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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About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing. Includes excerpts from various GI movement newspapers around the country. More
Cat.No: 168124
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 195589
About Face! [GI movement newspaper disguised as an issue of The Banner, publication of the 193rd Infantry Brigade]
Madison, WI: 1984. 16p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned. The cover page has the masthead of The Banner, an official Army newspaper for troops in Panama, but the contents are devoted to critiques of US policy in Latin America, with US troops serving or potentially serving in the..... More
Cat.No: 262107
About Mohegan Colony. Crompond, New York
Crompond, NY: [1928-1936]. Four panel brochure, 5x8.5 inches, worn and fold-creased, bottom corner dog-eared, faint dampstain along folded edge, a few spots of foxing to front. Introduction to the anarchist colony founded in 1923 by Harry Kelly. Mohegan was built around a Modern School and shared many staff members and..... More
Cat.No: 262164
ACAB news [two issues: 3, 4]
Guelph: the zine, 2010. Two issues of the Canadian anarchist zine; title stands for All Cops Are Bastards. Length is 18, 43 pages respectively; 5.5x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 248605
ACORN: Seeing to it that "The People Shall Rule"
Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now, n.d. Single sheet folded to make six-panel brochure, slightly misfolded else good condition. Early brochure for the organization that still exists, under the slightly different name of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. More
Cat.No: 131598
Act now or forever rest in peace!
[Pittsburgh, PA]: Rotten Propaganda, [1994?]. Newspaper. [12p.], tabloid newspaper format, paper toned, folded as issued, 11.5x16 inches. Aimed at the political punk scene, includes information on political prisoners, much on food and vegetarianism and the back page is devoted to Food Not Bombs. Not found in OCLC as of 3/2021..... More
Cat.No: 264144
Action for Peace [two issues of the student protest newsletter, issued after the Kent State shootings]
New York: Action for Peace (Columbia University), 1970. Two issues of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, 6 and 8 pages, sheets stapled together at upper left corner, one dated May 7 1970 (cover sheet rather toned) and the other undated but issued around the same time, with a depiction of the..... More
Cat.No: 196795
Active Transformation: a direct action anarchist newspaper [five issues]
Lansing, MI: A.T. Collective, 1998-2000. Five issues of the tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold, mild toning. Issues present are vol. 2 nos. 1, 2, 5; vol. 3 nos. 2 and 3. More
Cat.No: 244489
Advance [six issues]
Gary, Indiana; Birmingham, Alabama: Trade Union Action League National Organizing Committee, 1979-1984. Six issues of the newspaper, fold crease, earlier issues on newsprint are toned else generally good condition. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 1-3, vol. 2 no. 1 and 2, and vol. 5 no. 5. More
Cat.No: 244484
[Advertising card for Ideal Tooth Powder, with photographic portrait of Terence V. Powderly of the Knights of Labor]
Philadelphia: Vail Brothers, [188-]. Stiff card, slightly larger than 4x6.25 inches, with Powderly's portrait (a sepia photograph from the negative) on one side and text about Ideal Tooth Powder and Ideal Quinine and Sulphur Toilet Soap on the other. Plate measures 3.5x5 inches; his moustache about 1.3 inches from left..... More
Cat.No: 212110
The Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood. Vol. 1 no. 7 (July, 1846)
Worcester, MA: Elihu Burritt, 1846. pp. 153-176, wraps bound with thread, pages remain uncut at the top; front cover has a faded area, otherwise mild handling wear and foxing. When Burritt, the "Learned Blacksmith," took over The Advocate of Peace, the publication of the American Peace Society, he renamed it..... More
Cat.No: 255963
The Advocate [eight issues]
