Workers Party (1940-1949)

found: The Johnson-Forest Minority, the W.P. and the Fourth International, 1947?:t.p. (W.P.)

found: Goldwater, W. Radical periodicals in America, 1890-1950, 3rd ed., 1977p. xv (WP3 [3rd of that name listed]. Group headed by Max Shacktman, which split from Socialist Workers Party, seemingly over the question of whether Soviet Russia, as a "workers' state," should be supported in any war against a capitalist state (e.g. Finland). In 1946 it was liquidated as a "party" and reorganized under the name of Independent Socialist League) p. 19 ([The party] split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1940 ... The party became the Independent Socialist League in 1949 ... )