''Workers Vanguard'' was a
Marxist
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bi-weekly newspaper published by the
Spartacist League
The Spartacus League (German: ''Spartakusbund'') was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. It was founded in August 1914 as the "International Group" by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other ...
, a
Trotskyist
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political organization in the
United States
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. It was affiliated also with the
International Communist League, a confederation of similar groups.
History
''WV'' was first published in October 1971 as a monthly and absorbed ''Workers' Action'', a short-lived bimonthly newspaper published by the nominally independent Committee for a Labor Party.
It was edited for over twenty years by
Jan Norden, until he was expelled from the Spartacist League in 1996. Norden went on to found the
League for the Fourth International
The League for the Fourth International (LFI) is a Trotskyist international organization that has bases in Mexico, Brazil, Italy, the United States and Germany. All of these are very small and based in at most one or two cities. Like other inter ...
.
It is available online beginning with the issues for 1999. (Prior years of publication, in bound volumes, can be ordered from the Spartacist Publishing Company).
References
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External links
''Workers Vanguard''''Workers Vanguard Archives''
Trotskyist organizations in the United States
Newspapers published in New York City
Newspapers established in 1971
Communist periodicals published in the United States
Political magazines published in the United States
1971 establishments in the United States