Socialist Workers Party organization
also: Socialist Workers, Socialist Worker's Party, Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyite), Social Workers Party, SUP, S.W.P., SWP, The Socialist Workers Party
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FBI spied_on
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“Yet the Bureau has investigated the Socialist Workers Party for more than three decades on the basis of its revolutionary rhetoric which the FBI concedes falls short of incitement to violence and its claimed international links…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“In 1961 a COINTELPRO operation was initiated against the Socialist Workers Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.83
Socialist Workers Party member_of
Attorney General's list documented
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“The SWP had been designated as 'subversive' on the 'Attorney General's list' since the 1940s.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.83
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The Bureau conducted five 'counterintelligence programs aimed against domestic groups... the 'Socialist Workers Party program (1961 69)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.229
Socialist Workers Party member_of
Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam documented
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“furnishing information to the media on Socialist Workers Party participation in the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam to 'discredit the antiwar group.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.263
Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The Bureau has made no claim of outside authorization for its COINTELPROs against the Socialist Workers Party Black Nationalists or New Left adherents…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.297
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The Bureau's covert action programs were aimed at five perceived threats to domestic tranquility ... the 'Socialist Workers Party program (1961 69)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.10
J. Edgar Hoover ordered_assassination_of
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The Socialist Workers Party ('SWP') COINTELPRO program was initiated on October 12 1961 by the headquarters supervisor handling the SWP desk (but with Hoover's concurrence)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.23
Socialist Workers Party did_business_with
Leon Trotsky documented
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“the SWP is not just another socialist group but follows the revolutionary principles of Marx Lenin and Engles as interpreted by Leon Trotsky…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
Socialist Workers Party did_business_with
Fidel Castro documented
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“its direction and/or support of 'such causes as Castro's Cuba…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
Fred Halstead member_of
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“Sta;-,nant zerca Freddie Eelctead rind Harry Ring both memooraof the SWPNat'l Cormittee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.43
Harry Ring member_of
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“Sta;-,nant zerca Freddie Eelctead rind Harry Ring both memooraof the SWPNat'l Cormittee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.43
Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“These pieces were usually intended to ridicule their targets rather than offer "straight propaganda on the issue…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.43
FBI spied_on
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“Socialist Workers Party candidates were routinely selected for counterintelligence although they had never come close to winning an election…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.65
Justice Marshall spied_on
Socialist Workers Party reported
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“There Justice Marshall found that allegations of a 'chilling effect on First Amendment rights' were sufficiently specific to satisfy jurisdictional requirements where it was complained that FBI informants were to monitor a public meeting of…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.238
Socialist Workers Party operated_in
United States documented
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“The intelligence investigation of the SWP began in 1940 as a result of the SWP's description of itself as a Marxist-Leninist "combat organization which foresaw the inevitability or desirability of violence should revolutionary conditions ar…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.257
Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“Recently disclosed FBI memoranda pertaining to surreptitious entries directed at the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1960-1966 provide additional details on .FBI procedures.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.367
James P. Cannon headed
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The FBI's Los Angeles field office obtained "photographs of material maintained in the officeof James P Cannon National Chairman of the SWP…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.368
Socialist Workers Party operated_in
Detroit documented
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“Letter dated 6/1/60 setting forth the topic of speech to be given by SWP Vice-Presidential candidate at opening of tour at Detroit…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.369
Socialist Workers Party operated_in
Savannah, Georgia documented
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“Several current items of correspondence to and from SWP members active in integration activities in Georgia.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.370
Socialist Workers Party operated_in
Cleveland documented
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“Correspondence re new anti-war front in Cleveland.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.370
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“FBI instructions to the field reiterated the types of organizations whose members should be investigated under the Custodial Detention Program In addition to the groups listed in 1940 the order included the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.425
Socialist Workers Party linked_to
Soviet Union documented
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“Although such groups were opposed to the Stalinist-Communist rule in the Soviet Union, many of them looked upon the Soviet Union as the center for world revolution.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.444
FBI invested_in
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The FBI provided the following breakdown of the statistics by 'Nationalistic Tendency or Organizational Affiliation CommunistParty USA 11 491 Socialist Workers Party 308…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.447
Belgian Communist Party linked_to
Socialist Workers Party reported
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“follow and report interest and activity of the CP and SWP in the NAACP in St Louis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.489
Emergency Detention Program member_of
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The unit would also draw on the Departmental files on individuals maintained under the Emergency Detention Program which contained 'brief synopses of approximately 10,000 individuals who are members of the Communist Party the SWP the Nation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.504
Young Socialist Alliance subsidiary_of
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“the Socialist Workers Party and particularly its youth affiliate the Young Socialist Alliance…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.528
Vietnam Veterans Against the War did_business_with
Socialist Workers Party reported
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“This action was necessary in the light of increasing indication that the VVAW may be a target for infiltration by subversive groups such as the Communist Party USA and the Socialist Workers Party and their respective youth groups…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.540
Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“for purpose of disrupting FPCC and causing split between FPCC and its Socialist Workers Party (SWP) supporters…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.72
Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam headed
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The SMC is under the control of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.154
Socialist Workers Party member_of
Fourth International documented
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“The Trotskyist organizations maintain close relations with the Fourth International a foreign-based worldwide Trotskyist movement…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.171
Socialist Workers Party located_in
New York City documented
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“Socialist Workers Party (SWP) New York City and is the largest and most active Marxist splinter groups…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.299
Young Socialist Alliance member_of
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) is the youth organization of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.299
Socialist Workers Party funded
Young Socialist Alliance documented
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“The YSA is subsidized by the SWP which furnishes varying amounts of money to the YSA on a continuing basis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.300
Socialist Workers Party member_of
New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam documented
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“These organizations include... Socialist Workers Party... NMC is not an individual membership organization It is a coalition of many organizations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.313
COINTELPRO targeted_for_regime_change
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The five labels were... the Socialist Workers Party... COINTELPRO is the name for the effort by the Bureau to destroy people and to destroy organizations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.31
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“And a program was started against the Socialist Workers Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.33
FBI carried_out_attack
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“They identified specific hostilities such as the one between the SDS and the Socialist Workers Party and they were told to promote that hostility…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.36
Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“With the involvement of the Socialist Workers who are viewed by the documents as a minor element we see really a kind of trickling curve that hovers along the bottom of the graph…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.39
FBI spied_on
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“Women's Liberation Movement Investigation of captioned movement was initated by our New York Office in April 1969 as the Women's Libber movement is described as a loosely structured women's movement comprised of individuals with varying ide…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.109
Socialist Workers Party did_business_with
Federal Bureau of Investigation reported
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“This SWP program could very definitely benefit the Bureau provided we can achieve through our informant coverage in the SWP some degree of control and direction over it…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.383
Young Socialist Alliance subsidiary_of
Socialist Workers Party documented
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“The YSAis the youth organization of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.606