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*Martin takes followers into AFL.  Launches strike in failed attempt to win over workers.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.</ref>
 
*Martin takes followers into AFL.  Launches strike in failed attempt to win over workers.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.</ref>
 
*'''11''' Roosevelt meets George VI.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.5.</ref>
 
*'''11''' Roosevelt meets George VI.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.5.</ref>
*'''24''' Lovestoneites criticise CIO's [[John L. Lewis]] for saying Labor unity impossible
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*'''24''' Lovestoneites criticise CIO's [[John L. Lewis]] for saying AFL-CIO unity impossible.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.61.</ref>
  
 
==July==
 
==July==

Revision as of 20:21, 6 October 2011

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.[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

August

  • Lovestonites receive letter from Group of International Marxists of Germany about expulsion from KPO.[12]


Sep

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.[16]

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. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.293.
  7. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.133.
  8. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
  9. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.5.
  10. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.61.
  11. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.91.
  12. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.153.
  13. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.263.
  14. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.293.
  15. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
  16. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.154.