Marxists Internet Archive: Gil Green
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Gil Green
September 24, 1906 – May 4, 1997
Tributes:
Gil Green: Mensch and Mentor, by Michael Myerson
Life and Works:
1928: Textile Mills Committee Has Won Strikers' Trust, Correspondent Writes, Daily Worker, June 20, 1928
1928: Textile Workers Will Protest Porter's Jailing, Mill Correspondent Writes, Daily Worker, June 24, 1928
1928: Porter Defies Army Czars, Defends Communism, Daily Worker, June 26, 1928
1928: U.T.W. Planning Strike Sellout, Daily Worker, June 27, 1928
1930: For a Mass Revolutionary Youth Paper, Daily Worker, March 19, 1930
1930: What's Wrong with Our Paper?, Young Worker, April 1930
1930: Our Opponents, Young Worker, May 26, 1930
1930: The War Danger and the Youth, Young Worker, July 21, 1930
1930: Six Weeks of the Shock Plan, Part I; Part II, Daily Worker, September 16-17, 1930
1931: Ruthenberg and the Youth, Daily Worker, February 28, 1931
1931: Develop the League into an Organization of Struggle, Daily Worker, March 30, 1931
1931: Shortcomings in Our Work for National Youth Day, Daily Worker, May 6, 1931
1931: The Young Communist League Turns to Struggle, The Communist, August 1931
1931: Mass Pressure for Immediate Demands to Expose Social Democracy, Daily Worker, October 14, 1931
1931: Simplfy the Work of the Units, Young Worker, November 23, 1931
1932: Build the Y.C.L. in the Shops!, Young Worker, May, 1932
1933: Students Join Revolutionary Struggle Against War, Daily Worker, January 17, 1933
1933: NRA with Slick Phrases Speeds Exploitation of Youth and Child Labor, Daily Worker, August 10, 1933
1933: The Open Letter and Tasks of the Y.C.L., The Communist, August 1933
1933: Party Must Help Y.C.L. Win Youth for Class Battles, [excerpts from speech to CPUSA Central Committee's 17th Plenum] Party Organizer, November 1933
1933: Recruiting Drive of Y.C.L. and Tasks of the Party, Daily Worker, November 4, 1933
1933: Need Party's Aid in Building of Y.C.L. Nuclei in Factories, Daily Worker, November 6, 1933
1933: Youth Confronts the Blue Eagle
1934: Tasks of Y.C.L., U.S.A. in the Fight Against Boss War and Fascism, [extracts of report to YCL National Committee meeting, Feb. 10-11, 1934], Young Worker, March 27, 1934
1934: Work Among Youth Necessary for Fight Against Fascism,, Daily Worker, March 13, 1934
1934: Twelve Years of the Y.C.L.,
1934: May Day – A Youth Day Against War and Fascism,, Daily Worker, April 28, 1934
1934: Tasks of Y.C.L., U.S.A. in the Fight Against Boss War and Fascism, [excerpts from the report to the Seventh YCL National Convention, June 23-27, 1934]
1934: Mighty Step Toward Unity of All Youth,, Young Worker, September 11, 1934
1935: Lack of Response from Many Districts Endangers 'Weekly', Young Worker, January 15, 1935
1935: 'We Are a Party of Youth' – Lenin, Daily Worker, January 19, 1935
1935: Defend the Soviet Union!, Young Worker, April 30, 1935
1935: They Call Themselves "Militants", Young Worker, May 7, 1935
1935: 'Forces Decide Everything'... Stalin, Young Worker, May 14, 1935
1935: Organize Discussion for 6th Y.C.I. Congress
1935: Demonstrate on May 30th for Peace, Freedom, Progress, Young Worker, May 28, 1935
U.S. Capitalists Seek to Transform C.C.C. Recruits Into Shock Troops for Fascism in the Struggle Against American Workers, Y.C.L. Secretary Says in Report to Plenum, Daily Worker, June 8, 1935
1935: Adding Another Page to American History
1935: Youth Carries On – The Traditions of '76
1935: Gil Green Appeals to Y.P.S.L. for United Front, Young Worker, July 23, 1935
1935: Young Communists and the Unity of Youth [speech to the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International]
1935: Gil Green Outlines Results of Communist Youth Congress, Daily Worker, November 2, 1935
