Workers' International League (US)

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Workers' International League is the name of a group in the United States formed to sympathise with the Committee for a Marxist International (CMI). The group is better known by the name of their magazine, Socialist Appeal. The website of the Socialist Appeal describes itself as in political solidarity with the In Defense of Marxism There are also unsubstantiated claims by non-members and some former members of the CMI that Workers International League is also the internal name of the CMI'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. However, since the group practices entrism in the Labour Party it denies being anything more than a magazine (Socialist Appeal).

Both the British and American sections of the CMI are Trotskyist groups. The US section aims to establish a mass party of labor based on the unions to power with class-independent and socialist policies within the United States while the British section aims to build a Marxist tendency within the Labour Party. The US Workers International League is the parent group of the organization, Youth for International Socialism.

[edit] External links

• Socialist Appeal Website
• In Defense of Marxism. Website of the Committee for a Marxist International.