Martin Abern ( born Martin Abern , real name is Abramovich , later Abramowitz ; December 2, 1898 , Bessarabian province - 1949 ) is an American social and political activist of the Marxist sense, one of the leaders of the youth communist movement and the founders of the Trotskyist movement in the United States .
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Biography
Martin Abern (Abramovich) was born in the Bessarabian province in a poor family, who in 1902 emigrated to the United States and settled in Minneapolis . In his youth he joined the youth wing of the Socialist Party of America - the Socialist League of Youth (1912), then the party itself (1915) and in 1916 - the Union of Industrial Workers of the World . Member of the US Communist Party since 1919 , for which the following year he was expelled from the University of Minnesota. In 1921, he was a delegate to the Moscow Congress of the Communist International of Youth . In 1922 he was elected to the CEC of the US Communist League of Youth, [1] in 1923-1928 - a member of the CEC of the US Communist Party.
In 1928, Martin Abern (along with Max Schechtman and James Cannon ) was expelled from the Communist Party on charges of Trotskyism and in May of that year became one of the organizers of the Left Opposition Communist League of America. In 1931-1934 he was a member of the National Committee of this organization. In 1934 he became one of the founders of the Workers' Party of the United States of America and until 1936 was a member of its National Committee, but already the following year he was expelled from its ranks along with all the Trotskyists.
In 1938 he was among the organizers of the Socialist Workers Party and joined its National Committee. He was in correspondence with Leo Trotsky . In 1940, together with Max Schechtman , James Burnham and other associates, he was accused of "petty-bourgeois opposition," and expelled from this organization at the Chicago plenum in September of that year. Together with Shekhtman founded the Workers' Party, remaining its member until the end of his life. He died in April 1949 .