History of the WSPUS
History of the WSPUS One of our founders, Isaac Rab , is giving a speech. Most of the founders of the WSPUS were auto factory workers and members of the Socialist Party of America (SPA). Others were members of the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) or Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) who had left their countries to avoid conscription for World War I . Encouraged by the rapid growth of the SPC and disgusted with what they felt was a growing reformism in the SPA, they left the Detroit Local of the SPA en masse and formed the WSPUS on July 7, 1916, with 42 members. The founding name of the WSPUS was the Socialist Party of the United States. Threatened by a trademark suit by the SPA, the party renamed itself the Workers’ Socialist Party of the US. In 1947, the party’s name was again changed to the present World Socialist Party. The WSPUS participated in the left-socialist circles of the time, especially with the Michigan Socialists expelled from the SPA in 191,8, who first helped for...