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Hugo Oehler: Factional Documents and Spanish Civil War Reports, Correspondence and Ephemera, 1932-1937

Title: Hugo Oehler: Factional Documents and Spanish Civil War Reports, Correspondence and Ephemera 1932-1937

The Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S. was a Trotskyist group organized in 1935 by the Left Wing Group of the Workers Party, who had been expelled from the Workers Party (U.S.). The records contain letters and reports (1936-1937) written from Paris and Barcelona by League members Hugo Oehler and R. Martin, largely relating to political developments in the Republic of Spain from a Trotskyist perspective. The collection also includes printed ephemera in Spanish distributed by Spanish Leftist groups. Also included are sixteen folders of material compiled for "special issues" of , an internal bulletin of the Workers Party (U.S.), Left Wing Group. The bulletins reproduce documents relating to predecessor organizations, including the Communist League of America, and discussions pertaining to the formation of the Fourth International; correspondence in these files includes two 1933 letters to Oehler from James P. Cannon on the letterhead of the Communist League of America. International News

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear feet; (1 box)

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Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980

Title: Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980.

Campaign literature, scrapbooks, form letters, bulletins, issues of party newspapers, pamphlets, and other materials generated or collected by the Socialist Workers Party, which was organized formally in 1938 to represent the Trotskyite branch of the American Communist Party. Most of the materials emanated from Socialist Workers party headquarters in New York City, although there are also items from Communist groups abroad and a small file (1962-1964) created by the Minnesota branch.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 cubic feet (7 boxes) and 1 microfilm reel.

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George Breitman Papers 1928-1986.

Title: George Breitman Papers 1928-1986.

Series I. Biographical, arranged chronologically, contains an autobiographical sketch, memorabilia from the 1930s and from Breitman's WWII military service, and materials pertaining to several memorial services.Series II. Correspondence, arranged chronologically, contains the bulk of Breitman's correspondence, and is principally concerned with his political activities as a member of the Socialist Workers Party and later the Fourth Internationalist Tendency. Principal and/or prominent correspondents ... George Breitman was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1916. After working in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Works Progress Administration, he joined the Trotskyist movement and became a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1938. He edited The Militantand served in World War II. In the 1960s, Breitman assumed responsibility for the SWP's Pathfinder Press and edited Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929-1940, and wrote Malcolm X Speaks(1965). The Papers contain biographical items, ...

ArchivalResource: 30.0 inear feet (63 boxes)

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Kerry, Tom. Tom and Karolyn Kerry papers, 1933-1983.

Title: Tom and Karolyn Kerry papers, 1933-1983.

Papers of Tom and Karolyn Kerry, leaders of the Socialist Workers Party: he as an editor and national organizer and she as a labor activist and party worker. Included are biographical information, a bibliography, correspondence, speeches and writings, and miscellany.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and.2 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122450735 View

Dwight Macdonald papers, 1865-1984 (bulk 1920-1978)

Title: Dwight Macdonald papers

The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, printed material, photographs, audiotapes, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Dwight Macdonald. Macdonald's literary career, political activities, teaching and speaking engagements, and personal life are detailed. Major subjects represented in the papers include: communism and the Trotskyite movement, journalism and publishing, American social and political life (1920s-1970s), pacifism, and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Correspondence files include letters with many prominent intellectual and political figures.

ArchivalResource: 94.25 linear feet

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Dunne, Vincent R. (Vincent Raymond), 1889-1970. Papers [microform], 1929-1970.

Title: Papers [microform], 1929-1970.

Brief papers of Dunne, a Socialist Workers Party leader who rose to prominence during the Minneapolis Teamster Strike in 1934. Included are biographical clippings; an obituary; and correspondence (1941-1969) collected by the SWP that Dunne exchanged with party leaders such as James P. Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, and Morris Stein. Topics treated in the correspondence include conditions in Minneapolis (1958-1959) and other SWP branches, public relations tours made by Dunne, and biographical information about his brother William Dunne who was also a radical activist.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

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Dobbs, Farrell. Papers, 1928-1983.

Title: Papers, 1928-1983.

Papers of Dobbs, a former national secretary (1953-1972) and Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party. Included are biographical material, clippings, and Dobbs' FBI file; official party and personal research correspondence; subject files; and speeches, writings, and reports to the party.

ArchivalResource: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes) and.16 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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Todes, Charlotte. Papers, 1927-1956.

Title: Papers, 1927-1956.

