ABOUT ARTHUR LIPOW
Dr. Arthur Lipow is a retired academic who taught at the University of London, Birkbeck College, and the Institute of United States Studies.
He grew up in California and graduated from Pasadena High School. He attended UCLA (B.A., 1955) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in sociology, 1969).
He has published five books, among them Political Parties and Democracy and Authoritarian Socialism.
He founded and was Director of the Michael Harrington Centre and Labour and Society International (LSI) in London. The Harrington Centre was funded by City University of New York, and chaired by the late President of CUNY and former Peace Corps Director in Ethiopia, Professor Joseph Murphy.
Among its other projects, the Centre initiated a program to assist the development of higher education in Africa, sponsored by UNESCO and the United Nations Development Project (UNDP).
Dr. Lipow organized and participated in an international conference in Ethiopia in 1992, sponsored by UNESCO and UNDP, to further cooperation between institutions of higher learning North and South. LSI was sponsored by five international Trade Secretariats and funded by the European Union to carry on labor education and organize Centers for Democracy and Civil Society in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe.
In Britain, Dr. Lipow was a member of the Labour Party and an active participant in European Nuclear Disarmament (END). Upon his retirement in 1998, Dr. Lipow returned to California. He co-founded the Alameda Public Affairs Forum in 2003 and the Center for Global Peace and Democracy in 2007.