World Socialist Party of the United States

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World Socialist Party of the United States

Founded	1916 (108 years ago) (1916)
Split from	Socialist Party of America
Headquarters	Las Vegas, Nevada
Newspaper	The Socialist (1929–1938) Western Socialist (1939–1970s) World Socialist Review (1986–2011)
Ideology	Anti-Leninism Classical Marxism Impossibilism Revolutionary socialism Socialism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	World Socialist Movement
Colors	Red
Website
wspus.org
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The World Socialist Party of the United States (WSPUS) is a socialist political organization that was established in Detroit, Michigan as the Socialist Party of the United States in 1916 and which operated as the Socialist Educational Society in the 1920s before being renamed the Workers' Socialist Party. The organization reemerged in the 1990s and exists today as the American companion party of the World Socialist Movement.