W.E.B. DuBois School of Marxist Studies

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W.E.B. DuBois School of Marxists Studies

History

The W.E. B. DuBois School of Marxists Studies DSMS was created in 1972 by the Communist Party of D.C., old-time members of the Communist Party of Maryland, and local radical students. It only lasted a few years but what was important about it was who the "faculty" members were, because they were interlinked with many other united fronts and [CPUSA]] causes in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.

One of the few known write-ups of the DuBois School appeared in the Congressional Record of October 8, 1975.^[1] These Extension of Remarkscontained information not only on the DuBois School, but all on a visiting delegation to the U.S. of the World Peace Council WPC and some of their hosts in Washington, D.C. and Detroit, Michigan, including John Conyers, U.S. Representative in Congress, future Representative George W. Crockett, Jr., and the leaders of the Detroit City Council (which would later include U.S. Senator-to-be Carl Levin.

The following is what Rep. McDonald had to say about Dr. Alfred Henley , one of the teachers at the DuBois School, a man who was intimately connected to DC-area lead communist activist Abraham Bloom, both being possible CPUSA and/or Soviet espionage agents or agents-of-influence during WW2. More on this subject will be published in the KeyWiki section on Abe Bloom, information that will provide more details of this allegation.

From the "Congressional Record":

"The CPUSA press reported that on Monday, September 29, the World Peace Council contingent was given a reception at the home of Dr. Alfred Hemley, obviously another sloppy Daily World typo for Dr. Alfred Henley, an aging Stalinoid with a Ph.D in physics who operates a scientific apparatus - apparat? - business called Henley Associates from his home at 11009 Kenilworth Avenue, Garrett, Md., in which he has employed a variety of other old leftists."

Henley was active in the 1940's with the Washington Bookshop, notorious for its activities as a center for the Communist underground in the Federal Government. Henley has been a shop steward for the United Electrical Workers Union, expelled from the CIO for its CPUSA domination. More recently, Henley taught Marxist theory at the W.E.B. DuBois School of Marxist Studies, a subdivision of the Washington Free University organized by students with [{Georgetown University]] funds and logistical support.

The W.E.B. DuBois School, which stated it worked for "the day when a single effective Marxist party can lead the oppressed majority of Americans in their immediate struggles and to ultimate socialism," drew its instructors from the ranks for the Young Workers Liberation League - YWLL - youth arm of the CPUSA, and from old-time activists in CPUSA fronts and causes. [NB: Among those teachers, to be further identified in this section, were YWLL-DC leaders Maurice Jackson and Robert Lindsay, as well as old CPUSA member Abe Bloom.

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