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 *[[Party for Socialism and Liberation]]
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 *[[Revolutionary Communist Party‎]]
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 :{{See also|2020 Leftwing riots}}
 WWP’s Monica Moorehead wrote an article May 28, 2020 titled, ''Against police violence and capitalism, to rebel is justified:''
-{{quotebox|“Workers World salutes all the brave protesters in [[Minneapolis]], currently ground zero against police terror. We also salute those activists in [[Los Angeles]], [[Memphis]] and other cities who are organizing protests and braving the [[pandemic]] to be in the streets or in car caravans to show solidarity with the demand: Justice for George Floyd and all victims of police violence.”}}
+{{quotebox|“Workers World salutes all the brave protesters in [[Minneapolis]], currently ground zero against police terror. We also salute those activists in [[Los Angeles]], [[Memphis]] and other cities who are organizing protests and braving the [[pandemic]] to be in the streets or in car caravans to show solidarity with the demand: Justice for [[George Floyd]] and all victims of police violence.”}}
 Moorehead goes on to quote WWP founder Sam Marcy’s defense of the 1992 Los Angeles riots—in which 63 people died:
 {{quotebox|“In times when the [[bourgeoisie]] is up against the wall, when the masses have risen suddenly and unexpectedly, the bourgeoisie gets most lyrical in abjuring violence. It conjures up all sorts of lies and deceits about the unruliness of a few among the masses as against the orderly law-abiding many.

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 *[[Democratic Socialists of America]]
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 *Workers World, [http://www.workers.org/2005/us/lgbtseries-0428/ Harry Hay heard ‘siren song of revolution’], Leslie Feinberg, Apr 20, 2005.
 *Workers World, [http://www.workers.org/2005/us/lgbtseries-0512/ Harry Hay tried to 'close chapter' on his gayness], Leslie Feinberg, May 4, 2005.
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 [[Category:United States Political Parties]]
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	According to their website the WWP "promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and [[Terrorism\|militant resistance]] at home to imperialist interventions and wars." <ref>[http://www.workers.org/wwp.php About Workers World], 22 July 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2007.</ref> The ATTAC Terror Report <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wwp ATTAC Terror Report]</ref> characterizes the WPP as follows:		According to their website the WWP "promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and [[Terrorism\|militant resistance]] at home to imperialist interventions and wars." <ref>[http://www.workers.org/wwp.php About Workers World], 22 July 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2007.</ref> The ATTAC Terror Report <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wwp ATTAC Terror Report]</ref> characterizes the WPP as follows:

		+	==2020 Leftwing riots==
		+	:{{See also\|2020 Leftwing riots}}
		+	WWP’s Monica Moorehead wrote an article May 28, 2020 titled, ''Against police violence and capitalism, to rebel is justified:''
		+	{{quotebox\|“Workers World salutes all the brave protesters in [[Minneapolis]], currently ground zero against police terror. We also salute those activists in [[Los Angeles]], [[Memphis]] and other cities who are organizing protests and braving the [[pandemic]] to be in the streets or in car caravans to show solidarity with the demand: Justice for George Floyd and all victims of police violence.”}}
		+	Moorehead goes on to quote WWP founder Sam Marcy’s defense of the 1992 Los Angeles riots—in which 63 people died:
		+	{{quotebox\|“In times when the [[bourgeoisie]] is up against the wall, when the masses have risen suddenly and unexpectedly, the bourgeoisie gets most lyrical in abjuring violence. It conjures up all sorts of lies and deceits about the unruliness of a few among the masses as against the orderly law-abiding many.
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		+	“[[Marxism]] here again cuts through it all. The Marxist view of [[violence]] distinguishes between the violence of the oppressors as against the responsive violence of the masses. Just to be able to formulate it that way is a giant step forward, away from disgusting bourgeois praise for nonviolence. It never occurs to any of them to show that the masses have never made any real leap forward with the theory of nonviolence. Timidity never made it in history.”<ref>https://www.workers.org/2020/05/49008/</ref>}}

