DOCSLIB.ORG

Special Collections Division University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, Washington, 98195-2900 USA (206) 543-1929

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Special Collections Division University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, Washington, 98195-2900 USA (206) 543-1929 Special Collections Division University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, Washington, 98195-2900 USA (206) 543-1929 This document forms part of the Preliminary Guide to the Eugene V. Dennett Papers. To find out more about the history, context, arrangement, availability and restrictions on this collection, click on the following link: http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/permalink/DennettEugeneV3917/ Special Collections home page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/ Search Collection Guides: http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/search EUGENE V. DENNET PAPERS Accession No. 3917-2 INVENTORY 1992 MANUSCRIPTS & UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES DIVISION UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARIES EUGENE V. DENNETT Accession No. 3917-002 GUIDE BIOGRAPHICAL Eugene Dennett was born in 1908 in Revere, Massachusetts to a working-class family. His parents named him for the Socialist leader, Eugene V. Debs. Dennett attended Oregon Normal School and taught school until 1931. In the 1930s he joined the Communist Party under the name Victor Haines and in 1931 became Agitation and Propaganda Director for the Communist Party, Northwestern District Buro in Seattle. As a result of conflict with the District Organizer, Dennett was sent to Bellingham in 1932 as Party section organizer. He eventually drifted away from active participation in the Communist Party because of his political disagreements with the district leadership. In 1934 he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and edited CCC camp newspapers at Yale, Washington and Metaline Falls, Washington. He was discharged from this job in 1935 because of his radical pro-labor leanings. Dennett moved to Seattle, found a job on a ferry boat, joined the Ferryboatmen's Union (later renamed the Inlandboatmen's Union), and took part in strikes in 1935 and 1936. He was a ship delegate and chaired a "Committee of Nine" which was assigned the task of interpreting and applying the decision of the Governor's review and arbitration commission following settlement of the strike in 193 6. When the IBU joined the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast, Dennett was elected one of the IBU's delegates to the Federation's Puget Sound District Council and to the Federation's third convention in 1937. He also served as IBU delegate to the Seattle Central Labor Council from 1936 to 1937. After rejoining the Communist Party in 1936, Dennett was active in the Washington Commonwealth Federation and served as WCF Vice President from 1938 to 1940. In 1937 he managed Hugh DeLacy's successful campaign for Seattle City Council. In 1938 he was elected the first Executive Secretary of the new Washington State Industrial Union Council (CIO), serving two years before he and other left-wing executive board members were removed at John L. Lewis' orders. Dennett next went to work at Bethlehem Steel, Seattle, and joined the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Meanwhile, Dennett and his wife, Harriette, led a large Communist Party unit in a working class Seattle neighborhood during the early years of World War II. In 1943 Dennett was drafted into the Army. After the war, he returned to Bethlehem Steel. His disagreements with the Communist Party led to his expulsion in 1947 on charges of being an FBI agent. He continued his activity in Steelworkers Local 1208, holding the office of Recording Secretary and serving on the local's Grievance Committee. After conflicts with the union hierarchy and Bethlehem management he was expelled from the union in 1954. In 1955 he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Following his initial resistance, Dennett testified before the Committee about his past associations with the Party. He continued working at the mill until 1966 when a confrontation with management and health problems induced him to retire. Dennett worked several years as a longshoremen's cargo checker on the Seattle docks until his retirement in 1972. In 1979 he visited China as a member of a U. S. Booksellers Delegation to the PRC. He died in 1989. For further biographical information, see Eugene Dennett's autobiography. Agitprop, The Life Of An American Working-Class Radical, 1990. PROVENANCE The Eugene Dennett papers were presented to the Libraries in June 1989 by the Dennett estate. They were deeded to the Libraries