Joseph Clark (June 18, 1913-December 27, 1988) was an American Communist Party member and foreign editor at the Daily Worker.
[8] He then became the Daily Worker's foreign editor, writing a series of articles that attempted to counter the Russian reporting of the New York Times' Moscow correspondent Harrison Salisbury.
[13] Following the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Clark initially followed the approach of Walter Ulbricht, criticizing the cult around Stalin but still praising his persecution of Trotskyists.
[15] He wrote that his resignation was due to a "revulsion against the injustices of Stalinist communism"[16] Although he broke with the Party, Clark defended it after he left from accusations of Soviet control and involvement in espionage.
[17] As one of the most prominent Communist Party leaders to resign publicly, Clark was criticized in the magazine Soviet Russia, and was accused of working with John Foster Dulles.