American Labor & Radicalism
This section includes books (both nonfiction and fiction) as well as ephemera related to labor unions and activism, grassroots political organization in fields such as environmentalism and free speech, and the underground press. Our holdings range from academic historical works and labor-themed novels to original leaflets and pamphlets.
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100 Flowers Re-view vol. 1, #2, January-February 1975
Cambridge: 100 Flowers Bookstore, 1975. Magazine. 16p. includes covers, 8.25x10.25 inches, articles, reviews, photos, news, very good newsletter in pastebound wraps. Bookshop review of books. Cover story on Tillie Olsen's "Yonnondio" Also articles on a meeting of collectives, open marriage and Burt Alpert's "Inversions" NOTE: This is not the Maoist..... More
Cat.No: 221843
1500 found National United Workers Organization
Chicago: NUWO, [1976]. Four-page tabloid newspaper format publication issued after the founding convention of the NUWO (a front group of the RCP). Horizontal fold, some toning; text in English and Spanish. More
Cat.No: 221684
1500 found National United Workers Organization
Chicago: NUWO, [1976]. Four-page tabloid newspaper format publication issued after the founding convention of the NUWO (a front group of the RCP). Horizontal fold, uneven toning, an apparent footprint at the top; text in English and Spanish. More
Cat.No: 221685
The 153 year struggle for the American Labor Party, with "Three kinds of labor parties" by Leon Trotsky
San Francisco: Labor News Pamphlets, 1980. 32p., wraps slightly worn. More
Cat.No: 78755
1917 West (nos. 1, 3)
Oakland: Bay Area Bolshevik Tendency, 1992. Two issues of the 8.5x11 inch staplebound publication, the first issue (on Gay liberation through socialist revolution) 24 pages, the later issue a four-page brochure folded from a single sheet. More
Cat.No: 212908
1958-60 agreement between Capital Airlines, Inc. and the International Association of Machinists, Airline Division
n.p. International Association of Machinists, Airline Division, 1958. 64p. booklet in staplebound wraps, light handling wear, owner's name penned at top edge of front cover. More
Cat.No: 200022
1978 Workers History appointment calendar
Philadelphia: Workers Books, [1977]. Hardcover appointment calendar with white plastic comb binding, very good. Two to four pages per week, profusely illustrated with black and white photos and text describing domestic and international labor history events, along with paeans to Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Engels, etc. Issued by a group..... More
Cat.No: 225453
1o de Mayo / Dia internacional obrero [pinback button]
n.p. [Revolutionary Union], n.d. 1.75 inch diameter pin, artwork depicting three workers with banner, very good, metal on reverse still bright. More
Cat.No: 210696
21st CPUSA Convention / Chicago 1975 [pinback button]
Chicago: CPUSA, 1975. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good, dark shade of blue. More
Cat.No: 247898
21st CPUSA Convention / Chicago 1975 [pinback button]
Chicago: CPUSA, 1975. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good, light shade of blue. More
Cat.No: 247899
25th Annual Conference of the Communal Studies Association. "Change and dissolution in community"
Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society; National Historic Communal Societies Association, 1998. 12p., wraps, program for the conference, with two photos of the Zoar community in 1890. More
Cat.No: 160732
325. Issue 3
n.p. 325 Collective, 2006. Single issue of the annual magazine, 59 pages, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Anarchist journal with special focus on prisons and technological social control. More
Cat.No: 244571
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4th International [1960-61, Winter, No. 12] Workers of the World Unite
Rome: International Executive Committee of the Fourth International, 1960-61. Magazine. One issue, 7.5x10 inches, 64pp., 4 half inch cuts on spine of the magazine (may been string bound and then removed) cover coming undone from spine, heavy toning along the edges of most pages, else in good condition. The magazine..... More
Cat.No: 259155
50,000 dead. How many more? End Reagan's war in Central America [poster]
n.p. [198-]. 11.5x17.5 inch screenprint poster, depicting a partially lit face peering out of the darkness. Very good. Produced in the San Francisco Bay Area. More
Cat.No: 215506
The 50th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
New York: New Century Publishers, 1953. 31p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. More
Cat.No: 218885
A 60th anniversary of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1936-1996, commemorative program book
Oakland: Bay Area Post, VALB, 1996. 16p. program, numerous photos, 7x8.5 inches, wraps with the Post's original membership list. More
Cat.No: 102990
7th Annual Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research & Design (BASTARD) Conference. Sunday March 18, 2007.
Berkeley: Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research & Design, 2007. 6p., wraps secured by folding, 5.5x8.5 inches, small stain on rear wrap else very good condition. Program for the conference. Speakers included Wolfi Landstreicher and Ashanti Alston. More
Cat.No: 258773
The 80's, theoretical journal of the Communist Workers Party, U.S.A. Vol. II, no. 3
New York: Communist Workers Party, USA, [1981-?]. Single issue of the journal, 50p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches; newsprint paperstock toned, pen mark on cover, otherwise very good. Jerry Tung was the Party General Secretary. Entire issue devoted to Cynthia Lai's "Historic lessons of China's Cultural Revolution." More
Cat.No: 210303
81 Razones Para Mantener la Memoria Viva
[Chile]: npl, 2012. 84p., wraps, 4.75x4 inches, illus., very good condition. Text in Spanish. On the 81 prisoners killed in a fire at San Miguel prison in Santiago, Chile in 2010. The prison was severely overcrowded and had no emergency procedure in place. More
Cat.No: 259141
9th Annual Conference on Employment Discrimination and the Law; presented by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Los Angeles District Office; EEOC General Counsel Division, San Francisco Regional Office of General Counsel; Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and University of California at Los Angeles, School of Law, Saturday, December 1, 1979, at UCLA School of Law
Los Angeles: the presenting organizations, 1979. 223 sheets, printed recto only, 8.5x11 inches, hole punched and inserted into a binder, application form included. More
Cat.No: 81426
A(M+RC)=Genocide
[Madison, WI]: no publisher, [1970-?]. 12p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches; small green doodle on front cover, otherwise mild toning and handling. Cover design shows math research being used as ammunition for the army. OCLC lists this item as "Army Math Research" (actually the components of the cartoon) and attributes it..... More
Cat.No: 246033
A.J. Lipnosky Memorial Tenants' Union newsletter. No. 1
Berkeley, CA: A.J. Lipnosky Memorial Tenants' Union, [ca. 1973]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, fold creases and some yellowing, lightly foxed else good condition. Not found in OCLC as of 11/2020. Newsletter for tenants of properties owned by Andy Lipnosky. Lists various problems his tenants have had, urges..... More
Cat.No: 142016
A.J. Muste Memorial Institute essay series, No. 8
New York: A. J. Muste Memorial Institute, n.d. [mid-1980s]. 51p., staplebound upright 9x3.8 inch wraps, very good. A. J. Muste Memorial Institute essay series, no. 8. Includes: On wars of liberation / War Resisters' International -- Gandhi on violent struggles / Devi Prasad -- Revolutionary violence: a dialogue on Central..... More
Cat.No: 206177
A3M 2000: a directory with personal statements
Mountain View, CA: Pacific Studies Center, 2000. 28p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Issued after a 30th reunion of activists from the April Third Movement, which had protested Stanford University's role in the Vietnam War. Includes many participants' personal statements about their memories of activism and their later lives..... More
Cat.No: 252950
AALC; African-American Labor Center/CAAT; Centre Afro-Americain du Travail
Washington: the Center, 1985. 36p., 8.5x11 inches, illus., half in English, half in French, on the Center's programs in the US and Africa, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 141481