in September 1989 by Dennett's literary executor, Jeremy Egolf. The papers measure 9 cubic feet. ARRANGEMENT The Dennett papers were processed in preliminary fashion soon after they were received. Processing of the papers was completed in 1991. They were subgrouped according to Dennett's activities, with a large group of material unrelated to any of the subgroups designated as Personal Papers subgroup. A speech and a letter which had been received from Dennett in 1988 and accessioned as #3917, were integrated into this accession during processing in 1991. Near the end of processing a substantial number of documents that did not fit well together or in any of the subject files in the Personal Papers subgroup were separated into three groups designated "Miscellany. " The following is a brief description of the types of material in each group. Political Issues and Campaigns—includes much Democratic Party information, pamphlets, memorabilia, brochures, newsletters, some personal notes. Health—much of this is correspondence with the Veterans Administration, American Red Cross, and several doctors and hospitals regarding Dennett's various ailments. Also included are brochures, questionnaires, test results, clippings. Labor—these are individual items collected by Dennett through his associations in the labor movement, but not extensive enough to warrant a subgroup or subject file. They include constitutions, ephemera, contracts, agreements, acts, newsletters, resolutions. The record series, "Miscellany," was used, to a lesser degree, in other subgroups as well, for unsorted material of any kind. All of Dennett's papers relating to his service in the CCC are in the subgroup, U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps. Company 1745. All of his papers relating to his activities on behalf of the Communist Party are in the subgroup. Communist Party, U.S.A. District 12. Transcripts and material relating to Dennett's later testimony about the Party are in the Personal Papers subgroup. One file, on Dutch Schultz, will be closed until January 1, 2000. Another file, "Melville M. London and the Early 1930s Washington State Unemployment Movement...," will be closed until the manuscript is published. EUGENE V. DENNETT PAPERS Accession No. 3917-002 TABLE OF CONTENTS Subgroups Pages Communist Party, U.S.A. District 12 1-2 U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps. Company 1745 (later 2920) 2-3 Washington Commonwealth Federation 3-4 Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific. Puget Sound Division (Ferryboatmen's Union of the Pacific. Puget Sound Division) 4-6 Central Labor Council. Seattle 6 Industrial Union Council. Seattle 6 Industrial Union Council. Washington (CIO) 6-8 Steelworkers of America, United. Local 1208 8-9 Dennett, Harriette 9-10 Personal Papers 10-15 EUGENE V. DENNETT PAPERS Accession No. 3917-002 INVENTORY Box/Folders Dates Subgroups COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A. DISTRICT 12 1/1 Constitutions—Communist Party, U.S.A. 1945, 1947 1/2 Incoming Letters 1933-1948 1/3 Outgoing Letters 1932-1934,Undated 1/4 Inter-organizational Correspondence 1932-1947,Undated 1/5 General Correspondence 1932-1933,Undated 1/6 Memoranda 1939 Writings 1/7 "The O^nmunist Party" (chapter 7 of Why Communism, with study questions) by Moissaiye J. Olgin Undated "Democratic Centralism" Undated 1/8 "Elements of Political Education" Undated "Fundamental Problems of Marxism" Undated "On Tactics of Communists in a United Front" Undated 1/9 "Socialism: Scientific and Utopian" by F. Engels 1893 "Striking Against "Forced Labor'" Undated 1/10 Miscellaneous 1934, Undated 1/11 Reports Report on Anacortes Trial at Mt. Vernon 1932 Plan of Action for Northwest District Undated Political Reports to the Units 1932-1933 Report on May Day (Bellingham) 1932 Resolutions 1/12 District 12 Draft Resolutions 1932-1934,Undated 1/13 Resolution of Tasks of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Undated Resolution on Inner Party Situation and Expulsion of Members Undated 1/14 Statements 1932-1947,Undated 1/15 Campaign Materials 1928-1932,Undated 1/16 Bulletins Undated 1/17 Pamphlets 1933-1947, Undated E.V. Dennett 3917-002 Page 2 Box/Folders Dates Subgroups cont. COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A. DISTRICT 12 cont. 1/18 Newsletters 1931 Newspapers 1/19 People's Daily World 1986 Voice of Action 1933 1/20 Miscellaneous 1931-1933, Undated 1/21 Clippings 1976-1988 1/22 Notes On "Victory and After" Undated Miscellaneous Undated Subject Series 1/23-24 Agitprop 1930-1931,Undated 1/25 Communist Party of Japan Undated 1/26 Dennett's Expulsion from Communist Party, U.S.A. 1947-1948,Undated 1/27 Pioneer Summer School (Seattle) Undated 1/28-30 Workers' School Undated Affiliated Organizations 2/1 Friends of the Soviet Union Undated 2/2 International Labor Defense Undated 2/3 Trade Union Unity League Undated 2/4 Unemployed Council (incl. National Committee Unemployed Councils) 1932-1933,Undated Uhaffiliated Organizations 2/5-6 Peoples Councils (Bellingham) 1932,Undated 2/7 Unemployed Citizens League. Central Federation (and others) 1933-34 Ephemera 2/8 Communist Party 2/9 Miscellaneous related 2/10 Miscellany U.S. CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS. COMPANY 1745 (later 2920) 2/11 Incoming Letters 1934-35 2/12 Outgoing Letters 1935 2/13 General Correspondence 1934,Undated Reports 2/14 Report of personnel survey 1935