1935: World Congress Points Way to Unity for American Youth! An Interview with Gil Green
1935: United We Stand for Peace and Socialism. Report on the Sixth Congress, C.Y.I.,
1936: Y.C.L. Conference Outlines Plans, Young Worker, January 21, 1936
1936: Review of Gil Green's pamphlet United We Stand, Young Worker, January 21, 1936
1936: Green Calls for Action, Young Worker, February 25, 1936
1936: Views and Reviews, Young Worker, February 25, 1936
1936: Views and Reviews, Young Worker, March 2, 1936
1936: Views and Reviews, Young Worker, March 10, 1936
1936: Views and Reviews, Young Worker, March 17, 1936
1936: Views and Reviews, Young Worker, March 21, 1936
1936: Views and Reviews, Young Worker, March 31, 1936
1936: Views and Reviews, Young Worker, April 7, 1936
1936: Views and Reviews, Young Worker, April 21, 1936
1936: Accent on Youth, New Masses, April 28, 1936
1936: We're Not Lost, Champion of Youth, July 1936
1936: Toward Youth Unity, The Communist, September 1936
1936: Spain at Gettysburg, New Masses, October 27, 1936
1937: The Coming Convention of the Y.C.L., Report to the YCL National Conference, The Communist, February 1937
1937: The Coming Y.C.L Convention, Party Organizer, February 1937
1937: Report of Gil Green, National President, Y.C.L., to the Eighth National Convention of the Young Communist League
1937: Some Problems of the Youth Movement in the U.S.A., Communist International, November 1937
1938: An Inspiring Work on Lenin, [Book Review], The Communist, November 1938
1938: How Not to Struggle for Latin America, [Book Review], The Communist, December 1938
1939: The Young Generation and the Imperialist War, The Communist, November 1939
1940: Imperialist War and "Democratic Demagogy", The Communist, June 1940
1941: Some Effects of War Economy in the U.S.A., The Communist, January 1941
1941: How the British Empire Is Conjured Away, The Communist, April 1941
1941: Our Tasks in the Struggle to Defeat Hitlerism, (Based on a report to the Plenary Meeting of the CPUSA National Committee, June 28-29, 1941) The Communist, August 1941
1942: The Course of the War and the Present Tasks, (Based on a repcyrt delivered to a meeting of New York Communist Party functionaries, March 5, 1942) The Communist, April 1942
1942: The ALP and the Elections – Vital War Issues Must Be Met, Daily Worker, October 16, 1942
1942: Some Post-Election Thoughts, Daily Worker, December 1, 1942
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1943: Some Problems of Economic Stabilization, The Communist, March 1943
1943: On Wage Stabilization by William and Pauline Young with a reply by Gil Green, The Communist, May 1943
1943: The Dubinsky Social-Democrats, The Communist, July 1943
1943: The New York City Elections, (A speech delivered to party workers at Manhattan Center, New York, November 15, 1943) The Communist, December 1943
1944: American Capitalism and Teheran, (Speech to the plenary meeting of the National Committee, Communist Party U.S.A., held in New York on January 7, 8 and 9, 1944) The Communist, February 1944
1944: Post-War Economic Perspectives, The Communist, April 1944
1944: Remarks on Reconversion, (at the founding convention of the Communist Political Association), from Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the CPA
1944: New York in the 1944 Election Line-Up, (Keynote Address to the New York State Convention of the Communist Political Association, New York City, June 10, 1944) The Communist, July 1944
1944: Jewish New Year Opens Era of Hope, Says CPA, Daily Worker, September 16, 1944
1945: The Outlook for the Municipal Elections, (Remarks delivered to a meeting of the CPA National Committee, March 11, 1945) Political Affairs, April 1945
1945: Speech by Gilbert Green to a Plenary Meeting, National Committee CPA, June 18-20th, 1945, Political Affairs, July 1945
