Title: Betty Gannett Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1929-1970

Creator:

• Gannett, Betty

Call Number: Mss 310; Micro 533; Tape 533A

Quantity: 3.5 c.f. (11 archives boxes), 17 reels of microfilm (35mm), and 1 tape recording

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Betty Gannett, an officer of the Communist Party (USA) primarily relating to her work as a Marxist theoretician, writer, and teacher. The majority of the collection consists of lectures and papers, notes, and writings of other kinds on political and educational topics, primarily the Communist Party, the role of economics in society, history, philosophy, and scientific socialism. There is also a very small quantity of personal correspondence (including some letters from Elizabeth Gurley Flynn), 1942-1971, and some material relating to the litigation to deport her under provisions of the Smith Act. On tape is a recording of Gannett's funeral.

Language: English

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Betty Gannett, Marxist theoretician, writer, and teacher, was active in the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) for more than forty-five years. At the time of her death in 1970, she was editor of Political Affairs, the theoretical journal of the CPUSA, and a member of the Party's national and political committees. Born in 1906 in Poland, Gannett immigrated to the United States in 1914 and, with six brothers and sisters, was reared in poverty in New York City by her widowed mother who worked as a cook and maid. Terminating her public school education at age thirteen, Gannett then completed a two-year commercial course and became a secretary in the office of the AFL-United Garment Workers. Two of her sisters, who worked in the sweatshops of the garment district, were members of the union. Her next employment was in the office that produced the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Journal, then edited by Albert F. Coyle.

Drawing upon her working-class experience and a detailed study of Marxist literature, Gannett joined the Young Communist League (YCL) and the CP in 1923. From that time, her work for the Party dominated her life. In 1927 she accompanied the first rank-and-file delegation of American trade unionists to the Soviet Union and soon thereafter entered the Lenin School in Moscow. Subsequently many of her experiences and activities were international and included her active participation in debate within both Marxist and non-Marxist circles. This work outside the United States drew her into a wide range of activities including participation in the anti-Nazi German underground and in the foundation of the Young Communist League of Canada. Returning to the United States in 1928, the YCL sent her to Cleveland as an organizer which resulted in her being charged with criminal syndicalism. Although sentenced to ten years in prison, her conviction was reversed on appeal. During this period she also was taking an active part in the coal mine disputes in Western Pennsylvania. In 1929 Gannett became the national educational director of the YCL.

Early in the 1930's Gannett returned to New York to serve as an editor of The Communist, a forerunner of Political Affairs, and of another CP publication, Party Organizer. She was also organizing secretary of the Party in Pennsylvania, again involving her in strike activities in Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1933. Two years later she was transferred to the west coast where she served as the first educational director of the California Party until 1941 and was a leader in the struggle to organize agricultural workers. While in California, she was one of the Founders of the Western Worker, a local CP publication, which became the People's World. In 1938 she married James J. (Jim) Tormey, then a leading figure in the California CP, who formerly had helped to rally support for the defense in the Scottsboro trials (1932) which had focused world-wide attention upon the arbitrary trial procedures frequently used in criminal cases involving Blacks in the South.

From 1941 to 1944 Gannett served as Midwest regional coordinator of the Party. Headquartered in Chicago, she administered a territory that included most Midwestern states and all the Rocky Mountain states. Shortly before the end of World War II she returned to New York to be the assistant national organizational secretary of the CP, and in 1950 she became the Party's national educational director. In 1963 she was named executive editor of Political Affairs, then associate editor, and finally editor in 1966. Her death on March 4, 1970 followed a long illness.

In addition to Gannett's functions in the CP, her career was filled with a variety of legal problems arising solely from her Party affiliation and activities. The government unsuccessfully attempted to deport her in 1949, as she never acquired American citizenship. In 1951, during the McCarthy period, she, together with 16 other second-level CP leaders, was convicted under the Smith Act. Charged with conspiring to overthrow the government by force and violence, Gannett and her fellow defendants vigorously denied that they planned to initiate any violence, arguing that they would use force only to defend the decisions of a majority. Failing with this defense, she spent two years, 1955 and 1956, at the women's federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia. After her release, she was harassed for the rest of her life. Another attempt was made to deport her, and when it failed, the Immigration Bureau sought to have her report once a week to Ellis Island and to remain within a fifty-mile radius of Times Square. Through litigation, she overcame the government's requirements, thus setting a precedent against its indiscriminate denial of civil liberties to aliens.

