Political Warfare Timeline 1936
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- Lovestonite Youth group opposes merger of YCL and YPSL.
- POUM joins Spanish Popular Front government.
- 2 Lovestone sends IRA money to Brandler for Prague operations.
February
March
April
- United Auto Workers holds first convention.
May
- 19 Lovestone writes August Thalheimer that Communists put the word out they would absorb Lovestoneites.[1]
June
July
- Spanish civil war begins
- 16 Lovestone letter to Thalheimer stating David Dubinsky visiting.
August
- 24 Zinoviev and Kamenev convicted.
September
- English CPO sends letter to Lovestoneites
- 5 Lovestoneites accept official version of trials of Zinoviev.[2]
October
- CIO expelled from AFL.
- 6 Lovestone writes to Comintern agent Heinz Neumann about Spain p.116.
- 14 Lovestone informs Brandler of complaints that IRA too much an ICO organisation.
November
- Thalheimer in Catalonia.[3]
- 29 Communists conclude Lovestoneites no longer a real trend in the progressive movement.[4]
December
- 13 POUM lose position in Catalan government.
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.115.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.124.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.152.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.119.
