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Communist group called The Socialist Alternative behind the protests.
http://www.socialistalternative.org/

Per Wikipedia:
Socialist Alternative (SA) is a Trotskyist revolutionary political party active in the United States. Socialist Alternative’s main public representative is Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant who was elected in November 2013. It is active in over 50 cities in the United States including New York City, Oakland, Minneapolis, Boston, Seattle, New Orleans, Madison, Tampa, Philadelphia, Mobile, Chicago, Austin and more. It recently began publishing a monthly newspaper called “Socialist Alternative” along with various local newsletters and media outlets, including a radio show in the Boston area. SA is a member of Committee for a Workers’ International, an international organization of Trotskyist parties.

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky identified himself as an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, and supported founding a vanguard party of the proletariat, proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working class self-emancipation and mass democracy. Trotskyists are critical of Stalinism, as they oppose the idea of Socialism in One Country. Trotskyists also criticize the bureaucracy that developed in the USSR under Stalin.

Vladimir Lenin and Trotsky were close both ideologically and personally during the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, and some call Trotsky its “co-leader”. However, Lenin criticized Trotsky’s ideas and intra-Party political habits. Trotsky was the paramount leader of the Soviet Red Army in the direct aftermath of the Revolutionary period.

Trotsky originally opposed some aspects of Leninism. Later, he concluded that unity between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was impossible, and joined the Bolsheviks. Trotsky played a leading role with Lenin in the revolution.

Trotsky’s Fourth International was established in France in 1938 when Trotskyists argued that the Comintern or Third International had become irretrievably “lost to Stalinism” and thus incapable of leading the international working class to political power. In contemporary English language usage, an advocate of Trotsky’s ideas is often called a “Trotskyist”; a Trotskyist can be called a “Trotskyite” or “Trot”, especially by a critic of Trotskyism.

Socialist Alternative was originally formed as Labor Militant in 1986 by members of the Committee for a Workers International who had moved to the United States. Labor Militant was a small group with its membership numbering mostly of trade union members. By the mid-1990s, Labor Militant became part of a campaign to form the US Labor Party where it was in the leadership of the New York Metro Chapter. The NY Metro Chapter, the largest in the country, saw Labor Militant and its allies run again for the leadership of the chapter under the “United Action” slate only to be defeated in an Executive Committee election.

In 2004 Socialist Alternative party members initiated Youth Against War and Racism (YAWR) as a sustained campaign against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. YAWR worked mainly in high schools primarily in counter-recruitment activism in several cities. The Socialist Alternative party supported the candidacy of Ralph Nader during the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential elections. In 2012 and 2016, they supported Green Party candidate Jill Stein in her run. Despite criticism from other socialist groups about supporting ‘bourgeois candidates’, Socialist Alternative argued that Stein supported a Green New Deal jobs program, ending wars, canceling student debt, a single-payer health care system, and other reforms supported by the party. In the time leading up to the 2008 presidential election the Socialist Alternative party criticized Barack Obama pointing to his pro-free market stance on job creation, his record in congress of voting in favor of bills such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, his stance on healthcare reform, and on other issues. In 2013, the Socialist Alternative party garnered attention when it successfully elected a member, Kshama Sawant, to the Seattle City Council; Sawant is one of the few elected Socialists in the United States.

The Socialist Alternative party advocates socialist democracy as an alternative to bureaucratic socialism of the former Soviet Union and the capitalist democratic model which it alleges is designed to only benefit the “ruling class and disenfranchise working people”. The party proposes that a socialist society would change the relationship with “working people” running the economy.

The party holds that the former Soviet Union was not socialist, but instead a “tragic degeneration” of the Russian Revolution and the socialist tradition. While it views the Russian Revolution positively as a mass democratic revolution of the working class in Russia, it opposes Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror following the death of Vladimir Lenin. The party’s ideology is based upon Marxism and Trotskyism.

In January 2016 Socialist Alternative launched an initiative in support of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. This campaign was called #Movement4Bernie. According to the organization’s website, “to achieve Sanders’ demands for $15 an hour, single payer healthcare, tuition-free college and the end of mass incarceration it will take an organized mass movement. To this end Socialist Alternative has launched #Movement4Bernie.”

Here are all Trotskyist leaning groups in America:
United States – Socialist Alternative, Socialist Action, International Socialist Organization, Socialist Equality Party, Freedom Socialist Party, Fourth International Caucus, Internationalist Group, Refoundation and Revolution, Spartacist League, Socialist Workers Organization, League for the Revolutionary Party, Socialist Organizer, Spark Revolutionary Workers League

MoveOn also behind them:
MoveOn.org released the following press release Wednesday afternoon:

Americans to Come Together in Hundreds Peaceful Gatherings of Solidarity, Resistance, and Resolve Following Election Results

Hundreds of Americans, dozens of organizations to gather peacefully outside the White House and in cities and towns nationwide to take a continued stand against misogyny, racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.

Tonight, thousands of Americans will come together at hundreds of peaceful gatherings in cities and towns across the nation, including outside the White House, following the results of Tuesday’s presidential election.

The gatherings – organized by MoveOn.org and allies – will affirm a continued rejection of Donald Trump’s bigotry, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and misogyny and demonstrate our resolve to fight together for the America we still believe is possible.

Within two hours of the call-to-action, MoveOn members had created more than 200 gatherings nationwide, with the number continuing to grow on Wednesday afternoon.

WHAT: Hundreds of peaceful gatherings of solidarity, resistance, and resolve nationwide

WHEN / WHERE: Find local gatherings here. Major gatherings include in New York City’s Columbus Circle and outside the White House in Washington, DC.

RSVP: Please email press@moveon.org to confirm attendance.

“This is a disaster. We fought our hearts out to avert this reality. But now it’s here,” MoveOn.org staff wrote to members on Wednesday. “The new president-elect and many of his most prominent supporters have targeted, demeaned, and threatened millions of us—and millions of our friends, family, and loved ones. Both chambers of Congress remain in Republican hands. We are entering an era of profound and unprecedented challenge, a time of danger for our communities and our country. In this moment, we have to take care of ourselves, our families, and our friends—especially those of us who are on the front lines facing hate, including Latinos, women, immigrants, refugees, Black people, Muslims, LGBT Americans, and so many others. And we need to make it clear that we will continue to stand together.”

http://www.breitbart.com/live/2016-election-world-reacts-donald-trumps-stunning-upset-victory/moveon-protests-white-house/

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