Political Warfare Timeline 1939
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- 22 - Homer Martin suspended by CIO after suspending United Auto Workers (UAW) board.[1]
Feb
- 8 - Jay Lovestone warns David Dubinsky that Martin defeat would strengthen Communist position in UAW.[2]
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
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.153.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.5.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.91.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.263.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.293.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.154.
