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Building the “Smallest Mass Party in the World”

Socialist Workers Party 1951–1979

(May 1981)


Originally published as a “Socialist Workers Party Pamphlet” by Socialists Unlimited in May 1981.
The Presentation was written in 2000 for the Revolutionary History Website.
Parts 1 & 2 were originally written in 1973 and published in International Socialism (1st series), No. 76, March 1975, & No. 77, April 1975.
Part 3 was written specially for the pamphlet.
Copied with thanks from the Revolutionary History Website.
Marked up by Einde O’ Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).


Presentation (2000)

Introduction (1981)

Part 1: From Theory into Practice

Part 2: Towards a Revolutionary Party

Part 3: Facing the Crisis


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