The collection reflects significantly only part of the career of Betty Gannett: her work as a theoretician, teacher, and political exponent of the CP. The bulk of it, relating directly to these functions, includes lectures and papers, notes, course outlines, bibliographies, bulletins, and printed material which Gannett wrote for the State Organization-Education Commission of the California CP. Other fragmentary material haphazardly illustrates isolated events in her life, the more human side of radical agitation, and the measures taken by the federal government to repress the CP. Included in this material are letters of condolence upon her death, work she edited, eulogies she wrote, papers re her experiences in prison, personal correspondence, and legal papers, some of which concern the attempt to deport her. Throughout the collection Gannett's husband, Jim Tormey, has added short explanatory notes. These are identified by his name or initials. The collection is arranged as an alphabetical subject file. Within the subject divisions, the arrangement is chronological or topical.

The section “lectures and papers” is a very broad category of written records comprising the largest portion of the collection. There are only minor differences in structure between her oral presentations and her more formal papers. The lectures contain complete sentences, distinct paragraphs, and a thorough organization, allowing them to be grouped with the more formal papers in the collection. The only obvious visual difference is that her oral presentations were written with a wide margin on each page. Her lectures, dating from the mid-1930's to shortly before her death, were generally political or educational in purpose and relate to a wide variety of subjects, including the CP; the role of economics in society; history, philosophy; and scientific socialism. Those which could be dated include mainly political lectures; these have been arranged chronologically. The others, which include most of the educational lectures, are arranged topically. Gannett's notes bear a close functional resemblance to her lectures but do not contain their organization unity. Her notes are of two kinds: direct quotations or paraphrases from authorities, other non-Marxists; and her own unorganized thoughts. They are also arranged in both chronological and topical order. Often individual notes that are grouped together have no apparent unity, but they have been retained in the order Gannett left them.

The collection also contains a variety of material relevant to the educational work of Gannett apart from her lectures and notes. Her course outlines and bibliographies relate to courses that she taught from time to time, reflecting their subject matter and her teaching methods. Bulletins from the New York School for Marxist Studies do not directly involve her work, although Gannett frequently taught there, and they indicate some of the subjects that she offered. Her San Francisco Marxist School lectures, while differing little from her other educational lectures, are grouped to illustrate a definite stage in her career. The publications that she prepared for the State Organization-Education Commission of the California CP preserve some of her early educational and organizational work.

Other miscellaneous facets of Gannett's life are sparsely recorded in the collection. Her various legal problems -- attempts to deport her, her Smith Act trial, and her prison term -- are represented in records of litigation, correspondence, clippings, and printed material. There are only a few of the eulogies that she gave for others and a few samples of her editing of the work of her associates. The small amount of personal correspondence obviously is only a fraction of the total which must have existed. The collection also has some fragmented biographical information, primarily contained in obituaries written at her death, as well as many letters of condolence to her husband. The printed material, concerning unrelated activities of the CP, was gathered from throughout the collection prior to processing and reflects no systematic design to preserve such material.

The papers in the collection are available both in original form and on microfilm. The tape records Gannett's funeral.

Acquisition Information

Presented by James J. Tormey, Shelter Island, New York, 1973.

Processing Information

Processed by Kent Gulley, 1976.

