SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY

SWP

• Far left political organization
• "Solidarity Work"
• Publishes The Militant
• Rooted in the communist party

LEADER

• Founded by Tony Cliff
• Activist
• A founding member of the socialist review group
• Which eventually became the SWP in 1977

HISTORY

• Saw the largest amount of members in the the US in the 1970s
• During the 1940s they started many strikes on factories manufacturing weaponsC
• Opposed racist discrimation of soldiers during WWII
• McCarthyism gave way to conservatism in the 1950s
• Political unrest within the party at this time

PURPOSE

• Promote Socialism on a global scale
• Ensure Free elections for all, protest against social injustice
• Unite the working class to rise up against capitolism
• Protest against social injustices
• Encourage workers to seize control of their collective wealth and abolish capitalism

MEMBERSHIP

• Global Organization
• Small following in the US
• Funded by the members alone
• Anywhere from 2-30 dollars depending on income
• Members from the US were influential in the the occupy Wall Street movement

SUPPORT

• Immediate withdrawal if the US, UN and other "imperialistic" armed forces from all war zones
• Massive Federally Funded public works program to millions to work at a union scale
• women's liberation
• Woman's right to choose, socialization of health care,occupy Wall Street
• All National Liberation Movements

OPPOSE

• Racism/fascism
• Imperialism/Nuclear warfare
• Oppression
• National ID card
• All immigration control

IN GOVERNEMENT

• Don't endorse candidates, but supporters are left/democratic
• Bernie Sanders(Vermont)-only socialist in the senate (independent)
• They have had candidates run in every election
• Peter Camajo/Willie Mae Reid: received 90,986 votes, the most received by this party in any presidential election
• Willie May Reid also ran for mayor of chicago against Richard J Daley

LEGISLATION

• Supported occupy Wall Street
• Oppose the Patriot Act
• Won a lawsuit against the FBI because of many years of spying and disruption
• Support ERA, basically anything to do with equality for all

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