National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions

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The National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions is a descendant of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Science, and Professions which was cited as subversive by the California Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities.^[1]

History

The NCASP was formed out of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. In August 1945 June Hoffman, representing the cultural section of the Communist Party at its New York State convention, declared:

"We built the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, and it is a great political weapon."

At that same meeting Lionel Berman, husband of Louise Bransten, a known contact of Soviet espionage agents, was praised by the cultural commission of the Communist Party for his role in setting up the ICCASP.

In 1946, its then-Chairman, Harold L. Ickes repudiated the committee for its Communist character.

On August 2, 1948, Louis F. Budenz, former managing editor of the Daily Worker, testified before the Senate subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Department as follows:

"The Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions was worked out originally in my office in the Daily Worker. It was worked out by the cultural commission of the Daily Worker, of which Lionel Berman, of the cultural section organizer of the (Communist) party, was a member, and he was entrusted not only by that meeting but by the political committee, as the result of these discussions

with the task of forming the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions."^[1]

Personnel

The following have been identified as being affiliated with the ICCASP:^[1]

References

v • d • e Conferences and Events by Decade 1930s World Congress Against War 1940s Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace • Win-the-Peace Conference • World Congress for Peace in Paris • World Congress of Intellectuals 1950s Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs 1960s Socialist Scholars Conference: 1966 1970s Angola Support Conference • Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee Convention • Hard Times Conference • National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity With African Liberation • National Convention of the New American Movement 1980s Socialist Scholars Conference • Conference on the World after Nuclear War • National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression 10th Anniversary Conference • National Council of New American Movement meeting • National Convention of the New American Movement 1990s 1st Committees of Correspondence Conference • Back to Basics conference • Committees of Correspondence founding conference • Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle • Radical Scholars & Activists Conference • Socialist Scholars Conference: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 • Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s 2000s Socialist Scholars Conference: 2000, 2001, 2002 • Left Forum: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 • RadFest/Midwest Social Forum • Twenty-First Century Socialism conference • Mobilization to End Poverty • National Conference on Socialism • Take Back America 2010s Young Democratic Socialists National Conference • Left Forum: 2010, 2011 • National Conference on Socialism • A Century of May Days Labor Conference