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Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line

Socialist Workers Party:
Political Committee Minutes, Letters, Convention Reports , and Dossiers.
—Also Documents from the Young Socialist Alliance—

1975

A Note on these documents

These documents from the U.S. Trotskyist group, the Socialist Workers Party, were donated to the Holt Labor Library by Gus Horowitz, who has been active in the YSA from 1960-67 and the SWP from 1960-80. The Holt Labor Library in collaboration with Marty Goodman from the Riazanov Library Project has digitized these documents for the historical record and made them available here, on the Marxists Internet Archive. The records are only presented in a general chronological order by year or set of years. But for each year they are presented within each set by file number, not in any chronological order. So you will notice that often the listing of the files runs from latest to the earliest and not the other way around. This is how the records were organized and we are keeping to that organization. The Political Committee was the leadership of the SWP elected by the National Committee to run the Party between National Committee Plenums, which were held 2 or 3 times a year. The National Committee was itself elected at the SWP's National Convention and was the highest decision making body of the Party.

A note on acronyms, abbreviations and explanations:

PC stands for Political Committee of the SWP
NC stands for National Committee of the SWP...usually. The YSA uses "NC" and "NEC" interchangeably
NEC stands for the National Executive Committee of the Young Socialist Alliance.
There is a lot of mixed acronyms used by the staff of the YSA and SWP. In the 1960s both Branches and Locals are used to describe the basic membership unit of the SWP and the YSA. Later, in the 1970s, the YSA adopted Chapters as their basic unit.
Political Bureau . A subcommittee of the Political Committee, dealing mostly with administrative tasks. The Political Bureau was active only intermittently.


Jan-Dec 1975

Political Bureau Meeting No. 20 (01-02-75)

[YSA] National Committee Plenum Minutes - St. Louis (01-01-75)

Selected Items from New Solidarity, newspaper of the National Caucus of Labor Committees (01-75?)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 20 (01-02-75)

"Boston: The Meaning of the Struggle - Exclusive for Rouge," by Caroline Lund (01-02-75)

To All Members [re: National Gathering] from Doug Jenness, SWP National Office (01-09-75)

Letter to the Socialist Workers Party from Jim Collins, on behalf of the Revolutionary Marxist Collective [Bay Area] applicants for membership in the SWP (01-10-75)

To all Organizers and Trade Union Directors (01-10-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 1 (01-10-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Young Workers Liberation League convention] (01-10-75)

Meeting of Members of the National Committee Resident in New York No. 1 (01-11-75)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 21 (01-13-75)

To All [YSA] Members [re: Dissolution of the Democratic Centralist Tendency] (01-15-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers, Recruitment and Education Directors (01-15-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers, Boston Work Directors and At-Large Members, from Ginny Hildebrand, YSA National Office [re: National Student Conference Against Racism] (01-15-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 2 (01-16-75)

To All SWP Organizers, from Barry Sheppard, SWP National Office [re: Feb. 14-16 National Student Conference Against Racism] (01-17-75)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 22 (01-18-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 3 (01-20-75)

Letter to Jack Barnes from Milt Alvin, Los Angeles (01-21-75)

To All Branch Organizers and Sales Directors, from Les Evans, International Socialist Review editor [re: ISR] (01-22-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and At-Large Members (01-22-75)

Hand-Written Notes by Gus Horowitz from Political Bureau Meeting [re: Election Laws] (01-75?)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 4 (01-23-75)

To CoDEL Chapters (01-23-75)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 23 (01-24-75)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 24 (01-24-75)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members (01-24-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers, Boston Work Directors and At-Large Members, from Ginny Hildbrand, YSA National Office [re: National Student Conference Against Racism] (01-25-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Regional Organizers [re: YS regional teams] (01-28-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 5 (01-29-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and At-Large Members, from Jude Coren, YSA Women's Liberation Director [re: International Women's Day] (01-29-75)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members [re: CLUW] (01-29-75)

To Campaign Directors and Supporters, from Doug Jenness, National Campaign Director [re. "A Bill of Rights for Working People"] (01-30-75)

To All Organizers and Education Directors, from Fred Feldman, National Education Department (02-05-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Regional Organizers [re: YS regional teams] (02-05-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers [re: "Assembly to Save the Peace Accords"] (02-05-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Black Work Directors, from Nan Bailey, YSA National Office [re: "Afrikan Women's Conference"] (02-05-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers, Black Work Directors and At-Large Members, from Nan Bailey, YSA National Office [re: "February 1st Movement"] (02-05-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 6 (02-06-75)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members from Doug Jenness, National Office [re: PRDF suit] (02-07-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 7 (02-08-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 8 (02-11-75)

Correspondence Concerning the Internationalist Tendency (02-12/05-04-75)

To All [YSA] At-Large Members [re: National Fund Drive] (02-12-75)

To All Branch Organizers and Sales Directors, from Jack Barnes, National Secretary [re: International Socialist Review] (02-13-75)

To All Branch Organizers, Education Directors, and Education Committees, from Fred Feldman, National Education Director (02-13-75)

Material Related to the Case of Morris Starsky (02-19-75)

