William Moriarty
William "Bill" Moriarty(1890,London,United Kingdom– April 14, 1936) was aCanadianCommunistandRight Oppositionist.He was general secretary of theCommunist Party of Canadafrom 1921 to 1923.
Moriarty was born in England and became a trade unionist working as a tin miner inCornwall,a railway worker and then a miner inWales.He moved to Canada in 1912 and worked first as a harvest worker. He joined theSocialist Party of Canadabecoming involved in its left wing and was one of the founding members of theCommunist Party of Canadaand was elected to the Central Executive Committee at its founding convention May 1921 and was the firstgeneral secretaryof the Workers' Party of Canada which was the legal wing of theundergroundCommunist Party. He remained one of the leading members of the Communist Party throughout the 1920s and was elected to the executive of theCommunist Internationalin 1925. He was expelled from the party in 1930 as a supporter of the "Right Opposition",pro-Bukharin,Jay Lovestonecurrent in theComintern.[1]
He founded the Toronto-based Marxian Educational League which was a branch of Lovestone'sCommunist Party (Opposition)and theInternational Communist Opposition.The M.E.L. affiliated with theOntario CCFin 1933. He was the M.E.L.'s delegate at the nationalCooperative Commonwealth Federationconvention that drafted theRegina Manifestoin 1933. Moriarty remained a member of Lovestone's international tendency until his death in 1936.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ab"William Moriarty Dies Suddenly".Workers' Age.April 25, 1936.RetrievedApril 27,2018.
External links
[edit]- The Regina Convention of the C.C.F.Moriarty's account of debates at the 1933 CCF convention on adopting the Regina Manifesto.
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