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Lipshires, Sidney

dkovacs — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:15:42 +0000

Born on April 15, 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland to David and Minnie Lipshires, Sidney was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where his father owned two shoe stores, David Boot Shop and The Bootery. He attended the Massachusetts State College for one year before transferring to the University of Chicago and was awarded a BA in economics in 1940. His years at the University of Chicago were transformative, Lipshires became politically active there and joined the Communist Party in 1939. Following graduation in 1941, he married Shirley Dvorin, a student in early childhood education; together they had two sons, Ellis and Bernard. Lipshires returned to western Massachusetts with his young family in the early 1940s, working as a labor organizer. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946 working as a clerk and interpreter with a medical battalion in France for over a year. Returning home, he ran for city alderman in Springfield on the Communist Party ticket in 1947. Lipshires married his second wife, Joann Breen Klein, in 1951 and on May 29, 1956, the same day his daughter Lisa was born, he was arrested under the Smith Act for his Communist Party activities. Before his case was brought to trial, the Smith Act was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Disillusioned with the Communist Party, he severed his ties with it in 1957, but continued to remain active in organized labor for the rest of his life. Earning his masters in 1965 and Ph.D. in 1971, Lipshires taught history at Manchester Community College in Connecticut for thirty years. During that time he worked with other campus leaders to establish a statewide union for teachers and other community college professionals, an experience he wrote about in his book, Giving Them Hell: How a College Professor Organized and Led a Successful Statewide Union. Sidney Lipshires died on January 6, 2011 at the age of 91.

Ranging from an autobiographical account that outlines his development as an activist (prepared in anticipation of a trial for conspiracy charges under the Smith Act) to drafts and notes relating to his book Giving Them Hell, the Sidney Lipshires Papers offers an overview of his role in the Communist Party and as a labor organizer. The collection also contains his testimony in a 1955 public hearing before the Special Commission to Study and Investigate Communism and Subversive Activities, photographs, and biographical materials.

Graham, Julie

rscox — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:07:53 +0000

The economic geographer Julie Graham (1945-2010) and her colleague Katherine Gibson have been influential in envisioning alternatives to capitalist economics and economic development. After studying at Smith College (BA, 1965) and Clark University (PhD, 1984), Graham joined the faculty at UMass Amherst where she helped shape the new graduate program in geography. From early in her career, she worked so closely with her Australian colleague Gibson that they often published jointly under the pen name J.K. Gibson-Graham, and Graham developed close working relationships across several departments at UMass. A prolific author and inspiring mentor for students, Graham’s academic work drew upon an innovative mix of political economy, poststructuralist theory, feminism, and community-based research. Among her more significant publications are the now-classic The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (1996), on representations of capitalism and their political effect, A Postcapitalist Politics (2006), which explores alternatives to capitalism, and two edited volumes, Class and Its Others (2000) and Re/Presenting Class (2001). Graham died in Nashville on April 4, 2010.

The Graham Papers offer a detailed perspective on the radical geographer Julie Graham. The collections documents Graham’s life and career beginning in her undergraduate years and extending through her last research projects in community economies. Through correspondence and writings, photographs, and research — closely intertwined with her colleague Katherine Gibson — the collection gives shape of Graham’s radical challenge to human geography tinged with an optimistic economic and social possibility. The collection also includes letters, photographs, and genealogical matter relating to Graham’s family, extending back to the time of the First World War.

Stokes, Daniel M. J.

rscox — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:45:27 +0000

From 1987 through early 1988, Daniel and Joyce Stokes published Into the Night, “a newsletter for freedom for political prisoners held in the United States.” Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., this simply-produced publication offered updates and commentary on Americans imprisoned for politically-motivated acts. Reflecting both the legacy of 1960s radicalism and the resurgent activism associated with U.S. imperialism in Central America, Into the Night offered news on the Ohio 7 sedition trial, the MOVE organization, and the fate of Plowshares war resisters.

The Stokes collection contains correspondence from subscribers and supporters of Into the Night, fleshing out their political philosophy and the conditions of imprisonment. Drawn from groups including the MOVE organization, the United Freedom Front, Black Liberation Army, and Plowshares, the correspondents include Ramona Africa, Alberto Aranda, Philip Berrigan, Marilyn Buck, Carl Kabat, Ray Luc Levasseur, Ruchell Cinque Magee, and Carol Manning. The collection also includes copies of other radical publications and a complete run of Into the Night itself.

