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Guide to the Max Shachtman Papers TAM.103

Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY, 10012
(212) 998-2630
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive

Collection processed by Claudia Hommel

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit on January 19, 2016
Description is in English.

 Edited by Nicole Greenhouse in 2014 to reflect updated administrative information.  , September 2014

Container List

Series I: Groups with which Shachtman was affiliated (microfilmed)

PART A: THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND THE SOVIET UNION

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 1 Folder : 1A The Second and Third Internationals and the Vienna Union, statement

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

1922
Box: 1 Folder : 1B Communist International - session of the Bolshevization Commission - (Protocol #1)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

Feb 6, 1925
Box: 1 Folder : 2 Communist International - discussion of the Draft Program, Sixth Congress

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

1928
Box: 1 Folder : 3 Communist Party, Soviet Union (CPSU) - resolution of the Central Committee and Chinese Communist Party on situation in the party

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Microfilm Reel Number 1

Apr 23, 1929
Box: 1 Folder : 4 CPSU - letter from Radek to Clara Zetkin (in German)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

ca.1925
Box: 1 Folder : 5-16 Lenin School (Moscow) Study Guides (for English Sector)
- Political Economy
- Leninism
- History of the Party
- History of the Labor Movement in the West
Dialectic Materialism, the Study of Classes, Class Strugge and Society
- Economic Policy
- International Trade Unionism
- The History of the Labor Movement
- Theses and Resolutions
- Party Structure
- World Economy
- World Economy (in Russian)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

1926-1930

PART B: THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY (WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA)

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 1 Folder : 17 Controversial question in the Workers Party

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

ca.1924
Box: 1 Folder : 18 The Right Danger in the American Party

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

Jul 1925
Box: 1 Folder : 19 Communication to American Commission of Comintern

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

Nov 26, 1925
Box: 1 Folder : 20 Attempts at Unification of factions

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 1

1926
Box: 1 Folder : 21 Answer to Bedacht's charge that Foster is non-Marxian by A. Bittelman

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1926
Box: 1 Folder : 22 Weinstone's speech under political Committee report by Lovestone

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

May 27, 1927
Box: 1 Folder : 23 Telegrams to and from Moscow

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

1927
Box: 1 Folder : 24 Factional discussion around American question

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

1927
Box: 1 Folder : 25 Letter from Foster (1) to members of his faction

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1927
Box: 1 Folder : 26 Controversy in CPSU (speaker's outline), Bertram Wolf, Pres. of Agitprop Department

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1927
Box: 1 Folder : 27 Communication from American delegates to Comintern

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

Jun 26, 1927
Box: 1 Folder : 28 Political Committee, hearing (#63)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

Oct 27, 1928
Box: 1 Folder : 29 Statement to the Political Committee to Cannon, Shachtman, Abern, with letter to members

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

Oct 27, 1928
Box: 1 Folder : 30 Political Committee hearing (#63) (Trotskyist development in Finnish section)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

Nov 2, 1928
Box: 1 Folder : 31 Study Guide to 6 lectures by Bittelman "History of Communist Movement in America"

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

1929
Box: 1 Folder : 32 Independent Communist League (Boston), Bulletin #1

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

Dec 1928
Box: 1 Folder : 33 Outline of Party History for Discussion on 10th Anniversary

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

Sep 1929

PART C: LEON TROTSKY Writings by Trotsky (Russian Transcripts)

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 2 Folder : 1 Archives' Translation of Russian language titles for folders 2-39 (prepared by George Saunders of Path finder Press)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

undated
Box: 2 Folder : 2 The Degeneration of the Bolshevik Party

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

undated
Box: 2 Folder : 3 Letter from Sara (Weber) Jacobs

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

Mar 28, 1933
Box: 2 Folder : 4 Postcard to Shachtman, signed MN (?) Istanbul

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

1933
Box: 2 Folder : 5 It is necessary to rebuild the Communist Party and the International

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

Jul 15, 1933
Box: 2 Folder : 6 It is no longer possible to remain in the same International with Stalin, etc.

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

Jul 20, 1933
Box: 2 Folder : 7 Even slander should make sense

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

Apr 1933
Box: 2 Folder : 8 The Chinese question after the Sixth Congress

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

Oct 4, 1928
Box: 2 Folder : 9 Isn't it time to understand

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

May 26, 1927
Box: 2 Folder : 10 Hankow to Moscow

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

May 28, 1927
Box: 2 Folder : 11 Second speech on the China question

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1928
Box: 2 Folder : 12 Chen Tu Siuls speech on the tasks of the Chinese Communist Party

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1927
Box: 2 Folder : 13 The Chinese Revolution and Stalin's Thesis

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

May 7, 1927
Box: 2 Folder : 14 An Inevitable Final Flourish

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

May 17, 1927
Box: 2 Folder : 15 The Strangled Revolution

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

1931
Box: 2 Folder : 16 On the Revolution and its Stranglers

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

1931
Box: 2 Folder : 17 The Sure Road

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

May 11, 1927
Box: 2 Folder : 18 Against National Communism: lessons of the Red referendum

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

1931
Box: 2 Folder : 19 (not translated)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

1931
Box: 2 Folder : 20 Stalin and his Agabekov

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

undated
Box: 2 Folder : 21 Permanent Revolution

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1931
Box: 2 Folder : 22 Toward Capitalism or Socialism

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

1930
Box: 2 Folder : 23 What the Wretches' Trial teaches us

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

undated
Box: 2 Folder : 24 What next? On the campaign against the Right

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1929
Box: 2 Folder : 25 A Bloc of Lefts and Rights

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1931
Box: 2 Folder : 26 Political contortions of the Capitalists (from a letter)

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

undated
Box: 2 Folder : 27 Text for a questionnaire for Those Who Recanted

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

undated
Box: 2 Folder : 28 The turn of the Communist International and the situation in Germany

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1930
Box: 2 Folder : 29 A Total Collectivization District

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

Apr 11, 1930
Box: 2 Folder : 30 To the Communists of China and the World: Tasks and Perspectives of the Chinese Revolution

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1930
Box: 2 Folder : 31 Letters of a Soviet Worker to oppositionist friend in Internal Exile

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 2

1929-1930
Box: 2 Folder : 32 Statement of Exiled oppositionists to Presidency Committee of the 16th Congress of CPSU

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

ca.1930s
Box: 2 Folder : 33 Letter #1 to all sections of the International Left Opposition

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

Jun 21, 1930
Box: 2 Folder : 34 The mistakes of the Right elements of the League on the Trade Union question

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Microfilm Reel Number 2

Jan 4, 1930
Box: 2 Folder : 35 Letter #2 to all sections of the International Left Opposition

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

Jun 29, 1930
Box: 2 Folder : 36 The New Zig Zag and New Dangers

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

Jul 15, 1931
Box: 2 Folder : 37 On the Defenders' of the October Revolution

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

Jun 10, 1930
Box: 2 Folder : 38 Letter to the International Secretariat (portion)

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

1931
Box: 2 Folder : 39 Letter to the International Secretariat on Social Fascism' (portion)

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

Jun 27, 1931
Box: 2 Folder : 40-44 Correspondence with International Secretariat and other leading International bodies (in English, German, French, Russian)

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

1930-1936
Box: 2 Folder : 45-48 Correspondence with CLA/TATUS leadership (folder 48A see also:

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

1930-1940
Box: 2 Folder : 48B Copies of Max Shachtman Correspondence during Trotsky's exile period (these documents were a gift to the Tamiment Library from John F. Dwyer, 7/25/1979)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 3

1930-1933
Box: 2 Folder : 49-56 M.S. correspondence with L.T. and secretaries (except 1934)

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

1930-1940
Box: 2 Folder : 57 L.T. telegrams to and from M.S.