Micro 533/Mss 310 Reel   1 Box/Folder   1/1	Biographical material and letters of condolence
Tape 533A	Recording of funeral
Micro 533/Mss 310 Reel   1 Box/Folder   1/2	Course outlines and bibliographies, undated Note: See details in Appendix.
Reel   1 Box/Folder   1/3	Deportation, attempted, undated
Reel   1 Box/Folder   1/4	Editorial work, undated
Reel   1 Box/Folder   1/5	Eulogies, 1964; undated
	Lectures and papers Note: See details in Appendix.
	Chronological
Reel   1 Box/Folder   1/6-9	1935-1945
Reel   2 Box/Folder   2/1-3	1946-1948
Reel   2 Box/Folder   2/4-5	1950-1955; 1957
Reel   3 Box/Folder   2/6	1958-1960
Reel   3 Box/Folder   3/1-3	1961-1962
Reel   4 Box/Folder   3/4-5	1962, continued
Reel   4 Box/Folder   3/4-5	1963
Reel   5 Box/Folder   4/1-3	1964-1968
	Topical
Reel   5 Box/Folder   4/4	Communist Party, undated
Reel   6 Box/Folder   4/5-6	Economics, undated
Reel   7 Box/Folder   5/1-2	Economics, continued
Reel   7 Box/Folder   5/3	History, undated
Reel   8 Box/Folder   5/4-5	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism, undated
Reel   8 Box/Folder   6/1-2	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism, continued
Reel   9 Box/Folder   6/3	Politics, undated
Reel   9 Box/Folder   6/4	Partial Lectures, undated
Reel   9 Box/Folder   6/5	Legal problems, 1952-1962
Reel   9 Box/Folder   6/6	New York School for Marxist Studies, 1959-1966
	Notes Note: See details in Appendix.
	Chronological
Reel   9 Box/Folder   7/7	1929-1940
Reel   10 Box/Folder   7/1-4	1946-1966
Reel   11 Box/Folder   7/5	1967-1969
	Topical
Reel   11 Box/Folder   7/6	Communist Party, undated
Reel   11 Box/Folder   8/1	Communist Party, continued
Reel   11 Box/Folder   8/2-3	Economics, undated
Reel   12 Box/Folder   8/2-3	Economics, continued
Reel   12 Box/Folder   8/4	History, undated
Reel   12 Box/Folder   8/5-6	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism, undated
Reel   13 Box/Folder   9/1	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism,continued
Reel   13 Box/Folder   9/2	Philosophical notebook, undated
Reel   14 Box/Folder   9/3	Politics, undated
Reel   14 Box/Folder   9/4-5	General, undated
Reel   15 Box/Folder   10/1-2	General, continued
Reel   16 Box/Folder   10/3	Notebook, undated
Reel   16 Box/Folder   10/4	Personal correspondence, 1942-1971; undated Note: Letters signed “Elizabeth” are from Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Reel   16 Box/Folder   10/5	Printed material, 1947-1964
Reel   16 Box/Folder   10/6	Prison term, 1955-1957
Reel   16 Box/Folder   10/7	San Francisco Marxist School, 1938
	State Organization-Education Commission, California CP
Reel   16 Box/Folder   10/8	1936-1937
Reel   17 Box/Folder   11/1-3	1937-1939; 1944

Course Outlines

Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 2	Study Course on the Communist Party, the Working Class and Industrial Concentration
	Analysis of Scientific Socialism
	Political Economy I
	Political Economy
	Dialectical Materialism
	Bibliography on John Dewey and American Pragmatism

