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Abbreviations: n.=name; a.=address; c.=contact person (s); a.&a.=activities and aims.

BRITAIN

n. Campaign Against Militarism (CAM)

a. c/o CAM BMCAM, London WC1N3XX

c. Amanda Macintosh, conference organizer

a.&a. On the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,CAM will be hosting the International Towards 2000 Conference on War to mark theend of the "No More Hiroshimas" year of action. The conference will be held inLondon from July 28 to August 3, 1995, and will be followed by a mass anti-warevent on August 6th.People interested in participating may do so by submitting papers, organizing adelegation, joining the youth caucus, proposing a workshop and suggesting ideas.

n. Democratization

a. In U.S. %Frank Cass, 5804 NE Hassalo Street, Portland, OR 97213; in theUK, %Frank Cass, Newbury House, 890-900 Eastern Avenue,Newbury Park. Ilford, Essex, 1G2 7HH

c. Peter Burnell and Ian Campbell, editors

a.&a. This new journal, founded in 1994, "aims to promote a betterunderstanding of democratization—defined as the way democratic norms,institutions and practices evolve and are disseminated both within and acrossnational and cultural boundaries."

n. Russia and the Successor States Briefing Service

a. Sam Cox, Room BM401, Longman Information and Reference, 6th floor,Westgate House, Freepost, Harlow, Essex, CM201YQ, U.K.

a.&a. This new briefing service, edited by Dr. Martin McCauley of the Schoolof Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London, aims to keepsubscribers abreast of new developments in the former Soviet Union, concerningissues such as marketization of the economy, electoral reforms, new economic

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institutions, and other such areas of interest to people trying to understand thedialectic of capitalism and resistance to capitalism in the former USSR and itsmember nations.

GERMANY

n. Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)

a.&a. The following excerpts are taken from a report sent to S&D by Dr. EvelinWittich:The PDS no longer maintains a 'Tarty Annual Study Course" for the education ofcadres, as the new party sees it as expressing "negative experiences withindoctrination, discipline and the use of sdence for the legitimation of ruling policies.. ." This rejection reflects the PDS' "pluralist character and openness to socialist,communist and generally critical bodies of thought." But the PDS is applying forfunds designated by the German Government for political education, funds suppliedto other German political parties.

The party-related federal foundation of the PDS, "Gesellschaftsanalyse undPolitische Bildung e.V." is not "a party organization but rather an independent,non-profit, private, cultural institution which in its work is committed to the ideasand values of left and socialist tendencies in Germany. The Association has beenworking now for almost three years on the terrain of public political education andthe construction of scientific concepts."

The spectrum of political education work comprises the study of Capital and of thefundamental economic questions of society; nature, technology and society; thestudy of media and political communication; visions of the future; personalities inthe history of socialism.

HUNGARY

n. Eszmelet Foundation (EF)

a. Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Department of PoliticalScience, 1093 Budapest, Fovam ter 8, Hungary; and % Eszmelet,Kapitany Gabor, H-1022 Budapest, Herman Ott6 ut 8.

c. Ferenc Tokei

a.&a. The EF held its first International Conference of Social Critical Reviewsfrom April 10 to 12,1991, in Budapest. The papers read at this Conference have beenpublished recently and are available in book form, in two volumes, from the EF.They are mainly in English, with a sprinkling of papers in French and German.One of the results of the Conference was a declaration of intent issued by participantsrepresenting left-wing journals, who agreed to find concrete means of cooperation; toexchange abstracts of articles they publish; to facilitate the exchange of ideas across

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journals; to investigate existing networks among left-wing journals; and to organizeregular meetings of their representatives.

The main goal of the Conference was "to bring together forces of left-wing thinkingfor the theoretical tasks stemming from the changes of 1989/90 in Eastern Europe, toanalyze world trends and interpret them, and within this to seek realistic possibilitiesof an alternative to capitalism."

