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Frank Glass (1901 – 1988), full name, Cecil Frank Glass was born in England, raised in South Africa and known best for his activities as part of the Communist Leauge of China in Shanghai. Glass was a communist revolutionary, journalist, and early leader of Fourth International parties in South Africa, China and the United States.

Biography
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Early life
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Time In South Africa
After Serving in the First World War he returned to South Africa and joined the Social Democratic Foundation before splitting with a few other members to form the International Socialist League. Following the merger of the ISL into the Communist Party of South Africa Glass was elected as a delegate to the Party's Inauguration Congress at the young age of 21. At the congress he reportedly told a journalist that "the moves in South Africa to stop the Communist organisation are doomed to failure and the doom of the capitalist class is sealed."

During the CPSA's second congress in 1923 he was elected as an organizer of the Party but by the CPSA's third congress in 1924 he had become a leader of an opposition faction to the CPSA's leadership. In 1928, Glass's political differences with CPSA leadership lead him to become South Africa's First Trotskyist. In particular, Glass objected to the CPSA's support for the creation of an "Independent Native Republic, with autonomy for racial minorities” believing that this put White South African workers in a position of being, "contemptuously left out of the programme and relegated to a definite position of inferiority.” The American Trotskyists who received Glass's letter were skeptical of this position and it was printed in The Militant with a

Time In China
Leaving South Africa in 1930, Glass traveled to Shanghai by way of the United States. In Shanghai he got a job as a Journalist working for...

USA and later years
During his time in the USA Glass became a leading voice in debates within the Socialist Workers Party around China. Together with Arne Swabeck he began to argue that the Communist Party of China was no long Stalinist. Swabeck eventually split with Glass and began to argue that the SWP should support the People's Republic of China which lead Glass to denounce Swabeck who eventually left the SWP and joined the Progressive Labor Party.

Death and afterward
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