  • Letter from Catherine Perkus, Political Rights Defense Fund (02-19-75)
  • "AAUP Condemns FBI Harassment of Professor as 'Sleazy,'" from Higher Education Daily, Vol. 3, No 27 (02-07-75)
  • "FBI Letter Hit: 'Contemptible,' says AAUP Chief," from Chronicle of Higher Education (02-10-75)
  • Statement by William Van Alstyne, President of the American Association of University Professors (02-03-75)
  • Letter to William Saxbe, Attorney General, from William Van Alstyne, President of the American Association of University Professors (02-02-75)

Two Articles from the Bay Area About Evelyn Reed (02-75)

  • "A Forecast of Women's Destiny," by Mildred Hamilton, from the San Francisco Examiner (02-20-75)
  • "When Women Were the Bosses," by Joan McKinney, from the Oakland Tribune (02-21-75)

To All Branch Organizers (02-20-75)

  • Cover letter by Barry Sheppard
  • Letter to Political Committee, Internationalist Tendency from Peter Gellert (02-15-75)

To All National Committee Members, Organizers and PRDF Directors, from Doug Jenness, SWP National Office [re: government harassment] (02-20-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 9 (02-21-75)

To All National Committee Members [re: India National Question] (02-25-75)

  • Cover Letter by Gus Horowitz
  • Letter to S., India, from Gus Horowitz (09-19-74)

Political Committee Meeting No. 14 (02-25-75)

Letter to Milt Alvin, Los Angeles, from Jack Barnes (02-25-75)

To all Organizers, from Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary [re: right-wing threats] (02-26-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers, Boston Work Directors and At-Large Members [re: NSCAR Conference] (02-26-75)

To Political Committee Members [re: Cannon publishing project] (02-27-75)

  • Cover letter by Jack Barnes
  • Proposal on the Cannon Project, by George Breitman and Les Evans (02-25-75)
  • Addendum to the Cannon Proposal

To All Branch Organizers and Education Directors (02-28-75)

  • Cover letter by Fred Feldman, National Education Department
  • Study guide for "'Left-Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder"
  • Study guide for "The State and Revolution"

To All Organizers and Boston Work Directors, from Barry Sheppard, SWP National Office [re: May 17 march] (02-29-75)

  • To All Organizers, Boston Work Directors and At-Large Members, from Ginny Hildebrand, YSA National Office (02-26-75)

To All Organizers and Boston Work Directors, from Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary [re: NSCAR] (02-29-75)

  • "YSA Dominate in Boston, " article by The Committee for Justice, from Kingsman, official student newspaper of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn College (02-21-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 10 (03-04-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and National Committee Members (03-05-75)

  • Cover letter by Olga Rodriguez, YSA National Office
  • Presentation on the Puerto Rican Struggle in the US, by José G. Perez

Correspondence Related to the Internationalist Tendency (03-10-75)

  • Letter to Barry Sheppard, Political Committee, SWP, from John Barzman for the Political Committee, Internationalist Tendency (03-10-75)
  • Internationalist Tendency Newsletter (03-08-75)
  • Letter to Peter Ge. from John Barzman for the Political Committee, Internationalist Tendency (03-10-75)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 25 (03-10-75)

  • Report on Defense Efforts for Dr. Edelin, by Linda Jenness
  • Letter to Political Committee, Internationalist Tendency from Diane Rupp, SWP National Office (02-29-75)
  • Letter to Barry Sheppard, Political Committee, SWP, from John Barzman for the Political Committee of the Internationalist Tendency (02-28-75)
  • Letter to John Barzman, Internationalist Tendency, from Diane Rupp, SWP National Office (03-04-75)
  • Letter to John Barzman, Political Committee, Internationalist Tendency, from Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary (03-10-75)

Letter to Barry Sheppard from Milton Alvin, Los Angeles (03-10-75)

Letter to the PC or PB from George Breitman (03-10-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Recruitment Directors (03-12-75)

  • Cover letter by Rick Berman, YSA National Office
  • Suggestions on Recruitment, by Michigan/Indiana YS Team (03-06-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Boston Work Directors, from Geoff Mirelowitz, YSA National Office [ re: NAACP endorsement of May 17 March on Boston] (03-12-75)

Correspondence Between the International Majority Tendency and the Internationalist Tendency (03-19-75)

  • Letter to John Barzman, Internationalist Tendency, from Aubin [Charles Michaloux] for the IMT Bureau (03-19-75)
  • Letter to the Political Committee of the Internationalist Tendency from the Enlarged Bureau of the IMT (03-19-75)

Letter from Joe Young, Pathfinder Press Canada, to all Vanguard Bookstore Managers and [LSA/LSO] Organizers (03-21-75)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 26 (03-22-75)

  • Developments in the SWP and YSA Suit, Report to the Political Bureau by Syd Stapleton (03-22-75)
  • "National Student Conference and the Struggle Against Racism," from Daily World (03-13/14-75)
  • To All Organizers and Trade Union Directors, from Frank Lovell, Trade Union Director [re: April 26 "Rally for Jobs Now"] (03-24-75)
  • To all Organizers and Financial Directors, from Barbara Matson, National Financial Director, and Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary (03-25-75)

The Voorhis Act (Undated)

Political Committee Meeting No. 15 (03-24-75)

To All Organizers, from Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary [re: Los Angeles bombing] (03-25-75)

