The Lovestoneites, led by former General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Jay Lovestone, were a small American oppositionist Communist movement of the 1930s.
 The organization emerged from a factional fight in the CPUSA in 1929 and unsuccessfully sought to reintegrate with that organization for several years.
John Noonan is a conservative national security commentator and analyst.
 He was the national security policy advisor to Jeb Bush during his presidential campaign, and foreign policy advisor and speechwriter for Mitt Romney in 2012.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back "- The Crisis in Our Party" (Шаг вперёд, два шага назад) is a work written by Lenin published on May 6/19, 1904.
 In it Lenin defends his role in the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, held in Brussels and London July 30 - August 23, 1903.
 Lenin examines the circumstances which resulted in a split in the party between a Bolshevik ("majority") faction led by himself and a Menshevik ("minority") faction led by Julius Martov.
Shigeru Ishiba (石破 茂 , Ishiba Shigeru , born 4 February 1957) is a Japanese politician.
 Ishiba is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and of "Heisei-Kenkyukai" (part of the party faction led by Fukushiro Nukaga) until 2011.
 He was Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2008 and was also Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
 The LDP lost government in 2009, and in 2012 after challenging for the presidency of the LDP and losing to Shinzō Abe he accepted the position of Secretary-General of the LDP on 27 September 2012.
 Since 3 September 2014 he has served in cabinet as minister overseeing regional economic revitalization and policies aimed at reversing population decline.
The Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, when the jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria.
 In 2012, tensions within Boko Haram resulted in gradual split of the group between Salafist conservative faction led by Abu Usmatul al-Ansari, and the more dominant, violent faction led by Abubakar Shekau.
 By 2015, part of the group split into al-Qaeda affiliated Ansaru, and Shekau's faction became ISIL's West Africa branch.
Ben Scott is a Senior Advisor to the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a Visiting Fellow at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin.
 Previously, he was a Policy Advisor for Innovation at the US Department of State where he worked at the intersection of technology and foreign policy.
 In a small team of advisors to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he worked to help steward the 21st Century Statecraft agenda with a focus on technology policy, social media and development.
 Prior to joining the State Department, for six years he led the Washington office for Free Press, a non-profit organization dealing exclusively with media and communications policy.
 As policy director for Free Press, he headed a team of lawyers, researchers, and advocates, and directed a public interest policy agenda to expand affordable access to an open Internet and to foster more public service journalism.
 He was frequently called as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress.
 Before joining Free Press, he worked as a legislative aide handling telecommunications policy for then-Rep.
 Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
 He holds a PhD in communications from the University of Illinois.
 Ben is a 1995 graduate of the University of Illinois Laboratory High School.
 He is the author of several scholarly articles on American journalism history and the politics of media regulation as well as co-editor of two books.
The Syrian Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري‎ , "Al-Hizb Al-Shuyū'ī Al-Sūrī " ‎ ) is a communist party in Syria.
 The party emerged from a split in the Syrian Communist Party in 1986, as formed by the anti-Perestroika faction led by Khalid Bakdash.
 Khalid Bakdash died in 1995 and was succeeded as secretary of his party faction by his widow, Wisal Farha Bakdash.
Dimitri K. Simes (Russian: Дмитрий Саймс ; born October 29, 1947) Dimitri K. Simes is President and CEO of The Center for the National Interest and Publisher of its foreign policy bi-monthly magazine, The National Interest.
 Mr. Simes was selected to lead the Center in 1994 by former President Richard Nixon, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states as well as Western and Central Europe.
William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor.
 He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.
 Lake is credited as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War.
 He also held the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.
Jay Lovestone (December 15, 1897 – March 7, 1990) was at various times a member of the Socialist Party of America, a leader of the Communist Party USA, leader of a small oppositionist party, an anti-Communist and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helper, and foreign policy advisor to the leadership of the AFL-CIO and various unions within it.

Question: Lovestoneites were a party faction led by which foreign policy advisor to the AFL-CIO?
Answer: Jay Lovestone