Socialist Workers Party collection HLL.2019.031
Allison Ransom
Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills
December 2020
Contributing Institution:
Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills
Title: Socialist Workers Party collection
Creator:
Socialist Workers Party
Creator:
Fourth International
Creator:
Young Socialist Alliance (U.S.)
Identifier/Call Number: HLL.2019.031
Physical Description:
85 boxes
Cartons and document cases.
Physical Description:
34 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1934-2003, undated
Date (bulk): 1940-1994, undated
Abstract: The collection comprises bulletins, convention and forum constitutions, programs, and leaflets,
correspondence, reports, flyers, and subject files relating to the
Socialist
Workers
Party
(SWP), which was founded in 1928 by James P. Cannon.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English, Spanish, and French.
Content Description
The Socialist Workers Party collection, 1934-2003, bulk 1940-1994, comprises materials that reflect the activities and statuses
of the Socialist Workers Party. It includes Discussion Bulletins; Information Bulletins; Internal Bulletins; Internal Information
Bulletins; International Bulletins; International Information Bulletins; International Internal Discussion and Information
Bulletins; Joint Discussion Bulletins between the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist League; and local and regional
branch Discussion Bulletins for various cities, states and regions in the United States as well as Australia. Convention and
forum constitutions, programs, leaflets, bulletins, and other materials are present, as are correspondence and reports regarding
various topics such as the Shachtmanite split within the party in 1940. "Political Committee mailings" comprising convention
materials, meeting minutes, letters, reports, and other documents sent to Political Committee members from 1973-1979 are included
as well. Education for Socialists conference reports, course and study outlines, bulletins and notes are included, in addition
to flyers, brochures, and a study guide from the West Coast Vacation School and Camp. The collection also includes San Francisco
and national election campaign leaflets, flyers, pamphlets and bulletins. There are minutes of the National Executive Committee,
Political Committee, and the Organization Committee present, editions of the
Party Builder and
Party Organizer, and subject files regarding various topics including Hungary, Rosa Luxemburg, Stalinism and the Russian Revolution, Trotskyism
in India, Vietnamese communism, and others. Individual series comprising files pertaining to the Fourth International, as
it related to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), as well as files regarding the Internationalist Tendency, the Leninist-Trotskyist
Faction, and the Young Socialist Alliance within the SWP, are present. These series contain bulletins, journals, articles,
pamphlets, correspondence, reports, minutes, subject files, and convention and committee documents. There are also graphic
materials including: cartoon prints by Laura Gray (Laura Slobe); one postcard; black-and-white and color photographs of SWP
members and an event relating to Art Preis' book
Labor's Giant Step: The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55; one black-and-white negative; one file of black-and-white still photographs from the 1987 film
Matewan.
Preferred Citation
Custodial History
The Socialist Workers Party collection was donated to the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California between 2003 and
2019, and was acquired by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 2019.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Processing Information
Allison Ransom processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in December 2020.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in 12 series: Series I. Bulletins, 1939-1994, undated; Series II. Convention and Forum materials,
1934-1982; Series III. Correspondence and reports, 1939-1994, undated; Series IV. Education for Socialists materials, 1940-2001,
undated; Series V. Election materials, 1940-1970; Series VI. Minutes, 1965-1981; Series VII. Subject and research files, 1939-1989,
undated; Series VIII. Publications, 1944-1983; Series IX. Fourth International files, 1938-2003, undated; Series X. Internationalist
Tendency files, 1973-1976; Series XI. Leninist-Trotskyist Faction files, 1972-1981, undated; Series XII. Young Socialist Alliance
files, 1957-1982, undated.
Biographical / Historical
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a political organization that was founded in 1938 by James P. Cannon. It was established
as a Trotskyist political party that had the goal of establishing international socialism by way of permanent revolution.
After James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman, and Martin Abern were expelled from the Communist Party USA for their Trotskyist ideas
in 1928, they formed the Communist League of America (CLA), which became the United States section of the International Left
Opposition (ILO). The ILO was an opposition group within the Comintern that was founded in 1930 and was renamed the International
Communist League (ICL) in 1933. In 1934, the Communist League of America joined the American Workers Party, and in 1936 the
party joined the Socialist Party of America, following the trend started by the French Trotskyist Communist League of entering
Socialist organizations to spread Trotskyism, which was known as the French Turn. While part of the Socialist Party of America,
Cannon, Schachtman, and Abern's faction maintained their allegiance to Trotsky and their support of the Soviet Union while
denouncing Stalin, which led to their expulsion in 1937. On December 31, 1937, the expelled faction members established the
Socialist Workers Party (SWP) at a founding convention in Chicago. In 1940, an internal dispute between Cannon and Shachtman
regarding the definition of the Soviet Union as a socialist state led to Shachtman and his oppositional faction leaving the
SWP and establishing the Workers Party.
