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Title: Archive of items relating to the Communist League of America Author: [Communist League of America] Place: No place Publisher: Date: 1930s Description: Archive of 72 letters, memoranda, internal party bulletins, financial reports, and other documents relating to the activities of the Communist League of America (Left Opposition) and publication of its newspaper, The Militant, 1929-1935. Includes substantive correspondence from James P. Cannon, Martin Abern, Arne Swabeck and Louis Basky to S. Gendelman, the party’s organizer in New Haven, Connecticut. The Communist League of America (Left Opposition) was founded in 1929 by James P. Cannon, Max Schachtman and Martin Abern following their expulsion on October 25, 1928 from the Workers (Communist) Party for fostering Trotskyism. The CLA had fewer than 200 members during the period of its independent existence, but its influence exceeded its numbers as a consequence of the support Trotsky enjoyed among American intellectuals such as John Dewy. In 1934, the CLA merged with A. J. Muste’s American Workers Party to form the U. S. Workers Party. Lot Amendments Condition: Many of these documents are in poor condition (tears, chips, etc.) as a consequence of the high acidic content paper on which they were prepared. Virtually all are fully legible although in a few cases missing pieces affect words in the text. Item number: 192888