Robert J. Alexander

Robert J. Alexander
Alexander c. 1959
Born(1918-11-26)November 26, 1918
Canton, Ohio, United States
DiedApril 27, 2010(2010-04-27) (aged 91)
Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
OccupationAcademic

Robert Jackson Alexander (November 26, 1918 – April 27, 2010) was an American political activist, writer, and academic who spent most of his professional career at Rutgers University. He is best remembered for his pioneering studies on the trade union movement in Latin America and dissident communist political parties, including ground-breaking monographs on the International Communist Right Opposition, Maoism, and the international Trotskyist movement.