Alexander Trachtenberg
Alexander "
Alex"
Trachtenberg (November 23, 1884 – December 26, 1966) was an American publisher of radical political books and
pamphlets, founder and manager of
International Publishers of New York. He was a longtime activist in the
Socialist Party of America and later in the
Communist Party USA. For more than eight decades, his International Publishers was a part of the publishing arm of the American communist movement. He served as a member of the CPUSA's Central Control Committee. During the period of
McCarthyism in America, Trachtenberg was twice subject to prosecution and convicted under the
Smith Act; the convictions were overturned, the first by recanting of a government witness and the second by a
US Circuit Court of Appeals decision in 1958.
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