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
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
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. Broduced 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
The 99% Spring Training Guide
[Pittsburgh]: 99% Spring, 2012. 60p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Guide for a nationwide week of training in labor and social activism. More
Cat.No: 224865
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.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. Notfound in OCLC. Newsletter for tenants of properties owned by Andy Lipnosky. Lists various problems his tenants have had, urges a strong united front to force repairs, rent deductions... 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
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
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing; also included is a fundraising letter for the USSF co-authored by Angela Davis, Phil Berrigan and George Smith. More
Cat.No: 163459
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 195589
ACORN. Seeing to it that "The People Shall Rule"
Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now, n.d. Single sheet folded to make six-panel brochure. Early brochure for the organization that still exists, under the slightly different name of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. More
Cat.No: 131598
Action for Peace [two issues of the student protest newsletter, issued after the Kent State shootings]
New York: Action for Peace (Columbia University), 1970. Two issues of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, 6 and 8 pages, sheets stapled together at upper left corner, one dated May 7 1970 (cover sheet rather toned) and the other undated but issued around the same time, with a depiction of the... More
Cat.No: 196795
Adolf Eichmann Award: Asst. San Francisco District Attorney James Lassart [mini-poster]
San Francisco: [New World Liberation Front], [1976-?]. 8.5x11 inch sheet with photo of Lassart, red and black text around, very good. Accuses Lassart of being a "prosecutor of the poor; hatchetman for Joseph Freitas; pawn of pig Jeremiah Taylor, ..." etc.; guilty of "perjury - conspiracy - treason." "If humanity... More
Cat.No: 192884
[Advertising card for Ideal Tooth Powder, with photographic portrait of Terence V. Powderly of the Knights of Labor]
Philadelphia: Vail Brothers, [188-]. Stiff card, slightly larger than 4x6.25 inches, with Powderly's portrait (a sepia photograph from the negative) on one side and text about Ideal Tooth Powder and Ideal Quinine and Sulphur Toilet Soap on the other. Plate measures 3.5x5 inches; his moustache about 1.3 inches from left... More
Cat.No: 212110
The Advocate [eight issues]
New York: American Veterans Committee, Berkeley Chapter #1, 1946-47. 8 issues of the mimeographed 8.5x11 inch newsletter published by the Berkeley chapter of the left-wing veterans' group; all from before the AVC's expulsion of communists in 1948. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 4-6, 12-15, 17. Three or four pages... More
Cat.No: 181872