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4 unusual facts about Frank Lovell


Frank Lovell

In the early 1980s, Frank Lovell, and several other members of the SWP, got into a sharp conflict with the new, younger party leadership under Jack Barnes.

At the age of 84, Frank Lovell died in a heart attack in his apartment in Manhattan on May Day 1998.

In the 1930s, Frank Lovell came into contact with Trotskyist movement led by James P. Cannon and he became one of the first members of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1942 he was elected to its National Committee.

In the 1950s, Frank Lovell was one of the SWP’s prominent members who had to move to Detroit the rebuild the party’s branch there after the SWP had had to expel a lot of members part of the Bert Cochran faction group.



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