 Workers World Party (WWP) is a communist party in the United States founded in 1959 by Sam Marcy. Marcy and his followers split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1958 over a series of long-standing differences, among them Marcy's group's support for Henry A. Wallace's Progressive Party in 1948, the positive view they held of the Chinese Revolution led by Mao Zedong, and their endorsement of the 1956 Soviet intervention in Hungary, all of which the SWP opposed. Image File history File links Wwlogo. ...
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Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Socialist Workers Party is a small communist political party in the United States. ...
Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941–45), the 11th Secretary of Agriculture (1933–40), and the 10th Secretary of Commerce (1945–46). ...
The United States Progressive Party of 1948 was a political party that ran former Vice President Henry A. Wallace of Iowa for president and U.S. Senator Glen H. Taylor of Idaho for vice president in 1948. ...
Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
Survivors of the Long March coalesce Mao Zedong declares the Peoples Republic of China The Chinese Revolution or Chinese Revolution of 1949 refers to the final stage of fighting (1946–1950) in the Chinese Civil War. ...
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Combatants Soviet Union ÃVH Hungarian government, various nationalist militias Commanders Yuri Andropov Pál Maléter, Béla Király, Gergely Pongrátz, József Dudás Strength 150,000 troops, 6,000 tanks 100,000+ demonstrators (some later armed), unknown number of soldiers Casualties 720 killed according to official...
The WWP describes itself as a party that has, since its founding, "supported the struggles of all oppressed peoples. It has recognized the right of nations to self-determination, including the nationally oppressed peoples inside the United States. It supports affirmative action as absolutely necessary in the fight for equality. It opposes all forms of racism and religious bigotry." Initially the WWP was confined to the Buffalo, New York area, where it had constituted the Buffalo and two other smaller branches of the SWP, but expanded in the 1960s. During the Civil Rights Movement the WWP had a youth movement, "Youth Against War and Fascism", which opposed the Vietnam War. Workers World and YAWF were also notable for their consistent defense of the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground along with Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Puerto Rican Independence movement. Oppression is the negative outcome experienced by people targeted by the arbitrary and cruel exercise of power in a society or social group. ...
Self-determination is a principle in international law that a people ought to be able to determine their own governmental forms and structure free from outside influence. ...
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Social equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect, minimally at least in voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and property rights. ...
Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling Hate speech · Hate crime Lynching · Gay bashing Genocide · Holocaust Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing Pogrom · Race war Religious persecution Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism White/Black supremacy Hate groups · Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism Womens/Universal suffrage Civil rights · Gay rights Childrens rights · Youth rights Groups NAACP...
A bigot is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from their own. ...
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The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
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Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...
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John Jacobs and Terry Robbins at the Days of Rage, Chicago, October 1969 (Photo credit: David Fenton; publicity photo for film Weather Underground) Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of...
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Mission
Ideologically, the WWP is a fusion of Trotskyism and several other interpretations of communism. WWP continues to make available the writings of many historic communists including Trotsky, Stalin, and Mao. The inclusion of Stalin and Mao along with Trotsky in a communist party is unusual, and is possibly unique to WWP. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...
1915 passport photo of Trotsky Leon Davidovich Trotsky (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Trotskii, Trotski, Trotzky) (October 26 (O.S.) = November 7 (N.S.), 1879 - August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Л...
Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილ...
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Activities and Organizational Structure Among activists, WWP has been well-known for sponsoring or directing numerous popular front groups, which critics allege are actually front groups. The party founded the Act Now To Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) coalition shortly after 9/11, and has run both the All People's Congress (APC) and the International Action Center (IAC) for many years. The APC and the IAC in particular share a large degree of overlap in their memberships with cadre in the WWP. In 2004, a youth group close with the WWP called Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST) was founded, but FIST claims an independent left-wing political orientation and does not define itself as the WWP youth group. Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ...
Popular Fronts comprise broad coalitions of political and other groups, often made up of oppositioners or left wingers, and often united against particularly stringent circumstances. ...
A front organization, also known as a front group (if it is structured to look like a voluntary association) or a front company or simply a front (if it is structured to look like a company), is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization. ...
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism—also known as International ANSWER and the ANSWER Coalition—is a radical protest organization which has taken a leading role in the post-9/11 anti-war movement. ...
The date that commonly refers to the attacks on United States citizens on September 11, 2001 (see the September 11, 2001 Attacks). ...
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2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Youth Group is a rock band from Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records. ...
In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...
Also in 2004, the San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington DC branches of WWP left almost in their entirety to form the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The newly formed PSL assumed leadership of the ANSWER coalition, leaving the WWP to build a new group, the Troops Out Now Coalition. This article is about the city in California. ...
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Flag Seal Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ...
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The Troops Out Now Coalition (TONC) is a United States anti-war organization, which describes itself as a national grassroots coalition of antiwar activists, trade unionists, solidarity activists and community organizers. ...
True to what it sees as its fundamental principles, WWP has always remained primarily action-oriented. Its pamphlets and books are scarcely theoretical, though the documents are steeped in historical analysis and idiom as a platform for agitation. The party claims it is the most skillful practitioner of united front strategy (as opposed to just tactics) on the U.S. left. They prefer to win influence and leadership through what they see as their higher-than-usual degree of militancy, rather than purely through ideological advances. Critics contend that WWP is not nearly as grassroots or militant as it makes itself out to be, but defenders typically counter, either implicitly or vocally, that such criticism amounts to nothing more than anti-communist and/or right-wing banter. The WWP considers itself an important United States ally of third world solidarity movements. In mathematics, theory is used informally to refer to a body of knowledge about mathematics. ...
