Workers' International League

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:affiliatedWith gptkb:Workers_Party_of_the_United_States
gptkb:Socialist_Workers_Party
Revolutionary_Workers_League
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:International_Committee_of_the_Fourth_International
gptkb:International_Workers'_League_(Fourth_International)
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Fourth_International
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved 1953
gptkbp:events founding conference
1953 dissolution
gptkbp:focus workers' rights
socialist revolution
anti-Stalinism
gptkbp:founded 1938
gptkbp:goal defend workers' rights
oppose imperialism
establish a socialist society
promote internationalism
educate the working class
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:New_York_City
gptkbp:historicalContext gptkb:Cold_War
gptkb:World_War_II
Great Depression
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Workers' International League
gptkbp:ideology Trotskyism
gptkbp:key_figure gptkb:Shachtman
Cannon
Novack
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:legacy influence on leftist movements
advocacy for workers' self-management
formation of new socialist organizations
contribution_to_Trotskyist_theory
historical_analysis_of_Stalinism
gptkbp:membership thousands
gptkbp:notable_member gptkb:Max_Shachtman
gptkb:James_P._Cannon
George Novack
gptkbp:politicalPosition left-wing
gptkbp:publications The New International
gptkbp:successor gptkb:International_Committee_of_the_Fourth_International
gptkbp:tactics political education
mass mobilization
building a revolutionary party
united front tactics