Political Warfare Timeline 1939
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- 22 - Homer Martin suspended by CIO after suspending United Auto Workers (UAW) board.[1]
Feb
- 8 - Jay Lovestone warns David Dubinsky that Martin defeat would strengthen Communist position in UAW.[2]
March
- Workers Age publishes letter to KPO about internal differences.[3]
- 4 Martin holds convention with one fifth of the UAW.[4]
- 27 CIO holds rival UAW convention.[5]
April
- Paris conference establishes International Revolutionary Marxist Center.[6]
- 18 Lovestone warns of war in letter to Sasha Zimmerman from London.[7]
May
June
- Martin takes followers into AFL. Launches strike in failed attempt to win over workers.[8]
- 11 Roosevelt meets George VI.[9]
- 24 Lovestoneites criticise CIO's John L. Lewis for saying AFL-CIO unity impossible.[10]
July
- 29 Will Herberg attacks official communists as Stalinists.[11]
August
- Lovestonites receive letter from Group of International Marxists of Germany about expulsion from KPO.[12]
Sep
- French PDSOP ICO linked group opposes war.[13]
- International Marxist Center opposes War.[14]
- 1 Nazi invasion of Poland
- 4 Labor Day Independent Labor League of America calls Nazi-Soviet Pact death sentence of Third International.[15]
October
- William Green of the American Federation of Labor states: "Labor firmly believes that we should have no part in this European War. We have no part in its causes and can have no responsible part in its adjustment. We want policy best calculated to keep us free of European entanglements.[16]
November
December
- French PSOP leaders arrested
- 22 Independent Socialist Parties declaration ILP-KPO Neue Weg, International Marxist Group. Appears in ILP's New Leader.[17]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.153.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.293.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.133.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.5.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.61.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.91.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.153.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.263.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.293.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
- ↑ American Federationist, October 1939, p.1051 quoted in Joel Siedman, American Labor from Defence to Reconversion, Universithy of Chicago Press, 1958, p.21.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.154.
