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

1976


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.



Jan-Dec 1976


"A Bill of Rights for Working People," 1976 SWP Campaign Brochure (76)

"The Socialist Workers Candidates for '76," 1976 SWP Campaign Brochure (76)

"Desegregate the Schools! Vote Socialist Workers," 1976 SWP Campaign Poster (76)

"Neo-Stalinism: The Achilles Heel of the Peace Movement and the American Left," by Julius Jacobson, from New Politics (Winter 76)

To Political Committee Members (01-76?)

January 1976 National Committee Plenum (76-01)

Miscellaneous Statistics from the January 1976 National Committee Plenum

Camejo-Reid Campaign Statistics from the January 1976 Plenum

New [Pathfinder] Books and New Editions Projected for 1976 (01-76)

Party Growth and Financial Perspectives: Excerpts from Transcript of Report to National Committee Plenum, by Barry Sheppard (01-76)

For members of the Political Committee (01-06-76)

Correspondence Regarding the Workers' Socialist League and Blick-Jenkins Group [Britain] (01-07-76)

To Members of the National Committee (01-09-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 15 (01-09-76)

Letter to Jack Barnes from Tim Wohlforth (01-11-76)

To Branch Organizers, Trade Union Directors, and Steelworker Members [re: Sadlowski campaign] (01-13-76)

To Branch Organizers, Trade Union Directors, and Teacher Members [ re: AFT Committee on Desegregation and Equality in Education] (01-13-74)

To Members of the PC [re: Party expansion in Richmond and Ohio] (01-14-76) 

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 1 (01-15-76)

To National Committee Members, Organizers, and Trade Union Directors (01-16-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 16 (01-16-76)

Documentation Regarding National City (California) Electoral Campaign (01-16-76)

Letter to the Political Committee of the SWP from Roman, for the Political Bureau of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire [France] (01-20-76)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors, from Nan Bailey, YSA National Office [re: NSCAR National Steering Committee] (01-21-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 2 (01-22-76)

To All Organizers and Educational Directors (01-22-76)

Notes on Discussion with Mario [PST?] at Jan. 24-25 United Secretariat Meeting, by ? (01-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 16 (01-23-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 3 (01-26-76)

To All Organizers and National Committee Members (01-28-76)

To Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors [re: National Black Assembly] (01-28-76)

To All Organizers and Education Directors, from Fred Feldman, SWP National Office (01-28-76)

Documents on the Trial of Debby Leonard (01-28-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 17 (01-30-76)

Letter to Editor, Socialist Press [Britain], from Tim Wohlforth [re: James P. Cannon] (01-31-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 4 (02-04-76)

To All Organizers [re: Party Growth] (02-04-76)

To National Committee Members and Organizers (02-04-76)

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: YWLL] (02-04-76)

Peng Shu-Tse letter to the International Executive Committee (02-04-76)

To Branch Organizers [re: CLUW] (02-04-76)

Report on the Daily World 1976 Circulation and Fund Drive (02-05-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 18 (02-06-76)

Letter to the Socialist Workers Party from Spark (02-08-76)

To City and Branch Organizers [re: Springfield ERA actions], from Cindy Jaquith, SWP National office (02-10-76)

To All Branch and City Organizers (02-10-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 5 (02-12-76)

To All [YSA] Organizers and At-Large Members [re: Anti-CIA Protests] (02-13-76)

Minutes of the February 1976 Meeting of the United Secretariat (02-15-76)

Letter to the United Secretariat from Ricardo Hernandez, for the Political Committee of the Liga Socialista [Mexico] (undated)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 6 (02-19-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 19 (02-20-76)

To P.C. Members (02-23-76)

To P.C. Members (undated)

Letter to the Socialist Workers Party from Ed Clarkson for the New York Spartacist League [re: Healyite slander campaign] (02-23-76)

Documentation Concerning United Farm Workers/Texas Farm Workers Split (02-25-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 7 (02-26-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 20 (02-27-76)

To All Organizers and Trade Union Directors [re: Teamsters for a Decent Contract] (02-28-76)

To National Committee Members, Organizers, and Trade Union Directors [re: AFT Committee on Desegregation and Equality in Education] (03-01-76)

For the PC (03-03-76)

To All Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors [re: National Black Political Convention] (03-04-76)

A Summary of Branch Educational Activity (Undated - 76?)