In 1938, the Fourth International was established in France by Leon Trotsky and his followers, who believed that the Comintern
was too closely affiliated with Stalin which was contrary to what Trotsky thought would lead to the establishment of an international
socialist revolution. The SWP was originally affiliated with the Fourth International, but the 1940 Voorhis Act, which required
anti-American foreign political organizations that had sections in the United States to officially register with the Justice
Department, led to the SWP leaving the Fourth International.. Although the SWP never officially rejoined the Fourth International,
it shared the Fourth International's goal of non-Stalinist socialist revolution and supported revolutionary movements in Latin
America and Asia. In the 1970s, the Internationalist Tendency (IT) was developed within the SWP which condoned guerrilla warfare
tactics in Latin America, a position that the Fourth International supported but that led to the faction's expulsion from
the SWP. The Leninist Trotskyist Faction (LTF) of the SWP, which was active from 1973 to 1977, opposed the Fourth International's
stance on guerrilla warfare as well. In the 1960s the SWP reunified with the International Secretariat of the Fourth International
on the basis of their shared opinion that Cuba was not a Stalinist state.
In 1982, Jack Barnes, who was the National Secretary of the SWP, gave a speech at a SWP plenum denouncing Trotskyism and the
theory of the Permanent Revolution, and advocated for a worker and farmer-led government instead of an anti-capitalist revolution.
An opposition bloc formed in the SWP's National Committee that was expelled from the Party in 1983. Expelled members founded
the Socialist Action and Fourth Internationalist Tendency organizations that maintained their allegiance to James P. Cannon's
Trotskyist ideas. After the shift away from Trotskyism, the SWP has been known as a communist organization. The Party has
published
The Militant, the since it was founded by James P. Cannon in 1928, and has maintained Pathfinder Press as its publishing arm.
The SWP supported the Cuban Revolution, as demonstrated by its involvement with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, as well
as the civil rights and black nationalist movements. The Young Socialist Alliance, the youth group of the SWP that was founded
in 1960, dissolved in 1992, and published the
Young Socialist magazine, was active during the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The SWP also advocated for Chicano nationalism
by endorsing La Raza Unida and supported women's rights. The SWP also supported industrial unionism, in which workers in the
same industry are organized rather than workers affiliated with a specific union, and has endorsed various strikes such as
those led by the United Mine Workers of America after World War II.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Socialism -- United States
Trotskyism -- United States
Communism -- United States
Series I. Bulletins Series I.
1939-1994, undated
box 33, folder 1
Bulletin of Marxist Studies
1958-1959, undated
box 1-2
Discussion Bulletin photocopies
1939-1951, 1953-1955, 1957, 1959-1961
box 3-8
Discussion Bulletin
1950-1963, 1965, 1967, 1969
Scope and Contents
No. 1-5; Vol. 13, No. 1, 6-10; Vol. 14, No. 1-2, 11-12; A-13-A-18; A-19-A-22; A-23-A-26; A-27-A-33; Vol. 17, No. 1-4; Vol.
18, No. 1-6; Vol. 18, No. 7-14; Vol. 19, No. 1-3; Vol. 20, No. 1-6; Vol. 20, No. 7-16; Vol. 21, No. 1-4; Vol. 22, No. 1-19;
Vol. 23, No. 1-10; Vol. 24, No. 1-14; 15-28; 29-34; Vol. 25, No. 1-8; 9-26; Vol. 26, No. 1-7; Vol. 26, No. 7-12; Vol. 27,
No. 1-9, 11-13
box 9
Discussion Bulletin
1970
Scope and Contents
Includes Internal Bulletins and Party Builder Bulletins.
box 10-11
Discussion Bulletin
1971-1973, 1975-1977, 1979
Scope and Contents
Vol. 28, No. 1; Vol. 29, No. 1-5, 7-15; Vol. 29, No. 16-28; Vol. 30, No. 1-9; Vol. 31, No. 1-15; Vol. 31, No. 16-35; Vol.