The papers include minutes of the Joint Board, clippings, trial briefs and photographs and deal principally with the refusal of the board in 1945 to turn over to HUAC the records of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. A small amount of material pertains to Stern's work as organizing secretary of Workers' Health Bureau, Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Union, Local 560, AFL and Hotel and Club Employees Union 6, AFL. Prominent correspondents include: James P. Cannon, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Martin Abern, and Max Shachtman.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

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Leon Trotsky exile papers, 1929-1940.

Title: Leon Trotsky exile papers, 1929-1940.

Papers of Russian revolutionary and Soviet leader Leon Trotsky from his period of exile in Coyoacán, Mexico.

ArchivalResource: 197 boxes (65 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00301/catalog View

Wheelwright, John, 1897-1940. Papers, 1920-1940, Part II (Bullock-Levine).

Title: Papers, 1920-1940, Part II (Bullock-Levine).

Letters, writings, notes, etc. generated by correspondents and authors "Bullock, Walter Llewellyn" to "Levine, Doris".

ArchivalResource: Approximately 5,000 items.

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Bert Cochran Papers, Bulk, 1935-1955, 1935-1978, (Bulk 1935-1955)

Title: Bert Cochran Papers Bulk, 1935-1955 1935-1978, (Bulk 1935-1955)

Bert Cochran (1916-1984) was a Trotskyist active in the Communist League of America (1934), the American Workers Party (1935-37), in the Appeal Group within the Socialist Party, and in the automobile industry (1930s-40s), first in Cleveland within the Mechanics Educational Society of America, then in Detroit as head of the Socialist Workers Party Auto Fraction and as an activist within the United Automobile Workers of America. He left/was expelled from the SWP in 1954 for his leading role in the “Cochran-Clarke” faction, then helped found the magazine (1954-1959), and subsequently wrote seven books that covered labor and economics, and current domestic and international affairs. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to his labor and political activities, typescripts of speeches on various topics, and an (incomplete) untitled manuscript, a Marxist history of warfare and society. The American Socialist

ArchivalResource: 2.25 linear feet; (5 boxes)

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Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006. Theodore Draper research files, 1919-1970.

Title: Theodore Draper research files, 1919-1970.

The collection consists of the research files of Theodore Draper from 1919 to 1970. The collection is comprised mostly of subject files and recorded interviews Draper collected during the course of his research on the history of American Communism, primarily those collected for the projected third volume, never completed, covering the period since 1930. The materials in this collection document the history of the American Communist Party, 1930-1945, and, to a lesser extent, American Communism from 1919-1929, as well as the persons (primarily Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1930-1945) who were active in party affairs, particularly for the later period. The collection includes correspondence and writings of party figures, including Max Bedacht, Herbert Benjamin, Alexander Bittelman, Earl Browder, James Cannon, Eugene Dennis, and Vincent R. Dunne; taped interviews with Josephine Truslow Adams, Browder, Cannon, Manuel Gomez, and Joseph Starobin; summaries, notes and/or transcripts of interviews with Bedacht, Robert Bendiner, Benjamin, John Brophy, Browder, Esther Corey, Frank Crosswaith, Samuel Darcy, W.A. Domingo, John Frey, William Goldsmith, Robert F. Hall, J.B.S. Hardman, Granville Hicks, Sidney Hook, Ludwig E. Katterfeld, Jay Lovestone, Lewis Merrill, Richard J. Moore, Reid Robinson, Joel A. Rogers, James Rorty, Nat Ross, Jacob Spolansky, Bertram Wolfe, and Charles S. Zimmerman; internal party documents (originals and photocopies), including minutes of Central Executive Committee meetings; pamphlets; party and other radical periodicals; microfilm; and sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 45 linear ft. : (63 boxes, 122 MF, and 1 OP)

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Carlson, Grace, 1906-. Grace Carlson papers, 1929-1986.

Title: Grace Carlson papers, 1929-1986.

Biographical information, correspondence, newspaper clippings, speech transcripts, lecture notes, photographs, and miscellaneous materials relating largely to Carlson's activities in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (1939-1949) and as a professor of psychology at St. Mary's Junior College, Minneapolis (1954-1986). Carlson resigned from the party in the early 1950s, and retired from St. Mary's in 1979, but remained on its faculty as a volunteer.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes and 1 unboxed item).

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Sparrow, Ray, 1915-1985. Papers, 1915-1985.

Title: Papers, 1915-1985.

