The Workers’ Council group leaves the Socialist Party after the S.P.’s June, 1921 (9th) National Convention in Detroit.

The Workers’ Council. Vol. 1 No. 7. September 15, 1921.

Contents: Announcement, Appeal for Soviet Russia, Go To The Masses! Manifesto of the Third International, Farewell to the Socialist Party and an Appeal to Its Remaining Members, Jewish Federation Leaves the Socialist Party, Tentative Statement of Positions and Purposes of the Workers’ Councils of the United States, Competition Among Sleuths, A Ship on the Rocks by J. Louis Engdahl, The Socialist Party and Free Speech, After the Detroit Disaster, The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Party.

The Worker’ Council purpose was to win the Socialist Party of America to the Third, Communist, International and later to win locals and individuals. Published (mostly) weekly by the International Education Association in New York City, Workers Council included important members of the SP, mainly from its Jewish Federation like. J. Louis Engdahl, Benjamin Glassberg, William Kruse, Moissaye J. Olgin, and J. B. Salutsky, editor of the radical Jewish weekly, Naye Welt. They constituted the Left Wing that remained in the Socialist Party after the splits of 1919 and were organized as The Committee for the Third International. Most would leave the SP after its1921 Convention, joining the Workers (Communist) Party after a short independent existence later that year.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/workers-council/07-workers-council-1921.pdf