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

1977

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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.

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Jan-Dec 1977

Minutes of the Sixteenth National Convention of the Young Socialist Alliance, Chicago, IL (12-31/01-02-77)

• Messages Received:
•     1. From the Revolutionary Marxist Committee
•     2. From Tsietsi Mashinini, President of the Soweto, South Africa Students Representative Council
•     3. From Serge and Sylvie of the Young Socialists/Ligue des Jeunes Socialistes [Canada]
•     4. From the Japanese Communist Youth
•     5. From the Liga Internacionalista de los Trabajadores of Puerto Rico
•     6. From the Alliance des Jeunes pour le Socialisme of France
•     7. From the Socialist Youth Alliance of Australia
•     8. From the Revolutionary Communist League of Iceland
•     9. From the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire of France
•     10. From the Young Socialists of New Zealand
•     11. From the Revolutionary Marxist Group of Canada
•     12. From the Groupe Socialiste des Travailleurs du Quebec
•     13. From the Revolutionary Communist Youth of China
• Schedule of the Sixteenth Young Socialist Alliance National Convention

Political Committee Meeting No. 1 (01-03-77)

Correspondence Between the Political Bureau of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire [France] and the Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (01-06-77)

• Cover letter by Robs, for the Political Bureau of the LCR
• "Letter From Michel Lequenne to the Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party" (12-76)

"New 'Left' Pilot Network Activated in USA," from NCLC Security Informational Brief (01-07-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 2 (01-11-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 1 (01-11-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 3 (01-18-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 2 (01-18-77)

Correspondence Between Dave Frankel and Mikado [Michel Warshawsky] (01-19-77)

• Letter to Mikado from Dave Frankel (01-19-77)
• Letter to Dave Frankel from Mikado(12-13-76)

To National Committee Members [re: Musheer Fardan Case] (01-20-77)

• Cover Letter by Larry Seigle
• Letter to the National Office from B.R. Washington, Detroit (12-19-76)
• Letter to B.R. Washington from Jack Barnes

To National Committee Members and Organizers [re: Sadlowski Campaign/SDUSA] (01-21-77)

• Cover letter by Larry Seigle, National Office
• "Media Radical Chic Against the Steelworkers," by Robert Fekety, from New America, Vol. 13, No. 18 (12-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 3 (01-24-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 4 (01-25-77)

Letter to the Political Committee from John Barzman [re: SWP National Committee meeting] (01-26-77)

• Letter to supporters of the International Majority Tendency from John Barzman (01-26-77)

To All [YSA] Organizers  [re: Conference on Bakke Decision] (01-31-77)

• Cover letter by Mike Zárate, YSA National Office
• Report on Bakke Conference

To All [YSA] Organizers [re: Defense of YSA Members at Central Michigan University] (02-01-77)

• Cover letter by Chuck Petrin, YSA National Office
• Sample News Story
• Letter from the Committee for Free Speech
• Endorsers of the Committee for Free Speech (02-01-77)

Letter to Brian Grogan and John Ross [Britain] from Tim Wohlforth (02-02-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 5 (02-03-77)

• Evaluation of Critical Support to General Baker, by John Hawkins, Detroit (02-03-77) w
• Report on the Use of the Tactic of Critical Support for the Michael McGee Campaigns, by Bob Schwartz, Milwaukee (12-16-76)

To Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors [re: NOW National Convention] (02-04-77)

• Cover letter by Cindy Jaquith, SWP Women's Liberation Director
• Resolution

Political Committee Meeting No. 6 (02-12-77)

• District 1 School Board Elections, by Nelson González, New York City (02-18-77)
• 1977 Proposed Platform for the Por Los Niños/Save the Children Ticket
• Report to the Political Committee on Militant Sales Drive, by Harvey McArthur (02-12-77)

To All National Committee Members and National Field Organizers [re: NEA Convention] (02-15-77)

• Cover letter by Ed Heisler, Secretary, Trade Union Steering Committee
• Letter to all NEA comrades from Ed Heisler (02-15-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 7 (02-16-77)

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: FBI infiltration of women's liberation movement] (02-17-77)

• Cover letter by Cindy Jaquith, National Office, and Stacey Seigle, National Campaign Office
• Summary of FBI Files on Women's Liberation Movement (02-17-77)

Correspondence Between the Editorial Board of Inprecor and the PST [Argentina] Leadership in Exile (02-17-77)

• Letter to Marcela from Walter [Ernest Mandel] for the Editorial Board of Inprecor (02-17-77)
• Letter to Walter from Marcela, for the PST leadership in exile (02-27-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 8 (02-18-77)

• Report on Southern African Campaign and NSCAR Steering Committee Meetings, by Malik Miah (02-18-77)
• To Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors [re: April NOW conference resolution] from Cindy Jaquith, SWP Women's Liberation Director (02-23-77)
• Resolution for April NOW Conference

