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.
Autonomous Benefit featuring Scissorgirls, Apostles on Strike, and the world...
Chicago: [Autonomous Zone], nd. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill for a music benefit; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 314396
The Autonomous Zone, May 2002 [2 calendar handbills and a....
Chicago: [Autonomous Zone], 2002. Newsletter. Two 8.5x11 inch double-sided mailer of calendar events for the Autonomous Zone for May and October 2002, in addition to an October newsletter. Calendars include queer events, IWW events, and much more; small nick on bottom of May calendar, address label on back of calendars..... More
Cat.No: 313832
AYD Builder. Vol. 1 no. 1 (January, 1944)
New York: NY State American Youth for Democracy, 1944. Newsletter. 4p. 8.5x11 inch newsletter, horizontal fold crease, paper toned; "CP front - formerly YCL" penciled in corner. First issue of the newsletter of the organization that had formerly been the Young Communist League. This issue mainly devoted to buildup plans..... More
Cat.No: 308701
AYD in Action. Vol. 2 no. 6 (Summer, 1946)
New York: American Youth for Democracy, 1946. Newsletter. 8p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, paper toned, otherwise very good. Newsletter of the organization that had formerly been the Young Communist League. This issue discusses its recent convention; includes an article with photo showing Paul Robeson addressing delegates. More
Cat.No: 308702
Azania will be free! Down with South Africa! Celebrate the...
San Francisco: [John Nyata Pokela Tour], n.d. Poster. 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
Aztlan: Chicano journal of the social sciences and the arts...
Los Angeles: Atzlán Publications, Chicano Studies Center, University of California, 1971. Paperback. vii, 181p. paperback, spine sun-faded, ownership signature on first page. Articles on Chicano art, theater, community leaders, etc. More
Cat.No: 219361
Aztlan: Chicano journal of the social sciences and the arts...
Los Angeles: Atzlán Publications, Chicano Studies Center, University of California, 1973. Paperback. vii, pp. 217-410, wraps, bottom corner bent, else very good condition. Text in English and Spanish. More
Cat.No: 223149
Aztlan: Chicano journal of the social sciences and the arts;...
Los Angeles: Atzlán Publications, Chicano Studies Center, University of California, 1972. Magazine. v, 175p., lightly shelfworn wraps, else very good condition. Text in English and Spanish. Includes articles on Chicano labor organizing, José Vasconcelos, measurement of intelligence, and more. More
Cat.No: 219362
Aztlán: international journal of Chicano studies research; vol. 6, #1...
Los Angeles: Atzlán Publications, Chicano Studies Center, University of California, 1975. Magazine. ix, 136p., wraps, previous owner's name penned on title page, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 319132
Aztlán: international journal of Chicano studies research; vol. 6, #3...
Los Angeles: Atzlán Publications, Chicano Studies Center, University of California, 1975. Magazine. pp. 327-469, wraps, very good condition. Articles on Chicanos in the Pacific Northwest, mental health in a rural Chicano community, and more. More
Cat.No: 319123
Bach Mai [pinback button]
Cambridge, MA: Bach Mai Hospital Emergency Relief Fund; Medical Aid for Indochina, [197-]. Pinback Button. 1.25 inch diameter pin with white flower on black background, very good. In 1972, the Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi was destroyed by US bombs, leading to a movement by anti-war activists to help rebuild..... More
Cat.No: 185346
Back in the Streets: A documentary film about the April...
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
Background: the key to current events. Vol. 1 no. 16...
Jackson Heights, NY: 1941. Newsletter. 5p., mimeographed 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together at corner, very good. Edited by the exiled German journalist Joachim Joesten, with Elmer Bendiner as associate editor. This issue devoted to "Russians who serve as Hitler's Fifth Column," referring to White Russians and other anti-communist exiles promoting..... More
Cat.No: 313968
Bad Egg Books presents infoshop: What the @#$%& is an...
Eugene: Bad Egg Books, nd. Pamphlet. [8]p. including covers, stapled wraps, 5.5x8.75 inches, horizontally creased, wraps worn else good condition. Definition of an infoshop, plus lists of infoshops, alternative libraries and archives, and radical history collections in university libraries. More
Cat.No: 271077
Bail out working people, not the banks! Teach-in and mass...
San Francisco: May 9 Teach-In Coordinating Committee, 2009. Pamphlet. 15p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. The teach-in was initiated by SF Labor Council along with other Bay Area Labor Councils. More
Cat.No: 237608
BAJI Reader. Vol. 1 no. 1 (Spring 2009). Black perspectives...
Berkeley: Black Alliance for Just Immigration, 2009. Staplebound. 47p. staplebound journal, 8.5x11 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 299455
Ballots are bullets: make yours count. Your vote for victory...
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
Ban Racism Not S.D.S.
[Buffalo, NY]: U.B. SDS, [1972]. Handbill. Single sheet, printed one side only, 8.5x11 inches, two fold-creases, evenly toned, two pencil notations on front, else very good condition. Calls for a meeting in response to the expulsion of Robert Steinhorn and John Spritzler. Spritzler was expelled for disrupting a class after..... More
Cat.No: 311312
Band of outsiders [two issues] August 2011, #3 [and] September...
[Los Angeles?]: Black Circle Press, 2011. Pamphlet. [18p.], [26]p., respectively, 5.5x8.5 inch pictorial wraps; b&w photos., mild handling, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 305089
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
Barbaric thoughts, on a revolutionary critique of civilization
npl: npub, nd. Pamphlet. 20p., wraps secured by folding, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine. More
Cat.No: 283157
Barricade. Vol. 1 no. 1. July 5, Year of the...
Berkeley: [1968]. Broadside. Broadsheet printed both sides, 17x22 inches, creased from folding into quarters, red pen "1968" added after "Year of the Barricades; short closed tear at edge of one fold crease, otherwise very good. The unnamed editors describe themselves as "people who have been on the streets and turned..... More
Cat.No: 308324
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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