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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And Now It's Called - Universal Military Training and Service - but it still means a militarized America!
Washington DC: The National Council Against Conscription, [1951]. Pamphlet. EIght-panel brochure, 3.25x5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 268559
"And the truth shall make you free..." A collection of useful quotations from the King James version of the Holy Bible
New York: Textile Workers Union of America, Education Department, [195-]. 17p., staplebound wraps, very good, 8.5x11 inches. Quotations relevant to the labor movement... "Blessed are ye that hunger now, for ye shall be fulfilled." More
Cat.No: 210985
Angola and Southern Africa [handbill]
[Oakland]: Angola Solidarity Coalition, [1976]. 8.5x14 inch handbill, horizontal fold, date penned in corner. Announcement of a program featuring Steve Talbot as a speaker. More
Cat.No: 251446
Announcement: We invite you to visit the Comrades Lunch Room upstairs in Machinists Hall, 531 Eleventh St. A good home cooked meal 25c [invitation card]
Oakland, CA: [International Association of Machinists], [192-?]. 2.5x4 inch card, very good, printed one side. Socialist notables including James P. Cannon spoke at the Hall in the early 1920s. More
Cat.No: 180894
Announcing for October Nineteen-Sixty-Two, an exhibit of published works of Havelock Ellis, including miscellanea from Joseph Ishill's collection [at] Berkeley Heights Public Library, New Jersey
[Berkeley Heights, NJ]: [Oriole Press], 1962. Single sheet, printed one side only, 4.5x6.25 inches, very good condition. A four-panel brochure version was also printed, featuring a long quote from Ellis. More
Cat.No: 269050
Another UPS'er for the Hoffa slate! [pinback button]
Philadelphia: 1996. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good, on a card signed by the designer, Don Howell, Jr., certifying that "This button is from the original run of 250 buttons printed in the city of Philadelphia" for the 1996 campaign for Teamster international officers. More
Cat.No: 231078
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Answer the critics of F.E.P.C. Try this quiz at home [cover title, caption title -] Arguments most frequently used for and against Federal permanent FEPC legislation.
Washington, D.C. National Council for a Permanent F.E.P.C., [1945]. Pamphlet. 15p., illustrated wraps, 6x9 inches, very good condition, fundraising leaflet for the group by Dorothy Norman laid in. Pamphlet supporting S-101 and H.R. 2232, laws intended to make the wartime Fair Employment Practice Committee legislation (prohibiting discrimination against Black and..... More
Cat.No: 168168
The Anti draft [eight issues]
Washington DC: Committee Against Registration and the Draft, 1980-1988. Eight issues of the newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, folded for mailing, otherwise very good. Issues present are Vol. 1 no. 9 and 10 (the latter issue with four blank pages due to printing error), vol. 2 nos. 2-4, 7, and vol. 3..... More
Cat.No: 244911
Anti-Apartheid Action! 1985, Oct No. 4
Oakland: Bay Area Free South Africa Movement, 1985. One issue of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, 4p., generally very good,condition. More
Cat.No: 263830
Anti-Apartheid Action! [five issues]
Oakland: Bay Area Free South Africa Movement, 1985-1986. Five issues of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, 4 to 8 pages per issue, generally very good, one with a penned name. Issues present are June/July, August, and October 1985, Dec. 1985/Jan. 1986, and April-May 1986. More
Cat.No: 239785
The anti-mass: methods of organization for collectives
[New Haven, CT]: Anti-mass Collective, 1970. 56p., 4x5 inches, illustrated, first edition booklet in soiled stapled cream wraps, staples rusted with a little migration, first page lightly foxed, a good-only copy. Anarchist work, promoting underground collectives. More
Cat.No: 64576
Anti-Monopoly Movement. Who runs the war machine? [handbill]
Niagara Falls, NY: Anti-Monopoly Committee, [197-]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, fold-creased, lightly worn else good condition. The Committee appears to have centered around George W. Robbins, an instructor in the Social Sciences College of the State University of New York at Buffalo. More
Cat.No: 243156
