Irwin Corey
Irwin Corey, known to television audiences and the entertainment industry as "Professor Irwin Corey" had been a longtime far-leftist with affiliation toe the Communist Party USA, dating back at least to the 1940's.Citation through the Trotskyite "Partisan Defense Committee" "Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal of 2008. He died on February 6, 2017 at his Manhattan home.
In a 3/4 page obituary by T. Rees Shapiro in the Washington Post of February 8, 2017, Page B5 (Metro section) entitled "Comedian billed himself as 'World's Foremost Authority'", the following paragraph appeared.
"Mr. Corey grew up mostly in an orphanage and did not have a college education. In an act tinged with politics, his were squarely on the far left, although he claimed he was refused membership in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA)for being an 'anarchist'."
Irwin Corey's Early Communist Organizational Affiliations
Irwin Corey's name appears on a list of entertainers for the congressional cited Communist Party USA front, the International Workers Order (IWO), the largest and most successful CP front in history. From page 849, Section 100, "International Workers Order" in Volume One, Appendix IX, comes the description of the IWO as follows: "The International Workers Order with a membership of 155,000 and assets of $1,899,611 (Daily Worker, September 29, 1941, p. 5), is a fraternal organization which has from its very inception demonstrated by its pronouncements, its activities, and the authoritative statements of the Communist Party that it is a subservient instrument of the Communist Party of the United States. It claims over 19,000 branches and an income of over $1,000,000 annually (testimony of Max Bedacht, general secretary hearings, Vol. 10, pp. 5831, 5834). It operates in 44 States, the District of Columbia, and Canada, and is licensed in 16".
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