Jack Shulman

Background

He was born and raised in Rochester, New York, to Jewish parents who had fled Tsarist Russia. His father was a housepainter and his mother a washerwoman.

Career

Shulman joined the Young Communist League in 1930 and went on in 1936 to serve with the Lincoln Brigade for 26 months during the Spanish Civil War and in United States Army during World World War World War II In the early 1950s he worked in the South as part of the Party"s organizing efforts with African Americans. He was for several years William Z. Foster"s secretary. Shulman visited Albania then moved to China in 1968 and worked as an editor of English language publications during the Cultural Revolution in Beijing.

He returned to the United States, published Albania Report and organized the United States of America-Albania Friendship Association.

He had good relationships with the India-Albania Friendship Association and Indian Marxist-Leninists. He was associated with the British Marxist-Leninist West. B. Bland.

Shulman died in 1999.

Achievements

• Shulman won a scholarship to college but had to leave due to the onset of the Great Depression.

Politics

Shulman was dissatisfied by the Communist Party United States of America"s turn away from Stalinism following Nikita Khrushchev"s secret speech in 1956. Following his resignation from the Party, Shulman traveled to Albania and China in pursuit of his political objectives. As China itself began to display revisionist tendencies Shulman grew closer to the Albanian Party of Labor.

After the fall of communism in Albania he participated in the Alliance Marxist-Leninist (North America) and supported International Struggle Marxist-Leninist (ISML).