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- 1 2 "Workers Vanguard". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ↑ "Trotskyists Fuse at Spartacist League Plenum", Workers' Vanguard, no. 1, p. 1, October 1971
- ↑ "Our Program in Brief", Workers' Action, no. 7, p. 3, November–December 1970