"76 Strategy," from Unity-Struggle, newspaper of the Congress of Afrikan People, Vol. 4, No. 5 (04-75)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 28 (04-05-75)

Political Bureau Meeting No. 29 (04-14-75)

Letter to SWP National Office from Nan Baily [re: Australia/New Zealand tour] (04-14-75)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members (04-15-75)

  • Cover letter by Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary
  • "Draft Main Political Resolution for the 21st National Convention, Communist Party USA"

Political Bureau Meeting No. 30 (04-16-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 15 (04-16-75)

To All Organizers (04-16-75)

  • Cover Letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • "Statement by Coordinators of the National Peace Action Coalition, Organizers of Massive Anit-Vietnam War Marches on Washington on April 24, 1971 and January 20, 1973" (04-16-75)

"An Open Letter to Mayor Bradley" [re: Right-wing attacks in Los Angeles] (04-75)

Letter to the Political Committee of the SWP from Kayne for the Revolutionary Marxist Group [Canada] Political Committee (04-17-75)

Two Letters to the Political Committee from Milton Alvin, Los Angeles [re: Affirmative Action] (04-75)

  • Letter to the Political Committee from Milton Alvin (04-16-75)
  • Letter to the Political Committee from Milton Alvin (04-21-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 16 (04-22-75)

To Members of the Political Committee [re: Tim Wohlforth] (04-28-75)

  • Cover letter from the National Office
  • Letter to Joseph Hansen from Tim Wohlforth (04-19-75)
  • Letter to Tim Wohlforth from Joseph Hansen (04-28-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 18 (04-29-75)

  • Letter to the Political Committee from Milt Alvin, Los Angeles (04-16-75)
  • Letter to the Political Committee from Milt Alvin, Los Angeles (04-21-75)
  • Letter to Milt Alvin from Linda Jenness, for the Political Committee (04-29-75)
  • Letter to the Political Committee from Rich Feigenberg, Denver (04-23-75)

May 1975 National Committee Plenum (05-01/04-75)

  • National Committee Plenum Schedule
  • Political Committee Procedural Recommendations to the 1975 National Committee Plenum
  • Members of the National Committee elected by the 1973 Convention
  • Alternate Members of the National Committee
  • Advisory Members of the National Committee
  • Members Elected by the 1973 Convention to the National Control Commission
  • Regular Members of the Political Committee
  • Consultative Members of the Political Committee
  • Members of the Political Bureau
  • Call for the Twenty-Seventh National Convention of the Socialist Workers Party (05-04-75)
  • Concerning the Method Used to Determine Proportional Representation in the Election of Branch Delegates to the Convention, by Barry Sheppard
  • Progress on Raising National Office Per-Capita Sustainer Pledge
  • National Debt Retirement Campaign: Branch Debts April 1, 1975
  • National Debt Retirement Campaign: Comparative Branch Standings - April 1, 1973; June 1, 1974; and April 1, 1975
  • Branch Performance on Keeping Current with the National Office and Departments: Number of Months Current During the Twelve Months from April 1974 to March 1975
  • Pathfinder/Monad New Books and Editions Projected for 1975
  • Branch Literature Distribution and Finances, January through March 1975 (except as indicated)
  • Evelyn Reed Tour Summary, January-April 1975
  • Report to Los Angeles Central-East Branch on Reed Tour (February 23-March 1, 1975), by Evelyn Sell
  • YSA Membership Statistics (as of April 14, 1975)
  • Size of YSA Center Locals
  • Size of YSA Regional Locals as of April 1975
  • PRDF Financial Summary
  • National Campaign Media Statistics as of April 25, 1975
  • Distribution of "Bill of Rights for Working people" and "Youth and the '76 Elections"
  • Total Campaign Materials Ordered by Campaign Committees, Spring 1975
  • Inquiries Received by National Campaign Committee: January 1, 1975 - April 24, 1975
  • Contributions to National Campaign from Coupons, Endorsers, etc.
  • St. Louis Rally Collection Through April 24, 1975
  • Bills Paid and Outstanding to the National Campaign Committee as of April 24, 1975
  • Report on The Militant's Circulation in 1974
  • 1972-1974 Comparison of Militant Bundle, Sales and Percent Sold
  • Comparison of Membership Participation and Per-Capita Sales in 1974, 1973 and 1972
  • Breakdown of Weekly Average Sales in 1974
  • Branch Financial Performance
  • Branch Debt Retirement to the Militant for 1972, 1973, 1974
  • Comparison of Militant Subscriptions for Last Issue of 1974 and 1973
  • New Militant Subscriptions as a Result of the Merger with the ISR (as of April 1975)
  • Comparison of Subscription Renewal Rates for The Militant
  • Comparison of Average Weekly Paid Circulation Figures

Call for the Twenty-Seventh National Convention of the Socialist Workers Party (05-04-75)

  • Concerning the Method Used to Determine Proportional Representation in the Election of Branch Delegates to the Convention, by Barry Sheppard
  • Political Committee Procedural Recommendations to the 1975 National Committee Plenum
  • National Committee Plenum Schedule (05-01/04-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 19 (05-15-75)

To Branch Organizers, Trade Union Directors, and CLUW Activists (05-19-75)

