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Jul 21, 2011 · In the fall of 1961, Milt Rosen convened a small collective that would soon leave the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) to form the Progressive Labor Movement. Four years later, Comrade Milt became the founding chair of the Progressive Labor Party.
It was formed in the aftermath of a fall 1961 split in the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) that saw the expulsion of left-wing labor activists Milt Rosen (1926–2011) and Mortimer Scheer.
Aug 9, 2021 · July 13, 2021 was the 10th anniversary of the death of Milt Rosen, founding chairperson of Progressive Labor Party (PLP or PL). He served our organization and the working class in that capacity until 1995.
At the December, 1961 meeting Milt Rosen gave a political report projecting the perspective to build a new communist party in the United States. We realized the enormity of this task. Many other groups who had come into collision with the revisionist CP had proclaimed a similar goal.
Elected President of the Party was Milton Rosen, 38, former steel worker and Chairman of the Progressive Labor Movement. Rosen told the convention in his keynote speech, “The period we are in now can be summed up this way: Reformism, which was the main political means through which U.S. finance capitalism maintained itself, has just about ...
They believed in Democratic Centralism and once the party made a decision (usually sent down from the national office and founder Milt Rosen), you had to promote that line; and the line would change drastically at times for no good reason.
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Milt Rosen and Mort Scheer, both had been full-time paid functionaries of the Communist Party USA before joining Progressive Labor Party.
