This collection contains bulletins, pamphlets, articles, and one conference transcript that reflect the theoretical sentiments and organizational activities of the Spartacist League of the U.S. The League was officially formed in 1966 by expelled members of the Revolutionary Tendency within the Socialist Workers Party. It is the United States section of the International Communist League (Fourth International).

The Spartacist League of the U.S. is a Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist communist organization. The League was founded by members of the Revolutionary Tendency led by James Robertson within the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), who were expelled in 1963 over their dissenting views on Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba and other issues. The group started the Spartacist journal in 1964 and formally founded the organization in 1966. An international tendency of the Spartacist League formed in 1974 and became the International Communist League (Fourth International) in 1989, at which point the Spartacist League of the U.S. became its American section. The Spartacist League had ties to the Progressive Labor Party and was affiliated with the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus within Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The youth groups of the Spartacist League of the U.S. were the Revolutionary Communist Youth, which the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus changed its name to, from 1971-1974, and the Spartacus Youth League from 1974-1986.

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