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Communist League Of America

The Communist League of America (Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern late in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. The CLA(O) was the United States section of Leon Trotsky's International Left Opposition and initially positioned itself as not a rival party to the CPUSA but as a faction of it and the Comintern. The group was terminated in 1934 when it merged with the American Workers Party headed by A. J. Muste to establish the Workers Party of the United States.

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Communist Party USA Socialist Party USA Party for Socialism and Liberation Freedom Socialist Party Socialist Action Democratic Socialists of America International Socialist Organization Revolutionary Communist Party USA Socialist Alternative Socialist Equality Party Socialist Workers Party Workers World Party World Socialist Party of the United States
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Socialist Labor Party of America Social Democratic Party of America Socialist Party of America Farmer-Labor Party Proletarian Party of America Communist League of America American Workers Party Workers Party of the United States American Labor Party Puerto Rican Socialist Party Black Panther Party Youth International Party Communist Workers Party

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Albert Einstein
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Literature

Looking Backward
The Other America
Why Socialism?
Voluntary Socialism

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