Guide to the Glenn Jenkins Papers, 1970-1980

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Revolutionary Union

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Health/PAC

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The Health Policy Advisory Center, or Health/PAC, was established in New York City in 1968, quickly becoming “…an important and formative influence on the health movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s” (Hoffman, p. 160). It grew out of the Institute of Policy Study’s 1967 “Burlage Report” on health policy and New York City’s municipal hospitals, which exposed how private sector “medical empires” benefitted from policies supposedly created in the public sector’s interests. Health...

Jenkins, Glenn

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Glenn Jenkins was a part-time student, hospital worker and self-described revolutionary living in Wisconsin in the early 1970s. From the guide to the Glenn Jenkins Papers, 1970-1980, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...

National Caucus of Labor Committees (U.S.)

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The National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) was a political organization founded in 1968 by supporters of Lyndon LaRouche. The membership initially consisted of LaRouche's students in New York City, but soon expanded to other parts of the country, and later, the world. The NCLC was dedicated to a radical socialist agenda, advocating the complete restructuring of the American economic system. LaRouche, under his own name and his pseudonym of "Lyn Marcus," was a propone...

Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...

Revolutionary Socialist League

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The Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was a Trotskyist group in the United States established circa 1972 and disbanded 1989. The RSL originated in the Revolutionary Tendency within the International Socialists (U.S.) (IS) led by Sy Landy and Ron Tabor. They had three principal differences with the IS: they believed that the IS had abandoned strict adherence to Trotskyism; they felt that the emphasis on the day-to-day work within the trade unions diminished propagating the revolutionary obj...

International Socialists (U.S.)

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American socialist organization. From the description of International Socialists issuances, 1967-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871704 International Socialists (IS), a Third Camp-oriented group with historical and organizational roots in American Trotskyism and the Young People's Socialist League, was founded in 1969, as the result of the merger of several Independent Socialist Clubs (the first was formed in Berkeley, California in 1964). IS concentrated on work in...

Workers League (U.S.)

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Groupe marxiste révolutionnaire

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