Political Committee Meeting No. 21 (03-05-76)

To the PC (03-06-76)

For PC members: Material from Socialist Forum Group (03-76?)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 8 (03-11-76)

To Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors [re: April 24 mass march] (03-11-75)

Letter to the United Secretariat from Joseph Hansen, editor, Intercontinental Press (03-12-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 22 (03-12-76)

Letter to Joseph Hansen from Pierre Frank, Livio Maitan and Ernest Mandel (03-16-76)

To All Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors [re: Nation of Islam] (03-16-76)

"New Trotskyist Daily in Britain," from The Bulletin (03-16-76)

Letter to Ernest Mandel, Bureau of the Steering Committee of the International Majority Tendency, from Joseph Hansen, editor, Intercontinental Press (03-17-76)

To All Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors, from Malik Miah, SWP Black Work Director [re: April 24 Boston March and Rally] (03-17-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 9 (03-20-76)

To All [YSA] Organizers and National Committee Members, from Chuck Petrin, YSA National Office [re: YSA National Committee Plenum] (03-20-76)

"Split With SWP Threatens Fourth International," by Representative Larry McDonald (R-Georgia), from the Congressional Record (03-23-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 23 (03-26-76)

Letter from Expelled/Suspended/Resigned Members of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabalhadores [Portugal] (03-26-76)

To All Organizers, Trade Union, CLUW, and Women's Liberation Directors, from Cindy Jaquith, SWP National Office [re: Role of CLUW in ERA Work] (03-27-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 10 (03-29-76)

To All Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors [re: NEA Human Rights Conference] (03-30-76)

To All [YSA] Organizers and At-Large Members (04-03-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 24 (04-05-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 25 (04-09-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 26 (04-16-76)

Letter to Joseph Hansen from Ernest Mandel (04-17-76)

Correspondence Regarding Reintegration of Internationalist Tendency Members (04-19-76)

Letter to Maceo Dixon from Eddie N. Williams, Joint Center for Political Studies, Howard University and the Metropolitant Applied Research Center, Inc., Washington, DC [re: May 5 Meeting on Black Voter Participation] (04-19-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 27 (04-20-76)

To All National Committee Members [re: Sahara] (04-20-76)

To Organizers and National Committee Members (04-21-76)

To All National Committee Members and Organizers, from Diane Rupp, SWP National Office (04-21-76)

Report on Spring Angola Tours, by Michael Maggi (04-24-76)

Material on Mario Muñoz Defense Campaign (04-26-76)

Minutes of Spring 1976 National Committee Plenum (04-29/05-03-76)

Statistics from Spring 1976 National Committee Plenum (4-29/05-03-76)

More from the Spring 1976 National Committee Plenum (4-29/05-03-76)

Chicano Draft Resolution (76)

Political Committee Resolution on the Emerging Puerto Rican Struggle in the US and its Perspectives [First Draft] (76)

Political Committee Resolution on the Emerging Puerto Rican Struggle in the US and its Perspectives [Second Draft] (76)

Two Articles from International Socialism [Britain] (05-76)

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: National Chicano Forum] (05-08-76)

"Proposal for a National Weekly Newspaper [In These Times]," by James Weinstein, from Socialist Revolition (Spring 76?)

Letter to the Leadership of the Fourth International, from the Political Committee of the Liga Operaria [Brazil] (06-10-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 39 (07-17-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 26 (07-19-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 40 (07-20-76)

To Campaign Directors and Supporters [re: Communist Party slanders] (07-21-76)

To All National Committee Members [re: Jeff Beneke resignation from provisional membership] (07-21-76)

To All Organizers [re: Resignation of Mohammed Karimi (Norman Oliver)] (07-22-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 41 (07-23-76)

To the Political Bureaus of the Sections and Sympathizing Organizations [of the Fourth International] (07-24-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 42 (07-27-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 27 (07-29-76)

Letter to the United Secretariat from Muriel, Nemo & Raphael [French LTF supporters] (07-30-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 28 (08-02-76)

Minutes of National Committee Plenum (08-07-76)

"Socialist Workers Party 1976 Convention," Schedule and Information (08-07/14-76)

National Committee Proposals for the Organization of the Convention (08-07-76)

Miscellaneous Statistics (08-76)

Summary of Party Membership: Dec. 1, 1975 - July 1, 1976 (08-76)

Greetings to the 28th Convention of the Socialist Workers Party, from Spark (08-76)

National Committee Meeting Minutes, Young Socialist Alliance, Oberlin, Ohio (08-10/11-76)

"How to Select a Leadership," by James P. Cannon, from "Letters from Prison" (Undated)

Minutes of National Committee Plenum (08-14-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 43 (09-03-76)

Correspondence Among Supporters of the International Majority Tendency in the US (09-03-76)

Letter to Jack Barnes from Ernest Mandel (09-03-76)

To Political Committee Members (09-06-76)

SWP Discussion Bulletin/Los Angeles Local No. 1 (09-76)

SWP Discussion Bulletin/Los Angeles Local No. 3 (09-76)

Memo on Discussion with Solange, a Member of the Israeli Group Associated with the OCRFI, by Gus Horowitz [?] (09-76)

