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COO0181 . - 1 . . . . . -,. , * I , The Coniniunist P a r t y ' s (.CPUSA) ncw school opcticd its doors : in November 1969. I t s namc. the Center for Marxist Education, no doubt. reflects the "respectability". Ka,rl Marx's teachings cnjoy in today's Ncw Leftish atmosphere (Marx is a m u s t for any rcally serious dissenter). P a r t of the P a t t y ' s bid to build a youth cadre, the school's initial enrollme'nt totaled 325.. . ranging in age from 25 to 40, ailti in- cluding 39 o n full acholarships'ltom thc Jim Pcake Fund (natmcd for the late sports editor of the Party.'s.Daily World). - ' Director af the Ccnter is John Gallo, bearded and 32, a some- . timc niusician, and currently Executive Director of New York's Freedom and Peacc'Party.. .an amalgam of pacifists, liberals, ' laflists and other anti-Establishment critics, including Comniunists, which cndorscd baby Dr. Spock foF President in 1968. intcrvicw Gallo rcfased to concede outright .CPUSA control ofdthc Ccntcr but said tlicrc "was a relation (to t h e Party). . . WP n a m e those (faculty members) with P a r t y affiliations. . .but this is a scparatc organization. I' The scparation lino is extrcnicly blurred. Initial catalog'nfferings includc? 17 c o u r s c s , largely taught b y C P function- a r i e s , w r i t e r s for CP publications and leadcrship clenicnts of thc nearly dcfunct W. E. B. DuBois Clubs youth front. cludc a number o f far 1cftcrs with impressive crcdcritials a s fellow travclcrs and synipathizcrs. . During one L c c t u r c r s i n - During thc first month of opcr-ations, stndrnts could tunc in on CP'chairnian Henry Winston's "On the Leninist Rcvoliltion?ry Party,' o r P a r t y thcnrrtician Dr. H e r b e r t Apthckutds "The Lifc and Work of'W. E. B. DuBois: also tcaches a course in Afro-American history. Course material rcllccts in largc part CPUSA concern with a r c a s pionc*crrd by tlic Ncw Left - World Imperialism; National Libcralitin and Social'tsni: W o mc n ' s Sup p r e s s io n and Women ' s L ibe r a t io n ; and N a 1 in nal L i bc* r a - tioii and Socialism in tho Middle East. ($1. 50 admission) fcaturcd a "unitcd front" of such rlivcrsc feminists a s Susan Bcllaniy (Black Panther ComniunicaLions.Sccrc.tary for * Ncw York), CPUSA's C l a r a Colon (Womcn's Corlit11issioti), Margir 1Ilnki* atirl Dr)ris Doughty (cxccutivc: board nicirrihcrs t ~ f ~ h r Citywirlr CIJO rt~inatirli Conlt1littc:c: of ~ c l r a r c ! ~ i p t l l s ) ant1 Peggy J > O I ) I > I ~ S fro111 WITCH (Wrlrtivn's International Tc rro r i s t Cons pi racy I r o n i Hcl I ) . Even before tlic lirSt Their Meaning for Today." Apthcker . A recent pancl discussion .* And the Center has other us69 too. class convened. while vblunteers still painted, wired and plastered, +. -_ ' about 150 youth m e t in the auditorium to plan the January 1'970 founding -