Matilde Zimmermann

{{Short description|American author and professor (born 1943)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2015}}

{{BLP sources|date=June 2010}}

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| name = Matilde Zimmermann

| image = File:Matilde Zimmermann 1979 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Zimmermann while running for vice president

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|9|6}}

| nationality = American

| occupation = {{flatlist|

• Author
• professor
• politician

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| party = Socialist Workers Party

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Matilde Zimmermann (born September 6, 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.Alexander, Robert Jackson. International Trotskyism, 1929–1985: a documented analysis of the movement p 873. Zimmermann also ran as an alternate vice presidential candidate for Andrea Gonzales in some states in 1984; Melvin T. Mason was the presidential candidate.

Zimmermann (PhD History 1998) is the Residente Director of SLC (Sarah Lawrence College) in Cuba and is a faculty member in History and Global Studies at SLC. She has been based in Havana the last two fall semesters (2003 and 2004) as director of SLC in Cuba. Because of the 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. She once said that the argument that Cubans were living under a dictatorship was "American propaganda".{{Cite web |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/bernie-sanders-campaigned-for-marxist-party-in-reagan-era |title=Bernie Sanders campaigned for Marxist party in Reagan era |last=Simonson |first=Joseph |date=30 May 2019 |publisher=Washington Examiner |quote=His running mate, Matilde Zimmermann, described the contention that Cubans lived under a dictatorship as American "propaganda." |access-date=11 August 2022}}