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Microfilm Reel Number 3

1937
Box: 3 Folder : 1-11 L.T. correspondence (not with M.S.) (some in German, French, English) (except 1935)

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Microfilm Reel Number 4 (begins with folder 7 of the 11 above)

1929-1940
Box: 3 Folder : 12 L.T. Manuscript Section "N' to be inserted in P. 241 of the Real Situation in Russia (folders 12-34A are L.T. Manuscripts)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

undated
Box: 3 Folder : 13 pp. 26-39 undated and untitled

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

undated
Box: 3 Folder : 14 L.T. speech before the Tsarist Court (at trial of Soviet Deputies)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

Oct 4, 1907-Oct 17, 1907
Box: 3 Folder : 15 The Letter on the New Course (sent by L.T. to C.C. of CPSU)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

Dec 1923
Box: 3 Folder : 16 Trotsky's speech on the Polish Commission of July 2, 1926

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

1926
Box: 3 Folder : 17 Trotsky's struggle for Leninism. in Russia

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

1927
Box: 3 Folder : 18 Trotsky's second speech at the Central Commission (attached note)

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Jul 1927
Box: 3 Folder : 19 Trotsky is expelled from Central Committee - speech delivered at Plenary Session

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Oct 23, 1927
Box: 3 Folder : 20 On the New Stage (different translation published in Challenge of t e Left Opposition 1926-27, 2nd volume)

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Dec 1927
Box: 3 Folder : 21 Erklarung anden 6. Welt-Kongreso Komintern

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

1928
Box: 3 Folder : 22 The Crisis in the International, statement addressed to 6th Congress of C.I.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

1928
Box: 3 Folder : 23 The Crisis in the International (note on last page by translator L. Martel)

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Jul 12, 1928
Box: 3 Folder : 24 Preface: The Revolution Disfigured

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

May 1, 1929
Box: 3 Folder : 25 The reply to a well-wishing contradiction (explanatory note attached)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

undated
Box: 3 Folder : 26 A Sorry Document (may be Trotsky's own translation as an English lesson done in 1939 in Mexico)

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Jul 27, 1929
Box: 3 Folder : 27 Where Tbes the Leninbund road lead to? (in French)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

Sep 19, 1929
Box: 3 Folder : 28 Trotsky on the Labor Party Question (for the New Militant,

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

May 19, 1932
Box: 3 Folder : 29 It is impossible to remain in the same International as Stalin, Manouilsky, Losovsky, and Co. (in French, English; original Russian in Box 2, folder 6)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

Jul 20, 1933
Box: 3 Folder : 30 It is necessary to drive the Bureaucracy and the New Aristocracy out of the Soviets (concerning the draft of the transition program of the F.I.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

Jul 4, 1938
Box: 3 Folder : 31 A Petty Bougeois Opposition in the SWP (with cover letter by Joseph Hansen dated 12/5/39)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

1939
Box: 3 Folder : 32 Victor Serge refutes in his turn

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Sep 7, 1939
Box: 3 Folder : 33 The USSR in War (literal translation)

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Sep 25, 1939
Box: 3 Folder : 34 On the question of the defense of the Soviet Union

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Sep 26, 1939
Box: 3 Folder : 34A On the thesis "Unity and the Youth" Notes and articles on Leon Trotsky

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

1935
Box: 3 Folder : 35 A. Glotzer's notes on discussion with L.T.

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Nov 17, 1931
Box: 3 Folder : 36 A. Swabeck's notes on discussion with L.T.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

Feb 28, 1933-Mar 4, 1933
Box: 3 Folder : 37 A. Swabeck's notes on discussion with L.T. (German)

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Feb 27, 1933
Box: 3 Folder : 38 Notes on discussion with L.T.

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Microfilm Reel Number 4

Mar 24, 1938-Mar 25, 1938
Box: 3 Folder : 39 Leon Trotsky on the Jewish question (clipping in Yiddish)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

undated
Box: 3 Folder : 40 E. Robertson conversations with L.T. on I.L.P. entry in British Labor Party

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

1935
Box: 3 Folder : 41 Conversations with Crux (L.T.) on death agony of Capitalism and Labor Party

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 4

May 1938
Box: 3 Folder : 42 M.S. notes on Trotsky work (from Buyakoda)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

1933
Box: 3 Folder : 43 M.S. correspondence about L.T. (telegraph from Held)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

1937
Box: 3 Folder : 44 Interview with M.S. by Florence Lehman on Radio WCCO, Minneapolis about L.T.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

ca.1937
Box: 3 Folder : 45 M.S., Solow, Dewey correspondence Re: Commission Report

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

1937
Box: 3 Folder : 46 The Man Trotsky by Rae Spiegel (Raya Dunayevskaya, L.T.'s secretary and translator)

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Microfilm Reel Number 5

1937
Box: 3 Folder : 47 Open letter on the Siguedros Case (attempt toassassinate L. T. , May 24, 1940)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

May 1962

PART D: THE INTERNATIONAL LEFT OPPOSITION AND FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 4 Folder : 1 Mulhouse Congress - Stenogram of 2nd Session (of the SFIO (French SP) held after Stalin-Laval Pact; the Bolshevik/ Leninists had 3 delegates)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

Jun 9, 1935-Jun 12, 1935
Box: 4 Folder : 2 Formation of an International Organization to unite the Left Opposition (German; also note in French re: enclosed item dated 11/25/30)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

Oct 12, 1930
Box: 4 Folder : 3 Report of the Enlarged Bureau meeting of the organization for a Fourth International, Amsterdam

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

1937
Box: 4 Folder : 4 Movement for a Fourth International (French)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

1938-1939
Box: 4 Folder : 5-10 International Communist League (ICL) (LO) Plenum and (International Secretaries) Mfinutes (folder 5 contains extracts from minutes 8/24/33 and minutes Nov.18,19,1933; folder 6 contains minutes Oct.16,1934 in French and English)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

1931-1934
Box: 4 Folder : 10A Rapport d'Activite du S.I. de la L.C.I. (Bolshevik/Leninist)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

Sep 1933-Mar 1934
Box: 4 Folder : 11 I.S. Minutes (in French)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

