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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Asians in Struggle
Brooklyn: Forward Motion, 1994. Newspaper. 16p., tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold, paper evenly toned, otherwise very good. Issued as a stand-alone supplement to Forward Motion magazine, founded by the Proletarian Unity League later the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. More
Cat.No: 227601
Asociacion de Trabajadores Inmigrantes de California / CIWA [pinback button]
n.p. CIWA, n.d. 1.755 inch diameter pin, very good. CIWA was created after the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. More
Cat.No: 207493
Attend the First International Military Rights and Antiwar Convention [handbill]
San Francisco: Bay Area Concerned Military, 1971. 8.5x14 inch sheet, folded horizontally, date penned at top. Announces an event coinciding with a GI march against the war. More
Cat.No: 251365
The Attica Brigade / GIs, Black, Brown & White - Unite & Fight! [broadsheet]
[New York]: Attica Brigade, [1972]. 10x14 inch broadsheet, English on one side and Spanish on the other, horizontal fold, minor toning. Argues that the struggles at the Attica Prison and in Vietnam were part of the same fight; calls on the reader to join the April 22 demonstrations against the..... More
Cat.No: 247106
Attica Is / Free the Brothers Now [pinback button]
n.p. [197-]. 2.25 inch pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 247902
Austin Peace and Justice News. March 1992
Austin, TX: Peace and Justice Education Fund, 1992. 16p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, paper evenly toned. Women's History Month issue. More
Cat.No: 251049
AWOL Magazine: Revolutionary artists workshop volume one, spring 2001
Philadelphia: Central Committee of Conscienous Objectors, 2001. 52p., profusely illustrated magazine, very good, but missing the CD that was originally included. With an interview with Michael Franti and other music articles, the Navy's war on Vieques, a critique of Spike Lee, and more. More
Cat.No: 244665
AWOL: Youth for Peace and Revolution. No. 3
Philadelphia: Student Coalition Resisting Enlistment and Militarism, [1997-?]. 23p., staplebound zine, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 235678
Azania will be free! Down with South Africa! Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pan African Congress of Azania [poster]
San Francisco: [John Nyata Pokela Tour], n.d. 17x22 inch poster featuring a crowd of demonstrators with fists raised, small golden outline of the African continent; edgeworn. Issued to promote the national tour of John Nyata Pokela; lengthy sponsorship list at bottom. More
Cat.No: 183558
Back in the Streets: A documentary film about the April 20, 1985, Spring Mobilization for Peace, Jobs, and Justice in San Francisco
San Francisco: Black Swan / Avalanche Films, 1985. Six-panel brochure, several small black and white photos, very good. Seeks funds to produce the film about the months of preparations and coalition-building that went into the large demonstration. The Mobilization was supported by the Bay Area Labor Councils, area churches, as..... More
Cat.No: 204460
Background of the Berlin Crisis: A speakers' guide
New York: National Education Department, Communist Party, [1948-?]. 23p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, faint vertical crease, staples rusted else good condition. Discussion points defending the East German government and the USSR. More
Cat.No: 136626
Background to the Middle East Conflict
Nyack, NY: Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East [CONAME], 1974. 35p., very good in staplebound wraps. Three versions, in varying formats, all published in the same year, reprinted from "Search for Peace in the Middle East," an AFSC publication from 1970. More
Cat.No: 205183
BAD Press: Tracts in Individualist Anarchism-the Best of 1986-1999
[Las Vegas]: [Southern Nevada Alliance of the Libertarian Left], [c2009]. 36p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine. Later reprint by another group of tracts orginally published by the Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade. Rear wrap describes the Drinking Brigade as an individualist anarchist organization, but a participant describes it to..... More
Cat.No: 257159
Bankers off our bodies [pinback button]
n.p. n.d. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good. The "s" of Bankers has been replaced by a dollar sign, and the "o" of Bodies by a Venus symbol. More
Cat.No: 244479
Baragua [eleven issues]
Washington DC: DC "Hands off Cuba" Coalition; later the National Network on Cuba, 1991-95. Eleven issues of the newsletter, with updates on efforts to normalize relations and favorable coverage of Cuban current events. Issues present are Vol. 1, no. 3, Vol. 2, no. 2, 3/4, 6; vol. 3 no. 1..... More
Cat.No: 244658
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
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Basis for Affiliation and the Intenal [sic] Organization of the Anarchist Communist Federation of North America
Ann Arbor: Anarchist Communist Federation of North America, 1978. 16p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps worn and soiled, a few small stains on front wrap, "of North America" underlined in pen on front wrap, pen underlining on a few pages, small stain on p11 else good condition. More
Cat.No: 257277
Bay Area Coalition to Bust the Union Busters. Vol. 1 no. 2 (October 1980)
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 anniversary of the historic March on Washington
[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. More
Cat.No: 162546
Bay Area Grapevine: Issue 36 (May 1981) publication of the Collective, Communal and Cooperative Network.
Berkeley, CA: Collective, Communal and Cooperative Network, 1981. Single issue of the Bay Area newsletter for intentional communities, 8.5x11 inches, 23p., wraps creased, general soiling and wear. Tearing to front cover at staples. More
Cat.No: 246358
Bay Area Grapevine: Issue 38 (July 1981) publication of the Collective, Communal and Cooperative Network.
Berkeley, CA: Collective, Communal and Cooperative Network, 1981. Magazine. Single issue of the Bay Area newsletter for intentional communities, 8.5x11 inches, 23p., wraps creased, closed tear in upper margin of all pages. Includes a defense of the San Francisco-based Kerista polyfidelity commune, written by an ex-member; reports on the first..... More
Cat.No: 144785
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 John Brown Gun Club
[Bay Area, CA]: Bay Area John Brown Gun Club, [2010s]. Single sheet folded to make a 4-panel zine, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, very good condition. One page flier for the group's parent organization Redneck Revolt laid in. Promotional zine for the anarchist/anti-fascist gun club. More
Cat.No: 255759
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[Bay Area] Grapevine: Issue 29, October 1980 publication of the Collective, Communal and Cooperative Network.
Berkeley, CA: Collective, Communal and Cooperative Network, 1981. Magazine. Single issue of the Bay Area newsletter for intentional communities, 8.5x11 inches, 14p., wraps lightly creased, staples begining to rust else good conditon. More
Cat.No: 246265