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Socialist Worker's Party Page Contribution Draft
The SWP provided a political ideology for African Americans seeking equality in the early 20th century. Black nationalists were in favor of socialist policy and ideas. Malcom X has been known to praise socialism during the time the SWP was selecting African American canditates for their presidential ticket. There was hope in the SWP changing American values and ensuring each citizen has equal rights under the law. The SWP expanded the ideas of nationalism to African Americans and arguably expanded black nationalism for generations.

Political prisoners of the party included members of the SWP. Individuals were arrested under the Smith Act during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency; the Smith Act is also known as the Alien Registration Act of 1940. With Roosevelt's decision to increase the power of the FBI during this time, the arrests were made swiftly.

"Bureau memos, part of the FBI’s Counter- Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) effort to disrupt solidarity with the militant Monroe movement, refer repeatedly to Hill supplying information on his former comrades in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), to which he belonged in the 1940s."

Herbert Hill

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When considering how the party functioned, think of the SWP as a tree with various local branches carrying out duties established during conventions and through national correspondence. The party almost worked like the original ideas of Marxism, where localities were to have small boards that worked with the central government, again like branches sprouting from the trunk of a tree.

The party was split in 1940 due to internal struggles. Former party members defected to go on and create other special interest groups such as, “the Communist League of America, the American Workers Party, and the first Workers Party; to the Communist Party and left wing groups formed in opposition to the SWP such as the Committee for a Revolutionary Socialist Party, the Sparticist League, Spark, the W.E.B. Du Bois Club, the Young Workers Liberation League, the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, and the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party.” The SWP has held stances on various key points in American history. During the late 1970s and early 80s, the party was aligned with anti-nuclear work directors.