New York: American Veterans Committee, Berkeley Chapter #1, 1946-47. 8 issues of the mimeographed 8.5x11 inch newsletter published by the Berkeley chapter of the left-wing veterans' group; all from before the AVC's expulsion of communists in 1948. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 4-6, 12-15, 17. Three or four pages..... More
Cat.No: 181872
AFC Spotlight: Vol. 1, Book 3, Spring Edition
Pasadena: American Friends Service Committee, [c1979]. 7p. 8.5x11 inches, wraps secured by folding, creased from being folded in half for mailing, address label on rear wrap else very good newsletter printed on cream stiff stock. Cover story on Iran and Afghanistan. More
Cat.No: 251220
Affirmative action and discrimination: Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher Education. Proceedings of the 9th annual conference of APAHE, Radisson/Miyako Hotel, San Francisco, California, March 8-10, 1996
San Francisco: APAHE, 1996. 156p., paperback, very good. Keynote address by Dana Takagi. More
Cat.No: 260194
AFL-CIO / Solidarity Day / September 19, 1981 [pinback button and press pass]
n.p. (1981). 2.25 inch diameter pin, somewhat scuffed, together with an orange press pass in a plastic holder with metal clip on reverse. More
Cat.No: 259800
AFL-CIO Convention. October 23-26, 1995. New York City
New York: AFL-CIO, 1995. Cardboard Covers. Double cardstock folder with facing pockets, 11x9 inches folded, one pocket containing an oversize paperbound of 227p with color vignette chapter heads, the opposite pocket holding an 8.5x5.5 inch booklet labelled "1995 Resolutions, Book One", and a flyer (described below). The folder is wrinkled..... More
Cat.No: 257562
Afrikan awakener: an organ of the Pan Afrikan Peoples' Organization. Vol. 3, no. 22 (July/August 1978)
San Francisco: Patrice Lumumba Publishers, 1978. 12p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned with minor wear. Nathan Hare on the Psychology of the Black Revolution, cover story on the Bakke case, unity program for a British Pan-Afrikan group, and more. More
Cat.No: 195027
AFSCME Officers Manual: Information for local union officers
Washington DC: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, [1972-1981]. Pamphlet. 27p., stapled wraps, 8.5x9 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. Dated from the union's leadership at the time (Jerry Wurf, International President and William Lucy, International Secretary-Treasurer). More
Cat.No: 259202
Aftermath of Jarvis-Gann: What's it all about?
[Bay Area, CA]: California Labor-Community Coalition, [197-]. Four-panel brochure, 7x8.5 inches, very good. On the effects of Prop. 13 on working people. More
Cat.No: 204815
Against education: the abolition of school
n.p. 1999. [11p], 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet of folded sheets in plain white wraps printed with black text. Anonymous anarchist anti-organized education pamphlet. Argues that education is a tool of mind control, and that the public library is a far more effective learning resource than a university..... More
Cat.No: 130515
Against Sleep and Nightmare [6 issues]
Oakland: ASAN, [ca. 1990-2001]. Magazine. Six issues of the 8.5x11 inch staplebound zine, some with handling wear or soil, some rust to staples, decent reading copies. Issues present are numbers 2-7. One man anonymous ultra-left zine published out of Oakland in the '80s and '90s. Influenced by perspectives of the..... More
Cat.No: 258627
Against Sleep and Nightmare, No. 2
Oakland: ASAN, [1992?]. Magazine. 29p., stapled wraps, 8.25x10.75 inches, illus., wraps slightly worn, rear wrap foxed, else good condition. One man anonymous ultra-left zine published out of Oakland in the '80s and '90s. Influenced by perspectives of the Situationists and Freddy Perlman's Black & Red publications. More
Cat.No: 237593
Against Sleep and Nightmare, No. 2
Oakland: ASAN, [1992?]. Magazine. 29p., stapled wraps, 8.25x10.75 inches, illus., wraps slightly worn, stain on front wrap, rear wrap soiled, stained, and unevenly toned, else good condition. One man anonymous ultra-left zine published out of Oakland in the '80s and '90s. Influenced by perspectives of the Situationists and Freddy Perlman's..... More
Cat.No: 237594