  • Cover letter by Frank Lovell, National Office
  • "Resolution on Discriminatory Layoffs and New Attacks on Affirmative Action Programs," Draft Resolution for CLUW NCC Meeting (05-30-75)
  • "Protection for Workers: Seniority Principles Affirmed as Basic to Labor Movement," adopted by the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO (05-06-75)

To Branch Organizers and Trade Union Directors [re: Reports on local union activities] (05-21-75)

  • Cover letter by Frank Lovell, National Office
  •     Social Services Union Local 535 (04-25-75)
  •     Hotel, Restaurant Employess & Bartenders International, Local 9, San Francisco, CA (04-25-75)
  •     UAW Local 72, Kenosha, WI (04-18-75)
  •     AFSCME Local 1644, Atlanta (04-29-75)
  •     AFSCME Local 1164, Twin Cities (05-01-75)
  •     Twin Cities CLUW Chapter (04-21-75)
  •     AFSCME Local 590, Philadelphia (03-25-75)
  •     Houston Teachers Association, Houston (05-07-75)
  •     American Federation of Government Employees, Seattle (05-01-75)
  •     Washington Teachers Union, AFT, Washington, DC (04-30-75)
  •     Michigan Federation of Teachers, Detroit (05-11-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 20 (05-23-75)

  • To All Organizers, from José Pérez, SWP National Office [re. UFW Gallo/grape boycott] (05-23-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 21 (05-23-75)

  • Letter to Jack Barnes, SWP National Office, from Susan LaMont, Boston (03-28-75)
  • Letter to Susan LaMont from Jack Barnes (04-08-75)
  • Letter to Susan LaMon from Jack Barnes, National Secretary, for the Political Committee (05-23-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 22 (05-29-75)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee] (05-30-75)

  • Cover letter by Barry Sheppard
  • Report on "Debs-Thomas Dinner" Held May 10, 1975, by Fred Feldman

Political Committee Meeting No. 23 (06-06-75)

  • To National Committee Members and Branch Organizers from Doug Jenness, National Office [re. upcoming convention] (06-09-75)
  • Proposed Schedule for Twenty-Seventh National SWP Convention (to be submitted to the National Committee
  • Proposed Fraction Meetings and Workshops at SWP Convention
  • Classes Following SWP Convention
  • Letter to Barry Sheppard, Political Committee, from Milt Alvin, Los Angeles (05-31-75)
  • Letter to Milt Alvin from Barry Sheppard (06-06-75)
  • To All Organizers from Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary [re. submissions to Discussion Bulletin] (06-06-75)

Correspondence Between Ernest Mandel and Jack Barnes (06-06/10-75)

  • Letter to Jack Barnes from Ernest Mandel (06-06-75)
  • Letter to Ernest Mandel from Jack Barnes (06-10-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 24 (06-10-75)

To Organizers and National Committee Members (06-10-75)

  • Cover letter by Jack Barnes, National Secretary
  • "United States District Court, Southern District of New York: Socialist Workers Party, et. al., Plaintiffs, against Attorney General of the United States of America, et. al., Defendants - Plaintiffs' Supplemental Answers to Interrogatories, 73 CIV. 3160 (TPG)"
  • "Rightists Seize on SLA Kidnap, Attempt to Revive Witch-Hunt," from The Militant (04-05-75)
  • The Voorhis Act

To National Committee Members [re: CLUW National Coordinating Committee] (06-16-75)

  • Cover letter by Linda Jenness, National Office
  • "Resolution on Discriminatory Layoffs," introduced by Jean Tussey
  • "Affirmative Action and Seniority," introduced by Connie Kopelov
  • "Proposed Madison-Janesville, WI CLUW position on Seniority and Layoffs" (05-75)
  • "Proposal on Undocumented Workers for Consideration by NCC"
  • Letter to Linda Jenness from Debby Leonard, Houston (05-29-75)
  • Proposed resolution on affirmative action and discriminatory layoffs

Political Committee Meeting No. 25 (06-18-75)

  • Letter to the United Secretariat from Mary-Alice Waters for the SWP Political Committee [re: David Keil contribution to international discussion] (06-18-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 26 (06-20-75)

  • Letter to the Political Committee from Bitsy Myers, Upper Westside Branch, NYC [re: readmission of John Singleterry] (06-17-75)

To All Comrades [re: Argentina] (07-03-75)

  • Cover letter by Jack Barnes, National Secretary
  • "Argentine Terrorist Ring Broken Up," by Hon. Larry McDonald of Georgia, from Congressional Record (06-27-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 27 (07-04-75)

  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Appeal, by Robert Meeropol & Michael Meeropol
  • "What Are They Afraid of? Open the Files in the Rosenberg Case"
  • Letter to the Political Committee from Don Gurewitz, Boston [re: absentee ballots] (06-11-75)
  • Letter to Jack Barnes from Nancy Fields & Tim Wohlforth (06-24-75)
  • Letter to Nancy Fields & Tim Wohlforth from Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary (07-07-75)
  • Letter to the United Secretariat from Barry Sheppard, for the Political Committee of the SWP (06-30-75)
  • Message to the Memorial Meeting for Bob Chester, by Jack Barnes, for the Political Committee of the SWP (07-01-95)

Political Committee Meeting No. 28 (07-05-75)

To All Branch Organizers [re: Progressive Labor] (07-07-75)

