Workers Vanguard is a Marxist bi-weekly newspaper published by the Spartacist League

International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)

The International Communist League , earlier known as the international Spartacist tendency is a Trotskyist international. Its largest constituent party is the Spartacist League...

, a Trotskyist political organization in the United States

United States

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

. It is now affiliated also with the International Communist League

International Communist League

The International Communist League can refer to several Trotskyist political parties:*The Left Opposition, led by Trotsky from 1933 until 1936*The International-Communist League, a short-lived alliance of British groups in the mid-1970s...

, a confederation of similar groups.

WV was first published in October 1971 as a monthly and absorbed Workers' Action, a short-lived bimonthly newspaper published by the nominally independent Committee for a Labor Party.

It was edited for over twenty years by Jan Norden, until he was expelled from the Spartacist League in 1996. Norden went on to found the League for the Fourth International

League for the Fourth International

The League for the Fourth International is a Trotskyist international organisation, whose most noteworthy section is the Internationalist Group/Grupo Internacionalista in the United States. It has other affiliates in Mexico, Brazil and France. All of these are very small and based in at most one...

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It is available online beginning with the issues for 1999. (Prior years of publication, in bound volumes, can be ordered from the Spartacist Publishing Company).