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APPENDIX it : INDEFENDINT i Formerly Wor The Mey 4, 1942, issue of “Labor Action,” then en cificial : publication of the Workers Party (WF), carried an articie which ' reflected that the WP was formed in April, 1940, as a resvit of a Split within the lezsdersbip of the Socialist herkers Party (SWP). The article stated that when the Hitler-Stalin Fact was Signed and Poland invaded, the minority group within tke S¥P, in preslaiming the formation of the WP, condemned the pact as being imperialistic in nature and stated it would not support either imperialist carp. The April 25, 1949, ifsue cf "Laber écticn' contained an account of the Fifth National Convertion of the #P, helo March 24-27, 1949, in New Yerk City, which refiected ‘he change cf name of the organizsticn from the WP to the Independent Sccizlist League CISL) in order to emphasize the cheracter cf the group Bs a propa- ganda group fcr the spreading of socialist ideas and nct as a full-fledged political party. The July 14, 1958, issue of "Labor Action," an official publication of the ISL, contained an article captioned "The ISL Program in Brief.” The article indicated: "The ISL stands for ecciajist democracy and against the two systems of explcitation which row divide the world: capitalism and Stalinism. The ISL, as @ Marxist movement, looks to the working class and its ever- present struggle as the basic progressive force in society. The ISL is organized to spreac the ideas of socialism in the iabor movement and among all other sections of the people. There car be no lasting and genuine democracy without socialism and there can be no socialism without democracy." The September 22, 1958, issue of “Labor Action" con- tained an undated statement signed by the Political Committee of the ISL which indicated that the ISL had been dissclved. The etaterert urged fctrrer ISL members to join the Socialist Party- Social Democratic Federation (SP-SDF). A source advised on October 30, 1958, that the Chicago Branch of the ISL, which was as affiliate of the rational organization, was cisselved in September, 1958, and all active members joined the SP-SDF on October 9, 1958. The S¥P has been designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450. ” This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the , . FBI and is loaned to your acency; it and its contents _- are not to be distributed outside your agency.