American Trotskyist movement

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/American_Trotskyist_movement

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:affiliatedWith	gptkb:Fourth_International gptkb:International_Committee_of_the_Fourth_International gptkb:United_Secretariat_of_the_Fourth_International
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:emergedIn	Communist movement in the United States
gptkbp:goal	Abolition of capitalism Establishment of workers' democracy World socialist revolution
gptkbp:historicalPeriod	1930s-present
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	American Trotskyist movement
gptkbp:ideology	Trotskyism
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Russian_Revolution gptkb:Leon_Trotsky
gptkbp:keyEvent	Formation of Socialist Workers Party (1938) Founding of Communist League of America (1928) Minneapolis Teamsters Strike (1934) Smith Act Trials (1941) Split leading to Workers Party (1940) Formation of International Socialist Organization (1977)
gptkbp:notableEvent	Civil rights activism Antiwar activism Expulsion from Communist Party USA (1928) Involvement in anti-Vietnam War movement Involvement in feminist movement Participation in Black liberation movement Participation in labor strikes
gptkbp:notableFigure	gptkb:Farrell_Dobbs gptkb:James_P._Cannon gptkb:Max_Shachtman gptkb:C.L.R._James
gptkbp:notableOrganization	gptkb:Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States) gptkb:Spartacist_League gptkb:Freedom_Socialist_Party International Socialist Organization Socialist Action Workers Party (United States, 1940)
gptkbp:notablePublication	gptkb:The_Militant gptkb:Socialist_Worker gptkb:Workers_Vanguard gptkb:The_Organizer gptkb:New_International gptkb:Socialist_Appeal gptkb:Against_the_Current Workers Power
gptkbp:opposedBy	gptkb:Stalinism Capitalism Fascism
gptkbp:separates	gptkb:Communist_Party_USA
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:James_P._Cannon
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7