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Mar 11, 1990 · NEW YORK —. Jay Lovestone, a former Communist Party leader in the United States who once called Josef Stalin a murderer and lived to tell about it, died in his sleep Wednesday at his home. He ...
May 3, 2021 · Following his expulsion from the CPA in 1928, he formed his own party called the Socialist Workers Party, known as the Cannonites. In 1953 he retired, moved to California and died in Los Angeles in 1974.
This gathering changed tghe name of the organization from "Communist Party (Majority Group)" to "Communist Party (Opposition)." In the second half of 1933, the CP (O) made serious overtures to the Proletarian Party of America on behalf of organizational unity.
Jan 30, 1999 · A Fierce, Freedom-Loving Man. A founder of the Communist Party of the United States, Jay Lovestone broke with the Soviets—he opposed Stalin to his face—then broke with Marxism itself. Joining the American labor movement, working closely with the CIA, he fought communism for the rest of his life. Hoover archivist Elena Danielson describes ...
The name of the party's institute was later changed in the fall of 1930 to "The New Workers School" as part of an effort to contrast itself to the Workers School, the successful training program run by the regular Communist Party. At the time of the name change, the Communist Party (Majority Group) noted that "every one of its teachers was ...
LOVESTONE, JAY ( Liebstein, Jacov ; 1897–1990), U.S. Communist Party leader; architect of U.S. organized labor's post-World War ii anti-Communist foreign policy. Lovestone, who was born in Lithuania, was taken to the United States as a child and grew up on New York 's Lower East Side. Lovestone joined the Socialist Party as a youth and was ...
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In February 1919 he had his name legally changed to Jay Lovestone, the surname being a literal translation of Liebstein. (During the early 20th century such name changes were a common practice for Jewish immigrants who encountered widespread antisemitism in American society .)