Load more

Recommended publications
  • FEDERAL ELECTIONS 2018: Election Results for the U.S. Senate and The
    FEDERAL ELECTIONS 2018 Election Results for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives Federal Election Commission Washington, D.C. October 2019 Commissioners Ellen L. Weintraub, Chair Caroline C. Hunter, Vice Chair Steven T. Walther (Vacant) (Vacant) (Vacant) Statutory Officers Alec Palmer, Staff Director Lisa J. Stevenson, Acting General Counsel Christopher Skinner, Inspector General Compiled by: Federal Election Commission Public Disclosure and Media Relations Division Office of Communications 1050 First Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20463 800/424-9530 202/694-1120 Editors: Eileen J. Leamon, Deputy Assistant Staff Director for Disclosure Jason Bucelato, Senior Public Affairs Specialist Map Design: James Landon Jones, Multimedia Specialist TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Preface 1 Explanatory Notes 2 I. 2018 Election Results: Tables and Maps A. Summary Tables Table: 2018 General Election Votes Cast for U.S. Senate and House 5 Table: 2018 General Election Votes Cast by Party 6 Table: 2018 Primary and General Election Votes Cast for U.S. Congress 7 Table: 2018 Votes Cast for the U.S. Senate by Party 8 Table: 2018 Votes Cast for the U.S. House of Representatives by Party 9 B. Maps United States Congress Map: 2018 U.S. Senate Campaigns 11 Map: 2018 U.S. Senate Victors by Party 12 Map: 2018 U.S. Senate Victors by Popular Vote 13 Map: U.S. Senate Breakdown by Party after the 2018 General Election 14 Map: U.S. House Delegations by Party after the 2018 General Election 15 Map: U.S. House Delegations: States in Which All 2018 Incumbents Sought and Won Re-Election 16 II.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Revolutionary Communist Party
    ·1 REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY (RCP) (RU) 02 STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY 03 WHITE PANTHER PARTY 04 UNEMPLOYED WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTE (UWOC) 05 BORNSON AND DAVIS DEFENSE COMMITTE 06 BLACK PANTHER PARTY 07 SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY 08 YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE 09 POSSE COMITATUS 10 AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT 11 FRED HAMPTION FREE CLINIC 12 PORTLAND COMMITTE TO FREE GARY TYLER 13 UNITED MINORITY WORKERS 4 COALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN 15 ORGANIZATION OF ARAB STUDENTS 16 UNITED FARM WORKERS (UFW) 17 U.S. LABOR PARTY 18 TRADE UNION ALLIANCE FOR A LABOR PARTY 19 COALITION FOR A FREE CHILE 20 REED PACIFIST ACTION UNION 21 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN (NOW) 22 CITIZENS POSSE COMITATUS 23 PEOPLE'S BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION 24 EUGENE COALITION 25 NEW WORLD LIBERATION FRONT 26 ARMED FORCES OF PUERTO RICAN LIBERATION (FALN) 1 7 WEATHER UNDERGROUND 28 GEORGE JACKSON BRIGADE 29 EMILIANO ZAPATA UNIT 30 RED GUERILLA FAMILY 31 CONTINENTAL REVOLUTIONARY ARMY 32 BLACK LIBERATION ARMY 33 YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PARTY (YIPPY) 34 COMMUNIST PARTY USA 35 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE 36 COALITION FOR SAFE POWER 37 IRANIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION 38 BLACK JUSTICE COMMITTEE 39 PEOPLE'S PARTY 40 THIRD WORLD STUDENT COALITION 41 LIBERATION SUPPORT MOVEMENT 42 PORTLAND DEFENSE COMMITTEE 43 ALPHA CIRCLE 44 US - CHINA PEOPLE'S FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION 45 WHITE STUDENT ALLIANCE 46 PACIFIC LIFE COMMUNITY 47 STAND TALL 48 PORTLAND COMMITTEE FOR THE LIBERATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 49 SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY 50 SEATTLE WORKERS BRIGADE 51 MANTEL CLUB 52 ......., CLERGY AND LAITY CONCERNED 53 COALITION FOR DEMOCRATIC RADICAL MOVEMENT 54 POOR PEOPLE'S NETWORK 55 VENCEREMOS BRIGADE 56 INTERNATIONAL WORKERS PARTY 57 WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE 58 WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE & FREEDOM 59 SERVE THE PEOPLE INC.
