Background
Gil Green was born on September 24, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Gil Green was born on September 24, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
In 1924 Gil Green graduated from Marshall High School, where he spent two years.
Gil Green joined Young Workers League, a section of Communist Party of the United States of America in 1924. Three years later, in 1927, he was appointed a district organizer of the League for Chicago. In 1930 Gil became a New York state organizer for the Young Communist League, eventually becoming its national secretary the following year. He also edited the party's newspaper Young Worker.
In 1934, he became national head of the Young Communist League, which supplied many of the individuals who helped organize the industrial unions in this country, as well as thousands of volunteers who fought against Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
The next year, in 1935, Green was elected to the Executive Committee and Secretariat of the Young Communist International. He also acted as a delegate of the World Youth Congress held in Geneva in 1936 and in 1938 in the United States.
During the period of Great Depression in the United States, Gil was an outstanding youth leader of the American Communist Party.
At the end of Great Depression, Green left communist youth movement and was elected a member of the National Board of the Communist Party. Beginning from 1941 to 1945 he worked as a district organizer of the party.
Green became chairman of the Illinois District of the Communist Party in 1946. The following year, he returned to New York as a member of Communist Party's National Board.
Green was convicted under the Smith Act in 1949, and imprisoned from 1956 until 1961.
In the early 1960s, he was named head of the New York district of the party. During that time, Gil was a member of the political movement that stood up against the Vietnam War. In 1968 he was again selected to the CPUSA's National Committee.
Later, Gil left the National Committee, but still remained a member of the Communist Party for another two decades. The politician finally quit the Communist Party in 1991 after the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and went on to help found the Committees of Correspondence.
Gil green was a member of Communist Party. His main political concern was to build bridges to various popular movements, including the labor, civil rights and peace efforts. In that regard, he considered party leader Gus Hall, who was suspicious of non-communists, more responsive to the Soviet leadership than to American workers.
The politician was one of those, who criticized the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia and supported the overthrow of the United States government.