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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The Benjamin Rush Bulletin [Vol 1 Nos. 3 and 4]
New York: Benjamin Rush Society, 1949-1950. Two issues of the staplebound journal, 30 and 50 pages respectively, No. 3 with front wrap lightly toned along edges, No. 4 with pp3-10 evenly toned else very good condition. "Devoted to the fullest consideration of basic questions in the field of Psychiatry, Psychology..... More
Cat.No: 251985
The Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research & Design present the 8th Annual BASTARD Conference. Sunday March 23rd, 10 am-6 pm.
Berkeley: Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research & Design, [2008]. [6]p., wraps secured by folding, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Program for the conference. Talks included "Anarchy & BDSM," "Atheism vs Rationalism," and "Dialectics, The Situationist International And the Revolutionary Power of The Imagination." More
Cat.No: 258774
Berkeley Day of Solidarity with Nicaragua. Sat. July 19th. CELEBRATE [handbill]
Berkeley: East Bay People Aiding Nicaragua, [1980]. 8.5x14 inch handbill, horizontal crease, date penned in corner. Speakers included mayor Gus Newport; music by Orquesta Sabrosita. More
Cat.No: 251449
Berkeley in the Sixties: a film by Mark Kitchell [poster]
San Francisco: Roxie Cinema, [1990]. inch poster for the showing of the documentary, very good. More
Cat.No: 248585
Berkeley Liberation Program
Berkeley: n.pub. [196-]. Pamphlet. [8p.] staplebound pamphlet, 7.5x8.5 inches, vertical fold crease. According to an article in the Summer 1969 issue of Leviathan, a local movement newspaper, "The Berkeley Liberation program was written by several groups of Bay Area radicals and was first made public at the time of the..... More
Cat.No: 265171
The Better Days Collective: Aims-Principles-Struggles
Richmond, VA: The Better Days Collective, [c2002]. Pamphlet. [20]p., stapled wraps, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn, sticker on rear wrap else good photocopied zine. More
Cat.No: 256007
The Beverly Stash presents: On Guard. Issue no. 10
[Beverly Hills, CA]: the underground newsletter, 1970. Single issue of the underground high school paper, mimeographed in wraps, staplebound, 7x8.5 inches, very good. Cover depict Nixon removing his mask to reveal Hitler. Discussion of school administration and events; text indicates that the group publishing it broke into the high school..... More
Cat.No: 195029
Bibliography on the Communist problem in the United States
New York: The Fund for the Republic, 1955. Hardcover. xiii, 474p., 8.5x11.25 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 33339
Big blue books catalog
Girard, KS: Little Blue Book Co., n.d. Pamphlet. 62p., staplebound booklet, paper toned, otherwise very good. Relatively late, perhaps 1950s. More
Cat.No: 243588
The Big Lie Revived: What is really behind the shouting about "Anti-Semitism" in the Socialist countries? [handbill]
Los Angeles: Morning Freiheit, [1952]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, printed one side, light edgewear, creased from being folded in half else very good condition. None in OCLC as of 9/2020. Published in connection with the Slánský trial in Prague, arguing against accusations that it was an anti-Semitic show trial... More
Cat.No: 136168
Bikes not Bombs campaign update [5 issues]
Washington DC: Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, 1987-1990. Five issues of the tabloid-format newspaper, horizontally folded, unevenly toned, with old address labels. Issues present are Summer/Fall and Winter 1987, 1988, 199, and 1990. The main focus of the group was to send bicycles to Nicaragua and encourage a self-sufficient..... More
Cat.No: 268362
Biko Plaza News [10 issues]
Berkeley: Biko Plaza News, 1985. Ten issues of the newsletter published by campus anti-apartheid activists at UC Berkeley. Format varied dramatically; most are 5.5x8.5 or 7x8.5 inch 4-panel brochures, but the issues of volume 2 are in tabloid newspaper format. Produced by cut-and-paste photocopying, with some errors in numbering. Generally..... More
Cat.No: 217452