    [Show full text]
  • Psychological and Personality Profiles of Political Extremists
    Psychological and Personality Profiles of Political Extremists Meysam Alizadeh1,2, Ingmar Weber3, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla2, Santo Fortunato1, Michael Macy4 1 Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA 2 Computational Social Science Program, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA 3 Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar 4 Social Dynamics Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Abstract Global recruitment into radical Islamic movements has spurred renewed interest in the appeal of political extremism. Is the appeal a rational response to material conditions or is it the expression of psychological and personality disorders associated with aggressive behavior, intolerance, conspiratorial imagination, and paranoia? Empirical answers using surveys have been limited by lack of access to extremist groups, while field studies have lacked psychological measures and failed to compare extremists with contrast groups. We revisit the debate over the appeal of extremism in the U.S. context by comparing publicly available Twitter messages written by over 355,000 political extremist followers with messages written by non-extremist U.S. users. Analysis of text-based psychological indicators supports the moral foundation theory which identifies emotion as a critical factor in determining political orientation of individuals. Extremist followers also differ from others in four of the Big
    [Show full text]
  • The Government Doesn't Work
    World capital and Thelma and Louise Stalinism slew the "R" Us, writes Soviet economy Clara Fraser Page 6 Page 9 ~ Freedom Socialist Wile 1? /?evpf"'fl1t4~ 1iMiN;M. May-July 1992 Volume 13, Number 3 (51.00 outside U.S.) 75c Let's tool up for a new system! . The government doesn't work BY MATT NAGLE ing-class white men are under at­ n the good 01' USA, the sun is shin­ tack in the streets, ing, the birds are singing, the flow­ courts, and legis­ ers are blooming - but the govern­ latures. Unions are Iment is sputtering, hacking and besieged, radicals wheezing in the throes of terminal do­ are persecuted. nothingness. The cities are poi­ We should all be delighted! soned war zones The fact that this inhuman, infernal, and the earth is be­ damned system is rapidly killing itself ing destroyed. means our chance to bust out of these So the politi­ dark days is tantalizingly close. cians talk about The U.S. government has developed meeting our needs, into a tiresome, petty passel of squab­ but they can't and .=============="":"'"=~ bling, spoiled rich kids and everybody won't do anything. ~.MFoi~tr.RK_flMI!JiN;.IbaI~iMH!Hl··~_IJIbo~iIoU;.,"'""'-l.&.lu~~~~ ~~ to' a halt '\'fet'clU'se' th~'~pita\ls't'S)'.nem ,.~ problem~rwtthc that the government administers is out changing the cracking up. system - and they The Democrats and Republicans are are the system. feudin' like the Hatfields and McCoys. Leaders don't The Dems don't have the guts or a emerge from cess­ reason to stand up to the Republicans, pools.
