Workers' International League (US)
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Workers' International League is a Trotskyist group in the United States belonging to the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). The group is better known by the name of their magazine, Socialist Appeal. They also publish a Spanish speaking paper "El Militante Sin Fronteras" in conjunction with the IMT. The website of the WIL describes itself as in political solidarity with the In Defense of Marxism website. The "Workers' International League" name has been used in distinct moments by Trotskyist organizations that form the political heritage of the American WIL (for example, "WIL" is also believed by some to be the internal name of the IMT's section in the United Kingdom which was formed by Ted Grant and Alan Woods after their expulsion from the former Militant Tendency in 1993).
The Workers' International League was officially formed in July, 2003 during the meetings of its national congress in St. Louis, Missouri. Before that time what would become the Workers' International League operated mainly as Youth for International Socialism (YFIS), which is now the "youth wing" of the WIL. Despite the organization being relatively "young" they have been of increasing importance in the anti-war movement, immigrant rights movement, work within "Hands Off Venezuela" as well as many other fields of activity.
The WIL aims to establish a "mass party of labor based on the unions" to power with class-independent and socialist policies within the United States. This is at variance with the traditional tactical position of their British co-thinkers (left-wing opposers inside the Labour Party) since no traditional mass labour or socialist party exists currently in the United States.
[edit] External links
- [1] Website of Workers' International League
- In Defense of Marxism. Website of the International Marxist Tendency.
- [2] Website of Youth for International Socialism
- [3] Hands Off Venezuela website for the US
