George Breitman (1916 - 1986) was born in a working-class neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey in 1916. After graduating from high school, Breitman found work in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and later in the Works Progress Administration. By 1935, he had joined the Trotskyist movement as a member of the Spartacus Youth League, and then as a member of the Workers Party of America. He also became a leading activist and officer in the New Jersey Workers Alliance, an organization of the unemployed. 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Newark, nicknamed The Brick City, is the largest city in New Jersey and the county seat of urban Essex County. ... Civilian Conservation Corps workers restoring the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. ... The Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 with the signing of Executive Order 7034. ... 1935(MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Unemployment rates in the United States. ...

Breitman was a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party in 1938. In 1941 he assumed editorship of the SWP's weekly paper, The Militant. Drafted and sent to France in 1943, he was able to establish contact with a number of European Trotskyists and to help in the rebuilding of the war-battered Fourth International. After his return to the United States, he was again editor of The Militant in the late 1940s and early 1950s. From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, Breitman worked as a proofreader and was a member of the International Typographical Union. In this period he was also the leader of the Detroit branch of the SWP. With his wife Dorothea, and Frank and Sarah Lovell, he initiated the Friday Night Socialist Forum (later called the Militant Forum), a weekly series that attracted a broad range of activists from the labor, left, student and African-American movements. Through this period, Breitman used several pseudonyms, including Albert Parker, Philip Blake, Anthony Massini, John F. Petrone, and Chester Hofla. Returning to New York in the late 1960s, Breitman assumed responsibility for the SWP's Pathfinder Press and was best-known for editing the 14-volume Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929-1940 (1969-1979), for his work on various collections of the writings of James P. Cannon, and for his pioneering work on Malcolm X, including his Malcolm X Speaks (1965). In the course of these activities Breitman corresponded with leading scholars and added to his already substantial collection of Trotskyist documentation. There are various Socialist Workers Parties throughout the world. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Militant is an international socialist newsweekly connected to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The Fourth International has been the international organisation of Trotskyist communists. ... // Events and trends The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby boom from returning... The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Proofreading is reading a proof copy of text for the purpose of detecting errors. ... 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... Leon Trotsky Leon Davidovich Trotsky â–¶(?) (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij and 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 theorist. ... James Cannon in Moscow (1922) James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. ... Malcolm X Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 – also known as: Detroit Red, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, and Omowale) was an American spokesman for the Nation of Islam. ...

In the late 1970s Breitman opposed the growing trend among the SWP leadership toward what he viewed as a politics focused on the Castroist leadership of the Cuban Communist Party. Among the hundreds expelled from the SWP in the early 1980s, he played a leading role (despite an accumulation of serious illnesses) in establishing the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, which sought to unify U.S. supporters of the Fourth International. Breitman died of a heart attack in 1986. The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... Castro can refer to: Aureo Castro, Macanese/Portuguese Composer, Musician and educator Castro, an Italian city. ... The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the ruling party of Cuba. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... The Fourth Internationalist Tendency (FIT) was a public faction of the Socialist Workers Party, former after the 1983 explusion from that organisation of a group of supporters of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• The Lubitz TrotskyanaNetprovides a biographical sketch and a selective bibliography on George Breitman