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Socialist Workers’ Party
political party, United States
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influenced by Trotsky
- In Leon Trotsky: Exile and assassination of Leon Trotsky
…(whose American branch was the Socialist Workers’ Party) proved to be little more than a shadow organization, although a small founding conference was officially held in France in 1938.
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prosecutions under the Smith Act
- In Smith Act
…Act, of leaders of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), took place in 1941. After World War II the statute was used against the leadership of the American Communist Party (Communist Party of the United States of America; CPUSA). The convictions of the principal officers of the CPUSA (1949) were sustained—and…
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