Anti-Nuclear War Conference. March 5, 6 & 7 at the Grinning Duck Club
Detroit: [1982]. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Announcement of a conference near the Wayne State campus. Includes schedule for the event and a statement, "Protest and survive: time is running out." More
Cat.No: 250675
Anti-racist news. December 1998
Columbus, OH: Institute for Contemporary Journalism, 1998. 23p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, light handling wear. Cover story on anti-racist skinheads murdered by a nazi in Las Vegas. More
Cat.No: 242352
The ANTI-WARrior: a newsletter of military dissension and resistance [Nos. 1-3]
Berkeley: the newspaper, 1991-1992. Three issues of the tabloid-format newspaper, pages toned, otherwise only light handling wear. All three separately published issues of the publication produced by military resisters to the Persian Gulf war. A final "issue" was published as a section of StormWarning!, no. 23 (July 1992). More
Cat.No: 242334
Antipode: a radical journal of geography [vol. 2, nos. 2 and 3]
Worcester, MA: Antipode, 1979. Two issues of the journal, 90 pages each, 8.5x11 inches; mild toning, otherwise very good. The themes of the two issues are Human-Environment Relations and The Urban Problematic. More
Cat.No: 217298
Antiwar reformists, Labor bureaucrats and the Democratic party - the Syphilitic Chain
Oakland: Spartacist League / Spartacus Youth Club, 2009. 3p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at corner, very good. A polemic against Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action. More
Cat.No: 252318
Apocalypse Now at Dr. Bombay's [handbill]
San Francisco: Dr. Bombay's, n.d. 8.5x11 inch handbill, some handling wear. "In the Left corner, in the red boxers, Tony Seymour and his band World War 4. Poet, Musician and political commentator par excellance... In the Right Wing, wearing black trunks, Stephen Schwartz, writer for the SF Chronicle, historian of..... More
Cat.No: 254095
April elections a sham - Maintain the embargo against Rhodesia [handbill]
Boston, MA: Southern Africa Organizing Committee; Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa, [1979]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, printed both sides, light wear. Argues that the Rhodesian elections were a face-saving move by Ian Smith's government that failed to share real power with Africans in the country. This leaflet..... More
Cat.No: 176990
Argentina Outreach: Bulletin of the Solidarity Committee with the Argentine People; Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1976
Berkeley: Solidarity Committee with the Argentine People, 1976. 12p., stapled wraps, 7 x 8.25 inches, rear wrap unevenly toned else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 251984
Arguments for War
Washington DC: National Council for Prevention of War, [1940]. Pamphlet. Small four-panel leaflet, 2.5x3 inches; year penned in tiny numerals on rear panel. After reading the cover, one opens the leaflet to find the interior blank. More
Cat.No: 271823
Arizona's Hispanic Perspective: 38th Arizona town hall, research report prepared by the University of Arizona, May 17-20, 1981
Phoenix: Arizona Academy, 1981. Paperback. xxxii, 244p., summary of recommendations, list of participants, bibliography, illustrated with figures, maps, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 40331
Arm the Spirit. No. 17 (Winter 1999/2000)
Hamilton; Toronto: the journal, 2000. Single issue of the autonomist/anti-imperialist photocopied journal, very good, 8.5x11 inches, black plastic comb binding, [62] pages. Coverage of the end of the Red Army Fraction, ETA's resumption of armed struggle, and more. More
Cat.No: 244676
Arm the Spirit. [four issues]
Hamilton; Toronto: the journal, 1991-2000. Four issues of the autonomist/anti-imperialist journal, very good, 8.5x11 inches. Issues present are 10, 11, 12 and 17, the latter much thicker and spiralbound. Coverage of the LA riots/uprising, the end of the Red Army Fraction, ETA's resumption of armed struggle, and more. More
Cat.No: 194884
ARM. No. 2
Berkeley: Committee for the American Revolutionary Movement, [197-]. 12p. tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. Edited by Al Bari and Elizabeth Bloch, with artwork by Skira. Cover story imagines Batman as a wino, having fallen into despondence after disillusionment with the criminal justice system. Includes the..... More
Cat.No: 213402