Communist League of America

Communist League of America
The Militant, edited by James P. Cannon, Martin, Abern, and Max Shachtman, was the official organ of the Communist League of America throughout its six years of existence.
Leader	James P. Cannon
Founders	James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Martin Abern
Founded	October 1928 (1928-10)
Dissolved	December 1934 (1934-12)
Split from	Communist Party USA
Merged into	Workers Party of the United States
Newspaper	The Militant
Membership (1932)	429
Ideology	Communism Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	International Left Opposition
Politics of United States Political parties Elections

The Communist League of America (Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern late in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. The CLA(O) was the United States section of Leon Trotsky's International Left Opposition and initially positioned itself as not a rival party to the CPUSA but as a faction of it and the Comintern. The group was terminated in 1934 when it merged with the American Workers Party headed by A. J. Muste to establish the Workers Party of the United States.