  • Cover letter by Barry Sheppard, SWP National Office
  • Letter to Socialist Workers Party, NYC, New York from Rich Stuart, San Francisco (06-25-75)

Correspondence re: Japanese-Americans (07-14/16-75)

  • Letter to Barry Sheppard, SWP National Office, from Patti Iiyama, Santa Monica (07-14-75)
  • Letter to Patti Iiyama from Tony Thomas (07-16-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 29 (07-18-75)

Correspondence between Milton Alvin and SWP Political Committee (07-16/8-06-75)

  • Letter to the National Office, SWP, from Milton Alvin, Central-East Branch, Los Angeles Local (07-16-75)
  • Letter to the National Office from Milton Alvin (07-18-75)
  • Letter to Milton Alvin from Jack Barnes for the Political Committee, SWP (07-29-75)
  • Letter to Jack Barnes from Milton Alvin (08-06-75)
  • "A Proposed Amendment to the National Committee Draft Political Resolution," by Milton Alvin, Central-East Branch, Los Angeles Local (07-16-75)

Correspondence Between Chicago SWP and Rich Mitten (07-28-75)

  • Letter to Rich Mitten from Joel Britten for the Chicago branch EC (07-28-75)
  • Letter to Diana from Rich Mitten

Letter to Doug Jenness from Fred Halstead, Los Angeles [re: "Opponent Organizations"] (07-29-75)

Correspondence Between the Internationalist Tendency and the Socialist Workers Party (07-27-75)

  • Letter to Barry Sheppard, SWP Political Bureau, from John Barzman
  • Internationalist Tendency Newsletter (06-30-75)
  • Internationalist Tendency Newsletter (06-14-75) [Missing]

"Facts on August 10 Carson Beach Incident," by Maceo Dixon (08-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 31 (08-08-75)

  • Proposed Motions for Organization of the Convention
  • Conference Schedule

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 30 (08-09-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 31 (10-13-75)

Militant Circulation Figures (08-75)

  • Branch Sales - Jan. through June 1975
  • Branches and Locals Current to The Militant (07-31-75)
  • The Militant's Average Weekly Circulation Jan-June 1975
  • The Militant's Subscription Base (08-75)
  • Summary of Prepaid Subscription Cards (08-01-75)

Constitution of the Socialist Workers Party [As ratified by the Twenty-Fourth Convention, 1971] (08-75)

"A Proposed Amendment to the National Committee Draft Resolution on the Black Struggle," by David Keil, Lower Manhattan Branch, New York Local (08-75)

"A Proposed Amendment to the Draft Political Resolution," by Steve Beren, Upper West Side Branch, New York Local; and Sandy Knoll, Detroit Branch [re: Gay Liberation] (08-75)

Hand-Written Notes on 1975 Convention by Gus Horowitz (8-75)

  • Credentials
  • Nominees

To All Delegates [re: OCRFI] (08-75)

  • Cover letter by Mary-Alice Waters, SWP National Office
  • Letter to Joseph Hansen from Pierre Lambert for the OCI [Organisation Communiste Internationaliste] Political Bureau (undated)
  • Letter to Pierre Lambert from Joseph Hansen (06-05-75)
  • Letter to Joseph Hansen from Pierre Lambert (06-16-75)
  • Letter to Pierre Lambert from Joseph Hansen (08-01-75)
  • Letter to the Executive Committee of the SWP from Alain Krivine for the Political Bureau of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire, French Section of the Fourth International (06-29-75)
  • Letter to the Executive Committee of the SWP from the Central Committee of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire (06-29-75)
  • Letter to the Central Committee of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire, from Mary-Alice Waters for the Political Committee, SWP (07-28-75)

Minutes of National Committee Plenum (08-16-75)

  • Conference Schedule

To All Delegates [re: Ralph Levitt Appeal] (08-19-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • Letter to Ralph Levitt from Doug Jenness for the National Committee of the SWP (08-16-75)
  • Letter to the Political Committee, SWP, from Ralph Levitt (08-07-75)
  • Letter to SWP National Office from Jeff Powers, Oakland-Berkeley Branch (10-15-74)
  • Letter to Ralph Levitt from Jeff Powers, Oakland-Berkeley Branch (10-15-74)
  • Letter to Barry [Sheppard] from Jeff Powers, Oakland-Berkeley Branch (10-22-74)
  • Letter to Executive Committee, Oakland-Berkeley Branch, from Ralph Levitt (10-18-74)
  • Letter to Barry Sheppard from Jeff Powers, Oakland-Berkeley Branch Organizer (10-22-74)

Constitution of the Socialist Workers Party, as Ratified by the Twenty-Seventh National Convention (08-75)

Minutes Of National Committee Plenum (08-21-75)

[YSA] National Committee Plenum Minutes, Oberlin, OH (08-23-75)

To All Branch Organizers and CLUW Work Directors (09-03-75)

  • Cover letter by Linda Jenness, National Office
  • Affrirmative Action and Seniority, introduced by Connie Kopelev and adopted by CLUW NCC
  • Resolution on Discriminatory Layoffs, introduced by Jean Tussey
  • Affirmative Action Resolution, passed at AFSCME International Executive Board meeting (06-30-75)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Murry & Myra Tanner Weiss] (09-09-75)