32, No. 1-2; Vol. 33, No. 1-16; Vol. 35, No. 1-16; Vol. 34, No. 1-11; Vol. 36, No. 1-15; Vol. 36, No. 16-27
box 12-13
Discussion Bulletin
1981, 1984, 1988, 1990-1991, 1994
Scope and Contents
Vol. 37, No. 1-5; Vol. 37, No. 16-26; Vol. 2, No. 3-4; Vol. 38, No. 2-8; Vol. 39, No. 1-3; Vol. 41, No. 1-8; Vol. 42, No.
3-4, 7-16, 20, 23-24, 33.
box 84
Discussion Bulletin
May-July 1994; May-June 1995; April 1997
Scope and Contents
Vol. 44, No. 1-3, 7-9, 11, 13-14; Vol. 45, No. 2, 4, 8; Vol. 46, No. 3.
box 14, box 84, folder 3
Information Bulletin
1984-1986, 1988-1992, 1994
Scope and Contents
No. 2 in 1984; No. 2-4, 6 in 1985; No. 1-2 in 1986; No. 1 in 1988; No. 1-4 in 1989; No. 1, 3-5 in 1990; No. 44-5, 1-2, 6-8,
10-18, 20 in 1991; No. 2-6, 7A, 7B, 8, 10-15 in 1992; No. 3 in 1993; No. 2-3 in 1994.
box 15-19
Internal Bulletin
1938-1940, 1942-1950, 1953-1954
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1-6; Vol. 2, No. 1-6, 8-10; Vol. 2, No. 6-9, 11-13; Vol. 3, No. 1-2; Vol. 4, No. 1-3, 5; Vol. 5, No. 1-5; Vol.
6, No. 1-7; 8-11, 13; Vol.7, No. 1-6; 7-13; Vol. 8; Vol. 9, No. 1-7; Vol. 10, No. 1-6; Vol. 11, No. 1-5; Vol. 12, No. 1-3;
Vol. 15, No. 1-6; 7-10; 11-15; 16-20 Vol.16, No. 1-2
box 19
[Internal] Bulletin List
1939-1959
box 20-21
Internal Information Bulletin
1964-1977, 1979, 1981-1984, 1989
Scope and Contents
No. 1-9 in 1974; No. 1-4 in 1975; No. 1-15 in 1976; No. 1-8 in 1977; No. 1 in 1979; No. 1 in 1981; No. 1 in 1982; No. 1 in
1983; No. 1, 5 in 1984; No. 4 in 1989. March 1951, July 1951, June 1952, November 1952, March 1961, April 1961: donation added
later.
box 21
International Bulletin
1940-1945
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1-2, 7; Vol. 2, No. 1, 3; Vol. 3, No. 1
box 22-23
International Information Bulletin
1940-1944, 1946-1947, 1949-1954, 1961-1972
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1-2, unnumbered; No. 7-10 in 1969; No. 1-7 in 1970; No. 1-5 in 1971; No. 1, 6 in 1971; No. 1-5 in 1972
box 24-25
International Internal Discussion Bulletin
1970-1980, 1982-1985
Scope and Contents
Vol. 9, No. 5; Vol. 10, No. 1-26; Vol. 11, No. 1-5; Vol. 12, No. 1-6; Vol. 13, No. 1, 3-9; Vol. 14, No. 1-8; Vol. 15, No.
1-7; Vol. 16, No. 1-9; Vol. 17, No. 1; Vol. 18, No. 1-7; Vol. 19, No. 1-5; Vol. 20, No. 1-13.
box 25, folder 2
International Internal Information Bulletin
1977-1980, 1982, 1985
box 25, folder 2
Joint Discussion Bulletin, Socialist Workers Party, Communist League
1977, November
box 26-27
Local and Regional Branch Discussion Bulletins
1947-1977
box 26, folder 1
Los Angeles Local Internal and Discussion Bulletins
1947-1951, 1977
box 26, folder 2
New York Branch "Committee to Combat Racial Injustice"
1950, 1959
box 26, folder 3
Chicago and Cleveland Local
1977
box 26, folder 4
Washington, D.C. Local
1977
box 26, folder 6
New York Local
1954, 1976
box 27, folder 1
"San Francisco/Bay Area Local"
1948-1983
box 27, folder 4-5
"Northern California/ Bay Area District" Discussion Bulletins and Newsletters
1953-1984
box 27, folder 2
San Francisco Branch Black Panther Discussion Reports
1968
box 27, folder 3
Bay Area Branches Discussion Bulletin
1978-1980
Series II. Convention and Forum materials Series II.
