Background and foundation as Workers Party Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
—letter ecci, suggesting practical application of united front tactic in australia.
the fourth congress last congress @ internal opponents of stalin, such trotsky s left opposition, able openly discuss party tactics. in australia, in 1924 cpa members purged alp. cpa membership declined , relations comintern worsened. no australian delegate attended fifth congress of communist international in 1924. stalinist persecution of trotskyists came australia however, when, following publication of ecci’s open letter in workers’ weekly on 6 december 1929, cpa congress, held @ end of month, denounced current leadership (which critical of stalinist line of fourth international) , installed new central committee declared unswerving loyalty stalinist line. comintern, still sceptical, sent harry m. wicks (known pseudonym herbert moore) united states reorganise cpa. on next year wicks (who, later discovered, long time spy , agent fbi) took control of party, rewriting program , constitution , reorganising leadership through series of purges of members of left opposition.
by 1932, militant, newspaper of communist league of america (cla), first non-russian trotskyist organisation, being published in australia. in 1933, trotsky called founding of fourth international. in 1933 australian branch of international left opposition founded trotskyist workers party. workers party went direct confrontation cpa on wwii, trotskyists characterised imperial war while cpa stalinists supported war.
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