Historical Note

A poet and writer, Daniel M. J. Stokes was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 27, 1950, the son of Ervin William and Elizabeth (Ray) Stokes. A former editor of the East River Review, Stokes has contributed work to a number of magazines and published several books of poetry, beginning with Wired/LSD: Poems (New York: Culture Review Press, 1974) and including The World and Other Places (Cambridge, Mass: Chthon Press., 1975), Poems from Mexico (Mexico City: s.n., 1987), and Poems on the Run, 1984-1988 (Mexico City: In Exile Press, 1995).

From 1987 through early 1988, he and his wife, Joyce, published Into the Night, “a newsletter for freedom for political prisoners held in the United States.” Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., this simply-produced publication offered updates and commentary on Americans imprisoned for politically-motivated acts. Reflecting both the legacy of 1960s radicalism and the resurgent activism associated with U.S. imperialism in Central America, Into the Night offered news on the Ohio 7 sedition trial, the MOVE organization, and the fate of Plowshares war resisters.

Sent free of charge, the newsletter reached an audience of prisoners convicted of draft resistance, antinuclear protest, and anti-racist and anti-imperialist revolutionary activity, and it was read by others who had become radicalized during their imprisonment. From the outset, Into the Night generated significant resistance from prison authorities, and for unclear reasons, it appears to have ceased publication after its fifth number in March 1988.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Centered around the newsletter Into the Night, the Stokes Papers contains correspondence from a range of self-identified political prisoners, accompanied by an interesting, but ultimately miscellaneous suite of publications from the radical press. As small and tightly focused as it is, the collection provides a valuable window into the radical edge of the late 1980s political spectrum, and particularly the conjunction of antiracist and anti-imperialist groups within the prison system.

Although some of the correspondence is at best mundane — mostly requests for subscriptions — several prisoners provide compelling analyses of their political views and the conditions of imprisonment. Most correspondents are represented by only one or two letters, however the Ohio 7 “seditionists” (Ray Luc Levasseur and Carol Manning), the MOVE organization (Ramona Africa and William Phillips Africa), and members of the Black Liberation Army are somewhat better represented.

Among other noteworthy items in the collection are letters from Chicano revolutionaries Alberto Aranda and Alvaro Hernandez, including protests filed with the Texas Department of Corrections regarding the decision to deny Aranda access to Into the Night, and two lengthy letters from Aranda discussing political prisoners. Marilyn Buck’s letters provide a sharp analysis of the need for political ideology along with a copy of court proceedings filed by her and Mutulu Shakur (see also the folder relating to the Resistance Conspiracy Case). Several African American revolutionaries discuss their political motives and life in prison, including Ramona Africa (filed under MOVE), John Albury (Born Allah), Anthony Bottom (Jalil Muntaqim), Eric Clemmons-Bey, Kenneth Akbar Muhammad Jenkins, Ruchell Cinque Magee, and Richard Williams.

Finally, the collection includes a small number of radical antiwar and antinuclear resisters, most notably Philip Berrigan, Carl Kabat, George Ostensen, and Gillam Kerley.

While editing Into the Night, the Stokes kept copies of other radical publications, many intended for political prisoners or fellow revolutionaries, the more uncommon of which have been retained within the collection, which also includes an apparently complete run of Into the Night, including paste-ups of four of the five extant issues.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Daniel and Joyce Stokes Papers (MS 661). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

History of the Collection

Acquired from Robinson Street Books, 2010.

Processing Information

Processed by Dex Haven, July 2010.

Additional Information

Language

English

Contents List

Albury, John (a.k.a Born Allah)	1987-1988	3 items	Box 1:1
On Black consciousness, becoming a revolutionary

Anarchist Black Cross	1988		Box 1:2

Arafat, David	1988		Box 1:3

Aranda, Alberto	1987-1988		Box 1:4
On political prisoners, politicization behind bars, Alvaro Hernandez.

Barnes, Bill	1996		Box 1:5

Berrigan, Philip	1987		Box 1:6
Information flyers on Plowshares.

Bibliography and notes	1988		Box 1:7

Bottom, Anthony L.	1987		Box 1:8
On the definition of political prisoner.

Breakthrough: Political Journal of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, no. 14, 1	1990 Winter		Box 1:9
Includes an article on victory in the Ohio 7 sedition trial.

Brock, Melvin	1988		Box 1:10

Buck, Marilyn	1988		Box 1:11
On ideology and sustaining a revolutionary consciousness; brief filed with Mutulu Shakur on status of political prisoners.

