Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America was a socialist political party in the United States. It was formed in 1901 by a merger between the Social Democratic Party of Eugene V. Debs, formed three years earlier by veterans of the Pullman Strike of the American Railway Union, and a wing of the older Socialist Labor Party of America.

The Independent Socialist League

In 1958 the party admitted to its ranks the members of the Independent Socialist League led by former Trotskyist Max Shachtman, who was now moving rightwards. Some of his more youthful supporters, however, rejected his right move and worked in the Young Socialist League until they left entirely in the early 1960s to form the Independent Socialist Committee. Meanwhile, Shachtman emerged as the leader of the right wing of the party.

Related Topics:
Independent Socialist League - Trotskyist - Max Shachtman

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