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William Z. Foster (February 25, 1881 – September 1, 1961) was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957.
William Z. Foster was an American labour agitator and Communist Party leader who ran for the presidency in 1924, 1928, and 1932. A militant union organizer from 1894, Foster joined the Industrial Workers of the World (1909), which aimed at achieving socialism through industry-wide labour.
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Feb 1, 2013 · A collection of writings by William Z. Foster (1881–1961), a prominent American labor leader and revolutionary syndicalist. The archive covers his journalistic reports on labor struggles in the US and abroad, his political views and activities, and his biography.
Feb 25, 2021 · William Z. Foster is visited by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and other prominent Soviet figures on his 80th birthday on Feb. 25, 1961, at the sanatorium near Moscow where he was...
A tribute to the American socialist leader who fought against revisionism in the U.S. socialist movement and the Communist Party. Learn about his proletarian background, his struggles against Lovestoneism, Browderism and Gatesism, and his historical analyses of revisionism.
Encyclopedia of the Great Depression. FOSTER, WILLIAM Z.William Zebulon Foster (February 25, 1881–September 1, 1961), a leading member of the Communist Party for four decades, was possibly the best-known radical activist of Depression-era America.
Jun 27, 2018 · William Zebulon Foster. William Zebulon Foster (1881-1961), a leading figure in the Communist Party of the United States for 4 decades, was the patriarch of American communism. Born in Taunton, Mass., the son of a poor railroad worker, William Foster grew up in a Philadelphia slum.
