Socialist Workers Party

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The Socialist Workers Party is a communist political party in the United States that publishes the weekly newspaper, The Militant, that dates back to 1928. They are covert members of the Trotskyite "Fourth International" based in Paris. The SWP also maintains Pathfinder Press, which publishes titles by SWP leaders like James P. Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, Evelyn Reed and Jack Barnes as well as by Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Malcolm X and Che Guevara.^[1]

Its youth arm in the 1960s and 70s was the Young Socialist Alliance YSA. The printing house for SWP publications was known as Pathfinder Press.

Congressional Record Articles on the SWP/YSA

In the mid-1970's, Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA) began to insert into the Congressional Record scores of articles his staff wrote about communism in America and around the world. Among them were a series devoted solely to the Socialist Workers Party, its youth arm, the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), and it fronts and activities. Below is a listing of many of those inserts. The page numbers listed for many of them are from the online retrieval service known as "HeinOnLine" and differ from the original pagination found in the Congressional Record. An attempt will be made to provide both when possible.

"Trotskyism and Terrorism: Part X - Socialist Workers Party Structure and Ideology"

C.R. HeinOnLine, Sept. 10, 1976, 122 Cong., pages 29792-29794; C.R. pages, "Extension of Remarks" -

Pathfinder Press/Bookstore

A celebration of their publication of "Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution: Writings and Speeches of Ernesto Che Guevara" was to be held on Sunday, December 6, 1987 in Manhattan, New York City, sponsored by the Pathfinder Bookstore, 79 Leonard Street, NYC, NY.^[2] Speakers for the event were listed as:

David Deutschmann - book editor
Gus Newport - former mayor of Berkeley, Cal.
Roger Green - NY State Assemblyman, NY State Assembly
Teresa Walsh - Venceremos Brigade
Ray Santiago - Secretary-Treasurer, FLOC Farm Labor Organizing Committee
representatives of SWAPO and ANC

Solidarity with Sept. 24 FBI Raid Activists

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression lists Socialist Workers Party as one of the organizations that has issued a statement of solidarity in support of the activists raided in the September 24, 2010 FBI Raids.^[3]

SWP fronts

Socialist Workers Party fronts.

Ever since its formation in 1937 as a split-off from other "socialist" organizations, the Socialist Workers Party and its youth arm [[Young Socialist Alliance", mastered the technique of setting up "front" organizations that they controlled but which were perceived by an unknowing and often uninformed public, as being independent "issue" groups.

The SWP's ability to suck in non-communists, including many members of Congress, to sponsor, support and even talk at their front operations, has been an untold story by most of the media with the major exceptions of Human Events weekly, "The Pink Sheet on the Left" and its successor, "The American Sentinel."

Listed below are both major and minor SWP fronts with infomration about them and public sources/documentation that reveal these organizations true masters.

Fronts:

Student Mobilization Committee Against the War in Vietnam also know commonly as "Student Mobilization Committee, Student Mobe, SMC

Womens'National Abortion Action Coalition WONAAC

Political Rights Defense Fund PRDF

United States Committee for Latin America USLA

GI Civil Liberties Committee GICLC

National Peace Action Coalition

OTHERS to be listed

A lot of previously unseen information about the SWP/YSA and its ties to the Trotskyite Fourth International, as well as about their fronts, can be found in the publications of the House Committee on Un-American Activities HCUA and its successor, the House Internal Security Committee HISC, as well as in the definitive study by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security SISS, of the Senate Judiciary Committee, "Trotskyite Terrorist International", SISS, July 24, 1975.

The SWP often set up political organizations to support their candidates for both local, state and federal (Congressional) elections, too many to list. However, a few had so many "sponsors" or "endorsers" listed that it is worth having them reproduced at KW to show just "who" was supporting the SWP/YSA and their candidates.

In the SWP newspaper The Militant of November 26, 1971, Page 4, a full page notice was published about the [{Women for Jenness & Pulley]], the SWP's presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates for 1972. The notice was put out by the Socialist Workers '72 Campaign Committee. The full text of this item is reproduced below, along with the names of "endorsers", listed by state, along with any self-provided organizational identifications. Keywiki will provide additional identifications whenever possible, after the printed identification.

"Women for Jenness & Pulley"

Linda Jenness is the first feminist to run for President of the United States in this century. She and her running-mate, Andrew Pulley, are active supporters of the sruggle for women's liberation. Linda Jenness' campaign is helping to build a powerful, independent movement of women to fight for our rights. She is the only presidential candidate who has actively supported the November 20 demonstrations in Washington D.C. and San Francisco for the repeal of all anti-abortion laws, no force sterilization, and no contraception laws.

The platform of the Socialist Workers candidates include the following planks on women's liberation:

Abolish all anti-abortion laws; no forced sterilization; no contraception laws.
Free child care centers available at all times to be controlled by those who use them.
Pass the Equal Rights Amendment; enforce Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; all protective laws beneficial to women should be extended to cover men as well.
The billions of dollars wasted on war and destruction should be used to build child care centers, abortion clinics, hospitals and decent housing for all; immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Southeast Asia.
Support the struggles of women of all oppressed nationalities -- Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Native-Americans, and Asian-Americans-- for their human rights. Support the struggle of the oppressed nationalities for liberation and for control of their own communities.
An end to laws and discrimination against gay women and men.
For a crash program of government-funded research to develop safe and effective abortion and birth-control methods. Abortion and birth-control devices should be free to all women who want them.
Review the cases of all women prisoners by a commission of their peers; abolish all laws which victimize women, such as laws against prostitution.

We endorse the Jenness-Pulley ticket as a positive alternative to the Democratic and Republican Parties, although we do not necessarily agree with all of the planks of the Socialist Workers party platform. We invite you to join us.

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