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Paul M. Sweezy

Contents 1 Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace 2 Socialist Scholars Steering Committee 1966 3 Socialist Scholars Conference 1966 4 GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee 5 In The Times Founding sponsors 6 New American Movement 7 Socialist Scholars Conference 1990 8 Socialist Scholars Conference 1992 9 Socialist Scholars 1997 10 References

Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace

Paul M. Sweezy was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.^[1]

Socialist Scholars Steering Committee 1966

In 1966, the following served on the Steering Committee for the Socialist Scholars Conference 1966, held September 9-11 1966, at the Hotel Commodore, New York.^[2]

Socialist Scholars Conference 1966

The Socialist Scholars Conference 1966, held September 9-11, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:^[3]

Critique of Baran and Sweezy, Monopoly Capital

• Karl Niebyl, Temple University
• Russ Nixon, New York University
• James O'Connor, San Jose Sate College
• John Owen, Johns Hopkins University
• Paul M. Sweezy, Monthly Review
• Russ Nixon, Chairman

Dinner Address:

• Conor Cruise O'Brien
• Albert Schweitzer, Professor of Humanities, New York University, Introduced by Warren I. Susman, Rutgers University

GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee

Circa 1969, Paul M. Sweezy, Monthly Review, New York , was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .^[4]

In The Times Founding sponsors

In 1976 founding sponsors of the Institute for Policy Studies/New American Movement linked socialist journal were;

New American Movement

In 1981, Paul Sweezy, Bobbye Oritz, Harry Magdoff and Jules Geller of the Monthly Review magazine congratulated the New American Movement on the occasion of its 10^th anniversary.^[6]

Socialist Scholars Conference 1990

The Socialist Scholars Conference 1990, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:^[7]

Is Socialism a Real Alternative in the Third World

• Sponsor: Monthly Review
• Moderator: Paul M. Sweezy, Co Editor, Monthly Review
• Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Workers Party, Brazil
• Bill Hinton, author, The Great Reversal
• Carlos Vilas, Author, The Socialism Revolution

Socialist Scholars Conference 1992

Paul Sweezy, Monthly Review, Daniel Singer, European Correspondent for the Nation, Samir Amin, Senegal and Leo Panitch, York University, Toronto were speakers on the Globalization and Delinking panel sponsored by Monthly Review and Socialist Register at the Tenth Annual Socialist Scholars Conference. The conference was held April 24-26, 1992 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City^[8]

Socialist Scholars 1997

In March 28-30 1997 Democratic Socialists of America convened their annual Socialist Scholars Conference at Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York.

The conference was themed "Radical alternatives on the eve of the millenium".

Invitees were asked to join Doug Henwood, Robert Heilbroner, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff, Bill Tabb, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Fitch, Jane Slaughter and Ellen Meiksins Wood "as they debate changes in the labor movement, Marxist theory, the state of the economy, market socialism, and other areas where theory and practice meet".

Or "listen to the United States' only independent and socialist congressman", Rep. Bernie Sanders, "dialogue with" Joel Rogers of the New Party and In These Times' ....Salim Muwakkil on independent politics..^[9].

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