Two Letters from Alan Jones [John Ross] (09-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 29 (09-08-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 30 (09-10-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 44 (09-10-76)

Articles from Rouge [newspaper of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire (France)] on the Death of Mao Tse-Tung (09-10-76)

"After the Death of Mao Tse-Tung," from Informations Ouvrieres [newspaper of the Organisation Communiste Internationaliste (France)] (09-15/22-76)

Letter to Ernest Mandel from Jack Barnes (09-16-76)

Letter to Alan Jones [John Ross] from Jack Barnes (09-16-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 45 (09-17-76)

Letter to the Unification Congress of the Liga Comunista Internacionalista [Mexico] and the Liga Socialista (Tendencia Militante) [Mexico] from Ed Shaw [re: Rodrigo (Fausto Amador) /Costa Rican OST] (09-18-76)

Documentation on General Baker Jr./Communist Labor Party Campaign for Michigan State House of Representatives (09-18-76)

Correspondence Regarding 09-11/12-76 United Secretariat Meeting (09-19-76)

To All National Committee Members [re: Pierre Lambert visit to US] (09-21-76)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors [re: Wilmington 10 Defense Work] (09-21-76)

Letter to Jack Barnes from Duret [Charles André Udry] for the United Secretariat Bureau (09-22-76)

Letter to Caroline Lund from Becky [Finch] (09-23-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 46 (09-23-76)

Letter to Jack Barnes from Alan Jones [John Ross] (09-26-76)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors, from Nan Bailey, YSA National Office [re: NSCAR Fall activities] (09-28-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 47 (10-01-76)

Documents From the Internal Discussion in the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire (10-02-76)

Letter to the Political Committee from Brian Shannon [Re: Amadeo Richardson campaign] (10-03-76)

Letter to Caroline Lund from Becky [French LTF supporter] (10-04-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 48 (10-04-76)

To National Committee Members and Organizers  [re: Crusade for Justice violence] (10-06-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 49 (10-07-76)

[YSA] National Executive Committee Minutes, No. 34 (10-11-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 50 (10-14-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 51 (10-22-76)

Report on the Communist Party Campaign Rally in New York, by Mark Friedman, New York Local (10-24-76)

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Crusade for Justice] (10-27-76)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors [re: 3rd National NSCAR Conference] (10-28-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 52 (10-28-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 53 (11-04-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 54 (11-06-76)

To Organizers and National Committee Members (11-06-76)

Letter to the Political Committee from Hedda Garza for the New York Revolutionary Marxist Organizing Committee [re: Proposed fusion] (11-08-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 55 (11-15-76)

To All National Committee Members (11-17-76)

To All Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors (11-19-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 56 (11-19-76)

Report on the "Conference on the International Situation," New York City, November 20, 1976, by Les Evans (11-23-76)

Newspaper Coverage of the "Conference on the International Situation" (11/12-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 55 (11-15-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 56 (11-19-76)

To Organizers and National Committee Members [re: Crusade for Justice attacks] (11-19-76)

"Against Violence in the Movement!," special Militant supplement (11-19-76)

To All Organizers and Women's Liberation Directors (11-19-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 57 (11-24-76)

Correspondence with Jim Percy [Australia] (11-25-76)

"Condemn These Methods of Smear and Slander: An International Statement on the WRP and the OCI," from Workers Action No. 37 [Newspaper of the International-Communist League (Britain)] (11-26/12-01-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 58 (12-02-76)

Correspondence Regarding Israel/Palestine (12-03-76)

Report on Meeting with McCarthy '76 and Libertarians re: Ballot Work, by Matilde Zimmerman (12-03-76)

Letter to Caroline Lund from Gus Horowitz [re: Charges against African comrades in Bordeaux] (12-06-76)

To All [YSA] Organizers and Antiracist Work Directors [re: NSCAR Southern Africa Actions] (12-09-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 59 (12-09-76)

"Resolution on Electoral Tactics," by Alan Jones [John Ross], document for the International Marxist Group [Britain] (12-09-76)

To the Political Committee (12-10-76)

Correspondence Concerning the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire [France] [re: SWP/OCI contacts] (12-10-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 60 (12-11-76)

Letter to Mary-Alice Waters from Marcelo [Argentina] (12-13-76)

Letters From Alan Jones [John Ross], International Marxist Group [Britain] (12-15-76)

To All National Committee Members [re: LCR] (12-17-76)

Correspondence Regarding Musheer Farshan Case (12-19-76)

Letter to Mary-Alice Waters from Becky [French LTF supporter] [re: Internal tendencies in the LCR] (12-20-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 61 (12-22-76)

Letter to Jack Barnes et. al. from Peter Camejo [re: Spanish Trotskyism] (12-23-76)

Political Committee Meeting No. 62 (12-24-76)