	==Founding/Supervisory Organizations==		==Founding/Supervisory Organizations==

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−	The '''Workers World Party''' ('''WWP''') is a [[communist]], extreme [[left-wing]] political party in the [[United States]]. The history of the Workers World Party is they were formed by [[Sam Marcy]] and his followers in about 1959 when they left the [[Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP). The SWP is [[Trotskyist]], and as the Trotskyists were not friendly to the Stalin-era Soviet Union, the SWP opposed the 1956 Soviet invasion of [[Hungary]]. Sam Marcy and his followers supported the invasion. Marcy led his followers out of the SWP and started their own political party. The Workers World Party has been known to take the most extreme positions that even most other U.S. communist parties will not take: they were the only U.S. communist party to openly defend the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]] by the [[China\|Chinese]] government, and the [[North Korea]]n regime of [[Kim Jong Il]], and one of the few to openly defend the regime of [[Slobodan Milosevic]] in [[Yugoslavia]]. The WWP is often characterized as hardline [[Stalinist]], which is ironic given their Trotskyist roots.	+	The '''Workers World Party''' ('''WWP''') is a [[communist]], extreme [[left-wing]] political party in the [[United States]]. The history of the Workers World Party is they were formed by [[Sam Marcy]] and his followers in about 1959 when they left the [[Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP). The SWP is [[Trotskyist]], and as the Trotskyists were not friendly to the Stalin-era Soviet Union, the SWP opposed the 1956 Soviet invasion of [[Hungary]]. Sam Marcy and his followers supported the invasion. Marcy led his followers out of the SWP and started their own political party. The Workers World Party has been known to take the most extreme positions that even most other U.S. communist parties will not take: they were the only U.S. communist party to openly defend the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]] by the [[China\|Chinese]] government, and the [[North Korea]]n regime of [[Kim Jong-un]], and one of the few to openly defend the regime of [[Slobodan Milosevic]] in [[Yugoslavia]]. The WWP is often characterized as hardline [[Stalinist]], which is ironic given their Trotskyist roots.

	According to their website the WWP "promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and [[Terrorism\|militant resistance]] at home to imperialist interventions and wars." <ref>[http://www.workers.org/wwp.php About Workers World], 22 July 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2007.</ref> The ATTAC Terror Report <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wwp ATTAC Terror Report]</ref> characterizes the WPP as follows:		According to their website the WWP "promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and [[Terrorism\|militant resistance]] at home to imperialist interventions and wars." <ref>[http://www.workers.org/wwp.php About Workers World], 22 July 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2007.</ref> The ATTAC Terror Report <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wwp ATTAC Terror Report]</ref> characterizes the WPP as follows:

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	The '''Workers World Party''' ('''WWP''') is a [[communist]], extreme [[left-wing]] political party in the [[United States]]. The history of the Workers World Party is they were formed by [[Sam Marcy]] and his followers in about 1959 when they left the [[Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP). The SWP is [[Trotskyist]], and as the Trotskyists were not friendly to the Stalin-era Soviet Union, the SWP opposed the 1956 Soviet invasion of [[Hungary]]. Sam Marcy and his followers supported the invasion. Marcy led his followers out of the SWP and started their own political party. The Workers World Party has been known to take the most extreme positions that even most other U.S. communist parties will not take: they were the only U.S. communist party to openly defend the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]] by the [[China\|Chinese]] government, and the [[North Korea]]n regime of [[Kim Jong Il]], and one of the few to openly defend the regime of [[Slobodan Milosevic]] in [[Yugoslavia]]. The WWP is often characterized as hardline [[Stalinist]], which is ironic given their Trotskyist roots.		The '''Workers World Party''' ('''WWP''') is a [[communist]], extreme [[left-wing]] political party in the [[United States]]. The history of the Workers World Party is they were formed by [[Sam Marcy]] and his followers in about 1959 when they left the [[Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP). The SWP is [[Trotskyist]], and as the Trotskyists were not friendly to the Stalin-era Soviet Union, the SWP opposed the 1956 Soviet invasion of [[Hungary]]. Sam Marcy and his followers supported the invasion. Marcy led his followers out of the SWP and started their own political party. The Workers World Party has been known to take the most extreme positions that even most other U.S. communist parties will not take: they were the only U.S. communist party to openly defend the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]] by the [[China\|Chinese]] government, and the [[North Korea]]n regime of [[Kim Jong Il]], and one of the few to openly defend the regime of [[Slobodan Milosevic]] in [[Yugoslavia]]. The WWP is often characterized as hardline [[Stalinist]], which is ironic given their Trotskyist roots.

−	According to their website the WWP "promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and [[Terrorism\|militant resistance]] at home to imperialist interventions and wars." <ref>[http://www.workers.org/wwp.php About Workers World], 22 July 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2007. </ref> The ATTAC Terror Report <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wwp ATTAC Terror Report]</ref> characterizes the WPP as follows:	+	According to their website the WWP "promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and [[Terrorism\|militant resistance]] at home to imperialist interventions and wars." <ref>[http://www.workers.org/wwp.php About Workers World], 22 July 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2007.</ref> The ATTAC Terror Report <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wwp ATTAC Terror Report]</ref> characterizes the WPP as follows: