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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.<ref name="PerroneInventory">Fernanda Perrone, [http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/alexanderf.html Inventory to the Papers of Robert Jackson Alexander], Rutgers University, April 2000.</ref>

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]].<ref name="PerroneInventory">Fernanda Perrone, [http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/alexanderf.html Inventory to the Papers of Robert Jackson Alexander], Rutgers University, April 2000.</ref>

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.<ref name="PerroneInventory">Fernanda Perrone, [http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/alexanderf.html Inventory to the Papers of Robert Jackson Alexander], Rutgers University, April 2000.</ref>

==Affiliations==
*[[Young People's Socialist League]] 1934-
*[[Office of Inter American Affairs]] 1946
*[[American Federation of Labor]]
*[[AFL-CIO]]
*[[Agency for International Development]]
*[[Socialist Party]] National Executive Committee 1957-1966.
*[[Social Democrats, USA]] - to 1980.
*[[League for Industrial Democracy]]
*[[Americans for Democratic Action]]
*[[Inter-American Association for Democracy and Freedom]]
*[[Institute for International Labor Research]]

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