To Organizers, Trade Union Directors and CLUW Members (02-23-77)

• Cover letter by Cindy Jaquith, SWP Women's Liberation Director
• Report on Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) National Executive Board Meeting, February 5-6, 1977, Philadelphia
• Abortion Resolution Adopted by CLUW National Executive Board, February 5-6, 1977

To the PC and Field Organizers [re: Discussion in the Sattar League] (02-25-77)

• Cover letter by Caroline Lund
• Declaration of the Permanent Revolution Faction (Struggle Against Split in the Sattar League) (02-07-77)
• PC Majority Document
• Points of Difference in the Sattar League, by Ahmad Heydari (09-28-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 9 (02-25-77)

• Letter to the Trotskyist Organizing Committee from Mary-Alice Waters for the Political Committee (03-01-77)
• Letter to the Political Committee of the SWP from Harry Turner for the Trotskyist Organizing Committee (02-07-77)
• "Declaration of the Trotskyist Organizing Committee: Unity to Build the Fourth International"
• Letter to Larry Seigle, SWP National Office, from John Studer, San Francisco (01-17-77)
• Letter to "Karl, Charlie and Comrades" from Harry Turner (01-05-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 10 (03-03-77)

To Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors [re: April 21-24 NOW National Conference] (03-07-77)

• Cover letter by Cindy Jaquith, Women's Liberation Work Director
• Resolution submitted by Diane Feeley, ERA Subcommittee Chair, NOW New York
• "Resolution on Economic Priority Issues for the Second Decade," submitted by the Labor and Poverty Task Forces
• "Proposal for Political Action Committee Feasibility Project"

Report on Young Socialist Sales Campaign, by Brian Williams, adopted by the Young Socialist Alliance National Executive Committee (03-07-77)

• February Young Socialist Financial Scoreboard (03-01-77)
• February 1977 YS Sales Scoreboard

Political Committee Meeting No. 11 (03-10-77)

• New Stage in the Fight Against Campaign Disclosure Laws, by Matilde Zimmerman (03-11-77)
• Recent Developments in the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, by Catarino Garza (03-11-77)
• Report on National Conference of Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee, by Mike Taber
• Letter to Hedda Garza from Mary-Alice Waters for the SWP Political Committee (03-15-77)
• Letter to the Political Committee from Hedda Garza for the New York RMOC (11-08-76)
• Letter to the United Secretariat from Hedda Garza (01-30-77)
• Letter to Los Angeles RMOC and All National Coordinators from Hedda Garza (11-08-76)

To Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors [re: NSCAR] (03-11-77)

• Cover letter by Malik Miah, National Office
• "An Appeal to Build a United Movement Against U.S. Support to the Racist Regimes in Southern Africa"
• Statement by Tsietsi Mashinini and Khotso Seatlholo (02-24-77)
• "At Vanessa's Red School," from the Johannesburg Sunday Times (01-30-77)
• "South African Liberation Movement Hit," by June Goodwin, from the Christian Science Monitor (01-25-77)
• "Help Exiles in Botswana," leaflet from International Defense and Aid and National Student Coalition Against Racism

To the Political Committee (03-12-77)

• Letter to Peter Camejo from Carmen, for the Executive Committee of the Liga Comunista [Spain] (03-12-77)
• Letter to the Central Committee and Executive Committee of the Liga Comunista from the Political Secretary of Baix Llobregat (02-03-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 9 (03-14-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 12 (03-17-77)

• Letter to Michel Lequenne [France] from Caroline Lund for the SWP Political Committee (03-17-77)
• Letter to Sam Manuel from Larry Seigle, National Office [re: Critical support for CLP and CPUSA candidates] (03-18-77)
• Letter to the Political Committee from Sam Manuel, for the Los Angeles Local Executive Committee (03-10-77)
• Letter to SWP National Office from Bill Anderson, Los Angeles [re: CLP campaign rally] (02-16-77)
• "Vote Communist: Vote for Luis Rodriquez," CLP campaign leaflet
• "Vote for Arnold Lockshin and William C. Taylor," CP campaign leaflet

Letter to the Political Committee, Communist League [Australia] and the Political Committee, Socialist Workers Party [Australia] from the United Secretariat Bureau (03-19-77)

Documents of the Palestinian Communist Group (03-20-77)

• Letter to the Political Committee of the SWP from Yigal Schwartz for the Palestinian Communist Group (03-20-77)
• Appendix 1: Programmatic Theses
• Appendix 2: Letter to the Organisation Communiste Internationaliste [France] from the Palestinian Communist Faction
• Appendix 4: Summary of discussions between the Palestinian Communist Faction and the OCI (01-77)
• Appendix 5: "No to an Unprincipled Split," by the Palestinian Communist Faction (01-30-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 10 (03-21-77)