Clemons, Darryl	1987		Box 1:12

Clemons-Bey, Eric D.	1988		Box 1:13

Committee for Justice to Stop the McCarran Act Deportations	1987		Box 1:14
Includes issue no. 1 of Call for Justice, the Committee’s newsletter.

Community Church of New York. Social Action Committee, We Want Peace: People of Nicaragua	1986	2 items	Box 1:15

Crossroad: A New Afrikan Captured Combatant Newsletter, Vol. 1:1, 2:4	1987-1989		Box 1:16

Dandar, George	1987		Box 1:17

Dysentery: Red Balloon Magazine, no. 23	1992		Box 1:18

Ebner, Jerry	1987		Box 1:19

Fellner, Gene, John Brown and the Issue of Terrorism, GLF Occasional, no. 2	1987 Summer		Box 1:20

Gaye, David	1987		Box 1:21

Gelabert, Ana Lucia	1987-1988		Box 1:22
On her near disappearance as a prisoner; willingness to be exchanged to Cuba.

Gilbert, David	1987-1988	3 items	Box 1:23
On his political history and involvement in the “Brinks case.”

Guerre, Brian	1987		Box 1:24

Harden, Donald Sanga	1987	2 items	Box 1:25
On attempting to be classified as a POW

Hernandez, Alvaro L.	1987	10 items	Box 1:26
On Prisoners United for Revolutionary Education; copy of Arm the Spirit, vol. 1:1 (newsletter of PURE); “The Prisoners Defense Committee report on brutality and torture in Texas Department of Corrections;” background to becoming a political prisoner while imprisoned

Into the Night, no. 1	1987 Sept. 24	5 copies	Box 1:27
Articles: “United States at war with innocent Palestinians,” Palestine, captive Iranian sailors, Philip Berrigan and Plowshares, Soviet Union and human rights, Alvaro Hernandez.

Into the Night, no. 1: paste-up	1987 Sept.		Box 1:28

Into the Night, no. 2	1987 Oct. 24	6 copies	Box 1:29
Articles: Escape of Assata Shakur; MOVE, Brian Wilson, Ramona Africa on “Long live John Africa! Long live John Africa’s revolution!”

Into the Night, no. 3	1987 Dec. 14	4 copies	Box 1:30
Articles: updates on MOVE and other political prisoners, “The Government calls it conspiracy — we call it resistance” (on the Ohio 7), Ray Luc Levasseur on “VVAW article,” “Kazi Toure: Community threat?”

Into the Night, no. 3: paste-up	1987 Dec.		Box 1:31

Into the Night, no. 4	1988 Jan. 29	11 copies	Box 1:32
Articles: “The crime is treason the punishment” (on Felipe Noguera’s testimony regarding the Ohio 7 Sedition trial), Gillam Kerley on “Political oppression and the struggle against the draft.”

Into the Night, no. 4: paste-up	1988 Jan.		Box 1:33

Into the Night, no. 5	1988 Mar.	6 copies	Box 2:1
Articles: “For freedom, nothing less,” on the spirit of Malcolm X and John Brown and Mutulu Shakur and Marilyn Buck, “State of California trying to silence Ruchell Cinque Magee,” on censorship of Into the Night, Ray Luc Levasseur’s “Memere” (poem), Ray Luc Levasseur on “Free the Ohio 7.”

Into the Night, no. 5: paste-up	1988 Mar.		Box 2:2

Into the Night: Miscellaneous	ca.1987-1988		Box 2:3

Into the Night: subscription requests	1987-1988		Box 2:4

Jenkins, Kenneth Akbar Muhammad	1987 Sept. 8		Box 2:5
On unjust conviction, racial disparities in prison system, revolution.

Jonah House	1987		Box 2:6

Jones, Ted	1988 Oct. 9		Box 2:7

Kabat, Carl	1988-1989		Box 2:8
Circular letters on political prisoners.

Kerley, Gillam	1987		Box 2:9
Committee Against Registration and the Draft

Kirklin, Andrew	1988		Box 2:10

Krueger, Jack	1988		Box 2:11

Levasseur, Ray Luc	1987-1988		Box 2:12
On Ohio 7 sedition trial; Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

Libertad: Official Organ of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War, vol. 9:3	1988 Mar.		Box 2:13

Magee, Ruchell Cinque	1987-1988		Box 2:14
Copies of three legal briefs, letters, “Black August,” Kazi Toure.

