Political Warfare Timeline 1938

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
==January==
==Feb==
*ICO, ILP participate in Paris conference which establishes new International Bureau for Revolutionary Socialist Unity. Revolutionary Socialist Congress. Afterwards Jay Lovestone invited to Vienna by Die Funke.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.
==March==
*German annexation of Austria. Lovestone travels to Vienna to rescue ICO leaders.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.266-267.
*11 - Germans cross Austrian border.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127. 
*12 - Lovestone sees Austrian Nazis marching in the streets.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127. 
*15 - Nikolai Bukharin shot.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.120.
==Apr==
*1 - SIS Section D created.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.12.
*9 - Lovestone condemns Stalin over death of Bukharin.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.125.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.121. 
==May==
==June==
*18 - Homer Martin suspends United Auto Workers (UAW) board members Walter Reuther walks out.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.128. 
==July==
*17 - Lovestone burgled by Communists.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.129. 
*25 - Burgled Lovestone material produced at UAW disciplinary.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
==Aug==
==Sep==
*UAW forces Martin to reinstate the board.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
*Lovestoneites still backing CIO.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.60.
==Oct==
*Paris conference forms International Workers Front Against War.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.292.
*UAW's Homer Martin enters into 'dubious negotiations' with Henry Ford.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.58.
==November==
==December==
*16 - Workers Age advocating democratic socialism.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.131.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.132.
*19 - Letter from Lovestoneites to KPO praises ILP leadership.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.261-262.
==Notes==
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