• Report on the Mujeres Unidas Conference to the NEC, by Andrea Lubrano (03-21-77)

To All Organizers and Circulation Directors from Harvey McArthur, Business Manager [re: Militant sales campaign] (03-21-77)

To the Political Committee and National Field Organizers [re: Spartacist League] (03-23-77)

• Cover letter by Larry Seigle
• "The American Left Views 'Roots,'" from Workers Vanguard, No. 148 (03-11-77)
• "The Spartacist League's Scandalous Chauvinism," from Socialist Voice, No. 3 (Spring 77)

To All [YSA] Organizers from Peter Archer, YSA National Office [re: YSA Organizer] (03-24-77)

To All [YSA] National Committee Members (03-24-77)

• Cover letter by Betrsy Farley, YSA National Office
• Excerpts from the nominating commission report to the San Francisco Local, presented by David Keepnews, San Francisco State University chapter (01-27-77)

To Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors (03-29-77)

• Cover letter by Cindy Jaquith, National Office
• Report on Women's Liberation Work, by Cindy Jaquith (03-24-77)
• "Resolution for Equal Justice for Women and Oppressed Nationalities"

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 11 (03-30-77)

Letters to Brian Grogan, International Marxist Group [Britain] from Michael Banda, General Secretary, Workers Revolutionary Party [Britain] (04-01-77)

• Letter to Brian Grogan from Michael Banda (03-22-77)
• Letter to Brian Grogan from Michael Banda (02-15-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 12 (04-04-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 13 (04-11-77)

"Healyism (Rough Draft)," by Nancy Fields and Tim Wohlforth (04-11-77)

• Letter to Jack Barnes from Tim Wohlforth

"The Postwar Social Overturns and Marxist Theory," by Tim Wohlforth (04-12-77)

• Letter to Jack Barnes from Tim Wohlforth
• "Dr. Castro: A Remarkable Talent for Survival in Soviet-Dominated Cuba," by Herbert Marchand, The Times [London] (77)

Minutes of National Committee Plenum (04-14/17-77)

Call for the Twenty-Ninth National Convention of the Socialist Workers Party, by Jack Barnes for the National Committee (04-17-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 18 (04-17-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 19 (04-20-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 14 (04-21-77)

To the Political Committee (04-26-77)

• Letter to Mercedes, Tendencia Obrera [Spain] from Peter Camejo (04-26-77)
• "Democracy or Bonapartism in Europe?," by Pierre Frank, from Workers International News (06/07-46)
• "Problems of the Italian Revolution," by Leon Trotsky (05-14-30), from Writings of Leon Trotsky 1930, Pathfinder Press, 1975
• "The Revolution in Spain," by Leon Trotsky (01-24-31), from The Spanish Revolution (1931-39), Pathfinder Press, 1973

To All Comrades [re: Pre-Convention Discussion] (04-27-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 15 (04-27-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 20 (04-28-77)

• Letter to the Political Committee from Pat Wright (04-26-77)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Antiracist Directors (04-28-77)

• Report on the Third Annual Region Conference of the International Committee Against Racism, by Richard Booth, Madison

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 16 (04-29-77)

Letter to Alan Thornett [Britain] from Tim Wohlforth (05-02-77)

• Cover letter to Jack Barnes from Tim Wohlforth

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 17 (05-04-77)

Letter to Members of the IMT Steering Committee from Duret, for the IMT Bureau (05-05-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 21 (05-06-77)

• Letter to Harry Turner, Trotskyist Organizing Committee, from Mary-Alice Waters for the Political Committee (05-06-77)
• Letter to Mary-Alice Waters, Political Committee, Socialist Workers Party, from Harry Turner (03-21-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 1[?] (05-11-77)

Letters from the Revolutionary Marxist Committee [US] (05-77)

• Letter to Alan Jones [John Ross], International Marxist Group [Britain] from Eric Olson for the National Committee, RMC (05-11-77)
• Letter to Workers Power Group [Britain] from Fred Larson for the National Committee, RMC (05-05-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 20 (05-25-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 24 (05-27-77)

Correspondence Regarding the Liga Comunista [Spain] (05-25-77)

• Letter to Jack Barnes from Peter Camejo (05-25-77)
• Letter to New York from Caroline Lund (05-25-77)

Communist League (Indian Section of the Fourth International) Internal Information and Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 3 (06-77)

