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Initially the WWP was confined to the Buffalo area, where it had constituted the Buffalo and two other smaller branchs of the SWP, but expanded in the 1960s. It had a well known youth movement called Youth Against War and Fascism which attracted much support with its campaigning against war in Vietnam.
Although in origin a Trotskyist group, the WWP describes itself as Marxist-Leninist, a phrase rarely used by Trotskyists. However WWP continues to sell some of the writings of Trotsky as well as those of Stalin and Mao. This combination of influences is otherwise almost unknown within the far left milieu.
At a theoretical level however, almost nothing remains of their origins within the Trotskyist movement and they repudiate almost all of his ideas. The WWP agrees with Trotsky's description of pre-1991 Russia as being a "degenerated workers state" and extend that description to countries such as Cuba, North Korea and China. But it should be noted that this term is rarely used and the term socialist is far more often chosen to describe such states. In practice, they politically support these states far more energetically than many of the remaining orthodox Communist parties. Similarly, they support countries which they see as victims of American ImperialismImperialism is the policy of extending the control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial control or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or such as IraqThe Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia. It shares borders with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the south, Turkey to the north, Syria to the north-west, Jordan to the west and Iran to or LibyaThis article is about Libya, the country in North Africa. For the mythical character of the same name see: Libya (mythology . The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Libya ( Arabic: ) is a country in North Africa, bordering the Mediterranea. However, they do not describe such states as being socialist.
For the last two presidential elections, their candidate has been activist Monica MooreheadMonica Moorehead is a frequent candidate of the Workers World Party, a U. left-wing party. Her presidential campaign in 2000 received 4525 votes. She was not on the ballot in a majority of states. Her vice-presidential running-mate was Gloria LaRiva.. Workers World has opposed both Gulf Wars, and was influential in the anti-war group ANSWERANSWER Act Now to Stop War and End Racism also known as International ANSWER and sometimes written as A. is a protest organization established by the International Action Center, which was founded by former United States attorney general Ramsey Clark.. It has also supported China's actions in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989The Unknown Rebel" — This famous photo depicts a lone protester who single-handedly halted the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour. The Tiananmen Square protests were a set of national protests in the People's Republic of China, [1].
According to the National ReviewNational Review ("NR") is a conservative political magazine founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. Buckley said that the magazine "stands athwart history yelling 'Stop at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who, the group has defended dictators such as Slobodan MilosevicSlobodan MiloSevic ( Serbian Cyrillic: pron. sloh-BOH-dahn mee-LOH-sheh-vitch born 20 August 1941) is a former President of Serbia and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as well as leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia. Early career MiloSevic was bor [2] and Saddam Hussein.
In 2004, the party underwent a split, and a new group, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, was formed by several members of the WWP.
see also: International Workers Party