William Kashtan

William Kashtan (27 Yuni 1909  - 1993) ya kasance Babban sakatare na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Kanada na tsawon shekaru 23 tun daga watan Janairun 1965, watanni da yawa bayan mutuwar Leslie Morris, har sai da ya yi ritaya a shekarar 1988. Wannan jinkirin da ya samu a matsayin ya faru ne saboda adawar Tim Buck da aka yi wa nadin sa.

 Rayuwa da aiki 
An haifi Kashtan a Montreal, Quebec a cikin 1909. A shekara ta 1927, yana da shekaru 18, ya shiga kungiyar Young Communist League . Shekaru biyu bayan haka, ya koma kudancin Ontario don shirya YCL a can sannan ya zama babban sakataren kungiyar a 1930. A shekara ta 1936, ya taimaka wajen gano Majalisar Matasan Kanada wacce, a mafi girma, tana da mambobi sama da 400,000.

Ya ziyarci Spain a farkon Yaƙin basasar Spain kuma a lokacin da ya dawo ya taimaka wajen shirya Battalion Mackenzie-Papineau . 

Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II ya yi aiki a matsayin mai shirya Toronto na Jam'iyyar Labor-Progressive, kamar yadda aka san Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci daga 1943 zuwa 1959, kuma ya yi aiki daga baya a matsayin darektan masana'antu, sakataren aiki da kuma mai shirya tsakiya. 

Ya kasance dan takara na jam'iyyar Labour-Progressive Party sannan kuma Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci ta Kanada kuma ya zama babban sakataren jam'iyyar a shekarar 1965, duk da adawar shugaban jam'iyyar kuma shugaban dogon lokaci Tim Buck.

Kashtan bai taba samun nasara a zaben House of Commons na Kanada ba, kuma ya yi ritaya a shekarar 1988. Ya kasance mai bin addinin Orthodox, mai goyon bayan Kwaminisanci na Moscow kuma ya ci gaba da tallafawa Tarayyar Soviet ta hanyar sauye-sauye daban-daban a manufofi a Kremlin. Kashtan ya yi tsayayya da Kwaminisanci na Turai a cikin shekarun 1970 lokacin da wasu Jam'iyyun Kwaminisancin da yawa a yamma suka rungume shi.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1993
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1909
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