Editing Trotskyism (section)

=== North America ===
{{Quote box|width=25em|align=left|bgcolor=|quote=They fear, in a word, that [[History of the socialist movement in the United States|Soviet America]] will become the counterpart of what they have been told Soviet Russia looks like. Actually American soviets will be as different from the Russian soviets as the United States of President Roosevelt differs from the Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II. Yet communism can come in America only through revolution, just as independence and democracy came in America.|source= Trotsky on ''If American Should Go Communist'' in 1934.<ref>{{cite book |last=Trotsky |first=Leon |author-link=Leon Trotsky |title=If America Should Go Communist |date=1934 |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1934/08/ame.htm |via=[[Marxists Internet Archive]]}}</ref>}}

The development of the American Trotskyism movement emerged with the [[Communist League of America|Communist League of America (CLA)]], then as the [[Workers Party of the United States|Workers Party of the United States (WPUS)]] and briefly as the [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist Party (SP) of America]] before beginning in 1938 as the [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party (SWP)]].{{sfn|Blanc|Wald|Breitman|2016|p=39}} According to historian Paul Le Blanc, [[James P. Cannon|James Cannon]] and [[Max Shachtman]] were the most influential leaders of early US Trotskyism.{{sfn|Blanc|Wald|Breitman|2016|p=54}}

Trotsky engaged with members of the [[American Socialist Workers Party]] on reaching the Black population. He had correspondence with [[C.L.R. James]] on the question of [[African-American self-determination|self-determination]] and expressed support for Black Americans seeking equal rights and an autonomous state.{{sfn|Hirson|1992|pp=184–190}}

In 1953 there was a major split in the Fourth International between the [[International Secretariat of the Fourth International|International Secretariat of the Fourth International (ISFI)]] led by [[Michel Pablo]] and the [[International Committee of the Fourth International|International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)]] led iniatially by [[James P. Cannon|James Cannon]] of the [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|SWP]]. While a decade later in 1963 the majority of the SWP reunited with Pablo's supporters, a minority group persisted in their independence and criticisms of what they deemed to be the ISFI's abandonment of Permanent Revolution and their promotion of Stalinst regimes and parties. This group that remained loyal to the ICFI would go on to become the [[Socialist Equality Party (US)]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.leftarchive.ie/international/1627/ |title=International Committee of the Fourth International |website=Irish Left Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823002105/https://www.leftarchive.ie/international/1627/ |archive-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> There is also another North American national section of the ICFI in Canada, also known as the Socialist Equality Party.

There is a Trotskyist-influenced caucus within the [[Democratic Socialists of America]], Reform and Revolution.<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 July 2019 |title=What We Stand For |website=Reform & Revolution |url=https://reformandrevolution.org/2019/07/30/what-we-stand-for/ |access-date=17 July 2024 |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214072613/https://reformandrevolution.org/2019/07/30/what-we-stand-for/ |archive-date=14 December 2024}}</ref>