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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Big Rock Candy Mountain. Resources for Our Education (February 1971)
Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, 1971. 47p., 10.75x14.5 inches, newsprint toned, minor wear. Periodical for those interested in alternative education for both kids and adults, with reviews about recommended books, ads for educational products, and for other home-made stuff like woodburning stoves for the alternate classroom. More about Big Rock Candy Mountain. Resources for Our Education (February 1971
Cat.No: 176886
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 about Biko Plaza News [10 issues
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 about Bill 33 is Vicious! It threatens the freedom and securty of every worker in this province! It...
Cat.No: 202331
Bill 42 aims to "muzzle" labor
Vancouver: Communist Party of Canada, BC Provincial Committee, [1961]. Four-panel brochure, 6x9.5 inches, very good. More about Bill 42 aims to "muzzle" labor
Cat.No: 201908
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. Date 1935 penned at edge of cover. Not found in OCLC. Accuses Republican Assembly campaign of being in the pocket of the utility companies. Cartoon depicts... More about Bill Marcy and Old Man Utilities team up again. "But he's my Bill" - Song of the Utilities
Cat.No: 145262
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 about Black history and the class struggle
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 about Black history and the class struggle
Cat.No: 238516
Black history and the class struggle [Nos. 1-21]
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1983-2011. Twenty-one pamphlets in the series, a number of them official reprints of 1980s originals, all 8.25x11 inches, very good in wraps. Topics range from Black leadership in the revolutionary movement, The Mumia case, Black Panther history, and prison issues, to Obama as "CEO of... More about Black history and the class struggle [Nos. 1-21
Cat.No: 157989
Black Liberation Month News. February '80
Chicago: Peoples College, 1980. 4p. tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold, evenly toned, otherwise very good. 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 about Black Liberation Month News. February '80
Cat.No: 239766
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 about Black Liberation Month News. February '82
Cat.No: 239770
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Vol. 2, no. 3 (May 18, 1968)
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1968. 28p., tabloid format newspaper, mildly toned, horizontal fold, mild fraying, otherwise very good with minor handling wear. Eldridge Cleaver / Malcolm X cover. Interior includes several full-page campaign posters designed to be cut out and posted if so desired: Cleaver for President, Huey Newton for... More about The Black Panther Black Community News Service Vol. 2, no. 3 (May 18, 1968
Cat.No: 191516
The Black Panther Black Community News Service vol. 5, no. 22, Saturday, November 28, 1970
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1970. Newspaper. 19p. illus. tabloid with Emory Douglas poster on back, toned, worn along the horizontal fold, tear at top of front cover, marginal closed tears, minor wrinkling from damp. Front cover - Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention. Howard University, Washington D.C., November 27, 28 & 29... More about The Black Panther Black Community News Service vol. 5, no. 22, Saturday, November 28, 1970
Cat.No: 235618
The Black Panther black community news service vol. III, no. 29, Saturday, November 15, 1969
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1969. Newspaper. 20p. illus. tabloid newspaper, horizontal fold, light browning, minor staining along left margin. "Inside this Issue: Message to All Progressive Forces," "U.S. Pilots Captured in Vietnam." Rear poster reads "Progressive Journalists of the five continents, powerful revolutionary pen and sternly condemn U.S. Imperialism." Artist..... More about The Black Panther black community news service vol. III, no. 29, Saturday, November 15, 1969
Cat.No: 200036
The Black Panther Black Community News Service vol. III, no. 8 (Saturday, June 14, 1969)
