Socialist Party (U.S.). Left Wing Section

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Name (Latin)
Socialist Party (U.S.). Left Wing Section
Other forms of name
Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party
Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party (U.S.)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 152542336
Wikidata: Q6516925
Library of congress: n 87890312
HAI10: 000475741
Sources of Information
  • NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for Communist Party of the U.S.A. Records, 1956-1960(name not given)
  • LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party; Socialist Party (U.S.), Left Wing Section; org. July, 1919; comprised of locals & other divisions accepting the Left Wing Manifesto; expelled by National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party; Left Wing Convention thought itself independent of National Executive Committee; in Sept. 1919, it split into the Communist Party of America and Communist Labor Party of America; in May 1920, the Communist Labor Party of America united with a section of the Communist Party of America to form the United Communist Party of America)
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Wikipedia description:

The Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party was an organized faction within the Socialist Party of America in 1919 which served as the core of the dual communist parties which emerged in the fall of that year—the Communist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party of America.

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