Workingclass Giant

<p><span style=color: rgba(41 40 40 1)>William Z. Foster was one the most recognized and respected labor leaders and Communists in</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(41 40 40 1)>U.S. history. He ran for president on the Communist Party USA ticket in 1924 1928 and 1932.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(41 40 40 1)>Though an early member of the Industrial Workers of the World Foster came into national prominence as an American Federation of Labor organizer and leader of the bloody steel strike of 1919.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(41 40 40 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(48 48 46 1)>Fosters Trade Union Educational League and Trade Union Unity League helped to lay the organizational groundwork for the birth and consolidation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1936 ushering in the greatest upsurge of worker organizing in U.S. history. In 1921 Foster </span><span style=color: rgba(39 38 37 1)>joined the Communist Part USA. He remained a committed Communist the rest of his life.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(39 38 37 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 23 1)>In 1948 Foster was among the CPUSA's leaders indicted for teaching and advocating Marxism Leninism though due to his health he did not serve time in prison. In 1957 he was elected CPUSA chairman emeritus at the party's national convention in New York City</span><span style=color: rgba(88 88 88 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 88 88 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 37 36 1)>Foster's life and legacy continues to inspire a new generation of workers. First published in 1981 this new edition the classic biography of Foster by Arthur</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 37 36 1)>Zipser includes a Foreword by trade union activist and organizer Chris Townsend. No stranger</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 49 49 1)>to union organizing Townsend spent the last 40 years on the national staff of the United Electrical</span><span style=color: rgba(193 193 193 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Workers Union and the Amalgamated Transit Union.</span></p>