1910 June 16 | Born, Salt Lake City, Utah |
1928-1934 | Attended University of Utah part-time |
1931 | Married Reba Hooper |
1934 | Joined Communist League of America (predecessor of Socialist Workers Party) |
1936-1937 | Staff writer, Voice of the Federation (Maritime Federation of the Pacific), and Labor Action |
1937-1940 | Secretary to Leon Trotsky, Coyoacan, Mexico |
1939 | Author, Father Coughlin: Fascist Demagogue |
1940 | Author, Wall Street's War, Not Ours! |
1940-1975 | Member, National Committee, Socialist Workers Party |
1941-1945 | Merchant seaman |
1944 | Author, American Workers Need a Labor Party |
1945-1954 | Staff writer, The Militant (newspaper of Socialist Workers Party) |
1946 | Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York |
1948 | Author, The Socialist Workers Party: What It Is, What It Stands For |
National lecture tour on "The Struggle for Power in Europe" | |
1950 | Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York |
1951 | National lecture tour on "America and the World Crisis" |
1954 | Editor, The Militant |
1955-1959 | Editor, International Socialist Review (theoretical journal of Socialist Workers Party) |
1957 | Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Los Angeles National lecture tour on "The Outlook for Socialist Regroupment" |
1959-1967 | Editor, The Militant |
1960 | Author, The Truth about Cuba |
Author, Too Many Babies? The Myth of the Population Explosion | |
Founding member, Fair Play for Cuba Committee | |
Visit to Cuba | |
1961 | Author, In Defense of the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to the State Department and Theodore Draper |
Attended Conferencia Latinoamericana por la Soberania Nacional, la Emancipacion Economica y la Paz, Mexico City | |
1961-1962 | Four-month tour of Latin America |
1962 | Author, Trotskyism and the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to Hoy |
Author, The Theory of the Cuban Revolution | |
Visit to Algeria | |
National lecture tour on "What Makes Latin America Explosive" | |
1962-1965 | Socialist Workers Party representative in Europe, based in Paris |
1963 | Attended 7th (Reunification) World Congress of Fourth International |
1963-1979 | Fraternal member, United Secretariat of Fourth International Editor, Intercontinental Press (originally entitled World Outlook; published on behalf of United Secretariat of Fourth International, at first in Paris and later in New York City) |
1965 | Co-author, Khrushchev's Downfall/New Deepening of the Sino-Soviet Rift? |
1966 | Editor, Healy "Reconstructs" the Fourth International: Documents and Comments by Participants in a Fiasco |
1967 | Co-author, Behind China's "Great Cultural Revolution" |
Attended Organizacion Latinoamericana de Solidaridad conference, Havana | |
1968 | Co-author, Revolt in France, May-June 1968: A Contemporary Record |
Co-author, The Nature of the Cuban Revolution: Record of a Controversy, 1960-1963 | |
Co-author, Murder in Memphis: Martin Luther King and the Future of the Black Liberation Struggle | |
1969 | Co-author, Leon Trotsky: The Man and His Work: Reminiscences and Appraisals |
Co-author, The Invasion of Czechoslovakia | |
Co-author, Class, Party and State and the Eastern European Revolution | |
Attended 9th World Congress of Fourth International | |
1972 | Co-author, A Revolutionary Strategy for the 70s: Documents of the Socialist Workers Party |
Co-author, Nixon's Moscow and Peking Summits: Their Meaning for Vietnam | |
Author, The Abern Clique | |
1973-1977 | Fraternal member, Steering Committee, Leninist-Trotskyist Faction of Fourth International |
1974 | Editor, Marxism vs. Ultraleftism: The Record of Healy's Break with Trotskyism |
Co-author, Towards a History of the Fourth International | |
Author, The Workers and Farmers Government | |
Attended 10th World Congress of Fourth International | |
1975 ff. | Target of accusation campaign by Workers Revolutionary Party (Great Britain) and Workers League (U.S.) |
1976 | Co-author, What Is American Fascism? Writings on Father Coughlin, Mayor Frank Hague, and Senator Joseph McCarthy |
Co-author, Healy's Big Lie: The Slander Campaign against Joseph Hansen, George Novack, and the Fourth International | |
Co-author, The Fight against Fascism in the USA: Forty Years of Struggle Described by Participants | |
1978 | Author, Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution: The Trotskyist View |
1979 January 18 | Died, New York City |
1979 | Author, The Leninist Strategy of Party Building: The Debate on Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America (published posthumously) |
1980 | Author, James P. Cannon the Internationalist (published posthumously) |
1986 | Co-author, Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women (published posthumously) |
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