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.
Biennial Report of the Railroad Brotherhoods State Legislative Board, 1927...
St. Paul: The Minnesota Union Advocate, 1927. Pamphlet. 95p., stapled wraps, 4.5x7.5 inches, small ink stain on front wrap, pencil marks on one page else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 286693
Biennial Report of the Railroad Brotherhoods State Legislative Board, 1927...
St. Paul: The Minnesota Union Advocate, 1927. Pamphlet. 95p., stapled wraps, 4.5x7.5 inches, top corner dog-eared, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 286695
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
Big easy, small window: 2005, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast, USA
Saint Louis, MO: One Thousand Emotions, 2006. Pamphlet. 50p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine. Discusses looters in New Orleans as "insurgents" against the social order. More
Cat.No: 171156
The Big Lie Revived: What is really behind the shouting...
Los Angeles: Morning Freiheit, [1952]. Handbill. 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
Big Muddy Gazette: vol. 4, #1-4 & 9,Sept.-Dec. 1971 &...
Carbondale: Big Muddy Gazette, 1971. Newspaper. five issues, various pagination, folded tabloid underground newspaper, heavy wear and chipping, handwritten address Red Eye Media and stamped Exchange, articles, opinion, poetry, events, good on newsprint. The death of George Jackson cover story on issue #1. Trial of the Carbondale 6. Gay Liberation..... More
Cat.No: 298288
"The biggest threat to the orderly conduct of business...is people-the...
Los Angeles: National Committee Against Repressive Legislation, [1970]. Pamphlet. [12]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, date in blue pencil on front wrap, else very good condition. Lists repressive laws and which politicians voted for and against them. The committee was previously called the National Committee to Abolish HUAC/HISC. More
Cat.No: 288935
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 Lives / South Bronx, USA / September 12, 13...
Bronx, NY: [1989]. Pinback Button. 1.75 inch diameter pin, for an event honoring the slain South African activist Steve Biko. Organizers of the event were affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. More
Cat.No: 296033
Bill 33 is Vicious! It threatens the freedom and securty...
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 Marcy and Old Man Utilities team up again: "But...
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
Bingham: not guilty / The Full Story [screenprint poster]
Palo Alto, CA: Friends of Stephen Bingham, [1986]. Poster. 17x22.5 inch poster, tiny pinholes at corners, otherwise very good. Bingham, a civil rights attorney, was tried in 1986 on charges of having smuggled a pistol inside a tape recorder to aid in George Jackson's attempted escape from San Quentin in..... More
Cat.No: 278462
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, evenly toned else very good on newsprint. 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 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 lung bulletin; West Virginia black lung association newsletter #3...
Charleston, WV: West Virginia Black Lung Association, 1970. Newsletter. 4p., 8.5x11 inches; illus., political cartoons, tri-fold for mailing, slight soiling on front cover, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 288214
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Vol. 2, no...
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1968. Newspaper. 12p., tabloid format newspaper, mildly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good with minor handling wear. "Extra" edition, special issue focusing on Huey Newton's conviction and the promise that the Panthers will free him. Includes an article on a Panther delegation going to the United..... More
Cat.No: 212303
The Black Panther Black Community News Service. Vol. 2, no...
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1968. Newspaper. 24p. tabloid format newspaper; horizontal fold, paper toned, otherwise very good. Christmas-themed issue with Emory Douglas artwork depicting Black youths capturing Pig Santa at gunpoint in their fireplace, captioned "Pig Xmas sham ending. Back cover depicts "Black Revolutionary Xmas Wishes" (armaments). Page 15 notes..... More
Cat.No: 281615
The Black Panther Black Community News Service. Vol. 2, no...
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1968. Newspaper. 16p., tabloid format newspaper, mildly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good with minor handling wear. Cover depicts three panthers with "Free Huey" flags standing in formation on court house steps; caption says "Free Huey... or the sky's the limit!" Centerspread of photos from Free..... More
Cat.No: 212300
The Black Panther Black Community News Service. Vol. 5, no...
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1970. Newspaper. 20p. tabloid format newspaper, mild horizontal fold, evenly toned. Front cover - "Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention. Howard University, Washington D.C., November 27, 28 & 29, 1970... Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense will read the people's new constitution." Emory Douglas poster on rear cover..... More
Cat.No: 290909
The Black Panther Black Community News Service. Vol. IV, no...
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1970. Newspaper. 20p. illus. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, mild toning, generally very good. Front cover story on the February 23rd 1970 arrest of Butch Mabrey in Hunter's Point (Mabrey had shot into a crowd, killing one; the paper states that in the process of coming..... More
Cat.No: 200011
The Black Panther Black Community News Service. Vol. IV, no...
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1970. Newspaper. 20p. illus. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, mild toning, mild wear along the fold. Front cover story on the February 23rd 1970 arrest of Butch Mabrey in Hunter's Point (Mabrey had shot into a crowd, killing one; the paper states that in the process..... More
Cat.No: 286361
The Black Panther Black Community News Service. Vol. IV, no...
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1970. Newspaper. 20p. illus. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, some foxing to the cover. Penned note at top, "11 PM. Roland Young," perhaps a reminder of a meeting. Young was a San Francisco DJ who had been fired several months earlier in part because of his..... More
Cat.No: 286362
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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