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International Socialist League

International Socialist League
AbbreviationISL
FounderDavid Ivon Jones
FoundedSeptember 1915 (1915-09)
DissolvedFebruary 12, 1921 (1921-02-12)
Merged intoCPSA
IdeologyLibertarian socialism[1]
Marxism
De Leonism
Syndicalism[2]
Political positionFar-left

The International Socialist League of South Africa was the earliest major Marxist party in South Africa, and a predecessor of the South African Communist Party. The ISL was founded around the syndicalist politics of the Industrial Workers of the World and Daniel De Leon.[3][4]

  1. ^ Van der Walt, Lucien. "'The Industrial Union is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth': The International Socialist League and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1915–1920." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 19, no. 1 (1999): 5-28. "Whereas the Communist Party of South Africa was unambiguously Leninist and Marxist, the International Socialist League was, despite minor Marxist influences, a revolutionary syndicalist organization situated in the broad libertarian socialist tradition".
  2. ^ Hirson 2005, p. 7.
  3. ^ Hirson 2005, pp. 7–19.
  4. ^ van der Walt 2004, pp. 67–89.

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