Larry Trainor

Larry Trainor was a leading activist of the Socialist [Workers Party ] in Boston and a member of the party's National Committee.
Trainor was a noted socialist educator, giving classes on Marxism, the history of the Socialism in [the United States|American socialist] and Trotskyist movements and especially on Stalinism. He was the author of an extensive oral history 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."
Trainor's role in discussions of organizational questions in the SWP in the 1960s is referred to in articles by George Breitman and Frank Lovell.