  • Cover letter by Jack Barnes, National Secretary
  • Letter to members of the Socialist Workers Party and editors of The Militant and Intercontinental Press, by Murry Weiss & Myra Tanner Weiss (08-30-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 32 (09-11-75)

Pledges: 1969-1975

  • Weekly Per Capita Pledged to Branches 1969-1975
  • Monthly Per Capita Pledge to National Office 1969-1975

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 33 (09-12-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 32 (09-12-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 34 (09-18-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 33 (09-19-75)

  • To all Members, from Barry Sheppard, National Organization Secretary [re: Portuguese Revolution] (09-02-75)
  • Letter to Barry Sheppard from Betsey Stone [re: John G./Toledo] (09-09-75)
  • Letter to Betsey Stone from Doug Jenness for the Political Committee [re: John G./Toledo] (09-20-75

To All Organizers and National Committee Members (09-19-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • Report on People's Party Convention, by Cindy Burke
  • Report on the National Convention of the Socialist Party USA, by Pam Burchett and Bob Schwartz

Letters from the Organisation Communiste Internationaliste [France] to the SWP (09-23/25-75)

  • Letter to Jack Barnes, National Secretary, SWP, from Pierre Lambert for the Central Committee of the OCI (09-23-75)
  • Letter to Jack Barnes, National Secretary, SWP, from Pierre Lambert (09-23-75)
  • Letter to "Comrade" from François (09-25-75)

Pathfinder Press Fall 1975 Titles /Sales Summary (Fall 75)

  • Keeping Current with Pathfinder: August 1974 to July 1975
  • Back Debt Payments to Pathfinder: August 1974 to July 1975
  • Sales of Pathfinder Books and Pamphlets Published December 1974 to July 1975
  • "Woman's Evolution" Sales Summary (to August 1975)
  • Number of Copies of "Woman's Evolution" placed in bookstores by sales representatives
  • Campus Literature Tables Sales January Through June 1975

Correspondence Between Ernest Mandel and Jack Barnes (09-24/10-02-75)

  • Letter  to Jack Barnes from Ernest Mandel (09-24-75)
  • Letter to Ernest Mandel from Jack Barnes (10-02-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors, from Nan Bailey, YSA National Office [re: Second National Student Conference Against Racism] (09-24-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 3 (09-26-75)

  • To All National Committee Members and Organizers [re: Nation of Islam] from Doug Jenness, National Office (09-30-75)
  • Letter to Barry Sheppard from Melissa Singler, Cleveland Branch Organizer [re: NOI] (09-22-75)
  • Report from Bucky Kahn, Cleveland SWP [re: NOI] (09-27-75)
  • Letter to Ken Shilman, Seattle, from Doug Jenness, SWP National Office [re: Pat Bethard campaign] (09-30-75)

To All Branch Organizers and Trade Union Directors (10-01-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, National Office
  • Letter to Political Committee, Socialist Workers Party from Jeff Mackler, Oakland-Berkeley Branch (09-75)
  • Resolution Supporting Desegregation, adopted by Washington, DC Teachers Union (09-22-75)
  • Draft Resolution for National AFT/NEA Committees Against Segregated Schools

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 37 (10-04-75)

To All Branch Organizers [re: Hugo Blanco visa denial] (10-07-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • "Kissinger Bans Blanco," letter to USLA coordinators from Mike Kelly, USLA staff (10-03-75)
  • Endorsers of Hugo Blanco's Right to Travel to the US (Partial List)
  • Proposed Tour Schedule for Mike Kelly and Proposed Tour Quotas

Political Committee Meeting No. 4 (10-09-75)

  • Letter to Pierre Lambert from Jack Barnes for the Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (10-09-75)
  • Letter to Jack Barnes, National Secretary, SWP, from Pierre Lambert for the Central Committee of the Organisation Communiste Internationaliste [France] (09-23-75)
  • Letter to Jack Barnes, National Secretary, SWP, from Pierre Lambert (09-23-75)
  • To All National Committee Members from Barry Sheppard [re: NC meeting] (10-09-75)

To the Political Committee (10-6/14-75)

  • Letter to Jack Barnes from Ernest Mandel (10-06-75)
  • Letter to Ernest Mandel from Jack Barnes (10-14-75)

To All National Committee Members and Organizers (10-15-75)

  • Cover letter by Jack Barnes, National Secretary
  • "The 1975 SWP Convention and International Questions," from the Internationalist Tendency Newsletter (09-24-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 5 (10-16-75)

"To the Political Bureaus of the Sections and Sympathizing Organizations of the Fourth International," by Paulo for the Executive Committee of the Liga Comunista Internacionalista, Sympathizing Organization of the Fourth International [Portugal] (10-17-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 6 (10-20-75)

  • Report on NSCAR Conference and November Action Perspectives, by Malik Miah (10-20-75)
  • Report on CLUW, by Linda Jenness (10-20-75)

To All National Committee Members and Organizers (10-21-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • "SWP Calls on Secret Service," editorial from Workers World (10-10-75)
  • Letter to Editor, Workers World, from Andrea Morell, Socialist Workers 1976 National Campaign Committee (10-21-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 39 (10-21-75)

To All National Committee Members (10-23-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • Letter to Murry & Myra Tanner Weiss from Pierre Frank (10-06-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 40 (10-23-75)