Manning, Carol Saucier	1989		Box 2:15

Miscellaneous	ca.1987-1988		Box 2:16

Mordechai Vanunu Legal Defense Fund	1987		Box 2:17

MOVE	1987-1989		Box 2:18
News releases from Ramona Africa and Wiliam Philips Africa.

Nuclear Resister	1987 Sept.		Box 2:19

Ogun, Iyapo Olugbala	1990		Box 2:20

Ohio 7	1987-1988		Box 2:21
Transcript of testimony of Felipe Noguera, Sedition Committee updates, posters and publicity

Oluyomi, Geoffrey	1987		Box 2:22

On Gogol Boulevard, vo. 1:1-2	1987		Box 2:23

Ostensen, George	1987		Box 2:24

Palestine Focus, no. 22	1987		Box 3:1

Palestine Solidarity Committee	1988		Box 3:2

Peltier, Leonard	1989-1991		Box 3:3

Perotti, John	1988		Box 3:4
Appeal for help from “IWW union organizer and jailhouse lawyer.”

Plowshares-Disarmament Actions, September 1980-November 1986	1986		Box 3:5

Plowshares Newsletter, vol. 4:4, 5:1, 5:2, 5:4	1987-1988		Box 3:6
Vol. 5:2 enclosed in letter filed with Gillam Kerley.

Prison News Service, no. 21, 22	1989		Box 3:7

Progressive Periodical Directory	1987		Box 3:8

Resistance Conspiracy Case	1989		Box 3:9

Rosenthal, Harold	1987		Box 3:10

Struggle: A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature, vol. 6:1-2	1989-1990		Box 3:11

Taylor, Brent	1987-1988		Box 3:12
Member of the Squamish Five; includes two poems.

Thomas, Martha	1993		Box 3:13

Thompson, Harold H.	1988		Box 3:14

Turning the Tide: LA Anti-Racism Newsletter	1989		Box 3:15

Williams, Richard	1988		Box 3:16
Includes update on Ohio 7 Sedition trial and information on Kazi Toure.

Woodson, Helen	1987		Box 3:17

World Socialist, no. 1	1984		Box 3:18

Year One	1987		Box 3:19

Zeller, Barbara	1988		Box 3:20

Ross, Laura

rscox — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:38:47 +0000

Born in the coal mining town of Blossburg, Pa., in 1913, Laura Ross (nee Kaplowitz) grew up in poverty as one of seven children of Lithuanian immigrants. In about 1932, Ross married Harry Naddell, a wine merchant, and settled into a comfortable life Brooklyn, N.Y., raising a son and daughter. During the Second World War, however, she became intensely politicized through her work with Russian War Relief, joining the Communist Party and eventually divorcing her les radical husband. Moving to the Boston area, she married Max Ross in 1963, an attorney for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and became a noted presence in a wide range of political activities, working for civil rights, the antiwar movement, and for many years, helping to run the Center for Marxist Education in Central Square , Cambridge. Perhaps most notably, between 1974 and 1984, Ross ran for Congress three times on the Communist Party ticket, taking on the powerful incumbent Tip O’Neill and winning almost a quarter of the vote. An activist to the end, Ross died in Cambridge on August 5, 2007.

The Ross Papers contain a variety of materials documenting the activism of a Boston-based member of the Communist Party USA. Strongly concentrated in the period 1967-1990, the collection includes membership information, party platforms, minutes from various district committee meetings, course information and syllabi, information on local politicians, flyers, calls to action, petitions, legal proceedings during plant strikes, and some correspondence and course materials relating to the Center for Marxist Education. There is a sizable amount of information on President Ronald Reagan, including calls for the abolition of “Reaganomics” and an absolute end to the Nuclear Arms Race, and a large amount of material regarding the Communist Party of the USA and the People’s Daily World newspaper.

Váli, Ferenc A. (Ferenc Albert), 1905-

rscox — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:46:33 +0000

A scholar of international politics, Ferenc Vali left his native Hungary during the revolution of 1956 after five years of imprisonment for his political activities. Born on May 25, 1905, Vali was educated at the University of Budapest and London School of Economics (PhD, 1932), and worked as a Professor of International Law at the University of Budapest until his arrest. Following his escape and a brief period as Fellow at Harvard, he joined the faculty in political science at UMass Amherst in 1961. A popular lecturer, he became the first member of the Political Science Department to receive emeritus status in 1975. He died at his home in Amherst in 1984.

The Vali collection includes both published and unpublished essays by Ferenc Vali on Hungary during the post-revolutionary years and idealism and realism in American foreign policy.

