Hansen, Joseph

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1910 June 16 Born, Salt Lake City, Utah 1928 1934 Attended University of Utah part-time 1931 Married Reba Hooper 1934 Joined Communist League of America (predecessor of Socialist Workers Party) 1936 1937 Staff writer, Voice of the Federation (Maritime Federation of the Pacific), and Labor Action 1937 1940 Secretary to Leon Trotsky, Coyoacan, Mexico 1939 Author, Father Coughlin: Fascist Demagogue 1940 Author, Wall Street's War, Not Ours! 1940 1975 Member, National Committee, Socialist Workers Party 1941 1945 Merchant seaman 1944 Author, American Workers Need a Labor Party 1945 1954 Staff writer, The Militant (newspaper of Socialist Workers Party) 1946 Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York 1948 National lecture tour on "The Struggle for Power in Europe" Author, The Socialist Workers Party: What It Is, What It Stands For 1950 Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York 1951 National lecture tour on "America and the World Crisis" 1954 Editor, The Militant 1955 1959 Editor, International Socialist Review (theoretical journal of Socialist Workers Party) 1957 Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Los Angeles National lecture tour on "The Outlook for Socialist Regroupment" 1959 1967 Editor, The Militant 1960 Visit to Cuba Founding member, Fair Play for Cuba Committee Author, Too Many Babies? The Myth of the Population Explosion Author, The Truth about Cuba 1961 Attended Conferencia Latinoamericana por la Soberania Nacional, la Emancipacion Economica y la Paz, Mexico City Author, In Defense of the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to the State Department and Theodore Draper 1961 1962 Four-month tour of Latin America 1962 National lecture tour on "What Makes Latin America Explosive" Visit to Algeria Author, The Theory of the Cuban Revolution Author, Trotskyism and the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to Hoy 1962 1965 Socialist Workers Party representative in Europe, based in Paris 1963 Attended 7th (Reunification) World Congress of Fourth International 1963 1979 Fraternal member, United Secretariat of Fourth International Editor, Intercontinental Press (originally entitled World Outlook; published on behalf of United Secretariat of Fourth International, at first in Paris and later in New York City) 1965 Co-author, Khrushchev's Downfall/New Deepening of the Sino-Soviet Rift? 1966 Editor, Healy "Reconstructs" the Fourth International: Documents and Comments by Participants in a Fiasco 1967 Attended Organizacion Latinoamericana de Solidaridad conference, Havana Co-author, Behind China's "Great Cultural Revolution" 1968 Co-author, Murder in Memphis: Martin Luther King and the Future of the Black Liberation Struggle Co-author, The Nature of the Cuban Revolution: Record of a Controversy, 1960-1963 Co-author, Revolt in France, May-June 1968: A Contemporary Record 1969 Attended 9th World Congress of Fourth International Co-author, Class, Party and State and the Eastern European Revolution Co-author, The Invasion of Czechoslovakia Co-author, Leon Trotsky: The Man and His Work: Reminiscences and Appraisals 1972 Author, The Abern Clique Co-author, Nixon's Moscow and Peking Summits: Their Meaning for Vietnam Co-author, A Revolutionary Strategy for the 70s: Documents of the Socialist Workers Party 1973 1977 Fraternal member, Steering Committee, Leninist-Trotskyist Faction of Fourth International 1974 Attended 10th World Congress of Fourth International Author, The Workers and Farmers Government Co-author, Towards a History of the Fourth International Editor, Marxism vs. Ultraleftism: The Record of Healy's Break with Trotskyism 1975 ff. Target of accusation campaign by Workers Revolutionary Party (Great Britain) and Workers League (U.S.) 1976 Co-author, The Fight against Fascism in the USA: Forty Years of Struggle Described by Participants Co-author, Healy's Big Lie: The Slander Campaign against Joseph Hansen, George Novack, and the Fourth International Co-author, What Is American Fascism? Writings on Father Coughlin, Mayor Frank Hague, and Senator Joseph McCarthy 1978 Author, Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution: The Trotskyist View 1979 January 18 Died, New York City 1979 Author, The Leninist Strategy of Party Building: The Debate on Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America (published posthumously) 1980 Author, James P. Cannon the Internationalist (published posthumously) 1986 Co-author, Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women (published posthumously)

From the guide to the Joseph Hansen Papers, 1887-1980., (Hoover Institution Archives)

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