1935
Box: 4 Folder : 12-13 Movement for the F.S.-I.S. or International Bureau (in French)

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Microfilm Reel Number 5

1936-1937
Box: 4 Folder : 13A I.C.L. International News and Notes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5

1935
Box: 4 Folder : 14-19 Correspondence of I.S. or I.B. (all folders except 16 and 17 are in French and German)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 5, Microfilm Reel Number 6 (begins with folder 18, above)

1930-1935
Box: 4 Folder : 20-21 Nbvement of the F.I. Correspondence of the I.S. and I.B. (French, German; see also: Box 5/14)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6
Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

1936-1937
Box: 4 Folder : 22 I.C.L. Conference of Four

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Dec 30, 1933
Box: 4 Folder : 23 International Left Opposition - Resolutions and Statements (French, English)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

ca.1936
Box: 4 Folder : 24 Letter from Moscow (German)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

early1930s
Box: 4 Folder : 24A Excerpts from "Die Niuwe Fakkel" about Spain and Brussels (German Translation)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Oct 1936
Box: 4 Folder : 24B Letter from Barcelona - critique of POUM (in French)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Jan 23, 1937
Box: 4 Folder : 25 First International Conference of the F.I.: "Geneva" Pre Conference Theses and Resolutions

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Jul 1936Aug 1936
Box: 4 Folder : 26 Summary, minutes, motions of Second World Congress of F.I. (French, English) Fourth International

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Apr 1948
Box: 4 Folder : 27 Report on the F.I. Since the Outbreak of the War (English)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

1939-1948
Box: 4 Folder : 28 Plenum of the International Executive Comittee of F.I. (preparing Second World Congress, in English and French)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Sep 1947
Box: 4 Folder : 29 Motions and Resolutions of the 5th Plenum of I.E.C. or F.I.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Feb 1948
Box: 4 Folder : 30 World Situation and the tasks of the F.I. (draft resolution)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Nov 1947
Box: 4 Folder : 31 The F.I. and Stalinism (draft theses)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Nov 1947
Box: 4 Folder : 32 Statement by International Secretariat of F.I. on Korea (French)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Jul 1950
Box: 4 Folder : 33 Open letter from I.S. of F.I. to Yugoslav C.P. (in French)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

1948
Box: 4 Folder : 34 Circular of I.S. of F.I. about Tito

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Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Jun 1948
Box: 4 Folder : 35 I.P.S. Newsletter (#4) from the I.S.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Jul 1948
Box: 4 Folder : 36 Left Opposition - loose typescripts (in French, English) Sections of the Left Opposition

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

1930s
Box: 4 Folder : 37 Position paper Re: the Workers Party of the U.S. and the 4th International

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Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

1936
Box: 4 Folder : 38 (no folder)

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Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

undated
Box: 4 Folder : 39 All American Pacific Bureau International Conference (steno notes)

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Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

Mar 20, 1938-Mar 23, 1938
Box: 4 Folder : 40 All American Pacific Bureau Minutes

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Microfilm Reel Number 6. Note: folders are out of order on this reel of film.

1938
Box: 4 Folder : 41 All American Pacific Bureau Theses and Resolutions

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

1938
Box: 4 Folder : 42 Reports on conditions in various Latin American countries and the situation in sections of the F.I.

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

late1940s
Box: 4 Folder : 43 Austria, International Left Opposition - misc. internal material

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

1930
Box: 4 Folder : 44 Belgium, (Jeunesse Revolutionaire) Youth Section of Belgium F.I.

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

1930s
Box: 4 Folder : 45 Belgium, L.C.I. Federation de Bruxelles documents sur la Crise Interieure de la section Belge (sormmire mars 1938; bulletin)

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

1934
Box: 4 Folder : 46 Belgium, Parti Socialiste Revolutionaire Belgium

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

1937
Box: 4 Folder : 47 Belgium, L'Union des Communistes Internationals

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

early1930s
Box: 5 Folder : 1 Brazil, L.C.I. Brazilian Section

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

1936 , 1939
Box: 5 Folder : 2 Britain, Militant group, British faction of F.I.

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

mid1930s
Box: 5 Folder : 3 Britain, R.E.P. - British F.I. (bulletins)

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

1938
Box: 5 Folder : 4 Britain, Marxist group, British faction of F.I. (bulletin, handwritten letter)

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Microfilm Reel Number 7

mid1930s
Box: 5 Folder : 5 Britain, Revolutionary Socialist League, British faction of F. I. (letter)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1938
Box: 5 Folder : 6 Britain, Unity and Peace Agreement of RSL and RSP and Militant Group

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1938
Box: 5 Folder : 7 Canada, Workers Party of Canada, Canadian F.I. (minority document)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

late1930s-1940s
Box: 5 Folder : 8 Chile, Izquierda Communista, Santiago Chile (L.C.I.)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1936
Box: 5 Folder : 9 China, Communist League of China

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

Nov 12, 1947
Box: 5 Folder : 10 Cuba, Izquierda Communista Cuba (leaflet)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1933
Box: 5 Folder : 11 Cuba, Revolutionary Workers Party Cuban Section of F.I. (in Spanish, English translation)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

undated
Box: 5 Folder : 12 France, Communist League of France (in English, leaflet in French)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

ca.1934
Box: 5 Folder : 13 France, Comite des Jeunes Pour La 4e Internationale (leaflet)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

Sep 1939
Box: 5 Folder : 14 France, Parti Ouvier Internationaliste (French section of F.I.; leaflets) (see also: correspondence 1936,1937)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1934-1938
Box: 5 Folder : 15 France, Declaration of Jewish group in Paris (in English, French)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

ca.1934
Box: 5 Folder : 16 France, P.C.I. France (Bureau Politique Report)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

Jun 1947
Box: 5 Folder : 17 France, Le Redressement Communiste, organe de l'opposition francais

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1927-1929
Box: 5 Folder : 18 France, Resolution Sur les Exclusions dans la section francais

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1940
Box: 5 Folder : 19 France, Pourquoi nous avons adhere a la Quatri'eme Internationale (why we affiliated with the F.I., P.C.I.)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

undated
Box: 5 Folder : 20 France, La Nuova impresa africana de capitalismo italiano (in Italian, pub. in France by Gruppo)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

undated
Box: 5 Folder : 21 France, Aux membres du PSOP (in French)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

late1930s
Box: 5 Folder : 22 Germany, AK of IKD (Wochenbriefe #1-3, handwritten "The Situation in German Section" Nov.1934)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1934-1944
Box: 5 Folder : 23 Germany, International Left Opposition

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

undated
Box: 5 Folder : 24 Germany, International Left Opposition

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1929-1934
Box: 5 Folder : 25 Greece, Archio Marxistas and L'opposition de gauche du PCG (two factions, I.S. letters to PCG)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1934
Box: 5 Folder : 26 Holland, RSAP (Resolution concerning the relations between RSAP and I.S. of F.I.)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1938
Box: 5 Folder : 27 India, B.L.P.I. (Indian Section) Amendment to the Russian Theses (passed unanimously by the CC of BLPI)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