1934-1982
box 29, folder 1
A transitional program for black liberation, 23rd National Convention, New York City
1969, October
box 29, folder 2-3
Convention programs
1944-1982, undated
box 29, folder 4
Forum leaflets
1957, 1967, undated
box 29, folder 3
Internal Bulletin, LA City Convention Issue, No. 1
1951, January
box 29, folder 5
Social Activity leaflets
1944-1953, undated
box 29, folder 6
"SWP Convention, Kerry Answer," Ohio SWP National Convention correspondence and reports
1973
box 29, folder 7
"SWP Convention, Oberlin," correspondence and reports
1975
Series III. Correspondence and reports Series III.
1939-1994, undated
box 30-31
Correspondence and reports
1939-1982
box 31, folder 2
Gus Horrowitz correspondence
1975
box 31, folder 3
"Labor Party Questions"
1972-1978, undated
box 31, folder 4-5
"Maritime Faction History"
1993-1994
box 31-32
National, Political, and National Executive Committees correspondence and reports
1973-1974
box 32, folder 3
National Committee correspondence and trade reports
1945-1953, 1973
box 32, folder 4
"Oscar Coover Tape Transcription (Maritime)"
1993
box 32, folder 5
"Papers regarding split with Shachtmanites"
1939-1940
box 32, folder 6
"Political Questions"
undated
"Political Committee mailings"
1973-1979
box 75, folder 1-3
1973-1975
Scope and Contents
Comprises Minutes of the 13th National Convention of the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), Chicago, Ill., 1973-12-28 to 1974-01-01,
and a Young Socialist Constitution as amended by the Thirteenth National YSA Convention, December 1973. Also included are
minutes from the National Committee and National Executive Committee of the Young Socialist Alliance; letters to YSA organizers
and at-large members; sales statistics; other documents.
box 75, folder 4, box 76, folder 1-4
1975
Scope and Contents
Comprises Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) National Committee plenum and meeting minutes, as well as Political Committee minutes;
LSA/LSO Internal Information Bulletins; letters to members, organizers, National Committee Members, Coalition of Labor Union
Women directors, and trade union directors; draft resolutions; election notes. One Constitution of the Socialist Workers Party
is also present.
box 77, folder 1-4, box 78, folder 1
1976
Scope and Contents
Comprises SWP campaign leaflets; National Committee plenum motions, proposed schedules, reports, minutes, and statistics;
correspondence and letters to members of the Political Committee; National Executive Committee and Political Committee minutes;
convention schedules; among other documents.
box 78, folder 2-4, box 79, folder 1-2
1977
Language of Material: Materials are in English, Spanish and French.
Scope and Contents
Comprises minutes from the Sixteeth National Convention of the Young Socialist Alliance, Chicago Il, 1976-12-31 to 1977-01-02;
Political Committee and National Executive Committee minutes and letters; letters to organizers, Women's Liberation Directors,
National Committee, and Political Committee members; related newsletters, reports, and notes.
box 79, folder 3-5, box 80, folder 1-4, box 81, folder 1
1978
Language of Material: Materials are in English and Spanish.
Scope and Contents
Comprises party membership statistsics; reports; Political Committee and Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) National Executive
Committee minutes; letters to and from local and branch organizers, Women's Liberation Directors, and various individuals
including Gus Horowitz, Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice Waters, and others.
box 81, folder 2-5, box 82, folder 1-2
1979, 1993
Language of Material: Materials are in English and Spanish.
Scope and Contents
Contains United Secretariat and Political Committee meeting minutes; letters; bulletin and news articles; reports; plenum
schedules and proposed rules; membership statistic reports; National Committee and National Executive Committee correspondence,
letters, and reports.
box 83, folder 4-6, box 84, folder 1-2
"National Committee Mailings"
1971-1980
Scope and Contents
Comprises United Secretariat meeting minutes; National Executive Committee meeting minutes; Political Committee meeting minutes;
mailings from the SWP Women's Liberation director; Political Bureau meeting minutes; reports and notes. Periodicals including
"The Manchester Guardian Weekly" and "Red Weekly" are included as well.
box 32, folder 7
"State Questions"
1976-1978
Series IV. Education for Socialists materials Series IV.
