Constance Weissman

Constance Fox Weissman (March 28, 1908 – January 8, 1972) was an American socialite, Marxist activist and member of the Socialist Workers Party.

O’Brien used his position as a public figure to criticize socialism in 1906, and argue for an increase in religious instruction to combat its rise.

[10] According to her obituary, when she was in the Junior League after her debut, she lobbied for the elimination of laws banning teaching about birth-control, despite her family's Catholicism.

[20] The same year, she met George Lavan Weissman, a Marxist activist who was enlisted in the army, while volunteering in the USO canteen.

[7] She later worked as the business manager of Fourth International (the SWP's theoretical journal) and was an organizer for the American Committee for European Workers Relief, a group that sent supplies, medicine and food to radicals in postwar Europe.

George Weissman worked as a journalist and editor for The Militant, and she contributed occasional articles and reviews to the paper from 1963 through her death.

[28] Using her personal fortune in 1948, Constance purchased a farm in Washington, New Jersey, which she turned over for the SWP's use as Mountain Spring Camp.

This continued until September 1962, when the FBI, as part of its COINTELPRO program, worked with local police to raid the camp, on the grounds that it was serving liquor without a license.

[30] Following the Cuban Revolution she traveled to Havana with Dorothea Breitman and Sarah Lovell touring local industries to view post-revolutionary Cuba for themselves.

[21] In addition to speeches by fellow members of the New York SWP branch, tributes were read from Maxwell Geismar, Ernest Mandel, and Chen Bilan.