    [Show full text]
  • Freedom Socialist Party Review of International Conference
    London antifascist conference sabotaged by sectarian politics of its organizers Luma Nichol January 1998 Along with other questions, the registration form for the International Militant Anti-Fascism Conference in London in October asked if participants wanted to play football. Once I arrived, therefore, I wasn't surprised when the convening group, Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), turned out to be almost entirely male (not that women can't be gridiron contenders!) But I was delighted to see women introducing delegations from Scandinavia, Germany, Spain, and the U.S. Contingents also attended from Scotland, Ireland, England, the Netherlands, France, and Canada, and I represented United Front Against Fascism, a Seattle-based education and direct action organization. Our goal was to discuss forming an international anti-fascist network. But unfortunately, AFA turned out to be vehemently sexist and anti-communist. Its political deficiencies sabotaged the conference - which, due to AFA's outreach, was overwhelmingly white and did not include groups representing immigrants, sexual minorities, Romanis (Gypsies) or Jews, all main targets of fascist violence. AFA's leaders blame the current resurgence of fascism on the "old Left," which they believe is dead and discredited. They focus AFA's energy on trying to keep communists out of "their" movement rather than on uniting anti-fascists against the ultraright. Ironically, they are following the tragically wrong path of the German Communist Party in the 1930s; the CP saw reformist socialists as worse than the Nazis and refused to join with them to stop Hitler. The good news: AFA's views were not held by the majority.
    [Show full text]
  • THE POLITICAL THOUGHT of the THIRD WORLD LEFT in POST-WAR AMERICA a Dissertation Submitted
    LIBERATION FROM THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY: THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE THIRD WORLD LEFT IN POST-WAR AMERICA A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History By Benjamin Feldman, M.A. Washington, DC August 6, 2020 Copyright 2020 by Benjamin Feldman All Rights Reserved ii LIBERATION FROM THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY: THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE THIRD WORLD LEFT IN POST-WAR AMERICA Benjamin Feldman, M.A. Thesis Advisor: Michael Kazin, Ph.D. ABSTRACT This dissertation traces the full intellectual history of the Third World Turn: when theorists and activists in the United States began to look to liberation movements within the colonized and formerly colonized nations of the ‘Third World’ in search of models for political, social, and cultural transformation. I argue that, understood as a critique of the limits of New Deal liberalism rather than just as an offshoot of New Left radicalism, Third Worldism must be placed at the center of the history of the post-war American Left. Rooting the Third World Turn in the work of theorists active in the 1940s, including the economists Paul Sweezy and Paul Baran, the writer Harold Cruse, and the Detroit organizers James and Grace Lee Boggs, my work moves beyond simple binaries of violence vs. non-violence, revolution vs. reform, and utopianism vs. realism, while throwing the political development of groups like the Black Panthers, the Young Lords, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the Third World Women’s Alliance into sharper relief.
    [Show full text]
  • Vol. 1, No. 2, November 6, 1966
    PAGE 20 THE FREEDOM SOCIALIST NOVEMBER 5. 1966 PAGE .:z0. >.' -:. PR'.)CI~ESS REPORT ON -, HE F. SJ>. /~.'.~ .....;.'- ' ...--:-.. THE Fr~\ST THREE M(-)NTHS OF L I FE :' ' ~ > ,."E •. ' ., •. <; .. ~ith thisti.su~ of our p~p~ hevo bc€n fentur~c spoc~ors ~t fllllDOKSOClN ,~ cr, t.h ... Ftccdom 5""lciclist Pnrty is m~Gtings of tho Gross Roots For­ • sc~rcGly three m~nths old. ~ith­ um, a centrel er6~ "anti-poverty" "0\(,£ OF ,HE iR£EOOV\ SOt.\ "'l\S~ t>~~ ()~ 'W~~"\"'~\Q'" ~ut patting 8urs ... lvGs on th~ b3~k, ereno for discussing poverty and we ccn feel pr~ud of wh::Jt we did civil rights. 3ccomplish -- including surviving Coming up soon is , program I these lcst hectic ninJty d~ys. on KCTS-TV, Channel 9, on Black At the tim~ of th~ fnun~ing Power, in which ~Dymon ~ere will of th~ FSP, we h~ld 3 Press CQn­ participate. Tho penel includss f~rQncc ond c f~w we_ks 13tcr we prominont local Negro leaders. stoged ::J very successful in~ugur­ Tuna in on TUwsd::JY, Nov. 22, at ~l b3nquvt. 7:30 p.m. Jc perticipated in tha poaCD Our litornture and periodi­ dcm8nstr::Jtion ~t B13in~ in August, c~l deportment is bGcoming much whJrc wc sold 150 copies of th.j better stocked and sol~s of radi­ first issue of ThJ Frc~dnm Scci::Jl- cal litGr~turo are proceeding ill· briskly. ~c will soon h::Jvc on sale !Jc h:wc sp'"JnSClrod C) f3irly the publicntions of all the major rcgul~r sori ..
