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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1-2-3-4 / WDWYFW [pinback button]
n.p. n.d. Pinback Button. 3-inch diameter pin, very good, minor foxing on edge. The acronym stands for "We don't want your fu@#ing war." More
Cat.No: 282632
10,000 GIs killed in Vietnam since the peace talks started...
New York: Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, [1969]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Main speaker listed is Kathleen Cleaver, together with Dave Dellinger and Howard Zinn; chairman is Ossie Davis. More
Cat.No: 267949
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...
San Francisco: Labor News Pamphlets, 1980. 32p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps slightly worn else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 78755
1937-1957: The Remarkable Twenty Year History of the Amalgamated Laundry...
New York: Amalgamated Laundry Workers Joint Board, [1957]. Pamphlet. [12]p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn and soiled, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 282931
1958-60 agreement between Capital Airlines, Inc. and the International Association...
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, staples rusted, front wrap lightly foxed. More
Cat.No: 200022
The 1984 elections and the movement against intervention in Central...
Chicago: Anti-Imperialist Group, 1984. Pamphlet. 21p. staplebound pamphlet, very good. Includes contributions by Mike James, the US Anti-Imperialist League (in support of Jesse Jackson), and Earl Silbar. More
Cat.No: 268389
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
25 Questions and Answers: about wages - prices - profits
Washington DC: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1957. Pamphlet. [16]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8 inches, illus., bottom corner of rear wrap dog-eared else very good condition. Publication No. 58, October 1958. More
Cat.No: 266403
25th Annual Conference of the Communal Studies Association. "Change and...
Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society; National Historic Communal Societies Association, 1998. 12p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, staples rusted, address label on rear wrap, remains of tape used to hold shut for mailing on both wraps else good condition. Program for the conference, with two photos of the Zoar community in..... 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
4 dead at Kent State U. Spiro has said "This...
[Albuquerque-?]: [1970]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch dittoed handbill; date stamp of May 5, 1970 at the bottom (one day after the shootings), with penciled note "U. of New Mexico?" More
Cat.No: 274547
![4th International [1960-61, Winter, No. 12] Workers of the World](/pictures/medium/259155.jpg?v=1605152160)
4th International [1960-61, Winter, No. 12] Workers of the World...
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
The 50th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Soviet...
New York: New Century Publishers, 1953. 31p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. More
Cat.No: 218885
6 Iranian patriots executed. Demonstration... [handbill]
San Francisco: [Iranian Student Association in Northern California], 1972. 8.5x14 inch handbill, neatly fold-creased, with small portraits of the six executed dissidents. Announces a demonstration in San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 267619
A 60th anniversary of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1936-1996, commemorative...
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
6th Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference: March 20-22...
San Francisco: North American Anarchist Studies Network, 2015. Pamphlet. 36p., wraps secured by folding, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good program for the conference. More
Cat.No: 283686
7th Annual Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research &...
Berkeley: Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research & Design, 2007. Pamphlet. 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
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
8th Biennial Convention / AFL-CIO / Atlantic City, Oct. 2...
Atlantic City: AFL-CIO, 1969. Three-part metal badge, very good. More
Cat.No: 261971
9th Annual Conference on Employment Discrimination and the Law; presented...
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
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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