Papers, 1953-1997 (bulk 1970-1997).

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Papers, 1953-1997 (bulk 1970-1997).

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Series I contains correspondence with the bulk of the letters from the years leading up to and following Lovell's 1981 expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party. Much of it concerns the issues and events leading up to his expulsion, the founding of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, and the publishing of the Bulletin in Defense of Marxism. Series II contains manuscripts of Lovell's numerous articles, reviews, speeches, class lectures, reports for and on the SWP, most concerned with the labor movement. Many of the lectures were given at classes for union militants held around the country. There are also topical files on major labor movement events, controversies, rank-and-file movements, and on relevant economic topics.

10 linear ft.

New-York Historical Society

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Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...

Lovell, Frank

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Frank Lovell was born on July 24, 1913, in Ipava, Illinois. Drawn into the socialist movement after the San Francisco general strike, he joined the Workers Party of the United States in 1935. He became a seaman and an organizer for the Sailor's Union of the Pacific. In 1938 Lovell was a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), and over the next five decades served on national leadership and wrote extensively for its publications on labor issues and other matters. Under the pen name ...

Fourth Internationalist Tendency (Group)

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The Fourth Internationalist Tendency (FIT) was a Trotskyist organization formed in 1983 after a factional split within the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). In the period 1981-1983 a number of leading members of the SWP, including George Breitman and Frank Lovell, created dissident factions within the Party and were soon expelled. Among the issues involved were differences over the SWP's turn toward "Castroism" and the question of affiliation and cooperation with the Fourth International. A 1982 sp...