1947: The Chicago Elections, Political Affairs, December 1947
1948: A Few Thoughts on Our Perspectives, Political Affairs, August 1948
1948: Gil Green – Portrait of a Communist, The Worker Illinois Edition, October 3, 1948
1948: An Opportunity Afforded by the Holiday Season, The Worker Illinois Edition, December 19, 1948
1948: Economic Barometer Points to "Stormy Weather" to Come, The Worker Illinois Edition, December 26, 1948
1949: Did UN Declaration of Rights Really Mean Everyone...?, The Worker Illinois Edition, January 16, 1949
1949: American Democracy at Stake in Trial of the Twelve, The Worker Illinois Edition, January 23, 1949
1949: During Hysteria Against Communists, Beware Pickpockets!, The Worker Illinois Edition, January 30, 1949
1949: Trial of the 12 Cannot Be Won in Courtroom Alone, The Worker Illinois Edition, February 6, 1949
1949: What's Doing in Illinois on the Trial of the '12', The Worker Illinois Edition, February 13, 1949
1949: A Letter to Josie, Masses & Mainstream, March 1949
1949: A Defendent Views the Gag on Foster, Daily Worker, April 7, 1949
1949: Gil Green Takes the Stand, Tells Jury How He Became a Communist, The Worker Illinois Edition, June 19, 1949
1949: 'Times' Lies About Gil Green Speech, Daily Worker, June 24, 1949
1948: Excerpts from his testimony in the Smith Act Case, Political Affairs, September 1949
1949: An Aesopian Letter from Gil Green, Masses & Mainstream, September 1949
1949: The Browderite Conception of History, Political Affairs, October 1949
1949: Browder;s "Coalition" – with Monopoly Capital, Political Affairs, November 1949
1949: Sen. Douglas Didn't Mean To, But he Accurately Posed the Issue for '50, The Worker Illinois Edition, December 25, 1949
1950: Capitalism's Crisis – and Mr. Browders, Political Affairs, March 1950
1950: Progressive Party's Plank on Peace, Daily Worker, March 30, 1950
1950: For Communist Vigilence, Report to the Plenary Meeting of the CPUSA National Committee, March 23-25, 1950, Political Affairs, April 1950
1951: Green: 'People Will Not Be Silenced by Edict', The Worker Illinois Edition, June 10, 1951
1952: The Parasitism of the U.S. War Economy, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, March 1952
1952: Some Problems of Work in Right-Led Unions, Part I;, Part II,, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, April, May 1952
1952: Reuther's Seizure of the Ford Local, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, July 1952
1952: The Ford Local Union Election, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, November 1952
1953: The Struggle for a Mass Policy, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, February 1953
1953: On Stalin's Method: Some Notes on Stalin's "Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.", [as John Swift] Political Affairs, April 1953
1953: The Left and the Struggle for Labor Unity, I, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, July 1953
1953: The Left Unions and Labor Unity, II, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, August 1953
1954: The Working Class and the Two-Party System, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, May 1954
1954: Population Changes and Negro-White Unity, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, August 1954
1955: Some Thoughts on Independent Political Action, A Discussion of the "National Guardian's" Call for the a Third Party, [as John Swift] Political Affairs, April 1955
1956: The Enemy Forgotten
1956: The Gil Green Family Marks a 50th Birthday, Carl Hirsch, The Worker Illinois Edition, September 23, 1956
1957: Illinois' Gil Green 'Celebrates' His 51th Birthday, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Worker Illinois Edition, September 29, 1957