Socialist Challenge (Canada) - Origins

Origins

In 1977, supporters of the Revolutionary Marxist Group and a separate Quebec organization, the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionnaire, united with the League for Socialist Action and the Ligue Socialiste Ouvrière to form the Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire which became the new Canadian section of the reunified Fourth International.

The RWL was closely linked to the Socialist Workers Party in the United States. As the SWP moved away from traditional Trotskyist ideas in the early 1980s its supporters in the RWL followed suit (see Pathfinder Tendency) and those who resisted the change were either expelled from the RWL or resigned.

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