Letter to John Barzman, Chicago, from Peter Gellert, Houston (10-23-75)

"Portugal," letter to the Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, by Tariq Ali (10-25-75)

To All Organizers from Doug Jenness, SWP Natioonal Office [re: Militant circulation] (10-31-75)

To Political Committee Members from Doug Jenness (11-01-75)

  • Letter to Stu Singer, Houston, from Doug Jenness
  • Letter to the Political Committee from Peter Gellert, Houston (10-23-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 7 (11-06-75)

  • Report on CLUW NCC Meeting and Preparations for the Convention, by Linda Jenness (11-06-75)
  • Alternate Agenda Proposal [for CLUW NCC Meeting], by Linn McDonald, Chairperson, Houston CLUW, ITU, and Debbie Leonard, member, Steering Committee, CLUW, Houston Chapter, CLUW, OCAW
  • Report on NOW Convention, by Linda Jenness (11-06-75)
  • Letter to the Political Committee from Peter Gellert, Houston, TX (10-23-75)
  • Letter to Stu Singer, Houston, from Doug Jenness for the Political Committee (11-06-75)

[YSA] National Exectutive Committee Minutes, No. 41 (11-07-75)

Report on NOW Convention, by Nancy Brown (11-07-75)

Letter to Reba and Joseph Hansen from Vagn Rasmussen [Denmark] (11-10-75)

[YSA] National Exectutive Committee Minutes, No. 42 (11-10-75)

To Branch Organizers and CLUW Work Directors (11-11-75)

  • Cover letter by Linda Jenness, National Office
  • "To Members of the Coalition of Labor Union Women," from Lynn McDonald, CLUW NCC, Houston CLUW Chairperson, ITU and Debby Leonard, CLUW NCC, CLUW Steering Committee, Houston CLUW, OCAW

To All [YSA] Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors, from Nancy Brown, Women's Liberation Director [re: ERA] (11-12-75)

To Organizers and Anti-Racist Work Directors [re: NAACP] (11-14-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • Letter to SWP National Office from Delpfine Welch, Antiracist Work Director, Milwaukee Branch (11-05-75)
  • Report on Wisconsin NAACP Fall State Conference
  • Report on the Western Regional NAACP Conference Held in Asilomar, California September 19-21, by John Votava

Political Committee Meeting No. 8 (11-14-75)

  • To Branch Organizers and Trade Union Directors, from Frank Lovell, National Office (11-15-75)
  • "Dear Friend," from Ed Sadlowski, District Director, District 31, United Steelworkers of America (undated)
  • "Dear Friend," from Victor Reuther (undated)
  • Steelworkers Fight Back mailing (undated)
  • "A New Power in Labor," by John Herling, from Washington Post (11-23-74)
  • "Steelers vs. Split Try," by Mike Bayer, from People's World (11-09-75)
  • "Steel Victory," by Rank and File Steelworker, from People's World (11-09-75)

To Organizers and CLUW Work Directors (11-16-75)

  • Cover letter by Linda Jenness, CLUW Work Director
  • "CLUW Calls Second National Convention," from The Call (11-75)
  • "CLUW Plans for Second Convention," by Barbara Winslow, from Workers' Power (11-07-75)

Letter to the Political Committee from Diana Tasciotti for Chicago W/N Branch [re: Sam Langer readmittance] (11-17-75)

To SWP Political Committee, from Froben Lozada [Oakland-Berkeley Branch] Re: Jewish History in Ethnic Studies (undated, 75?)

Political Committee Meeting No. 9 (11-18-75)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members [Re: NCLC Harassment Campaign] (11-21-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • "Editorial: Operation Amsterdam," from New Solidarity (11-13-75)
  • "Now Nelson Rockefeller Runs the SWP and CPUSA," by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., US Labor Party Presidential Candidate,  from New Solidarity (11-10-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 10 (11-28-75)

  • To All Branch Organizers, from Frank Lovell, SWP National Office (11-26-75)
  • To: SWP Branch Organizers, Trade Union Directors, AFT comrades, NEA comrades From: Jeff Mackler, Oakland-Berkeley Branch (11-21-75)
  • "Desegregation and Equality in Education," Statement by the AFT Committee on Desegregation and Equality in Education
  • Letter to William Simons, President, Washington Teachers Union, AFT Local 6, AFL-CIO, from Jeff  Mackler, Organizer, AFT 1423, Hayward [CA], Coordinator, AFT Committee on Desegregation and Equality in Education (11-21-75)
  • Letter to Doug Jenness from Mark Ugolini, Washington, DC organizer (11-24-75)
  • Letter to Michael Pennock, Richmond, VA, from Doug Jenness, SWP National Office (11-28-75)
  • Letter to Peter Camejo from Jan Tucker, Los Angeles Chairperson, Peace & Freedom Party (10-23-75)
  • Letter to Jan Tucker from Doug Jenness, Campaign Director, Socialist Workers '76 National Campaign Committee (11-28-75)

"The YSA on Veterans," from The Vietnam Vet, published by the Vietnam Veterans Union at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (11-75?)

For PC Members (Undated - 11-75?)

