Maurice Spector

Maurice Spector

1898

1968

Maurice Spector " Maurice Spector " ( 1898 - August 1, 1968 ) was the Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada and editor of its newspaper, " People's Voice ", for much of the 1920s and an early follower of Leon Trotsky after his split from the Communist International
Spector was influenced by Trotsky's work ' The Bolsheviki and World Peace' which was published in the Toronto Mail and Empire in January 1918, and by Social Democratic Party of Canada ( SDP ) Dominion Secretary Isaac Bainbridge who introduced him to Lenin's writings and compelled him to join the SDP....

In 1928, Maurice Spector, while attending the Sixth Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, accidentally got hold of a copy of Trotsky's " Critique of the Draft Programme of the Communist International ",.

Jewish Canadian politician

Devil

Communist • Trotskyism • Nationalist

Struggle

Maurice Spector