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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Attention customers: Head Ski on strike. Please don't buy Head rackets or skis sold here [handbill]
n.p. Midwest Regional Joint Board - Local Union 1156, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, AFL-CIO, [1975]. 8.5x11 inch handbill with a large tennis racket depicted, very good with minor edgewear. Notes that the boycott, which also includes the Arthur Ashe label, "does not imply personal criticism of Arthur Ashe, who is not..... More
Cat.No: 195148
Attika is all of us [poster]
n.p. [197-]. 20x26 inch screenprint poster, creased from folding (more visible on the blank reverse), otherwise generally very good. An interesting combination of Native American symbolism with commemoration of the Attica uprising. We presume that the spelling of Attica with a "k" is a move similar to the oftern-seen spelling..... More
Cat.No: 245337
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
Bach Mai Hospital
Cambridge, MA: Bach Mai Hospital Emergency Relief Fund, [197-]. 4p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated brochure seeking funds for the hospital. In 1972, the Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi was destroyed by US bombs, leading to a movement by anti-war activists to help rebuild it. More
Cat.No: 207729
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., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, faint vertical crease. 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
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
Basta! National journal of the Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America (October 1987)
Chicago: the Task Force, 1987. 39p., staplebound magazine, covers toned. Much of this issue is devoted to the Sanctuary movement. More
Cat.No: 244656
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
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, no. 2 somewhat toned and smudged, otherwise good. "Devoted to the fullest consideration of basic questions in the field of Psychiatry, Psychology and Social Work, in the light of scientific materialism." Affiliated..... More
Cat.No: 221963
Berkeley Barb vol 7 no 17, issue 166 (Oct. 18-24, 1968)
Berkeley: the tabloid, 1968. 24p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, otherwise very good. Updates on student protest at UC Berkeley, Trashman comix, a melange of Berkeley sixties culture. Cover art depicts nude woman chained to a wheel. More
Cat.No: 183338
Better Times. Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 7, 1971)
[Marin County, CA]: 1971. 7p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together at upper left corner, very good. Student protest newsletter from the College of Marin. Includes an article on a demonstration against the draft in San Rafael at which 37 were arrested. More
Cat.No: 237982
The Beverly Stash presents: On Guard. Issue no. 10
[Beverly Hills, CA]: the underground newsletter, 1970. Single issue of the underground high school paper, mimeographed in wraps, staplebound, 7x8.5 inches, very good. Cover depict Nixon removing his mask to reveal Hitler. Discussion of school administration and events; text indicates that the group publishing it broke into the high school..... More
Cat.No: 195029
Beyond socialist feminism; where do we go from here?
Detroit: Alternatives, 1976. 27p., wraps toned, soiled, and stained. Rubberstamp of Committee for Political and Human Development on back cover. More
Cat.No: 234106
Beyond usual politics
Detroit: Advocators and Pacesetters, [197-]. Six-panel brochure, 7x8.5 inches, very good, second printing. By James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs' organization. More
Cat.No: 244352
Bibliography on the Communist problem in the United States
New York: The Fund for the Republic, 1955. xiii, 474p., massive 11x8.5 inch blue boards with spots and other damage at top of spine and outside of hinges, insect damage to flyleaf. Herbert Aptheker's copy, with a page of handwritten bibliographical notes at the end and a review of the..... More
Cat.No: 3794
Bibliography on the Communist problem in the United States
New York: The Fund for the Republic, 1955. Hardcover. xiii, 474p., 8.5x11.25 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 33339
Big blue books catalog
Girard, KS: Little Blue Book Co., n.d. Pamphlet. 62p., staplebound booklet, paper toned, otherwise very good. Relatively late, perhaps 1950s. More
Cat.No: 243588
Big Brother is watching YOU so do something [poster]
[Berkeley]: [Political Poster Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley], [1970]. 11x14.75 inch poster silkscreened on the back of a sheet of computer printout paper. Perforated sprocket edge strips intact. Very good. Portrait of Spiro Agnew with text. In the Maggs Bros book "4973: Berkeley Protest Posters 1970," this poster..... More
Cat.No: 215018