• National Question in India, by Sharad Jhaveri (05-15-77)
• Discussion Notes on Party Programme: National Question in India, by Sharad Jhaveri (04-24-77)
• Discussion Notes on the Programme No. 2, by Sharad Jhaveri (05-26-77)
• Discussion Notes on the Programme No. 3: Changes in the Section on Indian Bourgeoisie, by Sharad Jhaveri (05-28-77)
• Discussion Notes on Party Programme No. 4: Towards a Methodological Criticism of the Indian Stalinists' Theory of Two Stages of Revolution and Their Programmatic Conception of the Indian Revolution, by Sharad Jhaveri (05-31-77)
• Discussion Notes on Party Programme No. 5: Gunnar Mrydal and T. Programme on Agrarian Question , by Sharad Jhaveri (03-30-70)
• Discussion Notes on Party Programme No. 6: Discussion Material on Transitional Programme of the Indian Revolution - Leon Trotsky on T. Programme, by Sharad Jhaveri (03-70)
• Discussion Notes on Party Programme No. 7: A Note on Transitional Programme on Agrarian Question, by Sharad Jhaveri (03-27-77)
• Critical Notes on: Programme of the Communist Party of India (Left) Adopted at Calcutta (11-30-64)
• Letter to Com. Rajnarain Arya from Com. Somenra Kumar, Samstipur (05-21-77)
• Letter to Com. Magan from S. Kumar
• Report from Kerala Unit on Election and Other Activities, by M. Rashid (04-10-77)

To Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors [re: NOW Regional Conferences] (06-01-77)

• Cover letter by Willie Mae Reid, SWP National Office
• Letter to NOW members from Clare Fraenzel and Rhonda Rutherford (05-26-77)
• Calendar of State Meetings
• Carter Appointees to New National Women's Year Commission, Bella Abzug, Presiding Officer, from The Woman Activist (04-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 21 (06-02-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 25 (06-03-77)

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: New American Movement] (06-03-77)

• Cover letter by Larry Seigle, National Office
• The New American Movement in Chicago, by Garrett Brown (05-15-77)

To Organizers and National Committee Members from Larry Seigle, National Office [re: Bulletin supplement] (06-06-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 26 (06-07-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 22 (06-09-77)

To National Committee Members [re: Militant article "One Night in a Tube Plant"] (06-13-77)

• Cover letter by Mary-Alice Waters, SWP National Office
• Letter to Helen Scheer, Minneapolis, from Frank Lovell (06-01-77)
• Letter to Frank Lovell from Helen Scheer (05-26-77)
• Letter to Garrett Brown, Chicago, from Andy [?] (05-24-77)
• "One Night in a Tube Plant," by Debby Deegan, from The Militant, Vol. 41, No. 19 (05-20-77)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members from Mary-Alice Waters, National Office [re: Gay Rights actions] (06-14-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 23 (06-17-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 24 (06-20-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 25 (06-25-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 28 (06-28-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 29 (07-08-77)

• Report on the Sixty-Eighth Convention of the NAACP, by Cathy Sedwick
• Report of the Control Commission of the SWP [re: Al Duncan] (07-08-77)
•     Appendix (07-05-77)
• Control Commission Report (04-20-77)
• Letter to the Political Committee from Pat Wright (04-26-77)
• Letter to the Political Committee from Al Duncan (05-05-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 30 (07-12-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 31 (07-15-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 26 (07-16-77)

Lettre au Secrétariat Unifié, Commission Arabe, de la Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (Matzpen-Marxisti) [Israel] (07-18-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 32 (07-19-77)

Minutes of the United Secretariat Meeting (07-21/22-77)

• Attachment A: United Secretariat Letter to GOR and LCT [Senegal] (07-22-77)
• Attachment B: Letters from the United Secretariat Bureau to the Portuguese PRT and the RCL of Israel
•     1. United Secretariat Bureau letter to the Portuguese PRT (06-29-77)
•     2. United Secretariat Bureau letter to the RCL of Israel (07-08-77)
• Attachment C: Three Statements Concerning Révista de America
•     1. Statement by Romero
•     2. Statement by Manuel
•     3. Statement by Galois and Johnson
• Attachment D: Fausto Amador Materials
•     1. Letter from Rodrigo to the United Secretariat (06-06-77)
•     2. Letter from the United Secretariat to Rodrigo (06-29-77)
•     3. Letter from Livio Maitan to Intercontinental Press (07-01-77)
•     4. Letter from the United Secretariat Bureau to Joseph Hansen (07-25-77)
•     5. Letter from the United Secretariat Bureau to Rodrigo (07-25-77)
•     6. Intercontinental Press interview with Fausto Amador, from Intercontinental Press, Vol. 15, No. 24 (06-27-77)
• Attachment E: Statement by Claudio on "Socialist Democracy" Document (05-01/02-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 27 (07-22-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 35 (08-01-77)

Minutes of the National Committee Plenum (08-06-77)

Lettre à la Direction de la Liga Socialista Revolucionaria [Panama] de Jean-Pierre Beauvais (08-11-77)