Lectures

Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 6	1936	The NRA -- An Organized Attack Upon the Workers
		War Situation
		Organizational Conferences in the State of California
		Questions and Answers on the Role of the Communist Party
		1936 Election
		Paris Commune
	1937	A New Socialist World Has Arisen
		Uniting the American People Against Fascism
		Control Tasks for Consolidation and Building the Party and the Circulation of the Western Worker in California
		Organization Report
		Report on Establishing a West Coast Newspaper
		Address to California YCL Convention
		Report to the Los Angeles CP
		Report to the Industrial Section Membership
		Political Feuds and Our Political Perspective
		Report to the Los Angeles Membership Meeting
		We Can and Must Keep the New Members
		Report on Stalin's Mastering Bolshevism
		Report on Central Committee Plenum
Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 7	1938	Report on Party Building to the California State Convention
		The Supreme Court and the Fight of the People for Social Legislation
		Report to Party Building Conference
		Political Tasks of the CP
		Report to the San Francisco Organizational Conference
		Report on Political Activities of the Party
	1939	Early Economic Policies of the Soviet Union
		The Nature of the Soviet Union
		The Truth About the Communists
		Development and Theory of Marxism
		History of the CPSU
		The Threat of Fascism
Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 8	1940	Capitalist Production and Socialist Production
		Two Systems--Capitalism and Socialism
		The Study of Marxism-Leninism
		Tactics of the CP
		Capitalism in Crisis
		Function of Marxist Schools
		Introduction to Marxism-Leninism
Reel 1; Box 1, Folder 9	1941	Development of Marxism
		Introduction to Marxism-Leninism
	1943	Teheran, Cairo, and Moscow Conference
		The Development of the Soviet Union
		Science of Marxism-Leninism
	1944	Contrast Between the Dialectics of Marx and Hegel
		The Achievements of the Soviet Union
	1945	Struggle Against Browderism
		Report on Organizational and Political Consolidation of CP
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 1	1946	Democracy in the Communist Party
		Fundamentals of Marxism
		Necessity of Studying Marxism-Leninism
		The Struggle Against Browderism
		Industrial Concentration
		Plan for Building the Press and the Party
		The Legacy of Lenin
		History of CPUSA
		The Election of 1946
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 2	1947	Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism
		Short History of CPUSA
		Organization of Clubs
		Lenin
		Truman Doctrine
		The Struggle Against Revisionism and Reaction
		Expansionist Policy of the U.S.
		American Imperialism
		Danger Facing the American People
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 3	1948	Report to the Industrial Division of the N.Y. State CP
		Hostility Against the Soviet Union
		Accelerated Offense Against the Communist Party/Democracy
		Revisionism and the YCL
		Renewed Attacks on Communism
		Report of National Committee Meeting
		American Foreign Policy and Election of 1948
		Attacks on the Left/Wallace
		Report of New York Meeting
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 4	1950	Address to Newly Elected Officers of Kings Highway Club
	1951	Oppression of Negroes
		Lenin
		Report on Youth Work
	1952	Deliberations of 19th Congress on CPUSA
		Reingart's Review of Culture in a Changing World
		19th Party Congress
Reel 2; Box 2, Folder 5	1953	Resolution of the Party
	1954	Report on the Geneva Conference
		Role of U.S. Imperialism
		American Foreign Policy
	1955	Some New Thoughts on the Women Question (not by Gannett)
	1957	The Achievement of the Soviet Union
		Program of the Yugoslavian Communist Party
Reel 3; Box 2, Folder 6	1958	Experience at Alderson
		Strategy for Transition to Socialism
		Communist Manifesto
		Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
