Bernie Sanders Addresses the Socialist Party USA in 1983

NYPR Archives & Preservation | Jul 31, 2019

I don't remember recording this speech. But there is the cassette, with my handwriting on it from some 36 years ago. It was a New York City conference of the Socialist Party USA on September 3, 1983.

WNYC Reporter Andrea Bernstein posted a segment and synopsis of the speech three years ago on this site, which you can revisit here: SANDERS. 

I thought, however, that it would be useful, now that he is again running for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, to post the entire audio recording so that listeners may appreciate the full context, nuance, and texture of his delivery at that gathering. 

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