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William Z. Foster (February 25, 1881 – September 1, 1961) was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957.
William Z. Foster was an American labour agitator and Communist Party leader who ran for the presidency in 1924, 1928, and 1932. A militant union organizer from 1894, Foster joined the Industrial Workers of the World (1909), which aimed at achieving socialism through industry-wide labour
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Oct 30, 2023 · A collection of writings by William Z. Foster (1881–1961), a prominent American labor leader and revolutionary syndicalist. The archive covers his journalistic reports on labor struggles in the US and abroad, his political views and activities, and his biography.
Feb 25, 2021 · William Z. Foster is visited by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and other prominent Soviet figures on his 80th birthday on Feb. 25, 1961, at the sanatorium near Moscow where he was receiving care.
A tribute to the American socialist leader who fought against revisionism in the U.S. socialist movement and the Communist Party. Learn about his proletarian background, his struggles against Lovestoneism, Browderism and Gatesism, and his historical analyses of revisionism.
Gwen Moore. FOSTER, WILLIAM Z.William Zebulon Foster (February 25, 1881–September 1, 1961), a leading member of the Communist Party for four decades, was possibly the best-known radical activist of Depression-era America. Born in Taunton, Massachusetts, the son of immigrants, Foster grew up in an impoverished community in Philadelphia.
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A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism, William Z. Foster (1881-1961) fought his way out of the slums of turn-of-the-century Philadelphia to become a professional revolutionary as well as a notorious and feared labor agitator. Drawing on private family papers, FBI files, and recently opened Russian archives, this ...
