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Socialist Workers Party (United States)

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The Socialist Workers Party is a small political party in the United States. It was founded in 1938 by Trotskyists who had been expelled from the Communist Party USA. During World War II, many members were imprisoned under the Smith Act of 1941. The party has run candidates for President since 1948; it received its greatest number of votes in 1976, when its candidate, Peter Camejo, received 90,310 votes. The party publishes a newspaper, The Militant. In 1976, the party won a lawsuit against the FBI as a result of years of spying by the FBI. During the 1970s and 1980s, the party abandoned Trotskyism in favor of a pro-Castro ideology. The party now has few members.

Since the 1970s, the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party has been Jack Barnes.

The Workers' World Party originated as a splinter group from the Socialist Workers Party. As did the Spartacist League, Workers League (now Socialist Equality Party), News and Letters Committees and many members of Solidarity were also once in the SWP.

See also: COINTELPRO, Socialist Workers Party (UK), List of political parties in the United States

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