Guide to the Jay Schaffner Papers, 1950-2010

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Guide to the Jay Schaffner Papers, 1950-2010

1950-2010

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Jay Schaffner (1952-), was an activist and official in the Young Workers Liberation League, a youth group affiliated with the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), of which he was also a member, and rom 1983-1991 Schaffner led the New York City-based Anniversary Tours, a travel agency associated with the CPUSA that organized trips to the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. Schaffner left the CPUSA in 1991 and joined the Committees of Correspondence, founded in 1991, and which in 2000 changed its name to the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which is a democratic socialist group largely formed by dissident members of the CPUSA, and was its treasure from 1993-2003. The papers contain records of the YWLL, CPUSA, COC/CCDS, and include convention discussion materials, reports, statements, notebooks, subject files, and clippings. There are also a single file on the Labor Youth League, a 1950s CPUSA affiliated youth organization; several each on Anniversary Tours and on the Greek Communist Party in the 1970s-1980s, some in Greek, and on Schafffner's 1976 trip to Greece to attend the congress of the Communist Youth of Greece.

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