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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Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. Issue No. 27, Winter '90-91: Free the Kids!
Columbia, MO: C.A.L. Press, 1990. 36p., stapled wraps, 10.5x14.25 inches, fold-creased, pages lightly toned else very good condition on newsprint. Special issue on children and anarchy, with articles on ageism, self-determination for children, child/adult sex (ie pedophilia) and more. More
Cat.No: 258937
Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. Issue No. 77
Berkeley: C.A.L. Press, [c2015]. 77p., wraps, 8.25x10.5 inches, illus., very good condition. Not dated, but lead editorial is on the primaries for the 2016 elections (editor writes "the campaigns of Sanders and Trump will surely be remembered as footnotes."). More
Cat.No: 258977
"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
Ang Katipunan special. Target: KDP
Oakland: Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), [1982]. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, outlining US government spying against the KDP. Revised version of an article by Venny Villapando originally published in Ang Katipunan. More
Cat.No: 208282
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
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
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! [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
Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition / Smash Bakke / Demonstrate! / Nationwide Spring Offensive [pinback button]
San Jose, CA: the Coalition; mfg. by Ho-Sale Ent. [197-]. 1.75-inch diameter pin, black design on red background. Very good. More
Cat.No: 203695
Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition Newsletter. Vol. 1 no. 3 (April 1978)
San Francisco: the Coalition, 1978. 6p., 8.5x11 inches, very good. Much on organizing around the country to protest the Bakke decision, which challenged affirmative action programs by invalidating the use of racial quotas. The Coalition formed under the primary direction of I Wor Kuen, together with activists from other organizations..... More
Cat.No: 236111
The anti-mass: methods of organization for collectives
[New Haven, CT]: Anti-mass Collective, 1970. 56p., 4x5 inches, illustrated, first edition booklet in slightly soiled stapled cream wraps, staples rusted with a little migration, good-only copy. Anarchist work, promoting underground collectives. More
Cat.No: 64576
Anti-mass: methods of organization for collectives
Montreal: Kersplebedeb, n.d. 19p., stapled wraps. Zine-style photocopied version of a classic Anarchist work, promoting underground collectives. More
Cat.No: 131048
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 15 [pinback button depicting a dove escaping from a dollar sign]
Mfg. by Larry Fox, n.d. 1.25 inch pin, blue and white. Manufactured by Larry Fox in New York State. There were major antiwar demonstrations on this date in 1967 and 1970. More
Cat.No: 207519
April 22. Kezar Stadium [poster]
San Francisco: Bay Area April 22 Coalition, [1972]. 10.5x18 inch poster, design adapted from a Cuban poster depicting falling bombs with the face of Richard Nixon. Small spot of foxing, otherwise very good. Advertises an event with speakers including Dick Gregory, Gloria Fontanez, Dave Dellinger and Le Anh Tu. More
Cat.No: 212433
April 24th thru May 5th - Washington DC. Come to stay! Nonviolent mass actions for peace & justice [two different versions of a handbill]
Philadelphia: Printed by Phila. Resistance for Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice, [1971]. Two 8.5x11 inch handbills with the same obverse but different reverses, fold-creased. Design based on Ben Shahn's drawing of Ghandi. The reverse of one flyer has a map of Washington DC with plans for blockading the Pentagon;..... More
Cat.No: 250653
April 26 / YES! / Recall [pinback button]
[San Francisco]: n.pub. [1983]. 1.75 inch diameter pin, very good. As the Washington Post reported at the time, "In a city full of unique political organizations and sects, one of the most bizarre--the self-described communist White Panther Party--has succeeded in collecting 35,000 signatures to recall Mayor Dianne Feinstein because her..... More
Cat.No: 247308
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