	1959	The Spread of Socialism
		Steel Worker's Strike
		Prospects of Peace
		Khrushchev's Visit
	1960	Transition to Automation in the United States and the Soviet Union
		The United Nations and the Struggle for Peace
		Peace Campaign
		Introduction to Scientific Socialism
		Production Relations
		Scientific Socialism
		Revisionism and Capitalist Criticism of Marxism
		Yugoslavia
		Resolution of the N.Y. State CP
		Statement by 81 Marxist-Leninist Parties
Reel 3; Box 3, Folder 1	1961	Historical Materialism
		United Nations
		Marxist Analysis of the Causes of War
		Socialism in the Soviet Union
		The Threat of War and the German Question
		Progressive Evolution of Society
		The Present Epoch of American Capitalism
		Economic Program of the Soviet Union
		Introduction to Marxism
		General Crisis of Capitalism and the New World Epoch
		Bay of Pigs
		Scientific Basis of Socialism
		The Changing World
Reel 3; Box 3, Folder 2	1962	Continuing Contradictions of American Capitalism
		The Struggle Against the McCarran Act
		Socialism and Communism
		The Cuban Missile Crisis
		The McCarran Act
		The Elections of 1962
		The Continuing Crisis of Capitalism
		The Common Market
Reel 4; Box 3, Folder 3	1962	Revisionist Views of Capitalism
		State Monopoly Capitalism
		Soviet-U.S. Relations
		Report by Roger Garaudy
		Imperialism
		81 Party Statement
		International Conflicts Between Capitalism and Communism
		Cuba and the Missile Crisis
Reel 4; Box 3, Folder 4	1963	Imperialism and the General Crisis of Capitalism
		U.S. Foreign Policy in Europe and Latin America
		State Monopoly Capitalism
		False Chinese Claims that CP is Bernsteinian
		Peaceful Coexistence
		The Test Ban Treaty
		Struggle for Equality
		Tripartite Treaty
		Political Consequences of the Kennedy Assassination
Reel 4; Box 3, Folder 5	1963	Berlin Question
		Marxism in Practice
		Commodity Production
		Chinese Position on Imperialism
		Thaw in the Cold War
		American Involvement in Vietnam
		International Politics
		Problems Confronting the Working Class
		National Liberation in the Third World
		Struggle Against Colonialism
Reel 5; Box 4, Folder 1	1964	Ideological Split in Marxist World
		National Question in Former Colonies
		Supremacy of the United States in the World
		Chinese Accusations Against CPSU
		Editorial on U.S.-Soviet Relations
		Need for a Marxist Party in the U.S.
		1964 Presidential Elections
		Transitional Period to Socialism
		Nature of Imperialism -- War or Peace
		Errors of Chinese Leadership
		1964 Elections
		Negro Struggle for Equality
Reel 5; Box 4, Folder 2	1965	Marxist Confrontation with U.S. Imperialism
		The Struggle of Black People
		Colonial Liberation
		Building a Marxist-Leninist Party
		Role of U.S. Imperialism
		Draft Program of CP
	1966	American Involvement in Vietnam
		Necessity of a Political Struggle by the Working Class
		Jews in the Soviet Union
		Vietnam and the Crisis in U.S. Foreign Policy
		Productive Relations
Reel 5; Box 4, Folder 3	1967	U.S. Imperialism After 1945
		The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Soviet Union
		Nature of Socialism and Communism
		Soviet Economic Progress
	1968	Marxism and Religion
		Labour Production
		The U.S. Presidential Election
		Marxist Educational Plan
Reel 5; Box 4, Folder 4	Communist Party	Statement of the Communist Party
		Revolutionary Strategy
		Misconceptions About Communism
		Democratic Centralism
		The Tasks of the Press in the Shops and Trade Unions
		Relationship of Theory and Practice in CP
		Principles of Party Organization
		Morality in Marriage
		The Morality Demanded of a Marxist
		Introduction of Herbert Aptheber
		Browder Revisionism
		Organization in Clubs
Reel 6; Box 4, Folder 5	Economics	Historical Development of Work Alienation
		Development of Labor
		Abstract and Concrete Labor
		Measurement of the Degrss of Exploitation of Workers
		Theory of Reproduction and Circulation of the Aggregate Social Capital
		Law of the Falling Tendency of the Rate of Profit
