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  • Title: Joseph Hansen papers
    Date (inclusive): 1887-1980
    Collection Number: 92035
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 109 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 envelopes, 1 audio cassette (55.0 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, minutes, reports, internal bulletins, resolutions, theses, printed matter, sound recording, and photographs relating to Leon Trotsky, activities of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, and activities of the Fourth International in Latin America, Western Europe and elsewhere.
    Creator: Hansen, Joseph
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1992.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Joseph Hansen papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Alternative Form Available

    Also available on microfilm (127 reels).

    Biographical Note

    1910 June 16 Born, Salt Lake City, Utah
    1928-1934 Attended University of Utah part-time
    1931 Married Reba Hooper
    1934 Joined Communist League of America (predecessor of Socialist Workers Party)
    1936-1937 Staff writer, Voice of the Federation (Maritime Federation of the Pacific), and Labor Action
    1937-1940 Secretary to Leon Trotsky, Coyoacan, Mexico
    1939 Author, Father Coughlin: Fascist Demagogue
    1940 Author, Wall Street's War, Not Ours!
    1940-1975 Member, National Committee, Socialist Workers Party
    1941-1945 Merchant seaman
    1944 Author, American Workers Need a Labor Party
    1945-1954 Staff writer, The Militant (newspaper of Socialist Workers Party)
    1946 Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York
    1948 Author, The Socialist Workers Party: What It Is, What It Stands For
      National lecture tour on "The Struggle for Power in Europe"
    1950 Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York
    1951 National lecture tour on "America and the World Crisis"
    1954 Editor, The Militant
    1955-1959 Editor, International Socialist Review (theoretical journal of Socialist Workers Party)
    1957 Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Los Angeles National lecture tour on "The Outlook for Socialist Regroupment"
    1959-1967 Editor, The Militant
    1960 Author, The Truth about Cuba
      Author, Too Many Babies? The Myth of the Population Explosion
      Founding member, Fair Play for Cuba Committee
      Visit to Cuba
    1961 Author, In Defense of the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to the State Department and Theodore Draper
      Attended Conferencia Latinoamericana por la Soberania Nacional, la Emancipacion Economica y la Paz, Mexico City
    1961-1962 Four-month tour of Latin America
    1962 Author, Trotskyism and the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to Hoy
      Author, The Theory of the Cuban Revolution
      Visit to Algeria
      National lecture tour on "What Makes Latin America Explosive"
    1962-1965 Socialist Workers Party representative in Europe, based in Paris
    1963 Attended 7th (Reunification) World Congress of Fourth International
    1963-1979 Fraternal member, United Secretariat of Fourth International Editor, Intercontinental Press (originally entitled World Outlook; published on behalf of United Secretariat of Fourth International, at first in Paris and later in New York City)
    1965 Co-author, Khrushchev's Downfall/New Deepening of the Sino-Soviet Rift?
    1966 Editor, Healy "Reconstructs" the Fourth International: Documents and Comments by Participants in a Fiasco
    1967 Co-author, Behind China's "Great Cultural Revolution"
      Attended Organizacion Latinoamericana de Solidaridad conference, Havana
    1968 Co-author, Revolt in France, May-June 1968: A Contemporary Record
      Co-author, The Nature of the Cuban Revolution: Record of a Controversy, 1960-1963
      Co-author, Murder in Memphis: Martin Luther King and the Future of the Black Liberation Struggle
    1969 Co-author, Leon Trotsky: The Man and His Work: Reminiscences and Appraisals
      Co-author, The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
      Co-author, Class, Party and State and the Eastern European Revolution
      Attended 9th World Congress of Fourth International
    1972 Co-author, A Revolutionary Strategy for the 70s: Documents of the Socialist Workers Party
      Co-author, Nixon's Moscow and Peking Summits: Their Meaning for Vietnam
      Author, The Abern Clique
    1973-1977 Fraternal member, Steering Committee, Leninist-Trotskyist Faction of Fourth International
    1974 Editor, Marxism vs. Ultraleftism: The Record of Healy's Break with Trotskyism
      Co-author, Towards a History of the Fourth International
      Author, The Workers and Farmers Government
      Attended 10th World Congress of Fourth International
    1975 ff. Target of accusation campaign by Workers Revolutionary Party (Great Britain) and Workers League (U.S.)
    1976 Co-author, What Is American Fascism? Writings on Father Coughlin, Mayor Frank Hague, and Senator Joseph McCarthy
      Co-author, Healy's Big Lie: The Slander Campaign against Joseph Hansen, George Novack, and the Fourth International
      Co-author, The Fight against Fascism in the USA: Forty Years of Struggle Described by Participants
    1978 Author, Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution: The Trotskyist View
    1979 January 18 Died, New York City
    1979 Author, The Leninist Strategy of Party Building: The Debate on Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America (published posthumously)
    1980 Author, James P. Cannon the Internationalist (published posthumously)
    1986 Co-author, Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women (published posthumously)

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, minutes, reports, internal bulletins, resolutions, theses, printed matter, sound recording, and photographs relating to Leon Trotsky, activities of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, and activities of the Fourth International in Latin America, Western Europe and elsewhere.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Audiotapes
    Communism -- United States
    Journalists
    Socialism -- United States
    Socialism -- Europe
    Communism -- Latin America
    Communism -- Europe
    Socialism -- Latin America
    Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
    Fourth International
    Socialist Workers Party