Recordings
Talks, classes, interviews and debates recorded by the Socialist Workers Party and its supporters from the 1950s to the 1980s, from reel-to-reel tapes in the Holt Labor Library: 84 recordings, about 36 hours, grouped by speaker. 22 have an edited transcript so far; every one can be played from ETOL.
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George Breitman
Peter Camejo
Coalition politics
James P. Cannon
- Problems and Perspectives of the American Revolution
- What Next? Political Implications of the Triple Revolution Manifesto and a Practical Program
- New York Speech in the Fight with Cochran, 1953
- Plenum Speech, 31 May 1953
- Keynote Address to the Thirteenth National Convention
- On the New Left, 1966
- Report on the Antiwar Conference, December 1965
- The Trend of the Twentieth Century
- What We Mean by Regroupment, 1957
- Why the Party Survives
- The 1956 Khrushchev Revelations
Farrell Dobbs
The Minneapolis Strikes and the Rise of the Revolutionary Party
- Lecture 1: Overview and the Coal-Yard Strikes
- Lecture 2: The General Strikes; the Role of the Communist Party and Governor Olson
- Lecture 3: Trotskyist Leadership of 574; the Fight with Tobin; Organising the Over-the-Road Drivers
- Lecture 4: The 1941 Fight, the Indictment and the War Years; After the War
Teamster Battles of the '30s
Theodore Edwards
The Chinese Revolution and Maoism
Fred Feldman
Joseph Hansen
Tom Kerry
- The Anatomy of Stalinism
- The Coming Revolt in the Labor Movement
- History of the Fourth International
- Interview, 7 September 1982
- The 1934 San Francisco Strike and the 1919 Seattle Strike
- History of Splits and Fusions in the SWP
- History of the Fourth International, Lecture 1
- The Marcyites and Their Origins
- On Progressive Labor, February 1965
- The Party and the French Events of 1968
- History of the SWP to the Second World War
- The Labor Movement from the First World War to the Second
- The Labor Movement from the Second World War to the 1960s
- The New Deal
Robert Langston
Ernest Mandel
George Novack
On Democracy
- Part 1: Greek Democracy
- Part 2: The Political Achievements of the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution
- Part 3: American Liberal Thought
- Part 4: Democracy after the Socialist Revolution
On Stalinism
Evelyn Reed
Harry Ring
An Overview of the Socialist Workers Party, 1939–1960
Larry Trainor
Lectures on the history of American socialism
- The Industrial Workers of the World
- From the IWW to the Founding of the Communist Party
- The Foundation of American Trotskyism
- The Communist League of America to Hitler
- The International Situation, 1933–36
- Into the Socialist Party, and Out
- The Second International to 1937
- An Analysis of Stalinism
- The Communist League of America, the Workers Party and the Socialist Workers Party
- The Socialist Workers Party in Wartime
- Socialism in America after the Second World War
- Post-War Socialism in America and Abroad
- The Ageing of American Socialism
- The Catholic Church
Tim Wohlforth
Meetings, discussions and symposia
ETOL's index also has three silent films of the SWP (1939, 1941 and 1948), which have no sound to transcribe.