		Profit and Price of Production
		Stalin's Theory of Economic Crisis
		Loan Capital and Credit
		Profit and Price of Production
		Law of Capitalist Accumulation
		General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Reel 6; Box 4, Folder 6	Economics	General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
		Profit and Price of Production
		Capitalist Society
		General Crisis of Capitalism
		Nature of Exploitation
		Capital and Surplus Value
		Theory of Surplus Value
		General Law of Accumulation
		Loan Capital
		Inflation and British Currency
		Commercial Profits
Reel 6; Box 5, Folder 1	Economics	Incentive Funds in Enterprises
		General Crisis of Capitalism
		Drive for Maximum Profits
		Economic Law of Socialism
		Introduction to Political Economy
		Introduction to Political Economy (different article)
		Productive Relations under Socialism
		Monopolies
		Socialist Reproduction
		Money
		Marxist Law of Value and Price
		Commodity
		Socialist Construction
		Theory of Basis and Superstructure
		Basis and Superstructure
		Basis and Superstructure (different article)
Reel 7; Box 5, Folder 2	Economics	Basis and Superstructure
		Surplus Value
		Marx's Law of Labor and Production
		Materialism
		Political Economy
		Theory of Rent
		Theory of Imperialism
		Character of Social Labor and Labor Production
		Marxian Teachings on Wages
		Wages under Capitalism
		Wages under Capitalism (different article)
		Marxian Theory of Wages
		Imperialism
		Imperialism (different article)
		Imperialism (different article)
		Imperialism (different article)
		Capitalist and Socialist Production
		Outline for a Course in Political Economy
Reel 7; Box 5, Folder 3	History	Lincoln
		Life of Sorge
		Brief History of the Communist Party
		History of CPUSA
		Guide for the Study of the History of the CPSU
		The Communist Party -- The Vanguard of the Working Class
		History and Development of Marxism
		Historical Development of the American Working Class
		Communist Manifesto
Reel 8; Box 5, Folder 4	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism	The Dialectical Method
		Law of Dialectics
		Dialectical Materialism
		Socialist Humanism
		Materialistic Basis of Marxian Socialism
		Scientific Basis of Marxism
		Introduction to Marxism
		Basis of Marxian Morality and Ethics
		Marxist Meaning of Freedom
		Dialectical Materialism
		The Science of Dialectics and Its Chief Laws
		Cultural Revolution in the USSR
		Marxist Analysis of the Causes of War
Reel 8; Box 5, Folder 5	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism	Marxist Theory of the Cause of War
		Social Democratism
		Dialectic as a Theory of Knowledge
		Capitalist Transformation to Socialism
		Marxism-Leninism as a Developing Science
		Paths to Socialism
		Theories of Crises
		Marxist Theory of Crisis
		Role of the State in the Proletarian Dictatorship
		Theory of Proletariat Revolution
		Scientific Basis of Socialism
Reel 8; Box 6, Folder 1	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism	Marxist Theory of War
		Characteristic of Nations
		Socialism
		Introduction to Marxism-Leninism
		The Theory of Crisis
		The State and Fight for Democracy
		Proletarian Revolution and the State
		Marxist Analysis of the Causes of War
		Marxist Analysis of Class
		Marxist Analysis of Class (different article)
Reel 8; Box 6, Folder 2	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism	The Study of Marxism-Leninism
		Idealistic Philosophy
		Theory of Knowledge
		Historical Materialism
		Historical Materialism (different article)
		Logic
		Marxist Philosophy
		Dialectical Materialism
		The Materialist Conception of History
		Theory of State
Reel 9; Box 6, Folder 3	Politics	Peaceful Coexistence
		Predominance of the Economic Struggle in the U.S.
		The Cold War
		Failure of American Foreign Policy
		Peaceful Coexistence
		Changing Structure of the Working Class
		Changes in Soviet Government
Reel 9; Box 6, Folder 4	Partial Lectures