Mar 18, 1948
Box: 5 Folder : 28 Italy, Partit Operaio Communista (Bolscevico-Leninista) Italian F.I. (bulletin n.d., leaflet)

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Microfilm Reel Number 8

1945-1947
Box: 5 Folder : 29 Italy, Partito Communista Internazionalista (F.I.) Italian

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Microfilm Reel Number 9

ca.1940s
Box: 5 Folder : 30 Mexico, L.C.I./Bolshevik-Leninist de Mejico (from SI, FI in French)

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Microfilm Reel Number 9

Nov 26, 1936
Box: 5 Folder : 31 Mexico, Discussion material of Mexican Section (in Spanish)

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Microfilm Reel Number 9

1947
Box: 5 Folder : 32 Peru, Re: Formation of a section of F.I. in Peru (in Spanish)

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Microfilm Reel Number 9

Jan 1938
Box: 5 Folder : 33 Russia, Le Situation des Bolsheviks - Leninistes Russes (in Russian)

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Microfilm Reel Number 9

undated
Box: 5 Folder : 34 South Africa, Revolutionary Workers Party (Lenin Club)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

undated
Box: 5 Folder : 35 Spain, Izquierda Communista Espan"ola (letter from P. Frank and M.S., June 1933; see also: M.S. manuscripts in Series IV)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1933
Box: 5 Folder : 36 Spain, Grupo Communista Internacionalista (Spanish section' F.I.; bulletin) L.O. and F.I. Individuals

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1949
Box: 5 Folder : 37 Adolphe (letter to I.S. March 13, 1937, in French)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1937
Box: 5 Folder : 38 Andre (report from France, March 25, 1936?)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

ca.1936
Box: 5 Folder : 39 Ciart (member of I.B. for the F.I.; letter dated March 24, 1937)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1937
Box: 5 Folder : 40 Frank, Pierre and M.S. (to C.C. of.Comunist League Feb.26,1934; see also: R. Molinier 5/53)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1934
Box: 5 Folder : 41 G'l'tlow, Ben (bloc against Stalin)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

ca.1933
Box: 5 Folder : 42 Grandizo, Manuel Fernandez (Munis, G.) (Reponse au Comrade Munis; also in English, June 1947; see also: Series I, Parts G & H)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1947
Box: 5 Folder : 43 Guerin, R. (La Question Russe Doit Etre Revise, April 16, 1946)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1946
Box: 5 Folder : 44 Hennaut, A. (Directives pour une Action, Dec. 1931)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931
Box: 5 Folder : 45 Lambert, Pierre (Coment rem~dier a la diminution de pouvoir d1achat des masses laboreuses, Oct. 21, 1946)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1946
Box: 5 Folder : 46 Landau, Kurt

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

early1930s
Box: 5 Folder : 47 Lhuilier, J. (Document on the question of French Ligue, July 16, 1934 2 different documents')

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1934
Box: 5 Folder : 48 Lucien (Assez de Talmudisme, Ayons Enfin un Politique, April 15/May 3, 1946)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1946
Box: 5 Folder : 49 Ludwig (letter March 28, 1940, WP opposition to SWP before split' 1940; see also: folder,50)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1940
Box: 5 Folder : 50 MacDonald, DwijR-t/=He Correspondence (Resolution uber Stalins; Einfall in Finnland Held' Dec.27, 1939, correspondence Feb.7, 1940, in German; see also: 3/8)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1939-1940
Box: 5 Folder : 51 Magnin, Louis (Lettre aux-Tr-o-tsl7ists sur le RDR - attached note)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

Apr 19, 1948-Apr 22, 1948
Box: 5 Folder : 52 Manos (Greek section) (Letter to Swabeck)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

Nov 1940
Box: 5 Folder : 53 Molinier, R./Frank P. (Que Fera La Paix Durable) see also; 5/40

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

Oct 1939
Box: 5 Folder : 54 Plaville (letter to Van, Feb.25,1937; apres la ConT. Nationale de la Ligue Communiste, Oct.6,1931)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931 , 1937
Box: 5 Folder : 55 (Rizzi) Bruno (Le Collectivisme Bureaucratique Preface, July 15, 1939)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1939
Box: 5 Folder : 56 Sedova-Trotsky,Natalia, G. Munis and Benjamin Peret (La IV Internationale En Danger - June 27, 1947; Carta Abierta Al Partido Communista - June 1947)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1947
Box: 5 Folder : 57 Sneevliet, H. (see also: correspondence I.S. 1936 Box 4)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1936
Box: 5 Folder : 58 Spector, Maurice (to Canadian Immigration, Nov.l5,1933)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1933
Box: 5 Folder : 59 Swabeck, Arne (correspondence with Clart, Braun, Adolph) (see also: folders on CLA/WPUS, SWP)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1937

PART E: AMERICAN LEFT-WING OPPOSITION: COMMUNIST LEAGUE OFAMERICA

 

General note

For additional material, see also Series VI. Addendum (not filmed), Box 52, folder 1-3: Communist League of America Minutes, 1929-1933.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 6 Folder : 1 Workers (Communist) Party of America Left Opposition (leaflet, A Challenge to Debate)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

ca.1929
Box: 6 Folder : 2 Communist League of America Correspondence with Int'l (see also: Box 4 I.C.L. Correspondence of I.S. and I.B.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931
Box: 6 Folder : 3 Correspondence with Int'l (see also: Box 4 I.C.L. Correspondence of I.S. and I.B.T

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1934-1935
Box: 6 Folder : 4 Correspondence with Int'l (see also: Box 4 I.C.L. Correspondence of Movement for the F.I.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1936-1937
Box: 6 Folder : 5 Letter from International Bulletin of L.O. (in French from Paris)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

ca.1930
Box: 6 Folder : 6-10 National Committee Minutes (except 1930)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1929-1934
Box: 6 Folder : 11 National Committee Resolution

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1930
Box: 6 Folder : 12 National Office (N.O.) Communication to N.C. Members

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1933-1934
Box: 6 Folder : 13 N.O. Communication to branches

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931-1934
Box: 6 Folder : 14 M.S. notes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931-1932
Box: 6 Folder : 15-16 M.S. Resolutions and Statements

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1932-1933
Box: 6 Folder : 17-20 Statements and Resolutions (folder 19 contains N.C. Resolution on composition of NY local; folder 20 contains merger proposals to AWP and CIA)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931-1934
Box: 6 Folder : 21 M.S. Correspondence with I.S.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931-1932
Box: 6 Folder : 22-26 M.S. Correspondence with other CIA members

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1929-1933
Box: 6 Folder : 27-28 M.S. Correspondence with CLA members (folder 28: Joe Hansen)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1933-1934
Box: 6 Folder : 29 3 telegrams to M.S. from Arverne

