Movement fonds

Workers Party of Canada
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Date(s):

1934-1938.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

0.01 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consits of fragmentary documentation (mostly memoranda and grey literature) relating to the first Trotskyist organization in Canada and its youth organization, the Spartacus Youth League.

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Workers Party of Canada

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Workers Party of Canada : The Trotskyite movement separated out of the general socialist-communist movement in Canada following Trotsky's banishment from the Communist Party of the USSR in 1928 and his expulsion from the Communist International. It rejected Stalinism and top-down regimentation, and exalted workers democracy. Jack MacDonald and Maurice Spector led the movement in Canada, and in February 1922 established the Workers Party of Canada. In 1937 the group entered as a distinct faction into the CCF. It was expelled in 1939, and then formed the Socialist Workers League, which became the Canadian Section of the Fourth International. The League was driven underground during WWII. It resurfaced in 1946 as the Revolutionary Workers Party under the leadership of Ross Dowson. The movement re-entered the CCF briefly during the period from 1952 to 1955, but again proved too radical for the CCF. After expulsion, the movement was renamed the Socialist Educational League. In 1961 it became the League for Socialist Action, with a youth wing called the Yong Socialist Alliance. In 1973 disunity within the League for Socialist Action (LSA) led to the formation of the Revolutionary Marxist Group, which reunited with the main movement in 1978. During the era of glasnost the movement split again. Its main body now goes under the name of the Communist League.

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MG28-IV11
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