Minutes of the National Committee Plenum (08-13-77)

Notes by Gus Horowitz from the Final Meeting of the Leninist Trotskyist Faction (08-15/17-77)

To Members of the Leninist Trotskyist Faction from Gus Horowitz [re: Faction Dissolution] (08-22-77)

Letter to David Frankel from Dan Donath and Yossi Ben-Akiva [Israel] (08-25-77)

To the Political Committee [re: French LCR Central Committee Meeting] (09-03-77)

• Letter to Gus Horowitz from Caroline Lund (09-02-77)
• Letter to Gus Horowitz from Caroline Lund (09-03-77)

To the Leninist Trotskyist Faction Coordinators [re: Faction Dissolution] (09-06-77)

To National Committee Members and Organizers [re: Guardian Clubs] (09-08-77)

• Cover letter by Larry Seigle, SWP National Office
• "Guardian Clubs to be Organized," from The Guradian (09-07-77)
• "10 Principles of Club Unity," from The Guradian (09-07-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 36 (09-08-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 31 (09-14-77)

Minutes of the United Secretariat Meeting (09-15/16-77)

• Attachment A: Letter from Lutte Ouvrière to the LCR of France (06-22-77)
• Attachment B: Letter from Comrade Nemo to the United Secretariat (09-10-77)
• Attachment C: United Secretariat Greetings to the PST [Colombia] Congress (09-24-77)
• Attachment D: IMG [Britain] Political Committee Resolutions on Ireland (08-31-77)
• Attachment E: Correspondence with the Danish Section
•     Letter to the United Secretariat from Troels for the Revolutionare Socialisters Forbund (08-19-77)
•     Letter to the RSF from Pols for the United Secretariat Bureau (09-26-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 37 (09-16-77)

• "New National Tendency Launched," from Freedom Socialist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 77)
• "Los Angeles Conference on Revolutionary Regroupment: Statement of Purpose" (07-77)

To Organizers and National Committee Members from Syd Stapleton [re: Changes in the Socialist Labor Party] (09-19-77)

"Por Qué los Trotskistas Ingresamos al MAS" [re: Venezuelan PST] (09-77?)

Motion Passed by the IMT Bureau (One Abstention) (09-17-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 32 (09-21-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 38 (09-22-77)

To the Political Committee [re: United Secretariat] (09-27-77)

• Letter to Gus Horowitz et al from Barry Sheppard (09-23-77)
• Letter to Gus Horowitz et al from Caroline Lund (09-23-77)
• Letter to Gus Horowitz from Barry Sheppard (09-28-77)
• Letter to Gus Horowitz from Barry Sheppard (10-01-77)
• Letter to Barry Sheppard and Caroline Lund from Gus Horowitz, SWP National Office (10-01-77)
• Motion passed unanimously (with three abstentions) by members of the International Majority Tendency during the meeting of the Central Committee of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire [France] (08-26/30-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 33 (09-28-77)

To Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors from Olga Rodríguez, SWP National Office [re: San Antonio National Immigration Conference] (09-29-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 39 (09-29-77)

Correspondence Regarding Protectionism (09-30/10-14-77)

• Letter to Dick Roberts from Ernest Mandel (09-30-77)
• Letter to Ernest Mandel from Dick Roberts (10-14-77)
• Letter to the Political Bureau, Japan Revolutionary Communist League, from Dick Roberts
• Letter to Charles-André Udry from Dick Roberts  (10-11-77)

"A la Direccion de la TB," por Lucas, Maca, Manuela, Manolo, Marisa, Pepe V. Ricardo, Tote [Spain] (10-77)

To Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors, from Willie Mae Reid, Women's Liberation Work Director [re: International Women's Year] (10-01-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 34 (10-05-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 40 (10-07-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 35 (10-12-77)

Lettre Politique, Editée par le SI de la TMRI, Supplément au No. 72 de Sous le Drapeau du Socialisme (10-12-77)

• Note sur ""L'Eurocommunisme," par Michel Pablo (09-77)
• Une Evolution Importante de la "IVème Internationale" (09-77)

"Middle-Class 'Socialists' Join Forces - RMC Dissolves into SWP," from the Torch, Vol. 4, No. 10 (10-15/11-14-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 41 (10-14-77)

• To Organizers, Women's Liberation Directors and Trade Union Directors, from Willie Mae Reid for the Political Committee [re: CLUW convention] (10-27-77)

Gus Horowitz Notes on Nelson Blackstock Report to PC on Convention of the Groupe Socialiste des Travailleurs du Québec (10-14-77)

Material Regarding Fausto Amador (06/10-77)

