Workers Party of the United States

Workers Party of the United States
AbbreviationWPUS
FoundersA. J. Muste
James P. Cannon
FoundedDecember 1934 (1934-12)
Dissolved1936 (1936)
Merger ofAmerican Workers Party,
Communist League of America
Merged intoSocialist Party of America
Succeeded bySocialist Workers Party
NewspaperNew Militant
IdeologyTrotskyism
Political positionFar-left
The New Militant was the official organ of the Workers Party of the US throughout its approximately 18 months of existence.

The Workers Party of the United States (WPUS) was established in December 1934 by a merger of the American Workers Party (AWP) led by A.J. Muste and the Trotskyist Communist League of America (CLA) led by James P. Cannon. The party was dissolved in 1936 when its members entered the Socialist Party of America en masse.