William Bachmann Papers
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Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) member William Bachmann. Papers in the collection relate to Bachmann's involvement with the RSL and include newsletters, agendas, meeting minutes, flyers, memos, and reports from New York regional meetings and fraction meetings between the mid-1970s and 1980s. Other materials documenting RSL activities include editorial files from the RSL newspaper The Torch, leaflets, pamphlets, and issues of the the RLS newsletter League Report from 1973 to 1980. Additionally the collection contains a small amount of materials related to the North East Federation of Anarchist Communists, which contains programs and reading materials from anarchist conferences between 2000 and 2011.
Biographical / Historical
William Bachmann was a member of the Revolutionary Socialist League. The Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was an American Trotskyist organization formed in the early 1970s.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Materials related to the Revolutionary Scocialist League (RSL) are grouped in folders based on subject or RSL fraction. These files are not arranged in any clear order. Issues of League Report arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) member William Bachmann. Papers in the collection relate to Bachmann's involvement with the RSL and include newsletters, agendas, meeting minutes, flyers, memos, and reports from New York regional meetings and fraction meetings between the mid 1970s and 1980s. These materials include files from the Left Movement Fraction, Gay Fraction, Community and Labor Fraction, United Front Fraction, and the Postal Fraction. Other materials documenting RSL activities include editorial files from the RSL newspaper The Torch, leaflets, pamphlets, and issues of the the RLS newsletter League Report from 1973 to 1980. Additionally the collection contains a small amount of materials related to the North East Federation of Anarchist Communists, which includes programs and reading materials from anarchist conferences between 2000 and 2011.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by William Bachmann, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in 2016 by Wialliam Bachmann. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; William Bachmann Papers; TAM 713; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by William Bachmann in 2016. The accession number associated with this gift is 2016.066.
Separated Materials
Issues of Jamaican socialist periodicals Forward and Socialist Weekly were transferred to Tamiment Library's newspaper collection.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning materials were described in a collection-level finding aiding with a box list. Materials in the collection have not been arranged by the archivist and are in the order in which they were received from the donor.