Washington, D.C. Local, 1977

The Socialist Workers Party collection, 1934-2003, bulk 1940-1994, comprises materials that reflect the activities and statuses of the Socialist Workers Party. It includes Discussion Bulletins; Information Bulletins; Internal Bulletins; Internal Information Bulletins; International Bulletins; International Information Bulletins; International Internal Discussion and Information Bulletins; Joint Discussion Bulletins between the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist League; and local and regional branch Discussion Bulletins for various cities, states and regions in the United States as well as Australia. Convention and forum constitutions, programs, leaflets, bulletins, and other materials are present, as are correspondence and reports regarding various topics such as the Shachtmanite split within the party in 1940. "Political Committee mailings" comprising convention materials, meeting minutes, letters, reports, and other documents sent to Political Committee members from 1973-1979 are included as well. Education for Socialists conference reports, course and study outlines, bulletins and notes are included, in addition to flyers, brochures, and a study guide from the West Coast Vacation School and Camp. The collection also includes San Francisco and national election campaign leaflets, flyers, pamphlets and bulletins. There are minutes of the National Executive Committee, Political Committee, and the Organization Committee present, editions of the Party Builder and Party Organizer, and subject files regarding various topics including Hungary, Rosa Luxemburg, Stalinism and the Russian Revolution, Trotskyism in India, Vietnamese communism, and others. Individual series comprising files pertaining to the Fourth International, as it related to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), as well as files regarding the Internationalist Tendency, the Leninist-Trotskyist Faction, and the Young Socialist Alliance within the SWP, are present. These series contain bulletins, journals, articles, pamphlets, correspondence, reports, minutes, subject files, and convention and committee documents. There are also graphic materials including: cartoon prints by Laura Gray (Laura Slobe); one postcard; black-and-white and color photographs of SWP members and an event relating to Art Preis' book Labor's Giant Step: The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55; one black-and-white negative; one file of black-and-white still photographs from the 1987 film Matewan.