RUSSIA

n. International Association of Scholars for Democracy and Socialism(IASDS)

a. Volodarskogo Street 16, Moscow

c. In the U.S.: Patty Lee Parmalee, 211 West 102nd street, New York, NY10025

a.&a. The IASDS, founded by several leading members of the Russian Party ofLabor, notably Alexander Buzgalin, its chairperson, held an international symposiumin Moscow from May 30 to June 6, 1994 on "Socialism: Lessons of the Crisis." Thesymposium was a folow-up on similar events that took place from 1991 to 1993.Issues discussed at the 1994 symposium included 1) theoretical and practical lessonsof the systemic crisis of the socialist society, movement and thought; 2) toward a newquality of socialism: its theoretical possibilities and practical beginnings in themodern world; 3) self-management, self-government and functional self-rule.Some conference attendees took a post-conference tour to Magnitogorsk, anindustrial center in the Urals, and took part in discussions with trade union leadersand activists of the workers' movement. Political, social and cultural conditions inMagnitogorsk were found to be quite different from those of Moscow. InMagnitogorsk, the accomplishments as well as the failures of the Soviet era are stillwidely recognized, and statues of Lenin are still in place.A group of individuals from Brazil, Britain, Italy, Peru, Russia, Ukraine, and theUnited States, including Buzgalin, Andrei Kolganov and Boris Slavin representingRussia, intend to bring socialist writers together for the Socialist Scholars Conferenceto be held in New York City April 7-9,1995, and the next IASDS Conference to beheld in Moscow in May-June 1995.

UNITED STATES

n. The Center for Cuban Studies (CCS)

a. 124 West 23rd street, New York, New York 10011c. Sandra Levinson, director

a.&a. The CCS is one of the most important and active organizations workingin the U.S. to end the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba and to reestablish normaldiplomatic, political, and cultural relations between the U.S. and Cuba. It publishes

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Cuba Update and several other smaller newsletters, sponsors and helps to fundtravel by spedal groups to Cuba such as the Pastors for Peace Construction Brigadeswhich was in Cuba from July 22 to 31,1994, and invites Cuban intellectuals, artistsand writers to the U.S., such as writers Pedro PeYez and Marta Rojas and filmmakerGloria Rolando.

n. Center for Popular Economics (CPE)

a. Box 785, Amherst, MA 01004c. Jane Kiser, staff economist

a.&a. The CPE held a fifteenth anniversary conference August 5-7, 1994, inNorthampton, MA on "Where do we go.from here? Alternatives and Strategies." Thegeneral purposes of the Conference were to "provide a forum at which progressiveactivists, working on numerous fronts, can question and challenge the ideas ofradical political economists; and economists can assist activists in understandinglinks between local struggles and broad economic policies that can powerfully affectthe outcome of those struggles." Among the participants were Sam Bowles, whospoke about an economic program for democracy and equity, Juliet Schor, discussingthe need for a "quality of life" politics, and Manuel Pastor, addressing issues of raceand urban economic renewal. A special panel discussed left economic alternatives forthe 21st century.

n. Committees of Correspondence (CC)a. 122 West 27th street, 10th floor. New York, New York 10001

a.&a. CC publishes The Corresponder. The organization held a FoundingConvention in July of 1994.The CC's goals and visions, formulated in the wake of the recent split in the CPUSA,incorporate a conception of socialism that is both an alternative to capitalism and away towards a program of radical democratization of U.S. society. Although itsleadership is composed "predominantly of people with a socialist vision and aMarxist view of history," the CC aims to build an organization that is pluralistic,embracing members who have theoretical frameworks other than Marxist.Max Elbaum reported sympathetically but also critically on the FoundingConvention. He noted the following:

"In the U.S., the CC—launched by activists who broke away from the CommunistParty USA in early 1992—has been the most broad-based and sustained effort to gobeyond dialogue and regroup socialists from diverse traditions into a commonactivist organization. The group which has emerged from this process is a tangledmix of innovation and inertia.

The Founding Convention accomplished its basic goals. Hard work and extensivepreparations brought 388 delegates (representing 1,500 paid-up members) and 132observers to Chicago's Bismarck Hotel. The tenacious assembly approved a Goalsand Principles document ("Toward a Democratic and Socialist Future") built aroundthe concept of "radical democratization of our economic and political system." Theyalso passed a set of by-laws mandating an elaborate national leadership structure

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and substantial autonomy for state and local chapters; many attendees termed thenew group essentially a "federation." An "Action Program" was approved and"Committees of Correspondence" was reaffirmed, after considerable debate. (Quotedfrom Max Elbaum, "Settling in for a Long Haul," Crossroads, September 1994, p. 19;this issue, on p. 22, has a directory of "The U.S. Socialist Left," with names, addressesand telephone numbers.)

