Revolutionary Socialist League (US)
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The Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was a Trotskyist group in the United States. It was founded in 1973 by a group of International Socialists members who developed a theory that the USSR and similar societies were not, as the IS held, bureaucratic collectivist but were state capitalist. Although influenced by the British International Socialists group, they differentiated their theory from that of Tony Cliff. They also emphasized the need for a Leninist revolutionary party and stressed the need for a transitional program.
One group left in 1976 to form the League for the Revolutionary Party, in part because they disagreed with the RSL's call for the formation of a Labor Party in the US. They also alleged that the leadership of the RSL was acting in a bureaucratic fashion. Another tendency had left in 1975 to form the Revolutionary Marxist Committee, which later fused with the Socialist Workers Party.
Over time, the rump RSL moved closer to anarchism and disbanded in 1989, with about twenty of its remaining members helping in the formation of Love and Rage, an anarchist newspaper and organization.