1940-2001, undated
box 33, folder 2
1970 Socialist Activists and Educational Conference Reports
1970
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 2
box 33, folder 2-4
Course/study outlines
1940-1955, 1979, undated
box 33, folder 5
Education for Socialists bulletins
1966-1979
box 34-35
Education for Socialists bulletins
1968-1978-1985, 1992, 2001
box 36, folder 1
Education for Socialists publications correspondence and notes
1970-1975
box 36, folder 2
"Shannon's class outlines and questions"
1970-1975
box 36, folder 3-5
"Study Guides and Questions"
1970-1978
box 36, folder 6
West Coast Vacation School and Camp flyers, brochures, and study guide
1945-1966, undated
box 83, folder 1
"Background on Control Commissions; John G. Wright Outline; Hansen lectures- 'Four Forgotten Congresses'" [educational outlines
and reports]
1957, undated
Series V. Election materials Series V.
1940-1970
box 37, folder 1-3
San Francisco and National Election Campaign leaflets, flyers, and pamphlets
ca. 1940-1966
box 38, folder 1-2
Election Campaign leaflets, flyers, and pamphlets
ca. 1960-1970
box 38, folder 3
Party Campaigner
1960-1968
box 45, folder 4
Party Campaigner
1960, May-July, 1963
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1-2
Series VI. Minutes Series VI.
1965-1981
box 39-40
National Executive Committee minutes
1966-1967, 1980-1981
box 41-44
Political Committee minutes
1965-1974, 1980-1981
Scope and Contents
1964-1964, January 1965-February 1966; February-November 1966; December 1966-October 1967; September 1969-June 1970; May-December
1970 with Party Builder Vol. 2 from the Oberlin Socialist Action Eduational Conference; January-March 1971; March-May 1971;
June-July 1971; August-December 1971; January-May 1972; June-December 1972
box 39
Political Committee and National Executive Committee minutes
October 1967-March 1968; March-June 1968; July-September 1968; October 1968-March 1969; March-August 1969
box 43
Political Committee and Organization Committee minutes
1979, April-May
Series VII. Subject and research files Series VII.
1939-1989, undated
box 73A, folder 1
Art Preis,
Labor's Giant Step: The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936–55 black-and-white photographs and contact sheets printed by Eli Finer for Sam Pollock
1965
1964-1965, 1987
Scope and Contents
Includes one letter from Eli Finer to Sam Pollock dated September 13, 1965. Individuals in the photographs include Art Preis,
Sam [Pollock], "Farrell" [Dobbs], and "Ethel". One black-and-white photograph annotated "Ted speaking to demonstrators in
Toledo, OH 1930s" on the verso, one black-and-white photograph annotated "from Milt 8/14/87" on the verso, and one black-and-white
photograph annotated "Dated Nov. 21, 1964" are present as well.
box 73A, folder 4
[Black-and-white photographs of Socialist Workers Party members, donated to the Holt Labor Library by Asher Harer]
1970-03-07, 1983-01-16
Scope and Contents
One photograph of Asher Harer annotated "Asher Harer ILWU ID" on verso; two photographs annotated "3/6/1970, Harer 1-16-83"
on the versos.
box 47, folder 1
Book and article project and notes, Gus Horowitz
1974-1976, undated
box 73A, folder 5
Anne Chester; "John G. Wright" (Joseph Vanzler); Rose Karsner; "Jim" (James P.) Cannon; Evelyn Reed (Evelyn Novack); Leon
Trotsky black-and-white and color photographs with black-and-white negative of Bill Kitt
1963-11, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes one color photograph of Rose Karsner and "Jim" (James P.) Cannon annotated "Palm Springs, Calif. Nov. 1963" on the
verso; one color photograph of Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico in 1940, taken by A.H. Buchman, original photograph from a
postcard, which is included. Photographs of unidentified individuals are also present.
box 74
Rose Karsner and Jim (James P.) Cannon color photographs
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color photographs adhered to painted board.
box 73A, folder 6
Laura Gray (Laura Slobe) cartoon prints
undated
box 47, folder 2
Book chapters and articles
1969-1989, undated
box 47, folder 3-4
Book chapter photocopies
undated
box 47, folder 5
Bulletin lists and indexes
1953-1979
box 48, folder 1-2
Cliff, Tony. "The Problem of the Middle East (unpublished manuscript)"
undated
box 73A, folder 2
Evelyn Reed color photograph sent to Shannon Sheppard, Holt Labor Library, from Ruth E. Schein
2004-03-01, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes letter to Shannon Sheppard from Ruth E. Schein, dated March 1, 2004.
