Political Warfare Timeline 1937

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
==January==
*Lovestoneites supporting CIO against AFL.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.60.
*9 - Lovestone defends POUM in Workers Age.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.121.
==February==
*Bukharin arrested.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.120.
*Wolfe visits Spain.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.122.
==March==
==April==
*Lovestone people in place for anti-communist push in UAW.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.125.
*7 - Lovestone arranges for purge of Flint local including Victor Reuther.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.126.
 
==May==
*3 - May events in Barcelona.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.227.
*16 - Irving Brown beaten up trying unionise Ford plant in Chicago.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.125.
==June==
*16 - Arrest of POUM leaders.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.122.
==July==
*5 Lovestone rejects official version of Stalin's show trial.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.124.
*ICO statement against arrest of German oppositionists in Spain.
==August==
*23 UAW convention opens. Splits into Pro and Anti-Martin factions.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.126.
*27 ILGWU's Julius Hochman to travel to Paris according to SIS report.
==September==
*15 - ICO seeks rapprochement with London Buro.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.289.
==October==
*5 - Roosevelt quarantine speech against agressor nations.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.4.
*7 - Lovestone urges fair Poum trial.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.123.
==November==
*August Thalheimer warns of crisis in Soviet revolution.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.152.
==December==
*6 Security Service reports understanding between Willi Muenzenberg and Heinrich Brandler.
*16 Roosevelt agrees to military talks at meeting with British ambassador.
Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.4.
==Notes==
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