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TheWorkers Party of South Africa (WPSA) was aTrotskyist organisation inSouth Africa.[1] It published a newspaper,Spark.[2][better source needed]
The South African Trotskyist movement originated with disaffected former members of theCommunist Party of South Africa in the early 1930s who had established contact with the American Trotskyist paperThe Militant and formed small groups, the Cape Lenin Club inCape Town in 1933 and the Bolshevik-Leninist League inJohannesburg in 1934, led by Ralph Lee and Murray Gow Purdy.[3]
In early 1935, the majority of the Cape Town-based Lenin Club and the Johannesburg-basedBolshevik-Leninist League of South Africa voted to form the Workers Party of South Africa.[3][1][2] Its first initiative was to intervene in theAll-African Convention, called to oppose theHertzog Bills, which aimed to complete the implementation ofapartheid in the nation. The group opposed both the system of apartheid and calls forblack nationalism.[2][better source needed]
The group had links to theNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM), and the National Liberation League.[1][2][better source needed]
By 1939, the group went underground and began working solely through the NEUM.[1][2]
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