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

Posted: 22 October 2006