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| Affiliation | Socialist |
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1910-01-01 |
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| Name | Austin Lewis |
| Address | 5815 Lawton Ave
Oakland, California , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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00, 1865
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| Died | June 26, 1944
(79 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Nov 06, 2023 04:52pm |
| Tags |
English - Jewish - ACLU - Industrial Workers of the World -
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| Info | Austin Lewis (1865–1944) was born into a Jewish family in London, moving to the US as a young man. Settling there he became a radical San Francisco labor lawyer, translator, writer and researcher, and a revolutionary activist for decades. He defended trade unionists, labor organizations and fought government injunctions. He was a founder of the ACLU and for many years he was Tom Mooney’s lawyer. A member of the Socialist Party, he would become a key theorist for the growing syndicalist movement in the US, particularly as a contributor to International Socialist Review, and was an important figure in the SP’s Left Wing. He and Louis Fraina moved the New Review to the left during World War I and Lewis became an editor of the early pro-Bolshevik Class Struggle magazine. In his later years he focused on his work as a lawyer defending class-war prisoners and union drives.
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