box 73, folder 2
"Hungary" catalog search results
undated
box 48, folder 3-4
"India Research" notes
1971-1972
box 48, folder 5
Krivitsky, W.G. "The Saturday Evening Post" articles
1939
box 73, folder 1-2
Lasky, Melvin J. "The Hungarian Revolution," photocopy
ca. 1957
box 73A, folder 3
Louis Sinclair, Charlie van Gelderen, and Coyoacán, Mexico black-and-white and color photographs
1985-10, undated
Scope and Contents
Two black-and-white photographs annotated "Coyocan" on the versos; one black-and-white photograph annotated "Glasgow U. Oct
85, Shot #14, #6, Sinclair" on the verso; one color photograph annotated "Charlie van Gelderen at memorial for Sinclair" on
verso; one note inscribed "Found in Louis Sinclair folder."
box 48, folder 6
"Matewan" black-and-white photographs, Cinecom International Films
undated
box 48-49
"Miscellaneous, Mideast"
undated
box 49, folder 2
Mandel, Ernest. "October 1917: Coup d'état or social revolution? The legitimacy of the Russian Revolution"
Notebooks for Study and Research, International Institute for Research and Education, No. 17/18
1992
box 49, folder 2
"Rosa Luxemburg"
1946, 1971-1978
box 49, folder 3
Sherry Mangan papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University finding aid, research notes, and related correspondence
1967, 1973, undated
box 49, folder 4-5
Soviet politics article photocopies
1992, undated
box 49, folder 6
Stalinism and Russian Revolution articles
1948-1957
box 49, folder 7
Syllabus of the 1980 SWP Leadership School
1980
box 49, folder 8
"Trotskyism in India" article draft typescript
undated
box 49, folder 9
Vietnamese Communism research and library correspondence
1973-1978, undated
Series VIII. Publications Series VIII.
1944-1983
box 45, folder 1-3, 5-9
Party Builder
1944-1947, 1970, 1972, 1974-1976
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1-4; Vol. 2, No. 1-4; Vol. 3, No. 1-2; Vol. 4, No. 1-2; Vol. 6, No. 1-6; Vol. 7, No. 1-7; Vol. 8, No. 1-5; Vol.
9, No. 1-2; Vol. 10, No. 1-2
box 46, folder 1-3
Party Organizer
1977-1983
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1-5; Vol. 2, No. 1, 3-9; Vol. 3, No. 1-7; Vol. 4, No. 1-6; Vol. 5, No. 1-5; Vol. 6, No. 1; Vol. 7, No. 1; Vol.
8, No. 1, 3; Vol. 9, No. 1.
box 83, folder 2
"Socialist Workers Party, et al., Appellants, v. March Fong Eu, Secretary of State of the State of California, Appellee. Juristictional
Statement on Appeal from a United States District Court of Three Judges for the Northern District of California. Washington,
D.C. : CLB Publisher's, Law Printing Co.
October Term, 1976
Series IX. Fourth International files Series IX.
1938-2003, undated
Bulletins, journals, articles and pamphlets
ca. 1941-1993
box 50, folder 1-2
Bulletins, journals, and articles
ca. 1946-1993
box 50, folder 3
Fourth International
ca. 1942-1944
Scope and Contents
Vol. 3, No. 11; Vol. 4, No. 3-4, 6, 9; Vol. 5, No. 1-4, 6, 12
Correspondence and reports
1969-1986
box 51, folder 1
Fourth International Caucus of Solidarity newsletter
1986, August 17
box 51, folder 3-4
"Indochina Debate in Fourth International"
1979
box 51, folder 5
International Chapters letters and reports
1977-1979
box 51, folder 6
International Control Committee (ICC)
1974-1975
box 51, folder 7
Mexico and Spain, United Secretariat, Fourth International
1971-1976
box 51, folder 8
Organizing Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International and Organisation Communiste Internationaliste
1974-1979
box 51, folder 9
Organisation Communiste Internationaliste (OCI) and Pabloism
1973-1974
box 52, folder 1
Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), United Secretariat, Fourth International
1975-1977
box 52, folder 2
Statuses of the Fourth International reports and proposed draft
1938, 1948, 1969
box 52-54
United Secretariat, Fourth International correspondence and reports
1936-1958, 1973-1984, 1992
History and research files
1939-1979
box 54, folder 3
"Canadian General History" bulletins and pamphlets
1967-1978
