Marxist Bulletin No. 4
Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party
Documents on the Exclusion of Revolutionary Tendency Supporters
1963-1965
Originally published in two parts by the Spartacist League of the
United States in October 1967
Table of Contents
[Part One]
- Preface
- 1. For the Right of Organized Tendencies
to Exist Within the Party! -- Statement on the Political Committee Motion
Party Discussion Procedure by Mage, Robertson and White for the
Minority, 25 March 1963; plus cover letter and appendices
- 2. Letter to Dobbs by James Robertson, 9
July 1963
- 3. Political Committee Motion on the
Robertson-Ireland-Harper Case, 2 August 1963; plus Control Commission cover
letter of 16 August 1963
- 4. Political Committee Motion Suspending
Robertson-Mage-White-Harper-Ireland, 1 November 1963; plus cover letter and
appended Control Commission Report of 24 October 1963
- 5. Motion Presented to Political
Committee by Myra Weiss, 1 November 1963
- 6. Letter to Political Committee by
Geoffrey White, 5 November 1963
- 7. Report to New York Branch on
Suspensions by Farrell Dobbs, 7 November 1963
- 8. Letter to Dobbs by Laurence Ireland, 8
November 1963
- 9. Letter to the Political Committee by
Shane Mage, 10 November 1963
- 10. Letter to the National Committee by
Wendell Phillips, 12 November 1963
- 11. Statement on Suspension of
Robertson-Tendency Members by Clara Kaye and supported by R. Fraser, 15
November 1963
- 12. Letter to the National Committee by
Lynne Harper, 18 November 1963
- 13. Statement to National Committee on
Robertson Group Suspensions by the Reorganized Minority Tendency, 21 November
1963
- 14. Motion by New Haven branch, 28
November 1963
- 15. Letter to the Political Committee by
Jack Wright, 29 November 1963
- 16. To the National Committee Plenum by
Arne Swabeck, 5 December 1963
[Part Two]
- 17. Rescind the Suspensions! -- Statement
to the National Committee by the five suspended supporters of the Revolutionary
Tendency, 10 December 1963
- 18. Letter to the National Committee
Plenum by D.G. and R.S., 17 December 1963
- 19. Oral Statement to the Plenum by
Laurence Ireland, 28 December 1963
- 20. Report to the Plenum on Internal
Party Situation by Farrell Dobbs, 28 December 1963
- 21. Minority Report to the Plenum on
Internal Party Situation by Myra Weiss, 28 December 1963
- 22. Plenum Vote on Internal Party
Situation, 28 December 1963
- 23. Letter to Wohlforth by James
Robertson, 2 January 1964
- 24. Notice of Expulsion by Farrell Dobbs,
22 January 1964
- 25. Concerning Our Expulsions -- Letter
to the National Committee by Harper, Ireland, Mage, Robertson and White, 10
February 1964; plus cover letter appealing to next party convention
- 26. Robertsonite Attack on the
Party -- Motion by the Political Committee
- 27. Appeal to the United
Secretariat of the Fourth International by James Robertson, 23 February
1964
- 28. Resolution on Robertson Group by the
United Secretariat; plus cover letter by Pierre Frank, 17 April 1964
- 29. Letter Seeking Appeal to Next World
Congress by Harry Turner, 18 May 1965
- 30. Letter Refusing Appeal to World
Congress by Pierre Frank, 28 May 1965
- 31. Letter Requesting Appeal by
Representative of the Expelled to 1965 National Convention by James Robertson,
13 August 1965
- 32. Letter Evading Requested Appeal to
National Convention by Edward Shaw, 27 August 1965
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