Bert Cochran (December 25, 1913? - June 6, 1984) was an American Communist politican. December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...

Cochran's family came from Poland to the USA in the early 1900s. In the 1930s, Cochran attended the University of Wisconsin where he was recruited to the Trotskyist movement by Max Shachtman. In 1938 when a group of American Trotskyists under the leadership of James P. Cannon formed the Socialist Workers Party, Bert Cochran was one of them. For a number of years, Cochran was part of the National Committee, the leading body of the SWP and became the party's main leader in Detroit. Under the pen-name E.R. Frank he was a regular contibutor to the magazine of the Fourth International, which the SWP supported. The University of Wisconsin is a public university in the state of Wisconsin. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 - 1972) is best known as an American Trotskyist theorist. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... James Cannon in Moscow (1922) James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. ... The Socialist Workers Party is a socialist political party in the United States. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... For the left communist Fourth International, see Communist Workers International. ...

In the beginning of the 1950s, Bert Cochran became the leader of a faction inside the Socialist Workers Party that opposed the leadership of Cannon and instead favoured the approach of Michel Pablo, a leader of the Fourth International. The faction, known to their opponents as the Cochranites, argued that the SWP was abstaining in a sectarian manner from the opportunity to intervene into the radical layers around the Communist Party. The SWP's leadership interpreted this as meaning that the current around Cochran no longer believed a revolution in the United States was possible, and that they had recoiled from revolutionary activity under the dual pressures of relative post-World War II capitalist prosperity and the accompanying McCarthy-era anti-communist witch-hunt. Cochran was also criticised for proposing to remove the image of Trotsky from the masthead of the SWP's newspaper, The Militant. Michel Pablo (August 24, 1911 - February 17, 1996 ) was the pseudonym of Michalis N. Raptis, a Greek Trotskyist leader. ... For the left communist Fourth International, see Communist Workers International. ... Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others• Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II... McCarthyism took place during a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. ... 1915 passport photo of Trotsky Leon Davidovich Trotsky (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Trotskii, Trotski, Trotzky) (October 26 (O.S.) = November 7 (N.S.), 1879 - August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist intellectual. ... A masthead refers to the top of a mast of a ship. ... The Militant is an international socialist newsweekly connected to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ...

Eventually, Bert Cochran and the Cochranites were expelled from the SWP in 1954, which meant that the party lost a great deal of its members in Detroit and the Cleveland area. James P. Cannon sent Ed Shaw to lead the reconstruction of the party's branch in Detroit. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... James Cannon in Moscow (1922) James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. ... Ed Shaw (1923 – 1995) was an American Communist and life-long member of the Socialist Workers Party. ...

Bert Cochran, with Harry Braverman and about one hundred of his supporters founded the Socialist Union of America, which existed from 1954 to approx. 1959. After a short period out of regular political acitivity, he became a sponsor of the Third Camp journal, New Politics (magazine), and remained so until the journal's demise in 1976. He died from cancer the summer of 1984 before the re-launch of New Politics in the mid-1980s. Harry Braverman (1920 – 1976) was an American Communist and political writer. ... The American Socialist Union was recognised in 1954 as the sympathising organisation in the United States of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The third camp, also known as third camp socialism or third camp Trotskyism, is a branch of Trotskyism which aims to oppose both capitalism and Stalinism by supporting the organised working class as a third camp. This approach was developed by Max Shachtman and is one of the major components... New Politics is an independent socialist magazine founded by Phyllis and Julius Jacobson in 1961. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ...

External links

• Bert Cochran (E.R. Frank) Internet Archive
• Cochran biography
• The American Socialist
• Reflections on the Cochranites