Bernhard, Michael H.

rscox — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:44:19 +0000

A member of the Department of Political Science at Penn State University, Michael Bernhard specializes in the comparative history of institutional change in East Central Europe and the political economy of democratic survival and breakdown. Since receiving his doctorate from Columbia University in 1988, Bernhard has written extensively on various aspects of the democratic transition in Poland and East Germany.

The Bernhard Collection contains photocopies and some original materials of underground publications by the Solidarity Movement in Poland, most of which were crudely published and illegally distributed. The collection also includes a series of posters for Solidarity candidates during the first post-Communist election.

Aczel, Tamas

scua — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:45 +0000

Born on Dec. 1, 1921, to a middle class family, Tamas Aczel became affiliated with leftist politics in Hungary prior to the Second World War, joining the Party after. With degrees in literature from Peter Pazmany University (BA 1948) and Eotvos Lorent University (MA 1950), Aczel quickly established a reputation as a literary talent, publishing seven novels and winning the Kossuth Prize (1949) and Stalin Prize for Literature (1952). During this period, he became disenchanted with the Communist government and during the short-lived rebellion in 1956, he served as press secretary for Prime Minister Imre Nagy. When Nagy was deposed, Aczel escaped through Yugoslavia to Austria and then England. In 1966, he was invited to teach modern European literature at UMass, where he became Director of the MFA program (1978-1982). Aczel died in 1994, leaving his wife Olga A. Gyarmaty (an Olympic gold medalist in the long jump, 1948) and son Thomas.

The Aczel collection consists primarily of numerous drafts of several novels, including The Hunt (1990), Illuminations (1981), and Ice Age (1965), along with other writing, translations, some student essays, and autobiographical material. Some material is in Hungarian.

Communist Party of Massachusetts

dkovacs — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:00:29 +0000

Documenting Communist Party activities in Massachusetts during the 1940s-1950s, this small collection consists of pamphlets, broadsides, and election materials, which cover issues such as housing, freedom of speech, McCarthyism, and the war in Korea.

Cooley, Bertha Strong

scua — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:40:22 +0000

A resident of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, Bertha Strong Cooley wrote letters to the editor on a regular basis on topics ranging from anti-imperialism, democracy, capitalism, Communism, Russia, World War II, and civil rights. Her strong views on peace and and social justice were expressed in lively and intelligent submissions published in area newspapers. The collection consists of a scrapbook containing news clippings of Cooley’s letters to the editor as well as those submitted by others writing about the same topics.

Democratic Socialist Conference

scua — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:20:23 +0000

Includes transcripts of papers delivered at conferences (1985-1990) on democratic socialism, and correspondence (1984-1991) between Stephen Siteman, former Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, and Frank Zeidler, former Mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, and national chairperson of the Socialist Party USA.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Transcripts of papers delivered at conferences (1985-1990) on democratic socialism, and correspondence (1984-1991) between Stephen Siteman, former Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, and Frank Zeidler, former Mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, and national chairperson of the Socialist Party USA.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Democratic Socialist Conference Collection (MS 325). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

History of the Collection

Acquired from: Stephen Siteman, 1990, 1991.

Processing Information

Processed by SCUA staff.

Additional Information

Sponsor

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Language

English.

Contents List

Session 1	March 1-3, 1985	Box
“What is Democratic Socialism? What Relevance Does It Have To Today’s World?”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 1
“Democratic Socialists and Prospects for World Peace”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 1
“Democratic Socialists and their Relationship with Labor”, Robert J. Reinhold		Box 1
“The Choice Before Us: Socialism or Opportunism”, Donald F. Busky		Box 1
“Political Principles and Electoral Strategy for Democratic Socialists”, Robert E. Schlichter		Box 1
“A Basic Socialist Agenda for Women”, Suzanne R. Reinhold		Box 1
“Democratic Socialism and its Concerns About Technology in All Fields”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 1
“A Philosophical Basis for Democratic Socialism”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 1
“Democratic Socialist Views on Education”, Andrea and Quinn Brisben		Box 1
“Democratic Socialism in Relation to Religions”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 1
Comments on the Ad Hoc Discussion on Agricultural Problems		Box 1
“Democratic Socialism and Liberation Theology”, Lawrence Cafiero		Box 1
Brief Summary of Remarks of Robert E. Schlichter on Ethnic Conditions In the Miami, FL Area.		Box 1