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931
Box: 6 Folder : 30 B.J. Field (N.C. statements on expulsion proposal statement to NY local)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1933-1934
Box: 6 Folder : 31 Two letters from Albert Glotzer (in Paris) to N.E.C.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1931
Box: 6 Folder : 32-34 Correspondence between other CIA members (not M.S.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1930-1934
Box: 6 Folder : 35 Outline of speech by Cannon to NY Branch (The Policy of the opposition of the Present Tasks)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

Dec 23, 1930
Box: 6 Folder : 36 NY Branch Report on Internal Situation by A. Glotzer

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1933
Box: 6 Folder : 37 Resolution of the E.C. of NY Branch

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1933
Box: 6 Folder : 37A Report on Unser Kampf (Yiddish L.O. publ.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1932
Box: 6 Folder : 38 American Workers Party (Pittsburgh Convention, Dec.2-3, 1933; Report on POC meeting of AWP, Nov.6,1935)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1933-1935

PART F: WORKERS PARTY U.S. (TROTSKYIST) AND ENTRY INTO SOCIALIST PARTY

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 6 Folder : 39 National Committee Resident on the International Plenum (report by M.S. 7/12/25)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1935
Box: 6 Folder : 40 Report on the International Conference for the F I - by M.S., Nov.5,1936 (see also 4/37)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

undated
Box: 6 Folder : 40A N.C. Correspondence with RSWP Holland

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

Jul 18, 1936
Box: 6 Folder : 40B Minutes of N.C. (see also: Box 4)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

Dec 3, 1934
Box: 6 Folder : 41 Pittsburgh (MarchT-PTe-num Minutes and Statements

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1935
Box: 6 Folder : 42 June Plenum Minutes and Statements

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1935
Box: 6 Folder : 43 October Plenum Minutes and Statements

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1935
Box: 6 Folder : 44 Statement of N.C. of WPUS and SYL (Spartacist Youth League) (Re: Entry into SP and disolution of WP and SYL)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

1936
Box: 6 Folder : 45 Political Committee (P.C.) Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 9

Dec 1934
Box: 7 Folder : 1-3 P.C. Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

1935-1936
Box: 7 Folder : 4 P.C. Memorandum (fusion CIA and AWP)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

Aug 12, 1935
Box: 7 Folder : 5 Secretariat Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

1935
Box: 7 Folder : 6 National Secretary's Report

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

Dec 3, 1934-Jan 10, 1935
Box: 7 Folder : 7 N.O. Correspondence with N.C. Members

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

undated
Box: 7 Folder : 8 N.O. Correspondence with N.C. Members

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

Dec 1934-Jun 1935
Box: 7 Folder : 9-10 N.O. Correspondnece with branches (folder 9: Harsh incident in Philadelphia)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

1935-1936
Box: 7 Folder : 11 Letters, statements, resolution of Majority factions (Cannon, Shachtman, Weber, etc.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

1934-1936
Box: 7 Folder : 12 Letters, statements, resolutions - Muste, Weber Minority Faction

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

1934-1936
Box: 7 Folder : 13 Letters, statements, resolutions - Oehler, Stamm, Basky Minority Faction

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12

1934-1936
Box: 7 Folder : 14-16 Letters, statements, resolutions

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 12 (Reel 13 begins with folder 15)

1935-1936
Box: 7 Folder : 17-18 M.S. correspondence with other WPUS Members

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13 (begins with folder 15, above)

1935-1936
Box: 7 Folder : 19 M.S. notes on internal discussion (report to the district conventions, NY; handwritten)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

Aug 10, 1935
Box: 7 Folder : 20 Muste letter to editor of Arbeiderbladet, Oslo, Norway Martin Tranmael, editor)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

Jul 5, 1936
Box: 7 Folder : 21 New York District

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

1934-1936
Box: 7 Folder : 22 Spartacist Youth League (SYL)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

1935
Box: 7 Folder : 23 SYL Marxist Action Group (Minority Faction)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

1936
Box: 7 Folder : 24-26 Leaflets'(folder 24: new international; folder 26: clippings)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

1930s
Box: 7 Folder : 27 Spartacus Youth Club Toronto (F.I.) (expulsion of T.P. Mill, A. Jail, and S. Campbell)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

1934
Box: 7 Folder : 28 Revolutionary Workers League (Oehler Group)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

1936
Box: 7 Folder : 29 League for a Revolutionary Workers Party (B.F. Field Group)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

1936
Box: 7 Folder : 30 Socialist Party - Trotskyists on SP (organizing comittee for the SP Convention - OCSP)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 13

1936-1937

PART G: SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 8 Folder : 1 Founding Convention documents and minutes, (ISP, International Socialist Party, one of the names considered and used at the convention)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 14

Dec 31, 1937-Jan 3, 1938
Box: 8 Folder : 2 Convention (Agenda, M.S. handwritten notes organizational report)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 14

1939
Box: 8 Folder : 2A Convention Call, minutes, notes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 14

Apr 5, 1940-Apr 8, 1940
Box: 8 Folder : 3 Plenum, Chicago (minutes)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 14

Jan 3, 1938
Box: 8 Folder : 4-5 Plenum, N.Y.C. (folder 4 contains minutes and materials submitted; folder 5 contains agenda, minutes)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 14

1938
Box: 8 Folder : 6 Plenum (minutes, resolutions on youth, resolutions on Maritime)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 14

Jul 6, 1939-Jul 7, 1939
Box: 8 Folder : 7-11 Political Committee (folder 11 contains use of pseudonyms)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 14 (Reel 15 begins with folder 8)

1938-1940
Box: 8 Folder : 12-13 National Office Correspondence with N.C. Members (folder 12 contains circular #2 June 11, 1938; very confidential); (folder 13 contains circular #3 May 13, 1939; confidential, letter from Raus(France) Internal Bulletin of N.C.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 15 (begins with folder 8, above)

1938-1940
Box: 8 Folder : 14-15 National Office Correspondence with Branches and Locals (folder 14 contains Bulletin #1 Feb. 11, 1938, circular letter #6 Feb. 14, 1938, circular letter #7 March 2, 1938, circular letter #9 March is, 1938)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 15

1938-1940
Box: 8 Folder : 16 P.C. Resolutions on application of "The Death Agony of Capitalism and Tasks of F.I." (proposed amendment)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 15

1938
Box: 8 Folder : 17 P.C. Statement on Invasion of Finland

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 15

1940
Box: 8 Folder : 18 P.C. Discussion with Maritime Fraction

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

1939
Box: 8 Folder : 19 P.C. Speech by Martin Abern (Reply to Burnham documents)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

Jun 1939
Box: 8 Folder : 20 Draft Thesis on the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

ca.1938
Box: 8 Folder : 21-22 Internal Discussion majority documents (Cannon)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

1939-1940
Box: 8 Folder : 23 Internal Discussion minority documents (Shachtman) (Motions in Branch minutes)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

1939-1940
Box: 8 Folder : 24 Lyons, Eugene (letter to editors of New International)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

undated
Box: 9 Folder : 1-2 Internal Discussion minority documents (Shachtman) (see also: Box 2/48 and 48A)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

1939-1944
Box: 9 Folder : 3-4 Statements, Resolutions, Reports (except 1941-42)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

1938-1940
Box: 9 Folder : 5-6 M.S. Correspondence with other SWP Members (see also: 5-6 [one folder]' M.S. Correspondence 5/30)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

1938-1940
Box: 9 Folder : 7 M.S. Notes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 16

ca.1938
Box: 9 Folder : 8 J.P. Cannon Correspondence (in SP 1936-37, see also: M.S. Correspondence 5/28)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1936-1940
Box: 9 Folder : 9 James Burnham article and letter ("Science and Style, The Politics of Desperation!')