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Agitation may have the following special meanings Agitation, an emotional state Agitation, putting into motion (by shaking or stirring) Agitation, a term from the lexicon of Communists: political activities aimed at urging people to do something This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that...
In Leninist bogus, a united front is a coalition of Clinton likeleft-wing working class forces which put forward a common set of demands and share a common plan of action, but which do not subordinate themselves to the front, retaining their abilities for independent political action and continuing to...
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WWP lists regional offices in 20 major US cities [1]. The WWP claims donations and volunteerism as the source of its funding and operational resources. However, because WWP is not a registered PAC or non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, ultimate sources of the funds of the party are not public information. In the United States, a political action committee, or PAC, is the name commonly given to a private group organized to elect or defeat government officials in order to promote legislation, often supporting the groups special interests. ...
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Controversy Within the U.S. communist movement, WWP's politics are extremely unusual and controversial. The party agrees with Trotsky's description of pre-1991 Russia as being a "degenerated workers' state" and that countries such as Cuba, North Korea and China are deformed workers states. But members of the party nevertheless use the term "socialist" to describe these states, and they often support them much more energetically than do other U.S. communist parties. The WWP also supports Iraq and Libya as countries they consider victims of U.S. imperialism — though it should be noted that WWP does not describe either of those two states as being socialist. The party also has a controversial position regarding the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, which it describes as "a battle, not a massacre." Finally, the party opposed both Gulf Wars but was also one of the few U.S. communist groups other than the modern Spartacist League to hail the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In Trotskyist political theory the term degenerated workers state has been used since the 1930s to describe the state of the Soviet Union after Stalins consolidation of power in or about 1924. ...
In Trotskyist political theory, deformed workers states are states where capitalism has been overthrown through social revolution and the property forms have changed into a collectivized planned economy, but where the working class has never held political power (as it did in Russia shortly after the Russian Revolution). ...
Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ...
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The Unknown Rebel - This famous photo, taken on 5 June 1989 by photographer Jeff Widener, depicts a lone protester whose actions halted a column of advancing tanks until he was pulled into the crowd. ...
Combatants Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia Egypt Syria Qatar France Canada UN Coalition Republic of Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf Saddam Hussein Strength 660,000 360,000 Casualties 378 dead, 1,000 wounded 25,000 dead, 75,000 wounded The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991) was...
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Most controversially of all, however, is the fact that WWP has defended Slobodan Milošević and Saddam Hussein against attacks from both the right and the left. Notably, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, founder of the International Action Center, is in Iraq as of December 2005 acting as a consult to Hussein's defense team. Clark also spoke sympathetically of Milošević at his funeral in March 2006, telling the crowd, "History will prove that Slobodan Milošević was right." Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević (IPA Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић) (Požarevac, 20 August 1941 – The Hague, 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. ...
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: ‎ [1]; April 28, 1937[2] – December 30, 2006[3]), was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003. ...
In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...
In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...
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William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is a lawyer and activist. ...
The International Action Center is a radical activist group founded by former United States attorney general Ramsey Clark, with the goal of coordinating activism and information opposing domestic and international injustices. The IAC has offices in major cities including New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Boston. ...
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Presidential candidates Deidre Griswold was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in 1980 presidential election. ...
Gavrielle Holmes was a third-party candidate (Workers World Party) for President of the United States in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, receiving votes in Ohio and Rhode Island. ...
Larry Holmes is the co-founder of International ANSWER and founder of Millions for Mumia, which seeks the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. ...
Gavrielle Holmes was a third-party candidate (Workers World Party) for President of the United States in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, receiving votes in Ohio and Rhode Island. ...
Gloria Estela LaRiva was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 1992, representing the Workers World Party; she was only on the ballot in New Mexico, garnering 181 votes. ...
Larry Holmes is the co-founder of International ANSWER and founder of Millions for Mumia, which seeks the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. ...
Gloria Estela LaRiva was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 1992, representing the Workers World Party; she was only on the ballot in New Mexico, garnering 181 votes. ...
Gloria Estela LaRiva was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 1992, representing the Workers World Party; she was only on the ballot in New Mexico, garnering 181 votes. ...
Larry Holmes is the co-founder of International ANSWER and founder of Millions for Mumia, which seeks the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. ...
Monica Moorehead is a frequent candidate of the Workers World Party, a U.S. left-wing party. ...
Gloria Estela LaRiva was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 1992, representing the Workers World Party; she was only on the ballot in New Mexico, garnering 181 votes. ...
Monica Moorehead is a frequent candidate of the Workers World Party, a U.S. left-wing party. ...
Gloria Estela LaRiva was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 1992, representing the Workers World Party; she was only on the ballot in New Mexico, garnering 181 votes. ...
John Parker, was the candidate of the Workers World Party, a U.S. communist political party, for President of the United States in 2004. ...
Teresa Gutiérrez was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 2004, representing the Workers World Party (WWP) as the running mate of John Parker. ...
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