Robert J. Alexander

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Robert J. Alexander (1918-2010) was an American Academic and political activist, and a significant participant in and scholar of, US labour relations with Latin America.[1]

During the 1950s, Alexander made frequent visits to Latin America sponsored by the American Federation of Labor and the AFL-CIO and provided extensive reports for Jay Lovestone.[1]

Alexander was a member of the National Executive Committee of the US Socialist Party from 1957 to 1966. After the party split, he went with the group that became the Social Democrats USA, but left in 1980 over SDUSA's rightward drift.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fernanda Perrone, Inventory to the Papers of Robert Jackson Alexander, Rutgers University, April 2000.