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1969. 24p. illus. folded tabloid, lightly toned, small closed tears at top and bottom of cover spine, a small bit of foxing, else very good. Cover headline: "Capitalism plus Racism breeds FASCISM," with photo of police-guarded Huey Newton handcuffed to a hospital gurney. Back cover is... More about The Black Panther Black Community News Service vol. III, no. 8 (Saturday, June 14, 1969
Cat.No: 239702
Black prison movements USA; the NOBO journal of AfricanAmerican dialogue, volume II, number 1
Trenton: Africa World Press, 1995. xii, 184p., illustrations, lightly worn wraps. More about Black prison movements USA; the NOBO journal of AfricanAmerican dialogue, volume II, number 1
Cat.No: 68468
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 about Black Raven, vol. 1 no. 6 (July 24, 1973). [cover title: Anarchy
Cat.No: 214318
Black Star. Spring 1986
Tucson, AZ: J. Gallagher, 1986. One issue of the tabloid format anarchist newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned. Vol. 4 No. 1. Includes a centerfold article about the Vatican and fascism. More about Black Star. Spring 1986
Cat.No: 230394
Blazing Star: vol. 2, #1, July 1976: Blazing Star returns
Chicago: Blazing Star/NAM, 1976. [14p] 8.5x11 inch newsletter, illustrated with drawings and cartoons, features, opinion, ads, resources, lightly-toned on covers, sheets stapled top-left corner. Blazing Star was a lesbian/feminist chapter of the New American Movement established in Chicago. Stories on Gay Rights legislation, Lavender & Red Book review, lesbian mothers..... More about Blazing Star: vol. 2, #1, July 1976: Blazing Star returns
Cat.No: 211564
Blazing Star: vol. 4, #2, March 1978: Exclusive - Noble: I'm running for the Senate
Chicago: Blazing Star/NAM, 1978. Newspaper. 12p. folded tabloid newspaper, photos, features, opinion, ads, resources, heavily-toned on cover above the fold otherwise good on newsprint. Blazing Star was a lesbian/feminist chapter of the New American Movement established in Chicago. Above the fold story on Elaine Noble's bid for the Senate. Centerfold..... More about Blazing Star: vol. 4, #2, March 1978: Exclusive - Noble: I'm running for the Senate
Cat.No: 208818
Bolivia: Communiqué from the E.L.N
Montreal: Center for Information on Latin America, 30 Sept. 1971. 3p., 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheets stapled at upper left. Reaffirmation of armed struggle in the wake of a defeat at the hands of government forces. More about Bolivia: Communiqué from the E.L.N
Cat.No: 163637
Bolivia: the revolution the "Fourth International" betrayed
New York: League for the Revolutionary Party (USA), n.d. 21p., very good in staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches. 1980s reprint of articles from the 1950s by the Vern-Ryan Tendency of the SWP. A Proletarian Revolution pamphlet. More about Bolivia: the revolution the "Fourth International" betrayed
Cat.No: 134408
Bolshevik revolution. No. 5 (August 1980)
New York: Bolshevik League of the United States, 1980. Single issue of the journal, 16p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Includes a report on the Black United Front congress, a report on two "traitors" on the BL central committee being discovered and purged, and more. More about Bolshevik revolution. No. 5 (August 1980
Cat.No: 177110
The Boneyard Examiner, Vol. 1, No. 12, December 13,1971
Urbana, IL: n.p., 1971. 8p., folded tabloid, a few spots on front wraps, light toning at spine. An underground newspaper published in the home of the University of Illinois. Cover has a large photo of Vietnamese guerillas with the headline "Happy Anniversary NLF." Articles on a Graduate Assistants' Union, Angela... More about The Boneyard Examiner, Vol. 1, No. 12, December 13,1971
Cat.No: 162049
The boreal crown and the downfall of civilization
Sheboygan, WI: Enemy Combatant Publications, [201-]. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. Places of publication given in Enemy Combatant productions are fictional. Essays on Charles Fourier by Hakim Bey, Don LaCoss, and others. More about The boreal crown and the downfall of civilization
Cat.No: 233679
Boston Tea Party - 1970 [handbill]
New York: Vietnam Peace Parade Committee; Vietnam Moratorium Committee, 1970. 8.5x11 inch handbill, faintly creased from having been folded to fit into an envelope for mailing, otherwise very good. Announces a rally at Battery Park in New York, featuring Paul Krassner, Burning City Theater (a guerrilla street theater troupe), Women... More about Boston Tea Party - 1970 [handbill
Cat.No: 221977