US timeline of Party Splits

[Glitchcraft]

I've created this and am looking for any inaccuracies and suggestions.




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[Glitchcraft]

This turned out more blurry than I thought. I have high res in pdf.
Not sure how to post them.

[Sasha]

Damn, that looks like a lot of work.. wow...
Once tried to make something like that to keep track of the twinpeaks characters, gave up after a bunch of episodes..

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I think the IBT is led by Tim Riley, not Bill Logan. Also, the Red Flag Union joined the Spartacists instead of splitting from them. Also, Revolutionary Regroupment, led by and possibly consisting of Samuel Trachtenberg, split from the IBT in 2008. The Revolutionary Communist League split from the Spartacists in 1968 and joined the WWP for a time. The SEP never joined USec.

[Martin Blank]

Some personal recollections:

The Communist-Internationalist Organizing Committee (split from the Revolutionary Workers League/U.S.) became the Communist League/U.S. before fusing with the Trotskyist League/U.S. in 1994.

The Trotskyist League/U.S. expelled its Left Opposition in 1995, which became part of Workers' Voice (U.S.). WoVo was formerly the Revolutionary Trotskyist League and Revolutionary Trotskyist Tendency, which emerged from the IBT in the late 1980s. For a short time, the RTT/RTL was close to the LRCI.

Workers' Voice (U.S.) split in 1998. One group became the Marxist Workers' Group and the other morphed into Humanists for Revolutionary Socialism. The MWG split in 2001, with one part becoming Workers' Action (CRFI). The other part joined with former members of the RCP, Socialist Party and Democratic Socialists of America to form the Communist Correspondence and Study Network, which became the Communist League in November 2004.

The Communist League expelled a section of its membership in 2007, which became the short-lived Communist Workers League, which dissolved in 2008.

The Communist League and Detroit Working People's Association (a split from the Socialist Party USA), along with scattered individuals, formed the Workers Party in America in 2009. The Detroit Working People's Association became the Detroit Local Committee of the Workers Party. The Communist League formally dissolved in 2010, becoming the Legacy Caucus of the Workers Party.

[Martin Blank]

Another note:

A split from the IBT in 1984 became the Red Flag Group, which became the Cleveland Marxist Educational Group. The MEG merged with the RWL in 1989.

[Glitchcraft]

Thank you Semendyaev and Martin Blank.
It's a work in progress. I'll work on those changes.
the next step is color coding arrows to indicate split, expulsion etc.
I'm working on another one that has links to MIA and Wiki for the groups and names but it's way to messy. too much info to squeeze in.

I was also trying to work out a data base that logs where every active group stands on the issues.
Something like support/defend/condemn stances for things like NK, Vanguard party etc as well as logging calls on events. Something you could easily reference what groups, i.e: supported KKE in greece or supported the Stalinists in Hungary. What groups are state capitalist and what are DWS and what their calls were on different events.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Glitchcraft,

You may know about this already but Yahoo Trainspotters has tons of info relating to your project.Connected to it are flow charts showing the evolution of the US Left, although they aren't nearly as detailed as yours.

[The Idler]

WSPUS could be added simply.

[Kassad]

These might help.

A tree of U.S. Trotskyist organizations: http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/trees/ustree.htm

A tree of U.S. anti-revisionist organizations: http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/chart.pdf