Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party

Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party
SuccessorCommunist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party of America
PurposeCOMINTERN affiliation
Parent organization
Socialist Party of America

The Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party was an organized faction within the Socialist Party of America in 1919 which served as the core of the dual communist parties which emerged in the fall of that year—the Communist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party of America.