# Larry Trainor

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For the DC Comics superhero character, see [Negative Man](/source/Negative_Man).

**Larry Trainor** (April 20, 1905 – July 22, 1975) was a leading activist of the [Socialist Workers Party (US)](/source/Socialist_Workers_Party_(US)) in Boston and a member of the party's National Committee.

Trainor was a noted socialist educator, giving classes on [Marxism](/source/Marxism), the history of the [American socialist](/source/Socialism_in_the_United_States) and [Trotskyist](/source/Trotskyism) movements and especially on [Stalinism](/source/Stalinism). He was the author of an extensive oral history [1] of American socialism.

Barry Sheppard wrote: "Larry had no formal higher education, but he knew more about politics and the world than any professor I had ever known...a true worker-intellectual, always reading when he was not explaining something. He had a very strong character."[2]

Trainor's role in discussions of organizational questions in the SWP in the 1960s is referred to in articles by [George Breitman](/source/George_Breitman)[3] and [Frank Lovell](/source/Frank_Lovell).[4]

## References

1. ["Holt Labor Library Collection Audio Index"](https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/audio/index.htm). *www.marxists.org*

1. Barry Sheppard. 'The Party: A Political Memoir, Vol. I: The Sixties'. Resistance Books, 2005.

1. ["Don't strangle the party"](https://www.angelfire.com/pr/red/usswp/dont_strangle_the_party.htm). *[Angelfire](/source/Angelfire)*. Retrieved 2020-05-26.

1. ["The Struggle Inside the Socialist Workers Party"](https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fit/partynorms.htm). *www.marxists.org*. Retrieved 2020-05-26.

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