Notes

Reel 9; Box 6, Folder 7	1929	Stalin's Speeches on the CPUSA
	1931	Wages
	1934	17th Party Congress
	1936	Fascism
		Logical Positivism
	1940	Early Phases of World War II
		Two Worlds--A Contrast of Two Economic Systems
		Two Worlds--A Contrast of Two Economic Systems (different set of notes)
Reel 10; Box 7, Folder 1	1946	Rubinstein's Article -- “Consciousness in Light of Dialectical Materialism”
	1950	Text of Soviet Reply to British Note
		Koustautinov's “The Role of Social Consciousness in the Development of Soviet Society”
		Registration and Worker Subscription Campaign
	1951	Chekobova's “Stalin's Theory of Language”
	1952-1960	Cuba
	1953	Kamari --Science and Superstructure
	1958	State Monopoly Capitalism and Revolution
		Significance of Geneva
	1959	Varga's Article “Crisis and the Working Class”
		Burn's Article “New Features in British Capitalism”
		Political Economy
Reel 10; Box 7, Folder 2	1960	Hook's Article “Welfare State”
		China
		Soviet Industrial and Technological Progress
		United Nations
		Erich Fromm
	1961	Notes from Marxism Today
	1962	International Cartels
		The Common Market
		Garaudy
	1963	Trade
		Castro's Speech
		Soviet Foreign Policy
		Article -- “Peaceful Coexistence”
		Leontyev's Article “Economic Science and The Ideological Struggle”
Reel 10; Box 7, Folder 3	1964	Plenary Meeting of CPSU
		National Liberation
		Panama
		Panama-U.S. Controversy
	1964-1966	Middle East
Reel 10; Box 7, Folder 4	1966	The Soviet Union and the Jewish Question
	1966-1967	Middle East War
	1966	Hodge's Article Criticizing Marxism
		Vietnam
		Articles on Southeast Asia
		Marxist Philosophy
		Rumyautsev's Article “Sociology and the Life of Socialism”
		Articles on Vietnam
		Articles on Vietnam (different article)
Reel 11; Box 7, Folder 5	1967	Morning Star Article on Middle East War
		Articles on War in the Middle East
		China/Maoism
		Economics
		Middle East
	1968	The New Left
Reel 11; Box 7, Folder 6	Communist Party	Theory/Practice and Parliamentary Tactics
		CP Progress
		Chinese CP Leaders
		CPUSA in Post-Browder Period
		Soviet Union
		Trotskyism
		Stalin's Remarks at the 18th Party Congress
		Quotes from Stalin at the 17th Party Congress
		Character and Theory of CP
		Organization and Strategy
		Role of Party
		Stalin Interview
		Browder on Marx and America
		Revisionism
		Struggle Against Revisionism
Reel 11; Box 8, Folder 1	Communist Party	Religion in the Soviet Union
		Catholic Church -- Africa, Soviet Union, etc.
		Religion in the Soviet Union
		Religion in the Soviet Union (different set of notes)
		Studying Communism
		Revisionism
Reel 11; Box 8, Folder 2	Economics	Commodity
		Theory of Crisis
		State Monopoly Capitalism
		New Technology and Labor
		Labor Power
		New Developments in Capitalism
		Marxian Theory of Crisis
		Exploiting Societies
		Industrial Reserve Army
		Political Economy
		Political Economy (different set of notes)
		Socialism
Reel 12; Box 8, Folder 3	Economics	Base/Superstructure and Role of State
		Base and Superstructure
		Transition to Socialism
		Browder and Post-War Economic Perspectives
		Economic Development
		Socialist Transition to Communism
		Inflation
		Economics
		Cyclical Crisis
Reel 12; Box 8, Folder 4	History	Marx and the National Liberation
		War Issue in the Second International
		Trotskyism and the 4th International
		Communist Manifesto
		Communist Manifesto (different set of notes)
		Contemporary Critics of the Mexican War
		Lenin and Revolution
Reel 12; Box 8, Folder 5	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism	Marxism-Leninism
		C. Wright Mills
		Art and Realism
		Social Realism in Prose and Literature
		Scientific Socialism
		Social Democration
		Subjective Utility Theories
		Philosophers and Philosophical Schools
		Humanism
Reel 13; Box 8, Folder 6	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism	Philosophy and Dialectical Thinking
		Luperic's “Sartre and the Communists”
		Crowforth's Logical Empiricism
		Conger's Pragmatism and the Physical World
		Seller's Aristotelian Philosophies of Mind
		Philosophy
		Kirk's Article -- “Is Social Science Scientific”
		Historical and Anthropological Notes
		Historical Materialism/Social Formations
		Marxist Theorists
		Science
		Historical Developments
		National Question
		Classes in Society
		Role of the State
		The Arts
Reel 13; Box 9, Folder 1	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism	Idealism vs. Materialism
		Marxism and Natural Science
		Dialectical Materialism and Idealistic Materialism
		Idealism
		Dialectical Materialism
		Socialist Humanism
		Maublanc's Article -- “Freedom, the Individual and Marxism”
		Scientific Socialism
		Family and Women
		The Contradictions of Capitalism and the Nature of Science
		Social Formations
		Socialism
		Religion
Reel 13; Box 9, Folder 2	Philosophy/Scientific Socialism	Philosophical Notebook
Reel 14; Box 9, Folder 3	Politics	China -- Quotes by Mao Tse-tung and Stalin
		Multilateral Nuclear Force
		People's War
		Latin America
		Mao on Combatting Liberalism
		National Liberation Movements in Third World
		Minorities in U.S.
		Peaceful Coexistence/War and Peace
		Far East/South East Asia
		Anti-Russian Propaganda
		Agitation by Women
		Abolition of Prisons
Reel 14; Box 9, Folder 4	General	Notes and Quotes re: Lenin
		George Thompson
		Lenin
Reel 15; Box 9, Folder 5	General	Stalin on Leninism
		Stalin -- “What is a Nation”
Reel 15; Box 10, Folder 1	General	Marx and Engels
		John Lewis
		Marx, Lenin, Engels
		Notes from the Works of Engels, Marx, Lenin, Stalin
Reel 16; Box 10, Folder 3	Notebook