• "Servidor de Somoza Dirige Grupillo Trotskista," from Libertad, publication of the Partido Vanguardia Popular [Costa Rica] (06-17-77)
• "Antes Bandolero, Hoy Heroe," by Fausto Amador, from Excelsior (06-19-77)
• "El Sabado Quedara Inscrito el OST," from Excelsior, San José, Costa Rica (06-22-77)
• "Trotskistas No Pueden Negar Nombramiento de Amador por Somoza," from Libertad
• Letter to the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores [Costa Rica] from Andrés and Mariano for the Organizacion Socialista de los Trabajadores [Costa Rica] (06-25-77)
• Letter to "Estimados Camaradas" from Andrés, for the OST (06-29-77)
• Letter to the leadership of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores [Costa Rica] from Livio Maitan (07-01-77)
• Letter to Livio Maitan from Joseph Hansen (07-18)
• Letter to Joseph Hansen from Livio Maitan (08-02-77)
• Translation of phone call from Caroline Lund (10-17-77)

Correspondence with Magan Desai [India] (10-17-77)

• Letter to Magan Desai from Gus Horowitz (10-17-77)
• Letter to Gus Horowitz from Magan Desai (09-26-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 42 (10-21-77)

• Perspectives for Anti-Bakke Work, by Malik Miah (10-21-77)
• NCOBD Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 2 (10-03-77)
•     Thousands to Rally Oct. 8
•     UC's VIP Admissions Exposed
•     NCOBD Airs Future Plans
•     "Reverse Discrimination": The Facts
• "Overturn the Bakke Decision," brochure from the National Committee to Overturn the Bakke Decision
• Report on Meeting with the Socialist Labor Party Leadership, by Syd Stapleton (10-21-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 36 (10-22-77)

To All [YSA] National Committee Members [re: YSA Convention Delegate Allocation] (10-24-77)

• Cover letter by Chuck Petrin, YSA National Secretary
• Call for the Seventeenth National Convention of  the Young Socialist Alliance
• Delegate Allocation Formulas

To All [YSA] Organizers and Regional Organizers [re: YSA Preconvention Discussion] (10-25-77)

• Cover letter by Betsy Farley, YSA National Office
• Suggested Outline for YSA Oral Preconvention Discussion

To the Political Committee [re: Bulletin coverage of the death of Tom Henehan] (10-25-77)

• "Martyrs of the Fourth International: Go Forward!," front page of the Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 79 (10-25-77)
• "New York Memorial Meeting for Comrade Tom Henehan, Oct. 22, 1977"
• "Comrade David North's Speech to Memorial Meeting: 'You Are Our Comrade Forever'"
• "Comrade Michael Banda's Speech to the Memorial Meeting: 'Rededicate Yourselves to the Struggle'"
• "Statement of the Workers League Political Committee: SWP Joins In - Press Blackout of Henehan Murder" (10-24-77)
• "Statement by the Central Committee of the Workers Revolutionary Party: Tom Henehan - Young Socialist Victim of a Political Murder" (10-18-77)

Correspondence Between George Breitman and Nat London [France] [re: Trotsky publishing project] (10-77)

• Letter to Nat London from George Breitman (10-28-77)
• Letter to George Breaitman from Nat London (10-19-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 43 (10-28-77)

Gus Horowitz Notes on Sattar League [Iran] Congress (10-29/11-02-77)

United Secretariat Greetings to Sattar League [Iran] Congress (10-29/11-02-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 37 (10-29-77)

Minutes of the United Secretariat Meeting (10-29/31-77)

• Attachment A: Nos Relations avec le Groupe Socialiste des Trvalleurs du Quebec: Rapprt du Camarade Corbière au Comité Politique de la LOR [Canada] (09-24-77)
• Attachment B: Letter to the PST and the LCR of Colombia from the United Secretariat Bureau (11-24-77)
• Attachment C: Letter on Enlarged Bureau Meetings
•     Letter to the Political Bureaus of the French LCR, Spanish LCR and IMG [Britain] from Duret for the United Secretariat Bureau (10-17-77)
• Attachment D: Correspondence with Lutte Ouvrière [France]
•     Letter to Lutte Ouvrière from Charles Michaloux for the United Secretariat (10-04-77)
•     Letter to the United Secretariat from Lutte Ouvrière (10-13-77)
• Attachment E: Letters to Costa Rica and Nicaragua
•     Letter to the Organización Socialista de los Trabajadores [Costa Rica] from Riel for the United Secrtariat Bureau (11-07-77)
•     Letter to the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores [Costa Rica] from Riel for the United Secrtariat Bureau (11-07-77)
•     Letter to the Liga Marxista Revolucionaria [Nicaragua] from Riel for the United Secrtariat Bureau (11-07-77)

To All [YSA] Organizers [re: YWLL National Convention] (10-31-77)

