Carl Gershman
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Carl Gershman served from 1984 to 2021 as the founding president of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, congressionally-funded, grant-making institution that supports non-governmental gro
Gershman in 2024
The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee was a political organization founded by Michael Harrington that advocated democratic socialism in the United States. DSOC was formed in 1973 when Harringt
Carl Gershman
…convention, the Socialist Party changed its name to Social Democrats USA (SDUSA) by a vote of 73 to 34. Harrington resigned from SDUSA and founded the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) in 1973. In 1975, Gershman published a monograph on the foreign policy of the American labor movement. From 1975 to January 1980, Gershman served…
DSOC button from 1978
Harrington addressing the Socialist International Congress in Vancouver, 1978
First page of Newsletter of the Democratic Left volume 1, issue 1 (March 1973)
Michael Harrington addressing the 1979 DSOC convention