Papers, mainly 1958-1968, of Sparrow, a Socialist Workers Party leader also known by his pen name Art Sharon. The collection consists almost entirely of correspondence exchanged with SWP leaders such as James P. Cannon and Farrell Dobbs about Sparrow's work as San Francisco branch organizer and with Ernest Mandel about the United Secretariat of the Trotskyist Fourth International. Brief writings include a review of "The Power Elite" and a broadcast reply to comments made by Seymour Martin Lipset about HUAC. Also included is an obituary and documents pertaining to matters within CPUSA during the late 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and.2 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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Shachtman, Max, 1903-1972. The discussion in Minneapolis / [M.S.].

Title: The discussion in Minneapolis / [M.S.]. [1940]

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 28 cm.

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Letters to Sarah Weber, 1933-1940.

Title: Letters to Sarah Weber, 1933-1940.

Letters of Russian revolutionaryLeon Trotsky to his secretary Sara Weber.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.16 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01038/catalog View

Sherry Mangan papers, 1923-1961.

Title: Sherry Mangan papers, 1923-1961.

Correspondence and compositions of journalist and poet Sherry Mangan as well as materials concerning The Fourth International and and magazines. Time, Life, Fortune

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes (16 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00493/catalog View

Max Shachtman correspondence with Leon Trotsky, 1930-1940

Title: Max Shachtman correspondence with Leon Trotsky 1930-1940

46 TLS and 1 ALS from Leon Trotsky to Max Shachtman. 17 carbons of letters from Shachtman to Trotsky, including 1 ALS and 16 TLS from Trotsky to third parties, and third party correspondence. Concerns the Communist opposition in the 1930s, especially in the United States.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 2; Linear Feet: 1

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George Breitman Papers, 1919-1986

Title: George Breitman Papers 1919-1986

George Breitman was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1916. After working in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Works Progress Administration, he joined the Trotskyist movement and became a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1938. He edited and served in World War II. In the 1960s, Breitman assumed responsibility for the SWP's Pathfinder Press and edited , and wrote (1965). The Papers contain biographical items, correspondence, articles, various materials pertaining to his political activities and to the history of U.S. and international Trotskyism. The Militant Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929-1940 Malcolm X Speaks

ArchivalResource: 36.0 linear feet; in 33 manuscript boxes, 4 record cartons, and one folder.

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George Breitman Papers, 1928-1986

Title: George Breitman Papers 1928-1986

George Breitman was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1916. After working in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Works Progress Administration, he joined the Trotskyist movement and became a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1938. He edited and served in World War II. In the 1960s, Breitman assumed responsibility for the SWP's Pathfinder Press and edited , and wrote (1965). The Papers contain biographical items, correspondence, articles, various materials pertaining to his political activities and to the history of U.S. and international Trotskyism. The Militant Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929-1940 Malcolm X Speaks NOTE: This collection (except for the unprocessed Addendum) is housed offsite and advance notice is required for use.

ArchivalResource: 33.5 linear feet; (69 boxes)

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Breitman, George. Papers, 1928-1986 (bulk 1945-1980).

Title: Papers, 1928-1986 (bulk 1945-1980).

Series I contains an autobiographical sketch, memorabilia from the 1930s and from Breitman's WWII military service, and materials pertaining to several memorial services. Series II contains the bulk of Breitman's correspondence, principally concerning his political activities as a member of the Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth Internationalist Tendency. Series III contains proceedings; minutes; reports; memos; pre-convention and other discussion and position papers, including those representing minority and/or dissenting viewpoints; some correspondence of Breitman; and FBI files, as well as files on U.S. organizations preceeding the SWP, the Fourth International, and organizations in which Breitman participated after his expulsion from the SWP. There is coverage of the SWP from its inception, with bulk of the material from the 1950s-60s and from 1982-85. Series IV includes typescripts; ephemera documenting the Black Liberation movements of the late 1950s-early 1970s, notably the Freedom Now Party; transcripts of numerous speeches; interviews and radio broadcasts by Malcolm X; correspondence; and lists of relevant articles in Trotskyist periodicals. Breitman also accumulated a number of typescripts by other Trotskyists. Series V contains contents lists and indexes for the Trotskyist press, principally that of the SWP, and several lists of pseudonyms.

ArchivalResource: 30.0 linear ft.

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Dwyer, John, socialist. Papers, 1922-1950.

Title: Papers, 1922-1950.

Correspondence, documents, speeches, clippings, publications, and reports, relating to Dwyer's activities with Socialist Workers Party. Correspondents include Martin Abern, James Burnham, James Cannon, Max Shachtman, Arne Swabak, Norman Thomas, and Leon Trotsky.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 linear ft.

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Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980

Title: Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980.

