Tim Wohlforth

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Timothy Andrew Wohlforth (May 15, 1933 – August 23, 2019), was a

Trotskyist leader.[1] On leaving the Trotskyist movement he became a writer of crime fiction
and of politically oriented non-fiction.

As a student, Wohlforth joined the youth section of

Socialist Workers Party (SWP), which was the main Trotskyist group in the US at the time.[3]

In the early 1960s when the SWP and its supporters internationally in the

Workers League.[3]

In 1974, the ICFI discovered that Wohforth's partner, Nancy Fields, an active member of the Workers League, was raised by a relative who had worked for the Central Intelligence Agency's computer division and had ties to top-ranking agency officials. The Workers League Political Committee and ICFI criticized the fact that neither Fields nor Wohlforth had revealed this to the League. In August 1974, the League's central committee suspended Fields from membership and removed Wohlforth as national secretary pending a commission of inquiry, in a unanimous vote that included Wohlforth's. Both left the League, and Wohlforth rejoined the SWP. An investigation conducted by the Workers League concluded that Fields did not have connections to the CIA, and the two were requested to resume their membership. However, they refused.[4]

Wohlforth later claimed that the Workers League became a cult, largely due to the domination and manipulations of the principal ICFI leader at the time, Gerry Healy.

Wohlforth was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. In 1994 he published his memoirs, The Prophet's Children. He subsequently co-authored On The Edge: Political Cults Right and Left (2000) with Dennis Tourish. His former wife Nancy Wohlforth, is Secretary-Treasurer of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) and on the Executive Committee of the AFL-CIO.[5]

See also

  • Tim Wohlforth, The Prophet's Children : Travels on the American Left, Humanities Press, 1994,
    ISBN 0-391-03802-8
  • ISBN 0-7656-0639-9

References

  1. ^ "Obituary for Timothy Andrew Wohlforth".
  2. ^ Jim Higgins, The Prophet's Children (1995), Revolutionary History, Vol. 6 No. 1, Winter 1995/96. (accessed 2008-08-15)
  3. ^ a b Harry Ratner, "Review of The Prophet's Children", New Interventions, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1996 (accessed 2008-08-15).
  4. David North
    , The Heritage We Defend, Detroit, 1988.
  5. ^ Nancy Wohlforth Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, OPEIU Website (accessed 2008-08-15)

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