George Lavan Weissman

George Lavan Weissman (December 14, 1916 – March 28, 1985) was an American Marxist activist, journalist, and Socialist Workers Party leader.

[3] During the Spanish Civil War, Weissman attempted to go to Spain to fight with the Loyalists but was prevented by the theft of his money while he was traveling to Algeria.

[3] In addition, he also worked as a manager of Mountain Spring Camp in New Jersey, a vacation retreat for the SWP that also hosted a training school for the Marxist education of new members.

[9] During his editorship, the newspaper attracted national controversy for its involvement in the Kennedy assassination, as Lee Harvey Oswald was revealed to be a subscriber.

The Committee worked to aid James Hanover Thompson and David Simpson who were falsely accused and jailed in the 1958 Kissing Case in Monroe, North Carolina.

[14] Copies of this poem were mailed by the FBI to nine prominent political figures including James Baldwin, Harold Cruse, and Tim Wohlforth.

During a confrontation with Barnes and other members, Weissman defended himself, declaring “I’m a Trotskyist; I still believe in Permanent Revolution and I refuse to regress to the Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry.