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RADICAL RESPONSES TO THE GREAT
DEPRESSION Organizations: Labor Unions, the Communist Party, and the Socialist Party |
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Advertising Card for lecture by Jay Lovestone,
1934. While established groups like the Socialist Labor Party, the Socialist Party of the United States, and the Communist Party gained new life and adherents during the Depression years, factional disputes resulted in a remarkable proliferation of radical political organizations, most of them pledging allegiance to the ideas of Leon Trotsky, whose Fourth International was founded in 1938. |