Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Larry Trainor (April 20, 1905 - July 22, 1975) was a leading activist of the Socialist Workers Party (US) in Boston and a member of the party's National Committee.Trainor was a noted socialist educator, giving classes on Marxism, the history of the American socialist and Trotskyist movements and especially on Stalinism. He was the author of an extensive oral history [1] of American socialism.Barry Sheppard wrote: "Larry had no formal higher education, but he knew more about politics and the world than any professor I had ever known...a true worker-intellectual, always reading when he was not explaining something. He had a very strong character."Trainor's role in discussions of organizational questions in the SWP in the 1960s is referred to in articles by George Breitman and Frank Lovell listed as references below.References:George Breitman. Introduction (ca. 1985) to James P. Cannon, Don't strangle the party. http://www.angelfire.com/pr/red/usswp/dont_strangle_the_party.htmFrank Lovell. Party Norms and Appeals (1982). http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fit/partynorms.htmBarry Sheppard. 'The Party: A Political Memoir, Vol. I: The Sixties'. Resistance Books, 2005.. }
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- Larry_Trainor abstract "Larry Trainor (April 20, 1905 - July 22, 1975) was a leading activist of the Socialist Workers Party (US) in Boston and a member of the party's National Committee.Trainor was a noted socialist educator, giving classes on Marxism, the history of the American socialist and Trotskyist movements and especially on Stalinism. He was the author of an extensive oral history [1] of American socialism.Barry Sheppard wrote: "Larry had no formal higher education, but he knew more about politics and the world than any professor I had ever known...a true worker-intellectual, always reading when he was not explaining something. He had a very strong character."Trainor's role in discussions of organizational questions in the SWP in the 1960s is referred to in articles by George Breitman and Frank Lovell listed as references below.References:George Breitman. Introduction (ca. 1985) to James P. Cannon, Don't strangle the party. http://www.angelfire.com/pr/red/usswp/dont_strangle_the_party.htmFrank Lovell. Party Norms and Appeals (1982). http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fit/partynorms.htmBarry Sheppard. 'The Party: A Political Memoir, Vol. I: The Sixties'. Resistance Books, 2005.".