Irwin Corey
Prof. Irwin Corey
Irwin Corey, known to television audiences and the entertainment industry as "Professor Irwin Corey" has been a lifelong member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), dating back at least to the 1940's.Citation
Peace for Cuba Appeal
In 1994 Irwin Corey was an initiator of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, an affiliate of the Workers World Party dominated International Action Center.
Other prominent initiators included Cuban Intelligence agent Philip Agee, academic Noam Chomsky, Congressman John Conyers and Charles Rangel[1].
Tour by Russian election eyewitness benefits World fund drive!
In the August 3, 1996 edition of the CPUSA newspaper People's Weekly World, "Tour by Russian election eyewitness benefits World fund drive!", P. 4, an article about a speaking tour by CPUSA member Scott Marshall, the "Illinois organizer for the Communist Party USA", the following pargraph appeared:
"In New York City, the veteran comedian Professor Irwin Corey and his wife Fran Corey hosted a reception at their home in Manhattan. Richard Corey regaled the throng with a song to the tune of John Brown's Body about Boris Yeltsin fiddling "as his country slips away"."
According to the PWW, the speaking tour, which included Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Connecticut and New York City, helped to raise "$8,793 for the People's Weekly World fund drive."
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2008 Irwin Corey, New York signed a statement circulated by the Partisan Defense Committee calling for the release of convicted “cop-killer” Mumia Abu-Jamal.[2]
References
- ↑ International Peace for Cuba Appeal - letterhead, Nov. 14, 1994
- ↑ Signers of Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now