box 54, folder 4
Fourth International History correspondence, notes, and draft reports
1953-1979, undated
box 54, folder 5
"Fourth International History and Research"
1959-1979
box 54, folder 6
French Trotskyist Movement and Fourth International History correspondence and notes
1939, 1976-1977
International Executive Committee (IEC), United Secretariat, Fourth International correspondence, reports, minutes, and articles
1964-1988, undated
box 55, folder 1
"Australia, Britain, answer to old wives"
undated
box 55, folder 3
Marjority Tendency letters and reports
1973-1974
box 55, folder 4 to 9, box 56, folder 2-5
Minutes, correspondence, reports, articles, and notes
1964, 1971-1976, undated
box 56, folder 1
Notebook, Nat Weinstein
1988
box 56, folder 6
Political Questions article drafts
undated
box 56, folder 7
Political Resolution notes
1973, undated
International Marxist Group reports
1972-1976
box 57, folder 1
Cadre School reports and notes
1976, March 6-7
box 57, folder 2
Compass Tendency, Gruppe Internationaliste Marxisten (GIM), International Marxist Group declarations and reports
1973
box 57, folder 3
"Report of the Fact-Finding Commission of the United Secretariat on the Internal Situation within the International Marxist
Group (IMG), British Section of the Fourth International"
1972, March 12
Subject files
1945-1980, undated
box 57, folder 4
Bonapartism
1945, undated
box 57, folder 9
"'Leninist Organizational Norms of the International Scale' talk, Gus Horowitz"
1974
box 58, folder 1
"Nahuel Moreno, Reply To"
1975-1977, undated
box 58, folder 2
Nahuel Moreno and Angola
1975-1977
box 58, folder 3-4
"Nahuel Moreno, Fourth International bulletins and reports"
1977-1978
box 58, folder 6
"Panama Canal Zone, Anti-Imperialism"
1977-1978
box 59, folder 1
Peru
1978
Language of Material: Materials are in Spanish and English.
box 59, folder 5
United Secretariat Executive Committee bulletins and reports
1969, 1974, 1985, 1995, 2003, undated
Scope and Contents
Contains 9th-10th, 12th, 14th-15th World Congress Bulletins and Reports
United Secretariat minutes and meeting notes
1975-1977
box 59, folder 6-7, box 60, folder 1-2
Meeting minutes, document drafts, circulars, and meeting notes
1975-1977
box 59, folder 8
"USB" meeting notes
1975-1976
World Congress Bulletins, notes and reports
1974-1995
box 60, folder 3
10th World Congress, Fourth International, notes and reports
1974
box 60, folder 4
11th World Congress, Fourth International, Special Congress Bulletin
1979
Scope and Contents
No. 1-2
box 60, folder 5
11th World Congress, Fourth International, subject file
1979
Language of Material: Materials are in French and English.
box 60, folder 6
13th World Congress, Fourth International, International Discussion Bulletin
1989-1990
Scope and Contents
No. 1-7
box 60, folder 6
14th World Congress, Fourth International, International Discussion Bulletin
1994-1995
Scope and Contents
No. 2, 5-6
Series X. Internationalist Tendency files Series X.
1973-1976
box 61, folder 1
Bulletins
1974-1975
Scope and Contents
Includes editions of
Bulletin of the Midwest Historians Association.
box 61, folder 3
Reports, minutes, and letters
1973-1976
Series XI. Leninist-Trotskyist Faction files Series XI.
1972-1981, undated
box 61, folder 4
"Answer to International Executive Committee, Leninist-Trotskyist Report"
1972-1973
box 61, folder 5
Coordinators letters and reports
1973-1976
box 61, folder 5, box 62-63, box 64, folder 1-3
Correspondence
1972-1977, 1981
box 64, folder 4
Discussion notes
1975-1976
box 64, folder 5
Draft statements, statements, and declarations
1973-1977, undated
box 64, folder 6
Joseph Hanson correspondence and statements
1973-1976
box 65, folder 1
Meeting notes
1973, undated
box 65, folder 2
National Question notes
undated
box 65, folder 3
Pre-World Congress Convention report draft
1973, December
box 65, folder 4-6, box 66, folder 1-3
Steering Committee letters and reports
1973-1977
Series XII. Young Socialist Alliance files Series XII.
