American Institute for Marxist Studies

American Institute for Marxist Studies was founded in 1964 by Herbert Aptheker in New York.

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April 23-24, 1976 Symposium at Columbia University on "Marxism and the Bicentennial

"In New York City, on April 23-24, the American Institute for Marxist Studies AIMS is sponsoring a Symposium at Columbia University on "Marxism and the Bicentennial."

Participants re panels and papers:

• Prof. Robert S. Cohen - Boston University, First Session, presiding. Interestingly, Prof. Robert S. Cohen of Wesleyan University, shows up on page 57, in the section on the Jefferson School Case (ie. Subversive Activities Control Board SACB hearings to have the school designated as a CPUSA front, 1953. He "testified for the school at the Board's hearings.".

• Prof. Johnnetta - a paper on "Militant Black Women in Early U.S. History; Un. of Massachusetts
• Dr. Herbert Aptheker - director of AIMS and professor at Hostos Community College CUNY - "The American Revolution: A Marxian Analysis".

Saturday Panels: "Slavery and the Bicentennial"

• Dorothy Burnham - Empire State College - presiding
• Earl Smith - University of Connecticut, "Recent Literature on Slavery: A Critique"
• Herbert Aptheker - "The Abolitionist Movement"

"The Left in Public Office"

• Gwendolyn Patton - Brooklyn College, presiding
• Jarvais Gilden - Yale University, on "Benjamin J. Davis"
• Si - on "Peter Cacchione"
• [{Gerald Meyer]] - Hostos Community College, on "Vito Marcantonio"

"Labor Struggles During the Cold War"

• David Laibman - Brooklyn College, chairman
• Akosua Barthwell - Columbia University, on "Tobacco Workers and the Reynolds Strike, 1947"
• Paul J. Nyden - University of Pittsburgh, on "United Mine Workers Leadership and the Cold War"
• Roger Keeran - Cornell University, on "United Auto Workers and the Beginning of the Cold War". [KW: Keeran would write a book in the 1990's about "The Communist Party and the United Auto Workers". It is a reasonable, well footnoted work for someone who is definitely sympathetic to the marxist left. One weakness is that it had literally no mention of John Conyers Sr, the father of the marxist Rep. John Conyers Jr, who was also a UAW worker.

"Witch-Hunting: McCarthy Style"

• Leo Auerbach - Jersey City State College, presiding
• Marvin Gettleman - Polytechnic Institute, New York, on the activities "of the notorious Rapp-Coudert Committee which hounded some of the best teachers out of the school system"
• Norman Markowitz - Rutgers University, "Social-Democrats and Witch-Hunting"

Final Session:

• Louise T. Patterson - AIMS, presiding
• Gus Hall - General Secretary of the Communist Party USA
• Ernest De Maio - UN representative of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
• Dennis Serette - president of the Black Trade Unionists Caucus, New York State
• Phillip S. Foner - professor of history, Lincoln University

AIMS office, 20 East 30th Street, New York 10016, MY 9-4530.

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