John and Constantine Poulos Photographs 1944-1969

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John and Constantine Poulos Photographs 1944-1969

Portraits of brothers John and Constantine Poulos--a union organizer and Trotskyist activist, and a Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist, respectively-and of George Siantos, Greek resistance leader.

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Poulos, Constantine, 1916-1986.

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John Poulos (1911-1980), student and documenter of Greek and Greek-American radicalism, and a son of Greek immigrants, was born in 1911 in Lynn, Massachusetts. While in his twenties, and a food worker, he organized Food Workers Local 701 of the AFL and led the fledgling union into the emerging CIO, and was a delegate to the CIO founding convention in 1938. A Marxist, Poulos belonged to, and served on the national committee of the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist organization. L...

Ethnikon Apeleutherōtikon Metōpon (Greece)

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Kessel, Dimitri.

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Siantos, Giōrgēs, 1890-1947

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Poulos, John, 1911-1980.

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John Poulos (1911-1980) was a union organizer and Trotskyist activist, and wrote extensively for Labor Action, the newspaper of the Workers Party. His younger brother, Constantine Poulos (1916-1986) was a Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist. With the outbreak of World War II, Constantine Poulos worked as a reporter for the Overseas News Agency. Eventually he was assigned to report on the Greek resistance and in 1943 became the first correspondent to enter occupied Greece, where he made his way to...