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Revision as of 19:36, 28 August 2022
Howard Fast was a prominent communist. His granddaughter is Molly Jong-Fast.
American Youth for Democracy
In the late 1940s, American Youth for Democracy was the youth wing of Communist Party USA.
In 1944 Howard Fast was a national sponsor of American Youth for Democracy.[1]
Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace
Howard Fast was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.[2]
The Daily Worker
Fast contributed to the Daily Worker, which later became People's World after several merges.[3]
References
- ↑ Spotlight, April, 1944
- ↑ Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 19, 1949
- ↑ History of the Daily Worker on Spartacus