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International Left Opposition (Trotskyist) of Canada, the Workers Party of Canada, the Socialist Policy Group, the
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Canadian economic nationalism. They left the LSA in 1974 to form the
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when he denounced the war at a street corner meeting at Bloor and
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and their anti-war polemics which resulted in the group's publication being banned. The day after war was declared in 1939, SWL member Frank Watson became the first person arrested under the
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