  • Report on Black Work in Atlanta, by James Harris

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 45 (12-01-75)

  • NEC Proposal for Composition of Nominating Commission

To All [YSA] Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Revolutionary Student Brigade] (12-03-75)

  • Cover letter by Ilona Gersh, YSA National Office
  • Report on the October 8-10, 1975 National Convention of the Revolutionary Student Brigade
  • Excerpts from "RSB New Student Group of Party," from Revolution, publication of the Revolutionary Communist Party (11-15-75)

To All [YSA] Organizers, Puerto Rican and Antiracist Work Directors [re: FUSP] (12-03-75)

  • Cover letter by Olga Rodriguez, YSA National Office
  • Report on the YSA's Relations with the FUSP, by Mike Taber, North-West Chicago YSA (11-21-75)

Inquiries received by the National Campaign Committee during 1975

To Members of the Political Committee (12-04-75)

  • Cover letter by Mary-Alice Waters
  • Letter to a Canadian comrade [John Steele?] from a member of the Argentine PST in Portugal (12-04-75)

For the Political Committee (12-04-75)

  • Letter to Doug Jenness, National Office, from Janice Lynn, Upper West Side SWP Organizer (12-04-75)
  • Letter of Resignation from Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, from Alan F. Fogelquist (12-03-75)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes (12-05-75)

For the Political Committee (12-06-75)

  • Report on Robert Allen  and Ron Karenga Meetings, by Malik Miah

Political Committee Meeting No. 11 (12-09-75)

  • Report on Upcoming Actions for the Equal Rights Amendment, by Cindy Jaquith (12-09-75)
  • Proposal to Philadelphia NOW Board, Passed Unanimously (12-02-75)

For the PC (12-10-75)

  • "An Ex-FBI Exec Gets a Warning," by Margaret Gentry, from the New York Post (12-10-75)

Political Committee Meeting No. 12 (12-12-75)

Letter to SWP National Office from Mike Alewitz, Cleveland Branch [re: Brother Love X/NOI] (12-12-75)

To Branch Organizers, Trade Union Directors, and CLUW Directors (12-13-75)

  • Cover letter by Frank Lovell and Cindy Jaquith, SWP National Office
  • Report on Steelworkers Caucus at CLUW Convention (12-09-75)
  • Rough draft of Steelworkers resolution on affirmative action

Political Committee Meeting No. 13 (12-16-75)

To Branch Organizers [re: NCLC Harassment] (12-19-75)

  • Cover letter by Doug Jenness, SWP National Office
  • "FBI Runs Candidate for President," US Labor Party leaflet

Political Committee Meeting No. 14 (12-19-75)

  • Letter to the Socialist Workers Party from the Revolutionary Marxist Organizing Committee (10-27-75)
  • Excerpt from the Internationalist Tendency (New Faction) Newsletter of November 28, 1975 concerning the Revolutionary Marxist Organizing Committee

To Members of the National Committee (12-19-75)

  • Cover letter by Mary-Alice Waters
  • To the Steering Committee of the Leninist Trotskyist Faction, from Mary-Alice Waters for the Coordinating Committee (11-28-75)
  • "To the Comrades of the Leninist-Trotskyist Faction," by the Political Bureau of the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores, Argentina (11-05-75)
  • Letter to the Political Bureau of the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores from Joseph Hansen (11-25-75)
  • Report on the November 23-24, 1975 United Secretariat Meeting, by Galois [Gus Horowitz] (12-03-75)
  • Minutes of  the November 23-24, 1975 Meeting of the United Secretariat
  • Letter to Ernest Mandel from Mary-Alice Waters (12-16-75)
  • Letter to the Political Committee of the league for Socialist Action/Ligue Socialiste Ouvrière from Walter [Ernest Mandel] (12-12-75)
  • Letter to the United Secretariat from Art Young for the LSA/LSO Political Committee (12-18-75)
  • Report on the October 4-5, 1975 United Secretariat Meeting, by Galois [Gus Horowitz]

To National Committee Members [re: Portugal statement] (12-20-75)

  • Cover letter by Barry Sheppard
  • National Committee Statement on Portugal, Political Committee Draft

To Political Committee Members [re: charges against Debby Leonard] (12-23-75)

  • Cover letter by National Office
  • Statement by Debby Leonard to the Houston Trial Committee (12-17-75)

Letter to Joseph Hansen from Ernest [Mandel], Alain [Krivine], Charles [Michaloux], Charles-André [Udry], John, Livio [Maitan], Pierre [Frank], Tariq [Ali], Vergeat [Gerard de Verbizier] [re: Healy slander campaign] (12-26-75)

For the Political Committee (12-75)

  • Introductory note by Andy Rose
  • "Egalitarianism: Threat to a Free Market," from Business Week (12-01-75)
  • "Egalitarianism: Mechanisms for Redistributing Income," from Business Week (12-08-75)
  • "Egalitarianism: The Corporation as Villain," from Business Week (12-15-75)

For the Political Committee (12-75)

  • Summary of Fall 1975 Sales Campaign
  • Analysis of Source of New Subscribers

Inquiries Received by National Campaign Committee During 1975 (12-75)

Campaign Literature, Collections, Tour Fees, & Misc.

Inquiries Received From National Campaign Committee During 1975

Pathfinder Books and Pamphlets Planned for Publication in 1976 (12-75)


 

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