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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1073">Peter Boyle</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p><em>The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume II: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988, A Political Memoir</em><br />
By Barry Sheppard<br />
<a href="http://socialistresistance.org/books">Resistance Books (London)</a>, 2011<br />
345 pages. </p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was one of the most promising socialist organisations in any imperialist country. </p>
<p>Formed in the 1930s, it survived the isolating conservatism of the '50s to play a key role in building many progressive movements, particularly the fight against the Vietnam War.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51077" target="_blank">read more</a></p>