Matilde Zimmermann

Matilde Zimmermann

Matilde Zimmermann (born 6 September 1943) is an American author and professor who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Vice President in 1980. The party had three different Presidential candidates that year, Andrew Pulley, Richard H. Congress and Clifton DeBerry depending on the state. She was at the time a writer for the party newspaper The Militant.^[1] Zimmermann also ran as an alternate vice presidential candidate for Andrea Gonzales in some states in 1984; Melvin T. Mason was the presidential candidate.

Matilde (PhD History 1998) is the Residente Director of SLC (Sarah Lawrence College) in Cuba and is a faculty member in History an Global Studies al SLC. Matilde has been based in Havana the last two fall semesters (2003 and 2004) as Director of SLC in Cuba. Because of the new U.S. restrictions on undergraduate academic programs in Cuba, Sarah Lawrence is now the only program of U.S. students at the University of Havana.

Bibliography

• Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution (Duke, 2001) ISBN 0-8223-2595-0
• Carlos Fonseca y la revolución nicaragüense (Managua, 2003)
• Bajo las banderas del Che y de Sandino (Havana, 2004)
• A Revolução Nicaragüense (São Paulo, 2005) ISBN 978-85-7139-653-1
• Comandante Carlos: La vida de Carlos Fonseca Amador (Caracas, 2008)

References

1. ^ Alexander, Robert Jackson. International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: a documented analysis of the movement p 873.

Party political offices
Preceded by Willie Mae Reid	Socialist Workers Party Vice Presidential candidate 1980 (lost), 1984 (lost)	Succeeded by Kathleen Mickells

v · d · eUnited States presidential election, 1980
Republican Party Convention • Primaries • Primary results	Nominee: Ronald Reagan VP Nominee: George H. W. Bush Candidates: John B. Anderson · Howard Baker  · George H. W. Bush  · John Connally · Phil Crane · Bob Dole · Ben Fernandez · Harold Stassen
Democratic Party Convention • Primaries • Primary results	Nominee: Jimmy Carter VP Nominee: Walter Mondale Candidates: Jerry Brown · Ted Kennedy · Ron Dellums · William Proxmire
Independent	Candidate: John B. Anderson VP candidate: Patrick Lucey
Other independent and third party candidates Citizens Party Nominee: Barry Commoner VP Nominee: LaDonna Harris Libertarian Party Nominee: Ed Clark VP Nominee: David Koch Prohibition Party Nominee: Ben Bubar VP Nominee: Earl Dodge Socialist Party USA Nominee: David McReynolds VP Nominee: Diane Drufenbrock Socialist Workers Party Nominee: Andrew Pulley · Alternate nominees: Richard Congress, Clifton DeBerry Workers World Party Nominee: Deirdre Griswold VP Nominee: Gavrielle Holmes Independents and other candidates Lyndon LaRouche • Maureen Smith/ Running mate: Elizabeth Cervantes Barron • Warren Spannaus
Other 1980 elections: House • Senate • Gubernatorial

v · d · eUnited States presidential election, 1984
Republican Party Convention • Primaries • Primary results	Nominee: Ronald Reagan VP Nominee: George H. W. Bush Candidates: Ben Fernandez · Harold Stassen
Democratic Party Convention • Primaries • Primary results	Nominee: Walter Mondale VP Nominee: Geraldine Ferraro Candidates: Reubin Askew · Alan Cranston · John Glenn · Gary Hart · Ernest Hollings · Jesse Jackson · George McGovern
Third party and independent candidates Citizens Party Nominee: Sonia Johnson VP Nominee: Richard Walton Communist Party USA Nominee: Gus Hall VP Nominee: Angela Davis Libertarian Party Nominee: David Bergland VP Nominee: Jim Lewis Candidates: Gene Burns · Earl Ravenal · Mary Ruwart Prohibition Party Nominee: Earl Dodge Socialist Equality Party Nominee: Edward Winn VP Nominee: Helen Halyard Socialist Party USA Nominee: Sonia Johnson VP Nominee: Richard Walton Socialist Workers Party Nominee: Melvin T. Mason VP Nominee: Matilde Zimmermann Workers World Party Nominee: Larry Holmes • Alternate nominee: Gavrielle Holmes VP Nominee: Gloria La Riva Independents and other candidates: Charles Doty · Larry Flynt · Lyndon LaRouche/ Running mate: Billy Davis
Other 1984 elections: House • Senate • Gubernatorial

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• 1943 births
• Living people
• American women writers
• Sarah Lawrence College faculty
• Socialist Workers Party (United States) vice-presidential nominees
• United States vice-presidential candidates, 1984
• Female socialists
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