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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Attack Hitler now! A May Day call
New York: Communist Party. New York State Committee. [1942]. Pamphlet. 13, [ii]p., wraps and text block evenly toned, very good. Cover cartoon by William Gropper. Calls for the opening of a second front in Europe. More
Cat.No: 229378
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
Attica is all of us [pinback button]
[East Bay, CA]: [197-]. 1.5 inch pin, black text on red field, East Bay union bug on edge. More
Cat.No: 267201
August 8, 1978: story of the MOVE 9
Cambridge: Revolution Books, [1996?]. [16]p., stapled wraps, photos in text, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good photocopied zine. More
Cat.No: 121226
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. 2
San Francisco: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, [1997-?]. Pamphlet. [12]p., staplebound zine, 5.5x8.25 inches, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Articles include "An Animal Liberationist Case for Peace", "The Military-Furthering the Struggle for Womyn's Equality?", and "Queers in the Military Under 'Don't Ask. Don't Tell'" More
Cat.No: 259180
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, and..... More
Cat.No: 204460
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
Ballots are bullets: make yours count. Your vote for victory [Fall election bulletin no. 1]
New York: State Education Department, New York Young Communist League, 1942. 13p., plus a "Flash" sheet added at the last moment urging support for a senate bill that would draft 18 and 19-year-olds. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheets stapled at corner, very good. Outlines Communist positions on electoral questions, and includes..... More
Cat.No: 267265
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
Barry Goldwater: Why young Americans are for GOLDWATER for President in 1964
Washington DC: Youth for Goldwater, [1964]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 4x9 inches, illus., date in blue pencil on rear else very good condition. Also included is an 8.5x11 cover letter, fold-creased with date in blue pencil, and the orginal envelope. More
Cat.No: 266818
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
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
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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
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 says? [handbill]
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
The Benjamin Rush Bulletin [nos. 2, 3 and 4]
New York: Benjamin Rush Society, 1949-1950. Three issues of the staplebound journal, 31, 30 and 50 pages respectively, wraps worn, no. 2 somewhat toned and smudged, no. 3 with several small stains on rear wrap, otherwise good. "Devoted to the fullest consideration of basic questions in the field of Psychiatry..... More
Cat.No: 221963