Communist League of Struggle

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The Communist League of Struggle was a small communist organization active in the United States during the 1930s. Founded by Albert and Vera Weisbord, who were veterans of the Left Socialist movement and the Communist Party USA, the CLS briefly affiliated with Leon Trotsky independently of the Communist League of America before developing its own political program. Affiliated to the International Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations until 1935.

[edit] External links

• The Albert & Vera Weisbord Archives. Includes many CLS publications.
• Communist League of Struggle (1931 - 1937). Brief history at Early American Marxism archive.
• A Footnote For Historians. Dismissive mention of CLS by Max Shachtman from New International, Vol.4 No.12, December 1938, pp.377-379.
• References to Communist Leage of Struggle in the Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

[edit] Further reading

• Weisbord, Albert. The Seizure of Power: Liberalism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Socialism, Fascism, and Communism. 1934.
• Weisbord, Albert. Latin American Actuality. 1964.
• Weisbord, Albert. Passaic: The story of a struggle against starvation wages and for the right to organize .The Labor movement in fiction and non-fiction. 64 pages. Publisher: AMS Press (1976). ISBN 0-404-58517-5.
• Weisbord, Vera. A Radical Life. 330 pages. Indiana University Press. 1977. ISBN 0-253-34773-4