Campaign literature, scrapbooks, form letters, bulletins, issues of party newspapers, pamphlets, and other materials generated or collected by the Socialist Workers Party, which was organized formally in 1938 to represent the Trotskyite branch of the American Communist Party. Most of the materials emanated from Socialist Workers party headquarters in New York City, although there are also items from Communist groups abroad and a small file (1962-1964) created by the Minnesota branch.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 cubic feet (7 boxes) and 1 microfilm reel.

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Cannon, James Patrick, 1890-1974. Papers, 1919-1975.

Title: Papers, 1919-1975.

Papers of Cannon, a writer, historian, founder of the Socialist Workers Party, and leader of the world Trotskyist movement. Included is biographical material primarily related to his early experiences in the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party; correspondence; bibliographies and draft versions of speeches and writings; minutes, leaflets, position statements, and other collected documents of the Socialist Workers Party and its forerunners such as the Communist League of America; and papers of his wife Rose Karsner who was also active in the party.

ArchivalResource: 24.2 c.f. (61 archives boxes) and.65 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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Macdonald, Dwight. Dwight Macdonald papers, 1865-1984 (bulk 1920-1978)

Title: Dwight Macdonald papers

The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, printed material, photographs, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Dwight Macdonald. Macdonald's literary career, political activities, teaching and speaking engagements, and personal life are detailed. Major subjects represented in the papers include: communism and the Trotskyite movement, journalism and publishing, American social and political life (1920s-1970s), pacifism, and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Correspondence files include letters with many prominent intellectual and political figures.

ArchivalResource: 94.25 linear ft.

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Socialist Workers Party Printed Ephemera Collection, 1932-1999

Title: Socialist Workers Party Printed Ephemera Collection 1932-1999

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) Printed Ephemera Collection is an artificial collection, collected and assembled by the Tamiment Library over the course of several decades. The collection is a selection of printed matter put out by the Socialist Workers Party, including event fliers, brochures, election and campaign material, bulletins, pamphlets and other publications. In addition to the printed ephemera put out by the SWP, the collection also contains material produced by youth and affiliated organizations, namely the Young Socialist Alliance and the Militant Labor Forum. Included in the collection are the pamphlets and publications produced by SWP publishing houses and presses, these include: Pioneer Publishers, Merit Publishers, Pathfinder Press, and the SWP's own newspaper, . The Militant

ArchivalResource: 4.0 linear feet; (4 boxes)

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Ruth Fischer papers, 1925-1961 (inclusive) 1940-1961 (bulk)

Title: Ruth Fischer papers

Papers of German politician and Communist Party leader Ruth Fischer.

ArchivalResource: 167 boxes and 1 volume (84 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00448/catalog View

International Labor Defense. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1928-1942.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1928-1942.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the ILD.

ArchivalResource: 86 items (134 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155891186 View

Leon Trotsky exile papers, 1929-1940.

Title: Leon Trotsky exile papers, 1929-1940.

Papers of Russian revolutionary and Soviet leader Leon Trotsky from his period of exile in Coyoacán, Mexico.

ArchivalResource: 197 boxes (65 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00301/catalog View

Cochran, Bert, 1913-1984. Papers, 1935-[ca. 1978] (bulk 1935-1955).

Title: Papers, 1935-[ca. 1978] (bulk 1935-1955).

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and minutes, reports, and other internal documents, principally from the Socialist Workers Party, and from the United Automobile Workers union. In addition to Cochran (often as E. R. Frank, or as "Burt" Cochran), notable correspondents and authors include George F. Addes, James Burnham, James Cannon, George Clarke, Farrell Dobbs, Vincent R. Dunne, Jules Geller, Rose Karsner, Homer Martin, Felix Morrow, A.J. Muste, Max Shachtman, Arne Swabeck, and Natalia Trotsky. There are also letters from SWP and UAW activists.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476398551 View

Chester, Robert, 1912-1975. Papers, ca. 1944-1976.

Title: Papers, ca. 1944-1976.

Papers of Chester, a Socialist Workers Party organizer and educator. Included are obituaries, brief correspondence, speeches and writings, and subject files.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and.3 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122450744 View

Myra Tanner Weiss Papers, Bulk, 1952-1963, 1933-1997

Title: Myra Tanner Weiss Papers Bulk, 1952-1963 1933-1997

Myra Tanner Weiss (1916-1997) was a socialist, feminist, and the Socialist Workers Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1952, 1956, and 1960. Together with her husband Murry she organized the School for Marxist Education in New York. The papers contain correspondence, speeches and writings and Socialist Workers Party internal documents.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet; in five manuscript boxes.

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