Felix Morrow (1906 - 1988) US politician, Communist. Felix Morrow was for many years a leading figure in American Trotskyism, best known for his book Revolution and Counter-Revolution In Spain. He joined the Communist League of America in 1933 and after Max Shachtman’s minority split in 1940, served as editor of the Socialist Workers Party’s paper, the Militant. 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Communist League of America (Left Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. ... Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 - 1972) is best known as an American Trotskyist theorist. ... There are various Socialist Workers Parties throughout the world. ... The Militant is an international socialist newsweekly connected to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ...

Morrow was one of 18 SWP leaders, including James P. Cannon, imprisoned under the Smith Act during the Second World War. James Cannon in Moscow (1922) James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. ... The Alien Registration Act or Smith Act (18 USC 2385) of 1940 made it a criminal offense for anyone to knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing the Government of the United States or of any State by force or violence... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...

In 1943 he formed a faction, with Albert Goldman which challenged the SWP’s ‘orthodox’ catastrophic perspective. In one of the most instructive factional struggles in the history of the Trotskyist movement. Morrow and Goldman projected the likelihood of a prolonged period of bourgeois democracy in western Europe and emphasised the need for democratic and transitional demands against the maximalism advocated by the majority. Although he was expelled from the SWP in 1946 for ‘unauthorised collaboration’ with Shachtman’s Workers Party, he did not join Shachtman, and drifted out of politics to the right. Albert Harry Goldman (April 15, 1927 - March 28, 1994) was an American professor and author. ...

External links

• The Militant, weekly paper of the Socialist Workers Party
• Pathfinder Books, the bookstore of the Socialist Workers Party