n. CrossRoads (CR)

a. P.O. Box 2809, Oakland, CA 94609

c. Max Elbaum, Managing Editor

a.&a. At a meeting of its Board of Directors held in January 1994, CR decidedupon four general projects for 1994-95: 1) to work towards a gathering of youngjournalists and media workers; 2) sponsorship of a national meeting ofrepresentatives from left and progressive organizations; 3) to sponsor a visit to SouthAfrica by mainly African-American journalists to witness the April elections andassist the ANC in public relations and media work around the election process; 4)reach a larger constituency for CrossRoads.

n. Cuba Information Project (CIP)a. 198 Broadway, Suite 800, New York, NY 10038

c. Leslie Cagan, directora.&a. Groups committed to ending the embargo against Cuba and restoring

normal ties with our neighbor island have been formed in many parts of the U.S. Oneof the aims of the CIP is to coordinate these efforts and maintain a steady contactbetween them. Among its most important projects is the publication of Cuba Action:News from the Capital, a legislative overwiew which includes information about thelegislation introduced by Rep. Rangel (Free Trade with Cuba Act—HR 2229);'coordinating economic and humanitarian help for Cuba; organizing trips to Cuba;and challenging the legitimacy of restrictions on free travel to Cuba.

n. democratic Culture (dC)

a. P. O. Box 6405, Evanston, IL 60204c. Gerald Graff and Gregory Jay, Coordinators

a.&a. dC is the newsletter of Teachers for a Democratic Culture, founded in 1992.

In its original statement of purpose, the Teachers for a Democratic Culturebegan by noting some of the progressive changes that had taken place in educationover the past decade or so, such as giving a far richer diversity of Americans accessto a college education, and reforms in the curriculum designed to "provide a moretruthful account of our history and cultural heritage." It then went on to underlinethe resistance to change among educational organizations and government agencies,and made its own position clear in the following manner:"What does the notion of a 'democratic culture' mean and how does it relate toeducation? In our view, a democratic culture is one in which criteria of value in artare not permanently fixed by tradition and authority but are subject to constantrevision. It is a culture in which terms such as "canon," "literature," "tradition,"

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"artistic value," "common culture" and even "truth" are seen as disputed rather thangiven. This means not that standards for judging art and scholarship must bediscarded but that such standards should evolve out of democratic processes inwhich they can be thoughtfully challenged." (Quoted from Volume 3, Number 1,Spring 1994, p. 3.)

n. Femand Braudel Center (FBC

a. Binghamton Unniversity, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, N.Y. 13902c. Immanuel Wallerstein, director

a.&a. Conferences recently organized by the FBC are: XII InternationalColloqium on the World Economy, held in Tokyo anand Nagoya, December 10-14,1994; "Journees Braudeliennes" held in Mexico City, October 7-11,1994; "StructuralTransformations in the Late 20th Century," featuring a keynote address by SamirAmin on "The Future of Global Polarization," and sessions on "Basic Approaches toGlobal Restructuring" and "New Social Movememts and Strategies for Resistance";"Histoire et sciences sociales, aujourdTuii" in Paris January 20-21,1994;

n. Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS)a. Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002

c. Michael Klare, Director

a.&a. The theme of the Program's 1994 Summer Institute, held from June 6 to10, 1994, was "The Eurasian Powderkeg: Ethnic, Inter-Republic and RegionalConflicts in the Former Soviet Union."

n. International Institute for Self-Management (IISM)a. PO Box 5065, New Haven, CT 06525

c. Len Krimerman, coordinatora.&a. The theme of the ISSM's 1993 Conference was "Building Global

Economic Democracy," which continues in 1994 to be its main purpose. Readersinterested in receiving the organizations' publications should write to the addressgiven above.

n. Jewish Radical Education Project (JREP)

a. 1 Union Square West, New York, N.Y. 10011a.&a. The JREP was founded in the early part of 1994. This non-profit

organization explains that it is "dedicated to the dissemination of the Jewish radicalpoint of view." Among the group's programs is the publication of a monthlyperiodical, The Jewish Radical, which includes articles on history, culture and politicsfrom a "pro-Jewish and pro-radical point of view"; classes, forums and lectures ontopics related to Jewish radicalism; and the collection, publication and disseminationof Jewish radical literature.

n. The Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and SocialChange (MHC)

a. Queens College, Flushing, N.Y. 11367

c. Prof. Raymond S. Franklin, Director

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a.&a. The MHC was founded in the early part of 1992. It is "seeking ways tomeet the challenge of the world's dramatic transformations. Through forums andprojects that bring together scholars, journalists, labor leaders, communityorganizers, and public officials, the Center seeks to enhance political understandingand to create a moral climate conducive to more intelligent and humane politicaldiscourse. We are committed to developing workable projects for reducing poverty;establishing more equality and social justice; eradicating racial, ethnic, and genderdisparities in life circumstances; and protecting our beleaguered environment." TheMHC publishes a Newsletter.