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

ca.1940
Box: 9 Folder : 10 Correspondence between other SWP Members (Not M.S.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1939-1940
Box: 9 Folder : 11 Correspondence with other Political Groups

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

undated
Box: 9 Folder : 12 Correspondence from Secretary of President of Mexico (to Cannon and Shachtman, in Spanish)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

Mar 24, 1938
Box: 9 Folder : 13 Anti-War Fund Campaign (Bulletin #1 12/15/39, Bulletin #2 12/2S/39, Bulletin #4 3/11/38, Circular #2 12/12/39)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1938
Box: 9 Folder : 14 NY Local Material on 14th Congress District Election

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1940
Box: 9 Folder : 15 NY Local Party Action (Organizational and informational Bulletins #6,7,8,12)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1940
Box: 9 Folder : 16 Material after 1940 Split (letter from Berta Langston, leaflet-L.A. Campaign)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1940-1970
Box: 9 Folder : 17 NY Local - leaflet (Workers of NY!! Who Will Smash Loughlin?)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1939
Box: 9 Folder : 18 St. Paul, Minnesota and Minneapolis ("Jules Geller for Mayor," "Vote the Union Ticket")

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

ca.1938
Box: 9 Folder : 19 YPSL National Plenum Philadelphia (Report to P.C. Oct.17,1939, M.T. Weiss exchange with Abern)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

Oct 14, 1939-Oct 15, 1939
Box: 9 Folder : 20 YPSL National Bureau Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

Oct 30, 1939
Box: 9 Folder : 21 YPSL (Pre-convention discussion Oct.1938)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1938
Box: 9 Folder : 22 Johnson Forest Tendency (Resignation from SWP; see also: Johnson-Forest Tendency, Box 11/19; 11/20)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1951
Box: 9 Folder : 23 Youth Socialist Alliance

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

ca.1959
Box: 9 Folder : 24 Minority Conference (in Cleveland, 2 telegrams)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

Feb 24, 1940-Feb 25, 1940
Box: 9 Folder : 25 Minority Convention (Convention minutes, Plenum minutes, results)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

Apr 5, 1940-Apr 7, 1940

PART H: WORKERS PARTY (1940-48)

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 9 Folder : 26 Correspondence with F.I. (cover letter by M.S.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

1940
Box: 9 Folder : 27 Plenum Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

Feb 5, 1947
Box: 9 Folder : 28 P.C. (Club) Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

Apr 1940-Dec 1940
Box: 9 Folder : 29-30 P.C. Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

ca.1946-1947
Box: 9 Folder : 31 James Burnham letter of resignation

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

May 21, 1940
Box: 9 Folder : 32 N.C. Report to N.Y.C. Convention (in note form by M.S.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 17

Nov 1940-Dec 1940
Box: 9 Folder : 33 N.O. Communication to N.C. Members

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

ca.1940-1944
Box: 9 Folder : 34-35 N.O. Communication to all Branches

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

1940-1942
Box: 9 Folder : 36 N.O. Communication to all Branches and Party Members

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

1946-1947
Box: 10 Folder : 1-2 Reports,Resolutions, and Statements

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

1942-1947
Box: 10 Folder : 3 Resolution on Russian Question by J.R. Johnson (C.L.R. James) (submitted to 2nd nat'l convention)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

Sep 19, 1941
Box: 10 Folder : 4 Education Dept. (Nat'l Education Bulletin #1, Political History of W.P., Reference guide to basic documents and supplementary material)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

1940
Box: 10 Folder : 5 N.Y. Local City Convention (report on work from Jan.-Dec.1946)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

Feb 2, 1947
Box: 10 Folder : 6 N.Y. Branch Material (city letter; April 1940-Dec. 1940, convention call; Apr. 22, 1940; N.Y. City Program of Action May 1 - Sept.15,1940)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

Apr 1940-Dec 1940
Box: 10 Folder : 7 Undated documents

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

1940s
Box: 10 Folder : 8 Socialist Youth League, Correspondence (2 telegrams)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

1947
Box: 10 Folder : 9 Correspondence with James T. Farrell (Re: copyright of J.T.F. article)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 18

1947-1948
Box: 10 Folder : 10 M.S. Notes on National Question (answer to J.R. Johnson, C.L.R. James)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

1943
Box: 10 Folder : 11 Resolutions and Proposals on the National Question

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

1943-1944
Box: 10 Folder : 12 Discussion on the Labor Party Question (The "Realism" of the Labor Party, The Problem of the Labor Party)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

1943-1944
Box: 10 Folder : 13 Discussion on Ernie Erbers' Blue Cover Outline #2 (The Role of the Trade Unions)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

1945-1946
Box: 10 Folder : 14 Negroes in the Primaries (Supreme Court Decision on Texas Primaries)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

1944
Box: 10 Folder : 15 Historical Development of the Negroes in American Society by J.R. Johnson (C.L.R. James) - Note: p. 1 filmed twice; p. 2 not filmed.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

Dec 20, 1943
Box: 11 Folder : 1 M.S. Correspondence with United Mine Workers

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

1943
Box: 11 Folder : 2-4 M.S. Correspondence (see also: folders 13-20)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

1946-1948
Box: 11 Folder : 5 Correspondence with Indian S.P.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 19

1950-1951
Box: 11 Folder : 6 Correspondence with Ernie Erber (Lundi) with P.C. Members

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

1943-1946
Box: 11 Folder : 7-9 Correspondence not M.S. (see also: Box 15 Glotzer Correspondence from P.C. 1948-51) (folder 9-correspondence to Stanley (Plastrick) from Ben Goldberg) Paris 3/10/48)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

1943 , 1947-1948
Box: 11 Folder : 10 Information Bulletin #1, Excess Profits Tax Bill

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

1942
Box: 11 Folder : 11 Social Composition of Party (charts, tasks of the party)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

Nov 23, 1946-Oct 1, 1947
Box: 11 Folder : 12 M.S. Notes (talks to membership meeting on USSR)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

ca.1942
Box: 11 Folder : 13 WP/SWP unity notes by M.S.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

1946
Box: 11 Folder : 13A WP/SWP unity-documents by Felix Morrow (while in SWP)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

1946
Box: 11 Folder : 13B WP/SWP unity Jeffries, Lyons' resignation from SWP

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

1946
Box: 11 Folder : 14 WP/SWP unity, correspondence and discussion with F.I.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

