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Posted on the Socialist Project list by Andy Lehrer: William Krehm died this past Friday. While better known in recent years as the founder and leader of COMER, the neo-social credit monetary reform outfit, Krehm has a fascinating history as a Trotskyist in the 1930s when he was a member of the Communist League of America, led a faction opposed to Maurice Spector, and then left to join what became the League for a Revolutionary Party (the "Fieldites"), led by Krehm in Canada and which for a time, was larger in Toronto than the Trotskyist organization of the time. In 1936, he went to Spain to volunteer with the POUM in the Spanish Civil War, was in the same unit as Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell), and was jailed for three months by the Communists when the POUM was outlawed.. He returned to Toronto and in 1938 organized an anti-fascist counterprotest across from Massey Hall where Adrien Arcand's fascists were holding a rally. He went to Mexico in 1940, and stood guard over Trotsky's body at his funeral. He then became a foreign correspondent for Time in Latin America, lost his job after the Cold War made his views unpalatable, and ultimately returned to Toronto where he abandoned left wing politics and first became a music critic and then a real estate developer during the post-war property boom (and as such campaigned against rent controls). Perhaps it's not surprising that when he returned to political activity it wasn't as a socialist but as an advocate of crackpot neo-social credit monetary theory.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Krehm Popplewell, Brett (May 18, 2008). "Toronto revolutionary, 93, girds for one more battle". Toronto Star https://www.thestar.com/news/2008/05/17/toronto_revolutionary_93_girds_for_one_m ore_battle.html Last Man Standing Of the 1,600 Canadians who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War, only one remains (The Walrus, December 2016) https://thewalrus.ca/last-man-standing/ -----Original Message----- From: Marxism [mailto:marxism-boun...@lists.csbs.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect via Marxism Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:00 PM To: rfid...@ncf.ca Subject: [Marxism] William Krehm, Canadian Trotskyist activist and Spanish Civil War veteran, Died at 105 | Dead Obituary https://deadobituary.com/william-krehm-canadian-trotskyist-activist-and-spanish- civil-war-veteran-died-at-105 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
