''Socialist Appeal'' was a newspaper published by American
Trotskyists
Trotskyism (, ) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Trotsky described himself as a ...
from 1935 to 1941. It was founded by supporters of the Trotskyist
Workers Party of the United States
The Workers Party of the United States (WPUS) was established in December 1934 by a merger of the American Workers Party (AWP) led by A.J. Muste and the Trotskyist Communist League of America (CLA) led by James P. Cannon. The party was disso ...
in Chicago who had practiced
entryism
Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, infiltration, a French Turn, boring from within, or boring-from-within) is a political strategy in which an organization or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organiz ...
of the
Socialist Party of America
The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America ...
in 1935. It was edited by
Albert Goldman. In 1936, the Workers Party formally dissolved and entered ''en masse'' into the SPA. In August 1937 the publication moved to New York City and was re-launched as the organ of the "Left Wing Branches of the Socialist Party" but was effectively controlled by the unofficial Trotskyist faction within the SPA. The "Socialist Appeal tendency" split from the Socialist Party to form the
Socialist Workers Party in 1938. The publication became the official organ of the SWP and continued as ''Socialist Appeal'' until 1941, when it was retitled ''
The Militant'', reverting to the name of the original (1928–1934)
Communist League of America
The Communist League of America (Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern late in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. The CLA(O) was the United States section of Leon Trotsky' ...
publication.
References
External links
Socialist Appeal: An Organ of Revolutionary Socialism Serial Archives Listing (The Online Books Page)
Marxists.org archive
Marxists.org archive
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Newspapers established in 1935
Publications disestablished in 1941
Communist periodicals published in the United States
English-language communist newspapers
Defunct Trotskyist organizations in the United States
Entryists
1935 establishments in Illinois
1941 disestablishments in New York (state)
Socialist Workers Party (United States)
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