Matilde Zimmermann is an American

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 author and professor who ran as the Socialist Workers Party

Socialist Workers Party (United States)

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 candidate for United States Vice President in 1980

United States presidential election, 1980

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. The party had three different Presidential

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 candidates that year, Andrew Pulley

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Andrew Pulley is an American politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1972; at the time he was twenty years old, making him ineligible under the United States Constitution. Along with Presidential candidate Linda Jenness he received 52,799...

, Richard H. Congress and Clifton DeBerry

Clifton DeBerry

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 depending on the state. She was at the time a writer for the party newspaper The Militant. Zimmermann also ran as an alternate vice presidential candidate for Andrea Gonzales in some states in 1984

United States presidential election, 1984

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; Melvin T. Mason

Melvin T. Mason

Melvin T. Mason is an American politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States President in the 1984 United States presidential election...

 was the presidential candidate.

Matilde (PhD History 1998) is the Residente Director of SLC (Sarah Lawrence College

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) 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.