File consists of correspondence, speeches, booklets, pamphlets, event flyers, statements, protest ephemera, contact information, meeting minutes and agenda, newspaper clippings, proposed resolutions, a book preview and essays on the Waffle, its socialist background and its perspectives on Canadian industry and academia. It includes letters and drafts from John Smart, one of the founders of the Waffle Movement, who asked for comments from the Waffle communications committee prior to submitting articles about division in the Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) and the 1972 federal election to newspapers. File also includes the following booklets: ‘A socialist program for Canadian trade unionists’ (c. 1970s), the ‘Constitution and Resolutions’ of the ONDP (c. 1970s), the Regina Manifesto (1933), and ‘For a Socialist Ontario in an Independent Socialist Canada’ (1970). One copy of ‘For a Socialist Ontario’ contains Waffle member addresses and notice of a Waffle meeting in 1971. John D. Smart, a co-founder of the Waffle movement, is the primary author of letters received by Prepas. The letters discuss updates and plans for Waffle groups across Canada, the state of the NDP party at the provincial and federal level, and Smart’s administrative duties. File also contains an election pamphlet for Carol Gudmundson and flyers for the Gilfargo Workers striking in Oakville, Ontario. File also includes issues of the Waffle News and Waffle Labour News and copies of the papers ‘For an Independent Socalist Canada – Resolutions prepared by the Waffle Movement in the New Democratic Party for the consideration of Riding Associations Affiliated Union Locals and Youth Clubs for the Federal Convention of the New Democratic Party’ (1971), ‘Towards a Nationalization of Canadian Sociology’ by Mike Gurstein, ‘What the Waffle’s All About” by Mel Watkins.
