Jack Shulman
This article is about the political activist
Jack Shulman, born in 1914, Rochester, New York, died in 2000 in New York City after a long illness. See below for other persons named Jack Shulman.
Jack Shulman, Jacob Shulman, is notable mainly for his dissatisfaction with the
Communist Party USA's turn away from
Stalinism following
Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956. Following his resignation from the Party Shulman traveled to
Albania and
China in pursuit of his political objectives. He was born and raised in
New York, was a member of the
Young Communist League from 1930 and served in the
Lincoln Brigade during the
Spanish Civil War and in United States Army during World War II. In the early 50s he worked in the South in the Party's organizing efforts with
African Americans. He was for several years
William Z. Foster's secretary. Foster, who died in the Soviet Union in 1961 while seeking medical treatment was also dissatisfied with the Soviet turn toward
revisionism.
Shulman visited Albania then worked as an editor of English language publications during the
Cultural Revolution in Shanghai. As China itself began to display revisionist tendencies Shulman grew closer to
Albanian Party of Labor. He returned to the United States, published
Albania Report and organized the
USA-Albania Friendship Association. He had good relationships with the
India-Albania Friendship Association and Indian Marxist-Leninists. After the fall of communism in Albania he participated in the
Alliance Marxist-Leninist (North America) and supported
International Struggle Marxist-Leninist (ISML). He was associated with the British Marxist-Leninist
W. B. Bland. He was married twice. The ashes of his second wife, Ruth, are buried in the
Martyr's Hill in
Tirana.
His son Norman, an American draft dodger who joined him in China during the Vietnam War, married
Jan Wong, a Canadian jounalist, after the Shulmans left China during the turmoil of the
Cultural Revolution.
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Obituary*
Obituary in the journal International Struggle Marxist-Leninist*
Memorial Issue Alliance 38*
Interview with Jack Shulman Memorial Issue, Alliance 38* Jack Shulman of the American Computer Company who advanced the theory that substantial advances in electronics resulted from material recovered from the
UFO crash at
Roswell, New Mexico,
Jack Shulman's efforts to demonstrate his theory A lecture by Jack Shulman* Jack Shulman, musician and composer:
A piece by the composer Jack Shulman* Jonas (Jack) Shulman, M.D., Executive Associate Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs at
Emory University, [
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* Jack Shulman, the hockey player from New Rochelle:
2003-2004 roster ice hocky team at Muhlenberg College* Memories of an elderly man, probably not the political activist:
Memories of an elderly Jack Shulman* Adapted from the
Wikinfo article, "Jack Shulman" http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Jack_Shulman April 12, 2004
