Martin "Marty" Abern was a Marxist politician who was an important leader of the Communist youth movement of the 1920s as well as a founder of the American Trotskyist movement.
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21 Facts About Martin Abern
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Martin Abern attended public elementary school and high school in Minneapolis.
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Martin Abern attended the University of Minnesota for two years, starring on the football team.
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The radical Martin Abern staunchly opposed World War I and following American entry into that conflict he refused induction into the military on political grounds.
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Martin Abern seems to have been a member of the Communist Party of America at the time of its establishment in the fall of 1919 or shortly thereafter.
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Martin Abern was saved from deportation at the last minute by a court order obtained by his attorney.
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Martin Abern held a seat on the governing National Executive Committee of the Young Workers League of America from May 1922 and was reelected by the convention of that organization held the following year.
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Martin Abern was sent to Moscow to attend the 4th World Congress of the Comintern late in the fall of 1922.
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Martin Abern briefly was part of a three-person Secretariat running the Young Workers League in the summer and fall of 1924 before being replaced as National Secretary on October 15 by John Williamson.
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In 1925 Cannon became the National Secretary of International Labor Defense, the legal defense arm of the American Communist movement, Martin Abern joined him as assistant national secretary and thereafter dedicated most of his effort in an attempt to build the size and influence of that parallel mass organization of the Workers Party.
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Martin Abern then took an important leadership role in the adult Workers Party of America, becoming the District Organizer of the party's important Chicago district in 1928 and sitting on the governing Central Executive Committee of the organization.
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Martin Abern was a steadfast supporter of the majority faction of Foster-Cannon-Lore during the bitter factional fighting that continued ceaselessly throughout the decade.
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Together with Jim Cannon and youth leader Max Shachtman, Martin Abern was expelled from the Workers Party in 1928 for supporting Leon Trotsky.
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Martin Abern was a founding member of the Communist League of America in May 1928 and sat on the governing National Committee of that organization from 1931 to 1934.
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Martin Abern was a member of the National Committee of that organization from 1934 to 1936.
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In 1938, Martin Abern helped found the Socialist Workers Party and he was on the National Committee of that organization from 1938 until 1940.
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Burnham left the radical movement at this time, while Martin Abern joined Max Shachtman's in establishing a new organization called the Workers Party of the United States .
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Martin Abern was elected to the governing National Committee of the WPUS at the time of its formation in 1940 and remained in the top leadership of that organization for the rest of his life.
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Martin Abern, who adopted the party name Harry Allen, was a central leader of the Workers Party and frequent contributor to its paper, Labor Action, until his death from a heart attack in April 1949.
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