n. The Brecht Forum/ New York Marxist School

a. 122 West 27th street, New York, N.Y. 10001c. Liz Mestres, executive director

a.&a. In February 1994, the Brecht Forum moved to new and more spaciousheadquarters on the 10th floor of 122 West 27th street, opposite Monthly Review. LizMestres has replaced Sanford Abrams as executive director. She is among the founders ofthe schoolThe Brecht Forum's annual Summer Intensive Study of Marxism, held last year fromJuly 17 to July 24, drew an enthusiastic group of about 20 students, who attendedthree-hour evening seminars led by Annette Rubinstein on "Culture and Marxism inthe U.S.; Hector Figeruoa on "Historical Materialism and Marx's Capital"; SungurSavran on "The Premises and Conditions for the Democratic Development ofSocialism"; Steve Brier on "Labor Movements and Socialist Initiatives in the U.S."; EliMessinger on "Science and Capitalist Development"; Carole Turbrun on "Feminismand Marxism"; Radhika Lai on "Nationalism and Racism at the End of the 20thCentury"; and Frank Rosengarten on "Gramsci's Contribution to Marxist Theory."In 1992, the Brecht Forum inaugurated The Institute for Popular Education to"promote a better understanding of the politics of education" from a radical andsocialist perspective. Among its programs are ongoing training workshops on theteaching methodology developed by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire.

n. Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library for Social Research (NPML)a. 1819 Tenth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710

a.&a. The Fall 1994 Newsletter of the NPML announced archival materials oncivil rights and "witch hunt" cases concerning, among others, Angela Davis, SteveNelson, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Harry Bridges, Haywood Patterson. It also holdsmaterial on McCarren cases, McCarthy cases, Smith Act cases, and "harboring" cases.

n. Project on the Comparative International History of Left Education

a. Department of History, Brooklyn Polytechnic University, 333 Jay street,Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201

c. Professor Marvin Gettleman, director; Susan Paul, project assistanta.&a. With the support of his University and of Science and Society (of which

he is an editor) Marvin Gettleman, whose essay on communist education was

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published in New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, MR Press,1993, has begun a project to encourage comparative study of left education.Here are excerpts from a provisional project description distributed recently by Gettleman:"The project aims at advancing knowledge in an important area that has receivedlittle systematic study: the many-sided, sometimes open, often clandestineeducational and agitational-propagandistic efforts by social groups and individualsthat are and have been on the "left". Our time-frame is late nineteenth century to thepresent, and the conception of the left that governs this project is a broad andinclusive one, encompassing socialist, communist, anarchist, Trotskyist, Freireist andleft-feminist educational efforts globally, in the advanced industrial countries as wellas in the less-developed areas of the world.

The plan is to hold a series of conferences on the international history of lefteducation, drawing scholars from all over the world who will present theirinvestigations to others working in the same general area—and to the attendees atthe conferences and conference sessions. At the conclusion of what is at least to bethe first phase of this project, the research presented in the various sites (to bespecified later) will be collected into a book that will sum up what is known on thesubject at the close of the twentieth century. The first of these conferences will beheld in the summer of 1995 in connection with the 18th International Congress ofHistorical Sciences in Montreal, Canada. The conference session will be on thecomparative history of Communist (and near-Communist) education in Canada,Great Britain, El Salvador, Weimar Germany, Third Republic France, China,Sandinista Nicaragua, apartheid South Africa, pre-1975 Vietnam, and the UnitedStates. After Montreal, there will be further conference sessions at meetings of theAmerican Historical Association and the History of Education Society. Officials at theInternational Institute for Social History in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, haveoffered the Institute's physical facilities for a several-day-long conference on lefteducation at a still unspecified time in the not-too-distant future.Those interested in getting a fuller description of this project should send aself-addressed envelope (52 cents postage) to Gettleman.

n. Radical Philosophy Association (RPA)a. 65 Tory Fort Lane, Worcester, MA 01602

a.&a. The RPA held its first National Conference at Drake University, DesMoines, IA, from November 3-6, 1994. Among issues discussed were the future ofsocialism, postmodernism, radical pedagogy, international feminism, nationalism,ecology in a world perspective, and racism.Items of interest gleaned from the Fall 1994 issue of the Radical PhilosophyNewletter are: 1) a list of recently published books that will be reviewed in the RPA'sReview of Books, edited by Joe Walsh; an announcement of The African AmericanPhilosopohy Conference that took place at Rockland Community College, Suffern,NY on October 21, 1994; and a call for papers issued by organizers of the 7th

