William Crem ( born William Krehm ; November 23, 1913 , Toronto - April 19, 2019 , ibid.) - Canadian politician , writer , journalist , Trotskyist .
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Biography
Born into a Jewish family who emigrated to Canada from the Russian Empire. He lived in New York , where he worked selling hats. After the stock market crash of 1929, he became interested in Marxism .
Returning to Toronto, he studied mathematics at the University of Toronto for two years, then dropped out of college due to lack of funds.
In 1932 he joined the Trotskyists . Later he led the opposition faction to the leader of the Canadian Trotskyists, Maurice Spector, and left the organization, moving to Montreal , where he became the leader of the party branch. In 1934, Cream and his followers in Canada and the United States left the Communist League of America and formed the Organizing Committee of the Revolutionary Labor Party (later known as the League of the Revolutionary Labor Party), associated with an international organization known as the International Bureau of Revolutionary Socialist Parties or the London Bureau. Cream became the leader of the Canadian group and editor of its newspaper Workers Voice.
In July 1936, Cream traveled to Europe and became one of 1,600 Canadians a volunteer, a participant in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. Fighting in the ranks of the militia formed by the POUM party, he met with J. Orwell , faced with manifestations of the factional struggle among the left , especially from the pro-Stalinist communists. He was a propagandist , translator and journalist . He was in Barcelona during the May street battles when the United Socialist Party of Catalonia , associated with the Comintern , tried to eliminate the Trotskyist POUM . In June 1937, after the POUM was outlawed in Spain, Cream and a group of comrades were arrested on suspicion of espionage and spent three months in prison. He was released after a hunger strike, taken out by the police to the French border and deported from Spain in August 1937. After returning to Toronto , he wrote the brochure "Spain: Revolution and Counter-Revolution." He toured Canada and the USA , giving speeches about Spain.
He continued active political activity in Canada, the USA, and Latin America. He was engaged in journalism, was a correspondent in Mexico.
In the 1980s, he became one of the founders of the Monetary and Economic Reform Committee. He got rich on the sale of real estate.
He died in Toronto at the age of 105.
Selected Bibliography
- SPAIN: Revolution and Counter-Revolution (1937)
- Democracia y tiranias en el Caribe (1947)
- Growing Pains for Latin America (1948)
- Price in a mixed economy: Our record of disaster (1975)
- Babel's tower: The dynamics of economic breakdown (1977)
- How to Make Money in a Mismanaged Economy and Other Essays (1980)
- Democracies and tyrannies of the Caribbean (1984, originally published in Spanish in 1947)
- A power unto itself: the Bank of Canada: the threat to our nation's economy (1993)