1946-1947
Box: 11 Folder : 15 WP/SWP unity correspondence

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20

1945
Box: 11 Folder : 16-18 WP/SIAIP unity discussion and correspondence (folder 18 bound contains correspondence in addition to unity)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 20 (Reel 21 begins with folder 17)

undated , 1945-1947
Box: 11 Folder : 19-20 Johnson-Forest Tendencey (Johnson, C.L.R. James, Forest, Raya Dunayevskaya)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 21 (begins with folder 17, above)

1944-1947
Box: 11 Folder : 21-22 Leaflets

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 21

1940-1947
Box: 12 Folder : 1 W.P. Fourth National Convention of Workers Party (constitution, minutes, agenda)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 21

May 27, 1946-May 31, 1946
Box: 12 Folder : 2 Plenum

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 22

May 25, 1946
Box: 12 Folder : 3 Minutes and Circulars

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 22

Jan 1946-Mar 1946
Box: 12 Folder : 4-8 P.C. Minutes (correspondence and resolutions)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 22 (Reel 23 begins with folder 6, and ends with folder 8)

Jan 1947-Nov 1947
Box: 13 Folder : 1 P.C. Minutes (correspondence)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 24

Nov 1947-Dec 1947
Box: 13 Folder : 2 Active Workers Conference (minutes, reports, finances)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 24

Oct 1947-Nov 1947
Box: 13 Folder : 3-5 P.C. Minutes (folder 3 contains correspondence, folders 4 and 5 contain resolutions)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 24 (Reel 25 begins with folder 5)

Dec 1947-Dec 1948
Box: 14 Folder : 1 Fifth National Convention (minutes, resolutions)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 25 (begins with folder 5, above)

Mar 24, 1949-Mar 27, 1949
Box: 14 Folder : 2 Plenum (minutes)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 25

Mar 22, 1949-Mar 23, 1949
Box: 14 Folder : 3-6 P.C. Minutes (correspondence) (except July 1949)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 26

Jan 1949-Jan 1950
Box: 14 Folder : 7 N.C. Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 26

Dec 13, 1949-Jan 1, 1950

I. Independent Socialist League (1949-58)

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 15 Folder : 1 I.S.L. 19SO Convention (report to NYC Committee)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 26

undated
Box: 15 Folder : 2 P.C. Minutes

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 26

1949-1953
Box: 15 Folder : 3 N.O. Communication with Branches

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 26

1949-1958
Box: 15 Folder : 4 Labor Committee Letter (letter #1 June 3, 1949; letter #2 June 21, 1949)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 26

1949
Box: 15 Folder : 5 Albert Gates (Glotzer), correspondence (to P.C., N.C., see also:Box 11/4,S,6,7; 2/46,47,48; 6/15,22-28,34)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 26

1948-1951
Box: 15 Folder : 6 M.S. Correspondence (~ee also: M.S. Thomas correspondence I.S.L. 1957-S8)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 26

1949-1951
Box: 15 Folder : 7 Correspondence not M.S.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 27

1949-1957
Box: 15 Folder : 8 Irving Howe and Henry Judd Resignation

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 27

Oct 12, 1952
Box: 15 Folder : 9 Third Camp Position (Third Camp Conference draft statement I.S.L.)

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 27

undated
Box: 15 Folder : 10 Analysis of articles in Labor Action, Re: S.P.

General note

Microfilm Reel Number 27

1951-1955
Box: 15 Folder : 11 Resolutions, Reports (ballot requirements, see also: 15/6, Box 2,3,4)

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

1949-1958
Box: 15 Folder : 12-17 I.S.L.-S.P./Social Democratic Federation National Convention (maj ority report)

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

1956-1958
Box: 15 Folder : 18 S.P./S.D.F. Unity M.S. Correspondence

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

May 1958
Box: 15 Folder : 19 S.P./S.D.F. Unity M.S. Correspondence with Frank Zeidler (Mayor of Milwaukee)

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

1957
Box: 15 Folder : 20 S.P./S.D.F. Unity, Shachtman and Thomas Correspondence (see also: M.S. Correspondences 1949-55, Box 15/6)

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

1957-1958
Box: 15 Folder : 21 Legal Documents pertaining to printing equipment

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

1948-1954
Box: 15 Folder : 22 Correspondence between Labor Action, YSL, Jeune Garde Socialiste La Gauche

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

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For additional material, see also Series VI. Addendum (not filmed), Box 52, folder 1-3: Communist League of America Minutes, 1929-1933.

1958
Box: 15 Folder : 23 Socialist Youth League (YPSL)

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

1953
Box: 15 Folder : 24 Young Socialist League constitution (proposed amendment)

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

ca..1950s
Box: 15 Folder : 25 YSL Convention

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

Jul 1, 1957-Jul 3, 1957
Box: 15 Folder : 26 YSL NAC Minutes

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

1957
Box: 15 Folder : 27 YSL N.O. Correspondence (with American Youth for Socialism SWP on regroupment)

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Microfilm Reel Number 27

1957
Box: 15 Folder : 28 YSL Resolutions and Proposals (I.S.L.-S.P./S.D.F. Unity)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

1957
Box: 15 Folder : 29 YSL Youth Debate (notes on meeting sent to M.S.)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

Mar 1, 1957
Box: 15 Folder : 30 Leaflets (M.S. meeting)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

1948-1958

J. Socialist Party (Social Democratic Federation, Democratic Socialists, Young People's Socialist League, Michael Farrington, Norman Thomas; debated issues of Cuba, Vietnam, strategies for the 60's) (1958-72).

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 16 Folder : 1 Fifth Congress of European Socialists (M.S. ticket, in French)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

1962
Box: 16 Folder : 1A SP-SDF Constitution

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

1958
Box: 16 Folder : 1B Constitution

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

1962
Box: 16 Folder : 2 Proceedings of 1958 Convention (in Detroit)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

undated
Box: 16 Folder : 3 National Convention (in Washington, D.D., convention call, draft of agenda)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

May 28, 1960-May 30, 1960
Box: 16 Folder : 4 National Convention Proceedings (in NYC, agenda)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

Jun 10, 1966-Jun 12, 1966
Box: 16 Folder : 5 List of National Comittee members and alternates

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

1966
Box: 16 Folder : 6 National Conference (South Haven, Michigan)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28

Sep 2, 1961-Sep 4, 1961
Box: 16 Folder : 7-15 N.C. and N.A.C. Minutes (except 1963) (see also: National Office Correspondence; some minutes have attached reports for all years)

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Microfilm Reel Number 28 (Reel 29 begins with folder 11)

1959-1966
Box: 16 Folder : 16-22 N.O. Correspondence (except 1963) (for all years, sce also: N.C. and N.A.C. Minutes)

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Microfilm Reel Number 29 (begins with folder 11, above)

1960-1966
Box: 16 Folder : 23 Minutes-Special Socialist Program Committee

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Microfilm Reel Number 29

Nov 22, 1958
Box: 16 Folder : 24-29 Financial Report (except 1963)

