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The American Socialist Union or Cochranites were a Trotskyist group that split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1953 and disbanded in 1959. It included most of the SWPs trade union base, as well as others sympathetic to the "Pabloist" line of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International, though it was never recognized as a section of the ISFI.

History

A dissident tendency had begun to crystallize within the SWPs Michigan/Ohio District around 1948-1949. It included the SWP fractions within the UAW locals in Flint and Detroit, Michigan, as well as Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio; the fractions in the United Rubber Workers in Akron; and a group around Harry Braverman within the United Steelworkers in Youngstown.

Publications

  • Prospects of American radicalism by Bert Cochran New York, N.Y. : American Socialist Publications, 1954

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