    [Show full text]
  • Mike Conan Collection : the New Communist Movement, 1972-1994
    http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7p30065q No online items Register of the Mike Conan Collection : The New Communist Movement, 1972-1994 Processed by Jora Atienza; machine-readable finding aid created by Xiuzhi Zhou Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research 6120 S. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California 90044 Phone: (323) 759-6063 Fax: (323) 759-2252 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.socallib.org © 1999 Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. All rights reserved. Register of the Mike Conan MSS 015 1 Collection : The New Communist Movement, 1972-1994 Register of the Mike Conan Collection : The New Communist Movement, 1972-1994 Collection number: MSS 015 Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research Los Angeles, California Contact Information: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research 6120 S. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California 90044 Phone: (323) 759-6063 Fax: (323) 759-2252 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.socallib.org Processed by: Jora Atienza Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou © 1999 Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Mike Conan Collection : The New Communist Movement, Date (bulk): 1972-1994 Collection number: MSS 015 Creator: Conan, Mike Extent: 22 boxes Repository: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. Los Angeles, California Language: English. Access The collection is available for research only at the Library's facility in Los Angeles. The Library is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Researchers are encouraged to call or email the Library indicating the nature of their research query prior to making a visit.
    [Show full text]
  • Socialist Feminism and the Revolutionary Party [PDF 5.14
    February–March 2011 Socialist Feminism 5 A radiant program for new generations by Andrea Bauer What follows is an in-depth explanation of why Marxist feminism, embodied in a revolutionary party, is the contemporary answer to the crisis of capitalism. Drafted on behalf of the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) National Committee, this political resolution was adopted at the party’s July 2010 convention. It incorporates additions put forward by the FSP membership. Overview IThe world and U.S. economies are profoundly troubled, experiencing the most severe crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The economies of entire nations have flat-lined. A mountain of debt forced Iceland into bankruptcy; Greece, Ireland, and other poor-neighbor countries of the southern European Union may yet face the same fate. The unprecedented breakdown of capitalism today is a symptom and signal of a system battling desperately to maintain itself long past its expiration date. Its convulsions are upsetting bankers and bosses, to be sure, but its main miseries are borne as always by the workers of every country — first among them women, the very young and the very old, and those marked for special suffering by skin color, nationality, and sexual orientation. The crisis has wrenched millions from their homes and jobs. In the U.S., in the middle of what bourgeois commentators describe without shame as a recovery, the economy continues to shed jobs month by month. Government stimulus spending, whether in the form of Wall Street bailouts or vast Steve Hoffman Pentagon payouts to “defense” To end the misery of war, mass protest is not enough: what’s needed industries, does nothing but boost is the determination to change the system that breeds it.
    [Show full text]
  • 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR CANDIDATES (As of September 7, 2012)
    2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR CANDIDATES (as of September 7, 2012) Constitution Party (write-in candidates) Pledged to Virgil H. Goode, Jr., of Virginia for President Joseph O. Henzler, of Indianapolis Audrey Queckboerner, of Leo Austin Teltoe, of Indianapolis Elyne Strauss, of Indianapolis Eric Johnson, of Bloomington Gary Queckboerner, of Leo Fred Bailey, of Fort Wayne Democratic Party: Pledged to Barack Obama of Illinois for President and Joe Biden of Delaware for Vice-President Clay M. Patton, of Valparaiso Michael Schmuhl, of South Bend Randy S. Schmidt, of Fort Wayne Jeffrey S. Fites, of Brownsburg James A. Schellinger, of Indianapolis Beverly Matthews, of New Castle Lacy M. Johnson, of Indianapolis Sherrianne M. Standley, of Evansville Dustin T. White, of Jeffersonville Katherine L. Davis, of Indianapolis Robin E. Winston, of Indianapolis Freedom Socialist Party (write-in candidates) Pledged to Stephen Durham of New York for President Susan E. Williams, of New York, New York Elizabeth Maloney, of Newark, New Jersey Freedom Socialist Party (write-in candidates) Pledged to Christina Lopez, of Washington for President Doug Barnes, of Seattle, Washington Doreen McGrath, of Seattle, Washington Christopher Smith, of Seattle, Washington Green Party (write-in candidates) Pledged to Jill Stein of Massachusetts for President Andrew Straw, of Goshen Beth Hayes, of Indianapolis Jay Parks, of Indianapolis Jeff Sutter, of South Bend John Loflin, of Indianapolis Kathleen Petitjean, of Mishawaka Kevin McCracken, of Columbus Michael Berndt, of Bloomington Neal Smith, of Indianapolis Pam Raider, of Nashville Sarah Dillon, of Terre Haute Libertarian Party: Pledged to Gary Johnson of New Mexico for President and James P. Gray of California for Vice-President Sam Goldstein, of Indianapolis Brad Klopfenstein, of Indianapolis Chris Spangle, of Greenwood Dan Drexler, of Indianapolis Mike Kole, of Fishers Jerry Titus, of Kokomo Susan Bell, of Hagerstown Paul Morrell, of Arlington Matt Wittlief, of Indianapolis Andy Wolf, of LaPorte Beth Duensing, of St.
