Martin Koppel
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MartÃn Koppel is one of the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States.
Koppel is a Communist political organizer, a native of Argentina who grew up in the United States. Koppel first became involved in political activity while an exchange student in Marseille, France. The next year, in 1977, he joined the Socialist Workers Party in Baltimore.
He has been active in defense of the Cuban Revolution, and a longtime supporter of the Puerto Rican independence struggle. Koppel has also traveled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean to take part in political conferences and meet workers and peasants engaged in struggle, from the Movement of Rural Landless Workers in Brazil to working-class protests in Argentina, as well as in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Grenada.
Before joining the staff of the SWP's paper The Militant in 1991, he was a steelworker in Chicago and member of the United Steelworkers of America union.
Koppel is the author of Peru's Shining Path: Evolution of a Stalinist Sect, published by Pathfinder Press in 1994.