• Cover letter by Chuck Petrin, YSA National Office
• Report on Young Workers Liberation League National Convention, by Doug Cooper
•     Appendix A: "Branch Life - Key to Mass Growth of the League," by Jay Schaffner, National Organizational Secretary, YWLL, from Viewpoints, Pre-convention Discussion Bulletin #1 (08-17-77)
•     Appendix B: "The World Anti-Imperialist Youth Movement and the World Federation of Democratic Youth, by Danny Rosenberg, from Viewpoints, Pre-convention Discussion Bulletin #4
• "Open Letter to the YWLL" from the Young Socialist Alliance National Executive Committee (10-31-77)

To All [YSA] Organizers Re: on YWLL General Resolution (10-31-77)

Notes by Caroline Lund on the Meeting of the International Majority Tendency (11-01-77)

To Organizers [re: Comparative circulation figures] (11-03-77)

• Cover letter by Mary-Alice Waters, National Office
• Comparison of Average Weekly Circulation Figures - 1977

Membership Statistics (11-77)

• Summary of Party Membership as of November 3, 1977
• Statistics on Party Growth
• Statistics on Party Growth (as of October 31, 1977)

Political Committee Meeting No. 44 (11-04-77)

• Letter to Thomas Boushier, NW Washington, DC branch, from Gus Horowitz for the Political Committee (11-05-77)
• Letter to the National Committee from Thomas Boushier (09-17-77)

Report on the 1977 Conference of the Liga Comunista [Spain] [in Spanish] (11-11-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 45 (11-11-77)

• To All Comrades from Larry Seigle for the Political Committee [re: Héctor Marroquín case] (11-15-77)
• USLA appeal for Héctor Marroquín, signed by Dr. Armando Guttierrez, Director, Chicano Legal Defense Fund, and José Angel Gutierrez, Judge, Zavala County, Texas
• "Appeal for Political Asylum," from USLA
• "Thanksgiving Appeal," from USLA
• "Estudiante Mexicano Pide Asilo en EU," by Arnold Weissberg, from El Norte, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico (10-29-77)
• "Hécto Marroquín Manriquez Pide Asilo Politico en EU," from El Porvenir, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico (11-02-77)

Proces-Verbal du Comite Politique de la LOR-RWL [Canada], No. 2 (11-11/12-77)

• Annexe No. 1: Rapport sur la Question Linguistique de Simone Lachance
• Annexe No. 2: Rapport sur le 3e Congres du GSTQ, par Christian Corbière
• Annexe No. 3: Resume du Rapport International Presente au Comite Politique et au Bureau Nationale du Quebec, par Carignan (11-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 38 (11-12-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 39 (11-16-77)

To the Political Committee [re: International Majority Tendency] (11-16-77)

• Cover letter by Natalie Bombaro
• "For the Dissolution of the IMT, for the Strengthening of the International," draft resolution for the IMT Steering Committee (11-01-77)
• Amendments to "For the Dissolution of the IMT, for the Strengthening of the International," proposed by IMT members of the Internationale Kommunistenbod [Netherlands]
• Amendment to the Declaration of Dissolution, submitteed by Mackenzie, Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Revolutionaire

Political Committee Meeting No. 46 (11-17-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 47 (11-18-77)

• Rail Perspectives, by Ed Heisler (11-18-77)
• "Collision Course: Railroads Demand Wage Cuts, Attack Union Safety Rules," by Ed Heisler, from The Militant (07-29-77)

Gus Horowitz notes on Jack Barnes "World Movement" report to PC meeting (11-18-77)

"To All Members of the Socialist Workers Party: Workers League Member Attacked," from the Bulletin (11-22-77)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 40 (11-23-77)

Appendix to the English Canadian National Bureau Minutes (11-24-77)

• Report on the Chilean Left, by Foco

"Trotsky and the Trotskyites Before the Court of Time and History," by Jesús Orta Ruiz, from Granma, Havana, Cuba (11-27-77)

Two Articles from Socialist Voice [Canada] (11-28-77)

• "GSTQ Calls for Independent Quebec," by Danielle Fregault
• "Quebecois Want to Control Their Own Destiny - Socialist Group," by Richard Collins

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 41 (11-30-77)

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Black Recruitment] (11-30-77)

• Cover letter by Malik Miah, SWP National Office
• Excerpts from September 15 Letter to Wendy Lyons from Jim Burfeind, Louisville (09-15-77)
• Letter to Jim Burfeind from Malik Miah (11-12-77)

Correspondence Regarding the US Tour of Lea Tsemel (12-77)

• Letter to Lea Tsemel [Israel] from Peter Seidman
• Letter to Viewpoint Speakers Bureau from Massachussetts Committee for Palestinian Human Rights
• Letter to the Massachussetts Committee for Palestinian Human Rights from Anne Teasdale for Viewpoint Speakers Bureau (12-12-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 48 (12-01-77)