    [Show full text]
  • An Inquiry Into Contemporary Australian Extreme Right
    THE OTHER RADICALISM: AN INQUIRY INTO CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN EXTREME RIGHT IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND ORGANIZATION 1975-1995 JAMES SALEAM A Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor Of Philosophy Department Of Government And Public Administration University of Sydney Australia December 1999 INTRODUCTION Nothing, except being understood by intelligent people, gives greater pleasure, than being misunderstood by blunderheads. Georges Sorel. _______________________ This Thesis was conceived under singular circumstances. The author was in custody, convicted of offences arising from a 1989 shotgun attack upon the home of Eddie Funde, Representative to Australia of the African National Congress. On October 6 1994, I appeared for Sentence on another charge in the District Court at Parramatta. I had been convicted of participation in an unsuccessful attempt to damage a vehicle belonging to a neo-nazi informer. My Thesis -proposal was tendered as evidence of my prospects for rehabilitation and I was cross-examined about that document. The Judge (whose Sentence was inconsequential) said: … Mr Saleam said in evidence that his doctorate [sic] of philosophy will engage his attention for the foreseeable future; that he has no intention of using these exertions to incite violence.1 I pondered how it was possible to use a Thesis to incite violence. This exercise in courtroom dialectics suggested that my thoughts, a product of my experiences in right-wing politics, were considered acts of subversion. I concluded that the Extreme Right was ‘The Other Radicalism’, understood by State agents as odorous as yesteryear’s Communist Party. My interest in Extreme Right politics derived from a quarter-century involvement therein, at different levels of participation.
    [Show full text]
  • International Medical Corps Afghanistan
    Heading Folder Afghanistan Afghanistan - Afghan Information Centre Afghanistan - International Medical Corps Afghanistan - Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) Agorist Institute Albee, Edward Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres American Economic Association American Economic Society American Fund for Public Service, Inc. American Independent Party American Party (1897) American Political Science Association (APSA) American Social History Project American Spectator American Writer's Congress, New York City, October 9-12, 1981 Americans for Democratic Action Americans for Democratic Action - Students for Democractic Action Anarchism Anarchism - A Distribution Anarchism - Abad De Santillan, Diego Anarchism - Abbey, Edward Anarchism - Abolafia, Louis Anarchism - ABRUPT Anarchism - Acharya, M. P. T. Anarchism - ACRATA Anarchism - Action Resource Guide (ARG) Anarchism - Addresses Anarchism - Affinity Group of Evolutionary Anarchists Anarchism - Africa Anarchism - Aftershock Alliance Anarchism - Against Sleep and Nightmare Anarchism - Agitazione, Ancona, Italy Anarchism - AK Press Anarchism - Albertini, Henry (Enrico) Anarchism - Aldred, Guy Anarchism - Alliance for Anarchist Determination, The (TAFAD) Anarchism - Alliance Ouvriere Anarchiste Anarchism - Altgeld Centenary Committee of Illinois Anarchism - Altgeld, John P. Anarchism - Amateur Press Association Anarchism - American Anarchist Federated Commune Soviets Anarchism - American Federation of Anarchists Anarchism - American Freethought Tract Society Anarchism - Anarchist
    [Show full text]