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American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, in his 1942 book History of American Trotskyism, wrote that " Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.
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They developed parallel to, and were in dialogue with, the Johnson – Forest Tendency, which developed as a body of ideas within American Trotskyist organisations.
A radical activist in the 1930s and an important factional leader of the American Trotskyist movement, in later years Burnham left Marxism and turned to the political Right, serving as a public intellectual of the American conservative movement, and producing the work for which he is best known, The Managerial Revolution, published in 1941.
The then leader of the main American Trotskyist party, Joseph Hansen, was later accused by Trotsky's followers as being " a double agent of the FBI and the GPU " and of having assisted Mercader to penetrate Trotsky's inner circle of friends and acquaintances, an accusation Hansen denied.
These were the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 the leadership of which included some members of the Trotskyist Communist League of America, the 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike the leadership of which included some members of the Communist Party USA, and the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike led by the American Workers Party.
As factional differences within the International peaked, the American SWP formed the Leninist Trotskyist Faction, of which Moreno's PST was a part.
James Patrick " Jim " Cannon ( February 11, 1890 – August 21, 1974 ) was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party.
* James P. Cannon ( 1890 – 1974 ), American Communist and ( later ) Trotskyist leader
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The American Civil Liberties Union defended Spector on the grounds that, as a Trotskyist, his life would be in danger were he deported to the USSR.
The Dewey Commission ( officially the " Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials ") was initiated in March 1937 by the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, a Trotskyist front organization.
He and his supporters were expelled 1928 and, with American Trotskyists, formed the Communist League of America and then a Canadian section called the International Left Opposition ( Trotskyist ) of Canada in 1932.
For the American version of this character, the Trotskyist angle was drastically softened ; Michael Stivic is a social liberal and a leftist, but not an adherent of any form of communism.
A new phase of the American Trotskyist movement was begun.
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Hansen became politically radicalized during the Great Depression and he became a convinced socialist and joined the American Trotskyist group led by James P. Cannon.
During the 1980s, the RWL became divided between Trotskyist supporters of permanent revolution and followers of the American Socialist Workers Party, which after 1982 supported Fidel Castro's Cuba as the vanguard of world revolution.
* Trotskyist Organization of the United States an American Trotskyite group
Lenni Brenner ( born 1937 ) is an American Marxist Trotskyist writer.
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Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction of the AFL-CIO, says another two years of this squabbling will be disastrous for all American labor.
And Sam Rayburn is a great man -- one who will go down in American history as a truly great leader of the Nation.
* 1960 – David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology
* 1894 – George Meany, American labor leader ( d. 1980 )
* 1932 – Dallin H. Oaks, American attorney, jurist, author, and religious leader, apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* 1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U. S. history, begins.
* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.
* 1948 – Fred Hampton, American Black Panther Party leader ( d. 1969 )
* 2003 – U. S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the in 1985.
* 1961 – Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader
* 1945 – Laura Spurr, American nurse and tribal leader ( d. 2010 )
* 2007 – James E. Faust, American religious leader and lawyer ( b. 1920 )
* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877 ) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States.
* 1978 – Don Ellis, American jazz band leader ( b. 1934 )
* 1909 – Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader ( d. 2002 )
* 1914 – Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader ( d. 1978 )
* 1995 – Ralph Flanagan – American band leader ( b. 1914 )
* 1901 – André Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger ( d. 1980 )
* 1924 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader ( b. 1850 )
The most prominent leader to escape execution was Éamon de Valera, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, who did so partly due to his American birth.
* 1913 – Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader ( presumed d. 1975 )
Du Bois, American civil rights leader ( d. 1963 )
* 1928 – Clarence 13X, American religious leader ( d. 1969 )
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