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Socialist Organizer is a Trotskyist political party in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. It originated in a 1991 split from Socialist Action

Socialist Action (US)

Socialist Action is a Trotskyist political party in the United States. It publishes the monthly Socialist Action newspaper, has a youth affiliate called Youth for Socialist Action , and is associated with the Fourth International.-Origins:...

(SA) led by Alan Benjamin—then editor of the Socialist Action newspaper—who had developed sympathies with the "Fourth International (ICR)

Fourth International (ICR)

The Fourth International was established as an "International Centre of Reconstruction" by co-thinkers of Pierre Lambert, in 1981 who argued that the post-war political evolution of the Fourth International under the leadership of Michel Pablo and Ernest Mandel had taken the FI away from the...

" current of Trotskyism. Failing to win SA as a whole to their politics, about a dozen activists were expelled from Socialist Action after attending the founding conference of the International Liaison Committee for a Workers' International (ILC) in Barcelona, Spain, which SA had prohibited them from attending. These activists then went on to form Socialist Organizer.

Socialist Organizer is the U.S. fraternal section of the Fourth International (ICR)

Fourth International (ICR)

—reproclaimed in Paris in June 1993. It claims direct programmatic continuity with the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....

in 1938. Additionally, it claims political continuity with the best traditions of the Socialist Workers Party (US)

Socialist Workers Party (United States)

The Socialist Workers Party is a far-left political organization in the United States. The group places a priority on "solidarity work" to aid strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba...

of James P. Cannon

James P. Cannon

James Patrick "Jim" Cannon was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party.Born on February 11, 1890 in Rosedale, Kansas, he joined the Socialist Party of America in 1908 and the Industrial Workers of the World in 1911...

and the militant leadership of the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934

Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934

The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 grew out of a strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis, a major distribution center for the Upper Midwest. The strike began on May 16, 1934 in the Market District and ensuing violence lasted periodically throughout...

on the basis of its acceptance of the original Fourth International

Fourth International

The Fourth International is the communist international organisation consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky , with the declared dedicated goal of helping the working class bring about socialism...

's founding text: Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....

's Transitional Program

Transitional Program

The Transitional Program, the full name of which is The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, is a political platform adopted by the 1938 founding congress of the Fourth International, the international Leninist organization founded by Leon Trotsky...

of 1938.

Socialist Organizer believes, with the Fourth International, that the emancipation of the working class

Working class

Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...

from the chains of capitalism

Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system that became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism. There is no consensus on the precise definition nor on how the term should be used as a historical category...

will come only at the hands of the working class itself. Thus it seeks to build the Labor Party

Labor Party (United States)

The Labor Party is an American social democratic political party advocating workers' interests. Membership at one point reached about 5,000....

in the U.S. and a Workers' International. To this end, it has participated in campaigns of the ILC—a multi-tendency

Multi-tendency

Multi-tendency when used in regards to a political organization, especially a left-wing or anarchist one, means that the organization recognizes or at least tolerates members who are affiliated with or identify with a variety of ideologies within the broad stance of the organization...

international regroupment of trade unionists and political activists in 92 countries—since its formation at Barcelona, Spain, in January 1991.

Since 2006 Socialist Organizer has been intensely involvd in the building of the US immigrant rights movement and the movement against budget cuts in the State of California. Playing a leading role in the latter, the influence of Socialist Organizer far outweighed it's relatively small numbers, becoming the leading socialist organization in the struggle.

Socialist Organizer is composed overwhelmingly of Latino working class youth, the result of being one of the more constistent left wing organizations involved in immigrant rights in since the famous 2006 General Strike by immigrant workers.

In 2009, Socialist Organizer and a number of Latino and immigrant working class organizations launched El Organizador and open forum for those in the Latino community that seek to develop a class struggle left wing among immigrant rights activists and other Spanish speaking worker activists.

Since Socialist Organizer began publication of its newspaper The Organizer in February 1991, it has focused on helping to advance the struggle for independent political action by the working class

Working class

and all the oppressed, both at home and abroad. In order to further this aim, it claims that The Organizer is an open forum for all individuals and currents in the workers' movement that seek to build the Labor Party and a Workers' International.

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