Russ Gilbert "New Left" pamphlet collection, 1943-1980.

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Russ Gilbert "New Left" pamphlet collection, 1943-1980.

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This collection has over 200 folders of documents pertaining to the New Left. The first 74 folders deal specifically with the International Socialists and include internal communications, reports, bulletins, and selected issues of their newspaper, International Socialism. These folders also include papers relating to the Revolutionary Socialist League, a branch of the International Socialists and the Socialist Workers Party in the United Kingdom. Folders 75 through 95 deal with the Spartacist League, folders 96 through 105 touch on the Independent Socialists, and folders 106 through 154 include a select collection of reports and newspapers that address various aspects of socialism, Marxism-Leninism, and Mao Zedong Thought. Papers dealing specifically with youth activism are found in folders 155 through 168, while information on anti-fascist campaigns and on social justice for women and African Americans are found in folders 169 through 182. Finally, folders 183 through 211 include fliers, newsletters, and selected newspapers of New Left rank-and-file workers in certain industries.

8.25 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7793598

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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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...

Gilbert, Russ,

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Spartacist League of the U.S.

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American Trotskyist political organization. From the description of Spartacist League of the U.S. records, 1964-2004. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123379853 Biography Note The Spartacist League of the U.S. is a self-proclaimed revolutionary communist organization in the Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist tradition. Its antecedents date to the early 1960s and stem from the Revolutionary Tendency within the Socialist Workers Par...

Independent Socialist Committee

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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...