Communist Party of the USA (Opposition) | |
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Leader | Jay Lovestone |
Founded | November, 1929 |
Dissolved | January, 1941 |
Preceded by | Communist Party USA |
Ideology | Communism |
International affiliation | International Communist Opposition |
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.
Over the course of its existence the organization made use of four names:
The members often referred to their organization as the Communist Party (Opposition) or "CPO."
Activists in the Communist Party (Opposition) played a role in a number of trade union organizations of the 1930s, particularly in the automobile and garment industries. A growing disaffection with the Soviet Union in the years after the Great Purge of 1937–38 ultimately led the group to drop the word "Communist" from its name before its dissolution in the first days of 1941.
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