Revolutionary Workers League (U.S.)

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Revolutionary Workers League
AbbreviationRWL
Founded1976 (1976)
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The Revolutionary Workers League is a small Trotskyist group formed in the United States in the late 1970s. The RWL still has about 20 active members.

History

The RWL was founded in 1976 by

Workers League of the United States in the mid-1970s. The SL(DC), shrinking since its formation, led by Steve Zeltzer, and had its main base in San Francisco. By 1982 the RWL was credited with about 40 members.[1]

The RWL supported anti-administration forces within the

Peace & Freedom Party in California. There they formed a bloc with members of the Internationalist Workers Party (Fourth International) at the August 1984 convention against a majority dominated by the Communist Party USA.[2]

Negotiations had been opened up between the RWL and the IWP(FI) since October 1982. The RWL participated in the IWP(FI)s Emergency National Trotskyist Conference in 1983 and accepted the IWP(FI)s invitation to participate in the

International Workers League (Fourth International) world congress in 1984. the RWL had been affiliated with Alan Thornetts Trotskyist International Liaison Committee from the late 1970s until at least after the Falklands War of 1982.[3] In the summer of 1984, RWL members participated in the founding conference of the International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International (ITC).[4]

In 1991, a group of RWL members, including founding member Peter Sollenberger, left to form the Trotskyist League. The Revolutionary Workers League maintained a website at rwl-us.org and rwlus.org until 2006.[5] The ITC's current website is https://www.itc4.org/.[6] It formed the Civil Rights organization, the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), in 1995 whose headquarters is in Detroit. BAMN continues to organize high-profile direct actions at UC Berkeley and elsewhere in California.

Publications

Notes

  1. ^ Alexander pp. 922–3
  2. ^ Alexander p. 923
  3. ^ Alexander p. 922
  4. ^ "International Trotskyist Committee" (PDF). itc4.org. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Revolutionary Workers League/U.S." www.rwlus.org. Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Home". itc4.org.

References

  • Alexander, Robert (1991). International Trotskyism: A Documented Analysis of the World Movement Durham, Duke University Press.

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