1957-1982, undated
Correspondence and reports
1958-1980, undated
box 67, folder 1
Editorial Board minutes and correspondence
1958
box 67, folder 2
Election Campaign reports, pamphlets, and leaflets
1964-1968
box 67, folder 3
"Fund Drive" correspondence and reports
1962-1967
box 67, folder 4
"History of YSA" article drafts
1967, undated
box 67, folder 5
Job summary, membership statistics, statements, and leaflets
1964-1980, undated
box 67, folder 6
Students for a Democratic Society and Student Anti-War Movement correspondence and reports
1967-1968
National Convention documents
1960-1977, undated
box 72
First-Third National Conventions Convention Bulletins
1960-1963
box 72
Fourth National Convention and 1965 Plenum Convention documents
1964-1965
box 72
Sixth National Convention bulletins, budgets, draft resolutions, notices
1967
box 72
Seventh National Convention bulletins, minutes and agendas
1968
box 72
Eighth National Convention bulletins and minutes
1968
box 67, folder 7
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth National Convention proceedings, reports, and resolutions
1970-1974
box 67, folder 7
"Join the Young Socialist Alliance" National Convention leaflet
1976-1977
National Executive Committee documents
1963-1976
box 72
National Executive Committee minutes
1969-1972, 1976
box 72
National Executive Committee minutes, draft statements, reports, and notices
1963-1965
Publications
1957-1982, undated
box 67, folder 8
Anti-war brochures
undated
box 67, folder 8
Canadian Youth Bulletin, Published by the Young Socialist Alliance in Canada
1961, September
box 67, folder 7
Educational Bulletins and study group leaflet
1966-1968, undated
box 68, folder 1
International Information Bulletin
1966, 1969, 1971, 1979
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1; Letter No. 1-3; unnumbered
box 68, folder 2
International Youth Bulletin
undated
box 68, folder 2
Local Chapter Bulletins, Cleveland and Milwaukee
1965-1967
box 68, folder 2
Organizing the YSA
1970-1972
box 68, folder 3
The Organizer: Young Socialist Newspaper indexes
1971-1972
box 68, folder 4
Pamphlets, "Introducing the Young Socialist Alliance" and others
1966-1974, undated
box 83, folder 3
Young Socialist
March-October 1978
Scope and Contents
Vol. 20, No. 3, 7; Vol. 21, No. 2-6.
box 84, folder 3
Young Socialist Alliance Discussion Bulletin
July-August 1963; January 1968
Scope and Contents
Vol. 7, No. 1-4; Vol. 11, No. 5-6.
box 68, folder 6
YSA Information Bulletin
August 1991
Scope and Contents
No. 1 in 1991.
box 68, folder 5-6, box 69, box 70, folder 1-3
Young Socialist Discussion Bulletin
1963-1982
Scope and Contents
Vol. 7, No. 1-6; Vol. 8, No. 1-4; Vol. 9, No. 1-10; Vol. 10, No. 1-11; Vol. 11, No. 1-7; Vol. 12; Vol. 13, No. 1-6; Vol. 14,
No. 1-8; Vol. 15, No. 1-9; Vol. 16, No. 1-7; Vol. 17, No. 1-11; Vol. 18, No. 1-8; Vol. 19, No. 1-3, 6, 8-9; Vol. 20, No. 1-4;
Vol. 22, No. 1-4; Vol. 23, No. 1-4; Vol. 24, No. 1-2; Vol. 25, No. 1-11; Vol. 26, No. 1-4.
box 72
Young Socialist Forum Discussion Bulletin
1957-1961
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1-2, Vol. 3, No. 7; Vol. 4, No. 8-12; Vol. 5, No. 13-16
box 70, folder 4
Young Socialist Forum bulletins and publications
1959-1968
box 70, folder 4
The Young Socialist Organizer
1970-1973
Scope and Contents
No. 1-2; Vol. 13, No. 15, 18-19; Vol. 14, No. 5, 7; Vol. 15, No. 4; Experimental copy, 3/18/70.
box 70, folder 5
Young Socialists/ Ligues des Jeunes Socialistes Discussion Bulletin
1967, 1974
Scope and Contents
Vol. 3, No. 2-10; Vol. 9, No. 1
box 71, folder 1
Young Socialist magazine
1965-1970
Scope and Contents
Vol. 8, No. 2, 4; Vol. 9, No. 1-2; Vol. 10, No. 5; Vol. 11, No. 3-4, 6; Vol. 13, No. 1
box 71, folder 2
Young Socialist publications and related correspondence
1969, 1972
box 71, folder 3
Young Socialist Reply
1963
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1-5
box 71, folder 4
Young Socialist Truth Kits
1970-1972
box 71, folder 5
YSA Builder
1962, 1965
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1; unnumbered