Session 2	August 31-September 1985		Box 1
“Observation on the Nature and Extent of the Conservative Reaction In the United States”, Frank P. Zeidler			Box 2

Session 4	October 18-19, 1986	Box 2
Introduction, “Developing Democratic Socialism in America”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 3
“Developing Democratic Socialism in America”, David G. Gil		Box 3
“Cooperatives and Democratic Socialism”, J. Quinn Brisben		Box 3
“Electoral Politics and Social Change, The Case of Burlington, VT.”, Steven Soifer		Box 3
“The Wall Street Syndrome: Financial vs Economic Decisions”, Robert E. Schlichter		Box 3
“The Wall Street Syndrome: Financial vs Economic Decisions”, Robert E. Schlichter		Box 3
Can Labor, organized and unorganized, help achieve democratic socialism?		Box 3
“Strategic Thinking of the DSA”, Joseph Schwartz		Box 3
“Feminist Perspectives on Democratic Socialism”, Susan Okin		Box 3
“The Experience of Chile”, Can socialism ever succeed by peaceful means?		Box 3
Proposal for a mass third party		Box 3
Robert E. Schlichter		Box 3
“Can an Illiterate Be a Socialist?”, Stephen Siteman		Box 3
“Ronald Reagan-Socialist Hero”, George E. Koski		Box 3
“Solidarity: A Socialist Theory of Materialist and Idealist Practice”, Robert Reinhold		Box 3
Closing, “Avenues to Democratic Socialism”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 3

Session 6	1987	Box 3
Introduction, “What Future for Democratic Socialism?”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 4
“What Future for Democratic Socialism?”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 4
“The More Capitalism Changes, the More It Stays the Same”, Stephen Siteman		Box 4
“The Impact of Women and Religion on Socialism”, Diane Drufenbrock, O.S.F.		Box 4
“Toward a Democratic Economy”, Dave Schall		Box 4
“New Ideas for the Socialist Movement”, George Koski		Box 4
“Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party USA”, Willa Kenoyer		Box 4
“What Future for Democratic Socialism?”, Robert Reinhold		Box 4
“Relationship of Socialism to Labor Unions in the Future”, John Quinn Brisben		Box 4

Session 7	1988	Box 4
Introduction, “Prospects for Democratic Socialism under the Rise of Religious Fundamentalists”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 5
“November 1918: A German Revolution (Alfred Doblin)”, Stephen Siteman		Box 5
“Religion and Reactionaries: Politics of Polarization”, Robert E. Schlichter		Box 5
“Ethical Basis of Late Twentieth-Century Socialism”, Stephen Siteman		Box 5
“Catholic Social Action in St. Louis”, Robert Knickmeyer		Box 5
“Islamic Fundamentalism”, J. Quinn Brisben		Box 5
Interview, Ayad Rahim		Box 5
“Recent Changes in Marxist Fundamentalisms”, Robert Reinhold		Box 5
“Religion in Politics: The New Christian Right”, Glen Jeansonne		Box 5
“Work, Violence, Injustice and War”, David G. Gil		Box 5

Session 8	1989	Box 5
Introduction, “What Future for the Economic Concepts of Democratic Socialism?”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 6
“Jacob A. Riis and the Lower East Side of New York City”, Stephen Siteman		Box 6
“Plant Closing Legislation: Is the 60-Day Advance Warning a Victory for Labor?”, David Schall		Box 6
“Race, Nationalism, Religion and the Cooperative Commonwealth”, J. Quinn Brisben		Box 6
“State of the Union from a Socialist Point of View”, Robert Reinhold		Box 6
“Post-election Reflections”, Virgil Vogel		Box 6
“Addendum to Post-election Reflections”, Stephen Siteman		Box 6
“Meyer London of the Lower East Side”, Stephen Siteman		Box 6
“The Importance to the World of Environmental Concerns”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 6

Session 9	1989	Box 6
Introduction, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 7
“Democratic Socialism, the Labor Movement and the Need for a New Political Coalition”, Dave Schall		Box 7
“A Socialist Position on ‘Native American’ Problems”, Virgil J. Vogel		Box 7
“Socialism: A Religion”, Robert Reinhold		Box 7
“Letter to the Democratic Socialist Conference”, Stephen Siteman		Box 7
“The Challenge to Democratic Socialism in Economic Affairs”, Frank P. Zeidler		Box 7
“The Challenge of Democratic Socialism”, Jim A. Barak, Ph.D.		Box 7
“Jessie Wallace Hughan”, Stephen Siteman		Box 7