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Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists, to beheld in Havana June 9-23,1995.

n. Radical Women (RW)a. 32 Union Square East, #907, New York, NY 10003

c. Dr. Susan Williams, National Education Coordinator of the FreedomSocialist Party; and Betty Maloney, NYC Coordinator

a.&a. Radical Women, a project of the Freedom Socialist Party, holds regularseminars, lectures and discussions at its NYC headquarters. Among recent topicsfeatured have been "A Passion for Justice: A Documentary Video about the Life ofIda B. Wells" and a discussion of "Beloved by Toni Morrison: A Story of Slavery andResistance" held to celebrate Black History Month. In February 1994 Radical Womenheld a four-week study group on "The Origins of Racism" which used Oliver C.Cox's book Caste, Class and Race as its basic text.

n. Rhode Island Labor History Society (RILH)a. Labor Research Center, The University of Rhode Island, 85 Upper

College Road, Kingston, RI02881c. Gail Fowley Mohanty and Scott Molloy

a.&a. The Society held its annual New England Labor History Conference inWoonsocket, RI on May 13-14, 1994. The theme was the Great Depression and therise of organized labor. Films about the 1920s and 30s, and individuals active in thelabor movement in the 30s, were featured.

n. Rethinking Marxism (RM)a. Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA), Dept. of

Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003a.&a. In upcoming issues, in line with its intention to publish "a lively mix of

discourses and approaches to social life," RM will feature articles by RosemaryHennessy on Queer Theory; an interview with Cornel West; Jack Amariglio andDavid Ruccio on Postmodernism and Marxism; a "Dossier of Socialist Realism andEast German Modernism" by Julia Hell, Loren Kruger, and Katie Trumpener;"Hindsight", a play about Alexandra Kollnontai by Sheila Rowbotham; and a specialissue on Socialism in the Black World by Manning Marable.RM, together with the AESA, has begun to publish a number of books which havegrown out of its work and to sponsor conferences, both large and small. Marxism inthe Postmodern Age, just released by Guilford Press and edited by A. Callari, S.Cullenberg, and C. Biewener, is a collection of some of the best papers from its lastconference "Marxism in the New World Order." RM is also publishing a series ofshorter books on key Marxian concepts published by Pluto/Westview Press.Bringing it All Back Home: Class, Gender, and Power in the Household Today, byHamuset, Fraad, Resnick and Wolff, includes an introduction by Gayatri Spivak. Avolume exploring the complex legacy of the Althusserian tradition in Marxism is alsoin press and will appear in the Fall of 1995.

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Planning has begun for RM's next large conference, which will probably be held in1996. (excerpts from a report submitted by Jonathan Diskin)

n. Union of Democratic Intellectuals (UDI)

a. Ph.D. Program in Sociology, The Graduate School of CUNY, 33 West42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10036

c. Prof. Stanley Aronowitz

a.&a. Founded in 1992, the UDI has organized a working group ofscholar-activists drawn mainly from the various campuses of CUNY. Among theissues it has identified as being of concern to democratic intellectuals are: therightwing campaign against multiculturalism; free expression and uninhibiteddebate; discrimination against political and cultural dissidents; traditionalassumptions about education; the new directions schools and colleges are taking.With regard to this last issue, the UDI has taken note of the tendency today ofeducational institutions "to stratify and channel students" and the growingsubservience of these institutions to centers of economic and political power.

n. University Publications of America (UPA)a. 4520 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814

a.&a. A major microfilm collection focusing on the work of the NAACP from1940 to 1955 is available from the UPA. Some of the papers document thewide-ranging aspects of race relations and racial discrimination that the NAACPaddressed during these years. The Legal Department files cover a number ofsignificant problems and issues that the organization worked on, including Ku KluxKlan activity, communism and anti-communism during the postwar "red scare," theCongressional persecution of Hollywood personalities, the prosecution ofconscientious objectors during World War n, and prison conditions throughout theUnited States. There is considerable material on prominent African Americans,among them W.E.B. Dubois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Langston Hughes, RayfordLogan, Joe Louis, Paul Robeson, and Adam Clayton Powell.

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