Bill 33 is Vicious! It threatens the freedom and securty of every worker in this province! It will not work, it must be defeated [four-panel brochure]
Vancouver: n.pub. [1968]. 8.5x11 inch brochure, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. Opposes the bill as a threat to unions and the right to strike. More
Cat.No: 202331
Bill 42 aims to "muzzle" labor
Vancouver: Communist Party of Canada, BC Provincial Committee, [1961]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 6x9.5 inches, front wrap lightly toned along top edge else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 201908
Bill Dunne: Anti-Authoritarian Political Prisoner Serving 75 Years in Prison
Los Angeles / Whittier, CA: Jericho Amnesty Coalition / Anarchist Black Cross Federation, [c2010]. Six-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, slightly misfolded, two small rust stains on front wrap else very good condition. Dunne was arrested in 1979 for his part in the attempted prison break of members of the Wellspring Communion..... More
Cat.No: 266001
Bill Marcy and Old Man Utilities team up again: "But he's my Bill" - Song of the Utilities
Buffalo, NY: [Democratic Party, Erie County], [1935]. Single sheet folded to make 4-panel brochure, approx. 5x7 inches, with cartoon by George Diestel on cover, evenly browned else very good condition. Date 1935 penned at edge of cover. Not found in OCLC as of 4/2021. Accuses Republican Assembly campaign of being..... More
Cat.No: 145262
Black Eye (insurrection) no. 9
New York: the zine, [1990s]. [40]p., staplebound zine, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, illus., very good condition. Anarchist zine with articles Poll Tax riots in the UK, bike messengers, Tianamen Square, a comic by Jay Kinney, and more. More
Cat.No: 251775
Black history and the class struggle
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1990. 16p., 8.25x11 inches, wraps, very good. Later printing of 1983 original. Black history and the class struggle 1. More
Cat.No: 139866
Black history and the class struggle
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1990. Pamphlet. 16p., 8.25x11 inches, wraps, very good. Later printing of 1983 original. Black history and the class struggle 1. More
Cat.No: 238516
Black history and the class struggle [Nos. 1,2 ,4, 7, 13-15, 18-20]
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1983-2011. Nine pamphlets in the series, a number of them official reprints of 1980s originals, all 8.25x11 inches, earlier numbers show shelf and edge wear, esle in good condition. Topics range from Black leadership in the revolutionary movement, The Mumia case, Black Panther history, and..... More
Cat.No: 264394
Black Liberation Month News. February '82
Chicago: Peoples College, 1982. 4p. tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold, evenly toned, minor edgewear. The radical Panafricanist Peoples College, headed by Abdul Alkalimat, emphasized principles of unity among revolutionary forces in the US as well as in Africa. More
Cat.No: 239770
Black majority rule! End Apartheid! [pinback button]
[San Francisco]: Socialist Action, n.d. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 268307
Black Raven, vol. 1 no. 6 (July 24, 1973). [cover title: Anarchy]
Stockton, CA: Woodstock Anarchist Party, 1973. Four-panel newsletter, very good, 8.5x11 inches. This issue mostly consists of the "Black Raven declaration of principles (or non-principles)." More
Cat.No: 214318
Black Rose: Journal of Contemporary Anarchism; No. 2, Spring 1975
Somerville, MA: Black Rose Collective, 1975. Paperback. The second and final issue of the short-lived anarchist journal, 120p., wraps, 5.25x8.75 inches, very good condition. Not to be confused with the journal of the same name published by Black Rose Lectures and Learning. Includes an interview with Esther and Sam Dolgoff..... More
Cat.No: 261230
Black Rose: Vol. 2 No. 5 (Spring 1980)
Boston, MA: Black Rose Lectures and Learning, 1980. Paperback. Single issue of the Anarchist journal of social critique, 56p., 7.5x6 inches, wraps lightly worn, staples rusted else very good condition. Not to be confused with the journal of the same name published by the Black Rose Collective in Somerville. This..... More
Cat.No: 266269