Political Warfare Timeline 1939

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
==January==
*22 - Homer Martin suspended by CIO after suspending United Auto Workers (UAW) board.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
==Feb==
*8 - Jay Lovestone warns David Dubinsky that Martin defeat would strengthen Communist position in UAW.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
==March==
*Workers Age publishes letter to KPO about internal differences.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.153.
*4 Martin holds convention with one fifth of the UAW.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
*27 CIO holds rival UAW convention.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
==April==
*Paris conference establishes International Revolutionary Marxist Center.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.293.
*18 Lovestone warns of war in letter to Sasha Zimmerman from London.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.133.
==May==
==June==
*Martin takes followers into AFL. Launches strike in failed attempt to win over workers.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
*11 Roosevelt meets George VI.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.5.
*24 Lovestoneites criticise CIO's John L. Lewis for saying AFL-CIO unity impossible.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.61.
==July==
*29 Will Herberg attacks official communists as Stalinists.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.91.
==August==
*Lovestonites receive letter from Group of International Marxists of Germany about expulsion from KPO.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.153.
==Sep==
*French PDSOP ICO linked group opposes war.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.263. 
*International Marxist Center opposes War.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.293.
*1 Nazi invasion of Poland
*4 Labor Day Independent Labor League of America calls Nazi-Soviet Pact death sentence of Third International.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
==October==
*William Green of the American Federation of Labor states: "Labor firmly believes that we should have no part in this European War. We have no part in its causes and can have no responsible part in its adjustment. We want policy best calculated to keep us free of European entanglements.American Federationist, October 1939, p.1051 quoted in Joel Siedman, American Labor from Defence to Reconversion, Universithy of Chicago Press, 1958, p.21.
==November==
==December==
*French PSOP leaders arrested
*22 Independent Socialist Parties declaration ILP-KPO Neue Weg, International Marxist Group. Appears in ILP's New Leader.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.154.
==Notes==
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