Workers Party (US)

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The Workers Party was formed in April 26, 1940 by a faction that had left the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The faction had left the SWP due to disagreements over questions such as the nature and role of the Soviet Union. Many of the party's intellectuals were in this faction, while many of those in the working class and involved with labor remained in the SWP.

The Workers Party published the newspaper Labor Action. In 1948 the Workers Party broke with the Fourth International. In 1949 the Workers Party, which saw the conditions for forming a revolutionary workers party in the US diminishing, decided to become a propaganda group, and changed its name to the Independent Socialist League.