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Socialist Workers League
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Socialist Workers League ( 1972-).
The Socialist Workers League (SWL) and the independent youth group in solidarity with it, the Socialist Youth Alliance were the Australian sympathising organisations fo the Fourth International Founded in January of 1972, the League along with SYA published the socialist fortnightly Direct Action. As the Australian contingent of the world Trotskyist movement the Socialist Workers League aimed to build a section of the Fourth International in Australia which was thought necessary for the Australian socialist revolution. Their revolutionary programme and action stood opposed to the Moscow and Peking line Stalinists. Previously the Socialist Review Group Became Socialist Workers Party.
Objectives - See Socialist Workers Party.
Publicists - John McCarthy.
Note: Associated with the Socialist Youth Alliance.