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Miscellaneous Document Archive for the Workers Party and International Socialist League

A plain text file of the contents of the these volumes (13–16) of Workers Party/ISLMimeographia sacnned and digitized by the Riazanov Library Project is available here and in PDF format here.

Volume 13 of the Workers Party/ISLMimeographia (material dated 1940 through 1944):


1940 Founding Tasks and Perspectives document

1940 Program of Action for the NYC Local of the WP

Local NYC Discussion Bulletin recounting the first 7 months of the WP in NYC

1940 Workers Party first International Bulletin

1941 Workers Party Negro Bulletin

NYC pre-convention bulletin 1941

1941 Resolution on the Negro Question

1941 Trade Union Tasks and Perspectives

1941 Proposal on financng the press

1941 WP Political Resolution

1941 report of the WP from the 1st to the 2nd Convention

1941 Class Nature of the USSR

1941 Document written by JR Johnson (CLR James) on the Russian Question submitted to the WP 2nd National Convention

1943 Letter, by Ernest Lund

1943 The Objective Basis of Our Failure to Recruit by Black Lear

1944(?) The Turn Toward a Mass Party by Ernest Lund

1944 Letter by Max Shachtman

1944 On the Supreme Court Decission on the Texas Primaries

1944 Toward a Party Perspective by Ernest Lund

1944 Letter by Enrenst Lund

1944 Information Bulletin from France

Unammended Constitution submitted to the 1946 Workers Party Convention

Add poted Constitution of the Workers Party from the 1946 Convention

Recommendations to the 1949 Convention of the Independent Socialist League upon it's formation



Volume 14 of the Workers Party/ISLMimeographia (material dated 1944 through 1946):

December 1944-Info-Bulletin, 1944

City Convention Report NY Dec 1944

March 1945 Info Bul Jewish Problem

Info Bulletin April 1945

Active Workers Conf Bulletin, 1945

Active Workers Conf Bulletin, 1945

Active Workers Conf Bulletin July 17, 1945

Active Workers Conf Bulletin July 19, 1945

Active Workers Conf Bulletin July 24, 1945

Active Workers Conf Bulletin July 30, 1945

Active Workers Conf Bulletin July 30, 1945

Active Workers Conf Bulletin July 31, 1945

Bulletin on Negro Question, 1945

Edu-Prop-Agit-Johnson, 1945

Thesis on the US-H Allen, 1945

1945 Conf-Proc Act Work Conf, 1945

Shachtman-Sherman Letter, 1945

Fund Drive Shachtman, 1945

Letters WP-SWP Unity-Shacht-Sherman, 1945

Circulating Letter Nov 16, 1945

Hal Draper letter LA fight vs GLK Smith

WP-SWP Unity Correspondence, 1946



Volume 15 of the Workers Party/ISLMimeographia (material dated 1946 through 1947):

Jan-19-1946 Res On Tasks Trade Unions-Coolidge

Apr-13-1946-Letter-On-Reuther Shachtman

1946-Letter-8-Pg-Labor-Action Shachtman

1946-Russian Question

1946-Labor Party Question

Volume 15 page erros

1946-Minutes of 4th Nat Conv of WP

1946-Conv Agenda-4th Nat Conv of WP

1946-Res French Negro Jew-4th Nat Conv of WP

1946-Constitution of the WP-4th Nat Conv of WP

1946-Res on the US-4th Conv

1946-New Dues System

946-Letter-Resols-Amends

1946-Comments-Erber-res-Jewish-Q

1946-Amend-to-RES-on-US-Hal-Draper

may-22-1946-Int Bul-v1n1

Apr-22-1946-Report on UAW Conv

apr-29-1946-Letter On Fund Drive

1946-Jewish Question-Ed Findley Al Findley

Nov-8-9-1947-Minutes Active Workers Conf

Aug-11-1947-State-Unity-W-SWP

1947-Tasks of the Party-PC

Nov-05-1947-Unity and the 4th Int

1947-Five Documents



Volume 16 of the Workers Party/ISLMimeographia (material dated 1947 through 1957):

X-Supplement to Sec C - 6 documents

Feb-02-1947-City Convention Ny Local

1947-Campaign on Prices

Mar-08-1947-Letter On Wp-Swp Unity-Shachtman

Mar-1949-Fifth National Convention

Dec-1948-Res On Recon Of Socialist International

Amends To Pc Trade Union Res

1948-49 Branch Reports

1951-Amend-To-Res-On-Usa

Jun-26-1951-Letter-Draft Res For Conv

Seven-1957-Documents

1957-Isl Nat Conv-Summaries-Reports

1957-Contrib To A Discussion-Falk