http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1858230/posts
(snip) surveillance against the National Lawyers Guild, an organization founded in 1937 and long associated with the labor movement and liberal causes.
As Colin Moynihan reports in The Times, the F.B.I. turned over copies of some 400,000 pages from its files on the group under a 1977 lawsuit. In 1997, the copies were donated by the guild’s lawyers to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University with the understanding that they could be made available to the public this year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1869992/posts
The Genocide Generals: secret recordings explode the myth they knew nothing about the Holocaust
http://www.communist-party.org.uk/downloads/OurHistoryBulletin_6.pdf
CPUSA gives its archives to University An original copy of Joe HillÂ’s pencil-written will, `My Will is easy to decide/ For there is nothing to divideÂ’, written the night before a Utah firing squad executed him in 1915 and later put to music, is among the gems in a vast collection of papers and photographs donated by the Communist Party USA to New York University.
The material from the entire period of the Party’s history includes secret code words for branches and actions, underground names of leaders, personal letters, and directions for how good party members should behave (no charity work, for instance). The donation includes 20,000 books, journals and pamphlets and a million photographs from The Daily Worker¹s archives. Hardly any of the files were reviewed by the Party before being given away.
The collection is so vast that it will take years to catalogue. Many new dissertations and books are expected to result from the new archives, which are likely to revise the obsessive focus of external historians in the past on the Party’s supposed subservience to Moscow, neglecting Communists work in organising labour and fighting racism. Much contentious `scholarship’ is now expected to be massively revised. Much personal insight is likely to come from the huge number of files of detailed complaints of police brutality against African-Americans and “piles” of prison correspondence from activists.
http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/rcp.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body
Guide to the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Collection
1975-1979
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2630
Fax: (212) 995-4225
E-mail: gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu
© 1999 Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. All rights reserved.
New York University Libraries, Publisher
Processed by Stacy Kinlock
Machine-readable finding aid derived from a SGM EAD v1 finding aid dated: 1999. Machine-readable finding aid created by Apex Data Services. Description is in English.
2004 Electronic finding aid revised according to local applications by Brian Stevens.
Descriptive Summary
Creator: Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
Title: Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Collection
Dates: 1975-1979
Abstract: The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) was a Maoist organization founded in 1975 as the successor to the Revolutionary Union (founded in 1968). The collection consists of central committee bulletins and position papers, as well as pamphlets, flyers, and items from related organizations of the era.
Quantity: 1 linear feet (1 box)
Call Phrase: Tamiment 090