Hansen, Joseph - Social Networks and Archival Context (original) (raw)
Biographical Note
- 1910 June 16: Born, Salt Lake City, Utah
- 1928 -1934 : Attended University of Utah part-time
- 1931: Married Reba Hooper
- 1934: Joined Communist League of America (predecessor of Socialist Workers Party)
- 1936 -1937 : Staff writer, Voice of the Federation (Maritime Federation of the Pacific), and Labor Action
- 1937 -1940 : Secretary to Leon Trotsky, Coyoacan, Mexico
- 1939: Author, Father Coughlin: Fascist Demagogue
- 1940: Author, Wall Street's War, Not Ours!
- 1940 -1975 : Member, National Committee, Socialist Workers Party
- 1941 -1945 : Merchant seaman
- 1944: Author, American Workers Need a Labor Party
- 1945 -1954 : Staff writer, The Militant (newspaper of Socialist Workers Party)
- 1946: Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York
- 1948: National lecture tour on "The Struggle for Power in Europe" Author, The Socialist Workers Party: What It Is, What It Stands For
- 1950: Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Senate, New York
- 1951: National lecture tour on "America and the World Crisis"
- 1954: Editor, The Militant
- 1955 -1959 : Editor, International Socialist Review (theoretical journal of Socialist Workers Party)
- 1957: Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Los Angeles National lecture tour on "The Outlook for Socialist Regroupment"
- 1959 -1967 : Editor, The Militant
- 1960: Visit to Cuba Founding member, Fair Play for Cuba Committee Author, Too Many Babies? The Myth of the Population Explosion Author, The Truth about Cuba
- 1961: Attended Conferencia Latinoamericana por la Soberania Nacional, la Emancipacion Economica y la Paz, Mexico City Author, In Defense of the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to the State Department and Theodore Draper
- 1961 -1962 : Four-month tour of Latin America
- 1962: National lecture tour on "What Makes Latin America Explosive" Visit to Algeria Author, The Theory of the Cuban Revolution Author, Trotskyism and the Cuban Revolution: An Answer to Hoy
- 1962 -1965 : Socialist Workers Party representative in Europe, based in Paris
- 1963: Attended 7th (Reunification) World Congress of Fourth International
- 1963 -1979 : Fraternal member, United Secretariat of Fourth International Editor, Intercontinental Press (originally entitled World Outlook; published on behalf of United Secretariat of Fourth International, at first in Paris and later in New York City)
- 1965: Co-author, Khrushchev's Downfall/New Deepening of the Sino-Soviet Rift?
- 1966: Editor, Healy "Reconstructs" the Fourth International: Documents and Comments by Participants in a Fiasco
- 1967: Attended Organizacion Latinoamericana de Solidaridad conference, Havana Co-author, Behind China's "Great Cultural Revolution"
- 1968: Co-author, Murder in Memphis: Martin Luther King and the Future of the Black Liberation Struggle Co-author, The Nature of the Cuban Revolution: Record of a Controversy, 1960-1963 Co-author, Revolt in France, May-June 1968: A Contemporary Record
- 1969: Attended 9th World Congress of Fourth International Co-author, Class, Party and State and the Eastern European Revolution Co-author, The Invasion of Czechoslovakia Co-author, Leon Trotsky: The Man and His Work: Reminiscences and Appraisals
- 1972: Author, The Abern Clique Co-author, Nixon's Moscow and Peking Summits: Their Meaning for Vietnam Co-author, A Revolutionary Strategy for the 70s: Documents of the Socialist Workers Party
- 1973 -1977 : Fraternal member, Steering Committee, Leninist-Trotskyist Faction of Fourth International
- 1974: Attended 10th World Congress of Fourth International Author, The Workers and Farmers Government Co-author, Towards a History of the Fourth International Editor, Marxism vs. Ultraleftism: The Record of Healy's Break with Trotskyism
- 1975 ff.: Target of accusation campaign by Workers Revolutionary Party (Great Britain) and Workers League (U.S.)
- 1976: Co-author, The Fight against Fascism in the USA: Forty Years of Struggle Described by Participants Co-author, Healy's Big Lie: The Slander Campaign against Joseph Hansen, George Novack, and the Fourth International Co-author, What Is American Fascism? Writings on Father Coughlin, Mayor Frank Hague, and Senator Joseph McCarthy
- 1978: Author, Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution: The Trotskyist View
- 1979 January 18: Died, New York City
- 1979: Author, The Leninist Strategy of Party Building: The Debate on Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America (published posthumously)
- 1980: Author, James P. Cannon the Internationalist (published posthumously)
- 1986: Co-author, Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women (published posthumously)
From the guide to the Joseph Hansen Papers, 1887-1980., (Hoover Institution Archives)
Archival Resources
Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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referencedIn | George Breitman Papers, 1919-1986 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
referencedIn | Alexander H. Buchman photographs of Leon Trotsky and others, 1982. | Houghton Library | |
referencedIn | Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, post 1965 | Bancroft Library | |
referencedIn | Max Shachtman correspondence with Leon Trotsky, 1930-1940 | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | |
referencedIn | Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980 | Minnesota Historical Society | |
referencedIn | George Breitman Papers, 1928-1986 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
referencedIn | Van Sickle, Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993 | Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries, | |
referencedIn | Leon Trotsky exile papers, 1929-1940. | Houghton Library | |
creatorOf | Joseph Hansen Papers, 1887-1980. | Hoover Institution Archives |
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