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Larry Trainor (April 20, 1905 – July 22, 1975) was a leading activist of the
Socialist Workers Party (US) The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist party in the United States. The SWP began as a group which, because it supported Leon Trotsky over Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party USA. Since the 1930s, it h ...
in Boston and a member of the party's National Committee. Trainor was a noted socialist educator, giving classes on
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, the history of the American socialist and
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movements and especially on
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. He was the author of an extensive oral history of American socialism. Barry Sheppard wrote: "Larry had no formal higher education, but he knew more about politics and the world than any professor I had ever known...a true worker-intellectual, always reading when he was not explaining something. He had a very strong character." Trainor's role in discussions of organizational questions in the SWP in the 1960s is referred to in articles by
George Breitman George Breitman (February 28, 1916 – April 19, 1986) was an American political activist, author, and publisher affiliated with the Trotskyist movement. He was a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and a long-time editor of it ...
and
Frank Lovell Frank Lovell (July 24, 1913 – May 1, 1998) was an American Communism, communist politician. Lovell was born in Ipava, a town situated in the farming district of Illinois. Lovell studied psychology at the University of California in Berkeley, ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trainor, Larry Members of the Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1975 deaths 1905 births