• Letter to the Socialist Workers Party from David McReynolds for the War Resisters League [re: South Africa] (11-09-77)

To All [YSA] Organizers [re: Delegate Representation] (12-05-77)

• Cover letter by Chuck Petrin, YSA National Office
• NEC Proposal for Composition of Nominating Convention

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes No. 42 (12-07-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 49 (12-09-77)

• Miners' Strike and Strike Support Work, by Lew Jones (12-09-77)
• US Coalfields and UMWA Districts
• UMWA Working Miners, by District, 1976

Gus Horowitz Discussion with Dan Dickeson [re: Japan section] (12-77)

Letter to Gus Horowitz from Caroline Lund [re: Italian Section] (12-10-77)

Material on the Italian Section (12-77)

• Letter to Gus Horowitz from Caroline Lund (12-10-77)
• Letter to Gus Horowitz from Caroline Lund (12-17-77)
• Interview with Antonio Caronia published in Bandiera Rossa No. 20 (12-01-77)
• Excerpts from the letter of resignation from the GCR by Comrade Caronia (11-07-77)
• "La Lettra di Dimmisioni del Compagno Antonio Caronia dai GCR," from Boletino Interno No. 7 (11-07-77)

[YSA] National Exectutive Committee Meeting Minutes No. 43 (12-12-77)

Minutes of the United Secretariat (12-13/14-77)

• Attachment A: Material on Venezuela
•     1. Letter to the Membership of the PST, Venezuelan Section of the Fourth International, from Antonio (11-77)
•     2. Letter to the United Secretariat Bureau from Antonio (10-26-77)
•     3. "A Necessary Piece of Information," by Andres Romero (11-11-77)

[YSA] National Exectutive Committee Meeting Minutes No. 44 (12-14-77)

Two Letters to British Comrades (12-14-77)

• Letter to Brian Grogan from Jack Barnes (12-14-77)
• Letter to John Ross from Jack Barnes (12-14-77)

Letter to the United Secretariat from Julio, for the Executive Committee of the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores [Colombia] (12-15-77)

Two Articles from Rouge, Publication of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire [France] (12-16-77)

• "Lutte Ouvrière Has Held Its Eighth Congress" (12-16-77)
• "Trade Union Conference Sponsored by the Spanish LCR: Over 2000 Worker Activists Discuss a Response to Austerity" (12-16-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 50 (12-16-77)

• Letter to the Louisville Communist Club from Dennis Rosa, Campaign Director, Debby Tarnopol for Mayor Campaign (10-11-77)
• Letter to the Louisville SWP from the Louisville Communist Club (10-31-77)
• "Position Statement by Louisville Club of the Communist Party Re: 1977 Race for Mayor of Louisville

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Socialist Labor Party] (12-17-77)

• Cover letter by Syd Stapleton for the Political Committee
• Letter to Nathan Karp, Socialist Labor Party, from Jack Barnes, National Secretary, SWP (12-14-77)

[YSA] National Exectutive Committee Meeting Minutes No. 45 (12-17-77)

• YSA Convention Schedule

To the Political Committee [re: World Political Resolution] (12-20-77)

• Letter to Jack Barnes from Ernest Mandel
• "Summary of Draft Theses on the World Situation Since 1968"

Letter from the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores [Colombia] (12-20-77)

• Letter to Perspectiva Mundial from Julio, for the PST Executive Committee (12-20-77)
• "Resolution on Fausto Amador," by the Central Committee of the PST (12-09/12-77)
• "Resolution on the Pluma Publishing House," by the Central Committee of the PST (12-09/12-77)

Political Committee Meeting No. 51 (12-22-77)

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Mobilization for Survival] (12-28-77)

• Cover letter by Doug Jenness, National Office
• Report on Mobilization for Survival National Convention, by Arnold Weissberg (12-16-77)
• "A Call to Action," leaflet of Mobilization for Survival

Letter to Tim Wohlforth and Nancy Fields from Mark Jenkins [Britain] (12-28-77)

Two Articles from the Daily World (12-77)

• "Tremendous Breakthroughs Seen in DW Circulation Campaign," by Pat Barile (12-28-77)
• "CP View of Labor's Stake in Defeat of Bakke" (12-16-77)

To the Political Committee and Field Organizers [re: Colombian PST] (12-29-77)

• Cover letter by Gus Horowitz
• "Declaration of the Proletarian Democracy Tendency and Counterreport on the Party Regime," signed by Gustavo, Gladys, Ricardo, Socorro, Jaime and Ciro

"Resolution du BP sur la Campagne Lesislatives," resolution of the Political Bureau of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire [France] (12-30-77)

Notes by Gus Horowitz on the Composition of the Young Socialist Alliance (12-77)

 

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