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Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

January

Feb

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
  • Homer Martin faction joins AFL after split in UAW. Split ends Lovestoneite influence.
  • 18 Lovestone warns of war in letter from London. p.133

May

June

  • Martin takes followers into AFL. Launches strike in failed attempt to win over workers
  • 11 Roosevelt meets George VI.[6]
  • 24 Lovestoneites criticise CIO's John L. Lewis for saying Labor unity impossible

July

  • 29 Herberg attacks official communists as Stalinists.[7]

=August

  • Lovestonietes receive letter from group of International Marxists of Germany about expulsion from KPO


Sep

  • French PDSOP ICO linked group opposes war.[8]
  • International Marxist Center opposes War.[9]
  • 1 Nazi invasion of Poland
  • 'Labor Day Lovestoneites call Nazi-Soviet pact death sentence of Third International.

October

November

December

  • French PSOP leaders arrested
  • 22 Independent Socialist Parties declaration ILP-KPO Neue Weg, International Marxist Group. Appears in ILP's New Leader.[10]

Notes

  1. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
  2. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
  3. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.153.
  4. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
  6. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.5.
  7. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.91.
  8. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.263.
  9. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.293.
  10. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.154.