Political Warfare Timeline 1938

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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

  • ICO, ILP participate in Paris conference which establishes new international Bureau for Revolutionary Socialist Unity. Revolutionary Socialist Congress. Afterwards Lovestone invited to Vienna by Die Funke[1]

March

  • German annexation of Austria. Lovestone travels to Vienna to rescue ICO leaders.[2]
  • 11 - Germans cross Austrian border.[3]
  • 12- Lovestone sees Austrian Nazis marching in the streets.[4]
  • 15 - Nikolai Bukharin shot.[5]

Apr

May

June

July

  • 17 - Lovestone burgled by Communists.[10]
  • 25 - Burgled Lovestone material produced at UAW disciplinary.[11]

Aug

Sep

  • UAW forces Martin to reinstate the board.[12]
  • Lovestoneites still backing CIO.[13]

Oct

November

December

  • 16 - Workers Age advocating democratic socialism.[16][17]
  • 19 - Letter from Lovestoneites to KPO praises ILP leadership.[18]

Notes

  1. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.
  2. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.266-267.
  3. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.
  4. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.120.
  6. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.12.
  7. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.125.
  8. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.121.
  9. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.128.
  10. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.129.
  11. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
  12. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
  13. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.60.
  14. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.292.
  15. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.58.
  16. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.131.
  17. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.132.
  18. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.261-262.