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Microfilm Reel Number 29

1958-1965
Box: 16 Folder : 30 Socialist Platform

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Microfilm Reel Number 29

1960
Box: 16 Folder : 31 Build the Party Bulletin (May 1 - Aug.24; 5 issues)

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Microfilm Reel Number 29

1959
Box: 16 Folder : 32-35 Reports and Resolutions (folder 32, see also: I.S.L., S.P./S.D.F. Unity Box 15/12-20, folder 35 contains membership report 10/15/61)

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Microfilm Reel Number 29 (Number 30 begins with folder 34)

1958-1961
Box: 17 Folder : 1 Reports and Resolutions

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1962
Box: 17 Folder : 2 Cuba Resolutions

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

ca.1960
Box: 17 Folder : 3 Foreign Policy Resolutions

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

ca.1960
Box: 17 Folder : 4 Resolutions and Statements on Vietnam

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

ca.1965
Box: 17 Folder : 5 Jewish Labor Bund Unity N.S. statement)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1961-1962
Box: 17 Folder : 6 M.S. Notes

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1962
Box: 17 Folder : 7 M.S. Correspondence

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

ca.1959-1962
Box: 17 Folder : 8 Statement by Norman Thomas

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1965
Box: 17 Folder : 9 Norman Thomas Dinner (sketch of theories on dinner program, list of guests)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1959
Box: 17 Folder : 10 Correspondence Re: Anvil

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1959
Box: 17 Folder : 11 Press Bulletin (3 issues: Aug.1,20,1960 and Mar.31,1961)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1960-1961
Box: 17 Folder : 12 Resolution of the Illinois State Convention ("Poverty in Chicago" adopted by Convention)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1960
Box: 17 Folder : 13 Chicago Local

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1959
Box: 17 Folder : 14 New York City Convention (convention rules , constitution 1959, Feb 28, Mar 1 agenda)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1959
Box: 17 Folder : 15 New York City Resolutions, Proposals

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1959-1960
Box: 17 Folder : 16 Letter from Comrade Enzer (joke?)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

Aug 1, 1959
Box: 17 Folder : 17 David McReynolds correspondence

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1960-1961
Box: 17 Folder : 18 YPSL Convention (agenda)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1961
Box: 17 Folder : 19 YPSL NEC Minutes

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1961
Box: 17 Folder : 20 YPSL Educational Conference (in Chicago)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

Jan 31, 1959-Feb 1, 1959
Box: 17 Folder : 21-23 YPSL Statements and Resolutions (folder 21 contains The Socialist Alternative)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1959-1961
Box: 17 Folder : 24 SP-YPSL Eugene V. Debs Institute (Aug.26-29,1961; Chicago)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1961
Box: 17 Folder : 25 SP Constitution

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

1948
Box: 17 Folder : 26 Amendment to 1962 Constitution (adopted at 1964, 1968 convention)

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Microfilm Reel Number 30

undated
Box: 17 Folder : 27 1968 Convention (memos about date, M.S.'s packet of conventionmaterial)

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Microfilm Reel Number 31

undated
Box: 17 Folder : 28 1970 Convention (agenda)

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Microfilm Reel Number 31

undated
Box: 17 Folder : 29 SP-YPSL Conference (Workmens Circle Camp., Hopewell Junction,NY)

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Microfilm Reel Number 31

Sep 5, 1970-Sep 7, 1970
Box: 17 Folder : 30 National Conference (New York City)

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Microfilm Reel Number 31

May 28, 1971-May 31, 1971
Box: 17 Folder : 31-40 NC and NAC Minutes (for all years see also: N.O. Correspondence; some minutes have attached reports and resolutions)

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Microfilm Reel Number 31 (Reel 32 begins with folder 39)

1967-1972
Box: 18 Folder : 1-2 National Secretaries Report (except 1966)

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

1965-1967
Box: 18 Folder : 3-7 National Office Correspondence

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

1967-1971
Box: 18 Folder : 8 Financial Reports

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

1967-1970
Box: 18 Folder : 9-13 Reports and Resolutions (folder 10 contains press release SP Mourns Loss of Norman Thomas; folder 13 contains statement To -Socialist International ~~n7erence -Helsinki, May 2S-27,1971)

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

1967-1971
Box: 18 Folder : 14 Discussion on Vietnam (includes Norman Thomas letter, 8/8/68)

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

1965-1969
Box: 18 Folder : 15 M.S. Political Report Notes

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

ca.1961
Box: 18 Folder : 16 M.S. Correspondence (Re: Michael Harrington and Resignation from Democratic Left Tendency)

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

1970
Box: 18 Folder : 17 Platform by Mdchael Harrington

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

ca.1968
Box: 18 Folder : 18 Michael Harrington Re: Vietnam War

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Microfilm Reel Number 32

1970-1971
Box: 18 Folder : 19 Michael Harrington Correspondence (Re: SP)

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1970-1971
Box: 18 Folder : 20 "A Recommendation for 1968" by M Harrington

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

undated
Box: 18 Folder : 21 Internal Faction Struggle

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1967-1969
Box: 18 Folder : 22 Jewish Dailv Forward, clipping (in Yiddish)

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

Dec 13, 1956
Box: 18 Folder : 23 Letter to Tom Kahn From Judy Bardacke

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

Dec 18, 1971
Box: 18 Folder : 24 New York Local

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1969
Box: 18 Folder : 25 Youth Socialist - Possible Split

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1953
Box: 18 Folder : 26 YPSL Reports and Resolutions

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1966
Box: 18 Folder : 27 YPSL Reports and Resolutions (coalition caucus, opposition caucus, YPSL-benefit and reunion May 1,1971, NYC)

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1971
Box: 18 Folder : 28 YPSL-National Office Correspondence

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1966-1968
Box: 18 Folder : 29 YPSL N.O. Correspondence with M.S.

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1966
Box: 18 Folder : 30 YPSL Letter from Sharone Hutcheson to Josh M. (Univ. of Mass. list and description of YPSL members)

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1969
Box: 18 Folder : 31 League for Industrial Democracy

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

undated
Box: 18 Folder : 32 SP-DSF Unity

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1971-1972
Box: 18 Folder : 33 N.C. and N.A.C. Minutes

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1972
Box: 18 Folder : 34 N.O. Go-rrespondence (memo to N.C. on the Socialist International from M. Harrington, 6/8/72)

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1972
Box: 18 Folder : 35 Reports, Resolutions, Finances

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1972
Box: 18 Folder : 36 Testimonial Luncheon (Statler/Hilton Hotel)

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

Apr 4, 1971
Box: 18 Folder : 37 YPSL - Correspondence with Penn Kemble

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1972
Box: 18 Folder : 38 YPSL - The Philadelphia Social Democrat (#l Feb.1972; # 2 Mar 1972)

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1972
Box: 18 Folder : 39 SP-SDF-DSF Leaflets

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Microfilm Reel Number 33

1958-1971

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