''Workers Vanguard'' is a

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bi-weekly newspaper published by the

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, a

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political organization in the

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. It was affiliated also with the International Communist League, a confederation of similar groups.

History

''WV'' was first published in October 1971 as a monthly and absorbed ''Workers' Action'', a short-lived bimonthly newspaper published by the nominally independent Committee for a Labor Party. It was edited for over twenty years by Jan Norden, until he was expelled from the Spartacist League in 1996. Norden went on to found the

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. It is available online beginning with the issues for 1999. (Prior years of publication, in bound volumes, can be ordered from the Spartacist Publishing Company). The COVID pandemic and internal dissension apparently disrupted its publication from 2020 onwards.

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''Workers Vanguard''

''Workers Vanguard Archives''
Newspapers published in New York City Newspapers established in 1971 Communist periodicals published in the United States Political magazines published in the United States 1971 establishments in the United States Communism in New York (state)