Labor Action: Independent Socialist Weekly, January 2, 1950-September 22, 1958

Labor Action was published in the United States by the Workers Party, a party founded as the result of a split with the Socialist Worker Party in the Spring of 1940, shortly after the SWP itself was founded. The major political issue was over the class nature of the U.S.S.R. with the majority of the SWP taking the position held by Leon Trotsky that this state was a workers' state and not a state run by a "class of a new type" as advocated by those that formed the new Workers Party. The Workers Party's most prominent member was Max Shachtman. Many writers that were previously associated with the SWP joined the new, but smaller, Workers Party, including James T. Farrell, Hal Draper, C.L.R. James and James Burhnam (the latter quickly abandoned all references to Marxism and moved to the far right of America's political spectrum).