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==Origins==
The Canadian Trotskyist movement originated in the late 1920s as the left faction within the [[Communist Party of Canada]]. [[Maurice Spector]], editor of the Communist Party newspaper ''The Worker'', had been a Canadian delegate to the 1928 [[Comintern]] Congress in [[Moscow]] when he and American [[James P. Cannon|James Cannon]] inadvertently came across the suppressed platform of [[Trotsky]]'s [[Left Opposition]]. Spector was won over to Trotsky's position and returned to Canada determined to build support for Trotsky in the party. He and his supporters were expelled 1928 and, with American Trotskyists, formed the [[Communist League of America]] and then a Canadian section called the '''International Left Opposition (Trotskyist) of Canada''' in 1932. [[Jack MacDonald (communist)|Jack MacDonald]], the expelled National Secretary of the Communist Party, joined. The Canadian Trotskyist movement went through a number of splits and reincarnations through the 1930s. In 1934, the group abandoned its attempts to reform the Communist Party of Canada and became the '''Workers Party of Canada''', which published a monthly newspaper, ''The Vanguard''. It became a fortnightly paper in 1935. The Workers Party also published a twice-monthly [[Ukrainian Canadian|Ukrainian]] newspaper, ''Labor News'', and a youth magazine called first ''October Youth'' and then ''Young Militant''.<ref name=int/>
The party had serious disputes over the Trotskyist movement's orientation to the new [[social democracy|social democratic]] party in Canada, the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]] (CCF). In 1937, a majority of the Workers Party voted to join the CCF. They did so as the '''Socialist Policy Group''', and published the newspaper ''Socialist Action''. They were soon expelled from the CCF. They reunited with the faction that had opposed CCF work, and formed the '''Socialist Workers League''' in 1939 with [[Earle Birney]] as the principal leader as Macdonald and Spector had both dropped out of the movement.<ref name=int/>
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