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.
Base Conversion News: Vol. 1 no. 1 (Summer, 1990)
Mountain View, CA: Center for Economic Conversion, 1990. 8p. newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Issued by an organization that favored the shift of military spending to civilian purposes, in the context of post-Cold War base closings. More
Cat.No: 244654
Battle of People's Park. 1 dead, 116 wounded.
Los Angeles: UCLA People's Park Bail Fund, c1969. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; titled is slightly faded, else in very good condition. UCLA student report on events at the People's Park demonstration in 1969 where police shot into the crowd of protesters. More
Cat.No: 305646
Bay Area Coalition to Bust the Union Busters. Vol. 1...
Oakland: the Coalition, 1980. 8p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, folded for mailing, mild soiling. News from Bay Area unions. More
Cat.No: 254156
Bay Area cultural workers celebrate Labor Day and the 20th...
[San Francisco?]: n. pub. [1983]. 8.5x11 inch printed sheet with quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a list of participants, including Angela Davis, Decca Truehaft (Jessica Mitford), Nina Serrano, Teatro Latino and many others, lightly toned else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 162546
Bay Area Institute Newsletter
San Francisco: the Institute, 1970. 8.5x14 inch sheet printed both sides, address label and postal markings, staple hole where the two sides were folded together. Originally published during the US invasion of Cambodia, the newsletter then came out sporadically to discuss later developments. This undated issue critiques Nixon's cease-fire proposal..... More
Cat.No: 249899
Bay-Area wide bomb protest [handbill]
San Francisco: Committee Against the Bomb, nd. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; slight uneven toning, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 307717
Be it resolved...AFSCME on working women and the issues
Washington DC: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, [1978]. Pamphlet. [8]p., stapled wraps, 8.5x5.5 inches landscape format, very good condition. Resolutions from the 1978 AFSCME Convention. More
Cat.No: 298737
Beat the government bosses-- back the postal workers!
Berkeley: Students for a Democratic Society, [1970]. Handbill. 8.5x14 inch handbill; some pen notation on front, else very good. More
Cat.No: 306294
The beautiful idea. To those who stayed and fought and...
N.pl. World Turned Upside Down Press, 2023. Pamphlet. [20p.], wraps, as news, 6.5x10 inches. Graphic novel for children on anarchism. More
Cat.No: 314264
Beauty must be defined as what we are, or else...
Olympia, WA: CrimthInc, nd. Four panel brochure in tabloid newspaper format, folds out to reveal a poster of a Medusa head, very good condition. On beauty standards and how capitalism leads to competition and the pursuit of impossible ideals. More
Cat.No: 320077
Before and After the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947, Referred...
Washington DC: Republican National Committee, [1948]. Pamphlet. [12]p., stapled wraps, 5x7.5 inches, illus., lightly toned, date penciled on front wrap, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 282056
A beginner's guide to the struggle in Ireland
Kitchener-Waterloo: Community Media Project of Kitchener-Waterloo in conjunction with the Chevron, University of Waterloo, 1972. 16p. tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold, paper toned. More
Cat.No: 269695
Behind the Korean plane affair: Should we trust what Reagan...
New York: People's Anti-War Mobilization, [1983]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, very good. Suggests that flight KAL 700, a passenger plane shot down by the Soviet Union, had been involved in espionage. More
Cat.No: 243438
Ben Gold, General Secretary, Needle Trades Workers' Industrial Union, Leader...
Chicago: Communist Party, USA, District No. 8, [c1931?]. Handbill. 5.x3.5 inch handbill; black ink on pink card, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 315028
Benefit for "Haymarket: heritage of struggle" a film by the...
Chicago: [Lucy Parsons Collective?], nd. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; in very good condition. Benefit for a film made by an anarchist collective. More
Cat.No: 315264
Benefit Friday, Saturday, Sunday [People's Park handbill] Walt Disney's "Davy...
Berkeley: People's Park Legal Defense Committee :: Speed Freak Productions, [c196-?]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; slightly toned, else very good. Film screening benefit for People's Park. More
Cat.No: 305950
Benefit jazz concert Oakland "Jobs for Youth" presents The Pacers...
Oakland: "Jobs for Youth" [c1965]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 309147
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 Benjamin Rush Bulletin: Vol. 1 No. 4, Summer 1950
New York: Benjamin Rush Society, 1950. Newsletter. Staplebound journal, 50p., 5.25x8.25 inches, staples rusted, else very good condition. "Devoted to the fullest consideration of basic questions in the field of Psychiatry, Psychology and Social Work, in the light of scientific materialism." Affiliated with the Communist Party. More
Cat.No: 295397
Berkeley 3 on trial for their ideas [handbill on arrest...
Berkeley: Campus YSA :: ISC for the Berkeley Defense Committee, c1969. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; slight toning and minor soil along right edge, else very good. On the trial of three student activists arrested for giving speeches in 1968 at protest on the regents' racism and "political interference with the..... More
Cat.No: 306032
The Berkeley Agitator [3 issues]
Berkeley: The Berkeley Agitator, 1987. Newspaper. Three issues of the folded tabloid newspaper; photos., slightly toned, slight tear on back page of last issue, else very good. Cover titles include "Women's group confronts ROTC," "Shantytown trial halted," and more. Contains volume 1, nos. 2, 4, and 5. More
Cat.No: 307212
The Berkeley Agitator; an independent radical newspaper, vol. 1, no...
Berkeley: The Berkeley Agitator, 1987. Newspaper. [4p]., folded tabloid style format; photos., in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 307232
The Berkeley Agitator; an independent radical newspaper, vol. 1, no...
Berkeley: The Berkeley Agitator, 1987. Newspaper. [8p]., folded tabloid style format; photos., in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 307228
The Berkeley anarchist assembly is: ...
Berkeley: [Berkeley Anarchist Assembly?], 2011. Handbill. 5.5x8.5 inch double-sided handill, slightly handled, else very good. Handbill calling for an anarchist assembly at People's Park in Berkeley, California. More
Cat.No: 286669
The Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research & Design...
Berkeley: Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research & Design, [2008]. Pamphlet. [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
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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