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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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
Berkeley in the Sixties: a film by Mark Kitchell [poster]
San Francisco: Roxie Cinema, [1990]. inch poster for the showing of the documentary, very good. More
Cat.No: 248585
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
The Big Lie revealed: What is really behind the shouting about "Anti-Semitism" in the Socialist countries? [handbill]
Los Angeles: Morning Freiheit, n.d. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, printed one side, light edgewear. More
Cat.No: 136168
Biko Plaza News [10 issues]
Berkeley: Biko Plaza News, 1985. Ten issues of the newsletter published by campus anti-apartheid activists at UC Berkeley. Format varied dramatically; most are 5.5x8.5 or 7x8.5 inch 4-panel brochures, but the issues of volume 2 are in tabloid newspaper format. Produced by cut-and-paste photocopying, with some errors in numbering. Generally..... More
Cat.No: 217452
Bill 33 is Vicious! It threatens the freedom and securty of every worker in this province! It will not work, it must be defeated [four-panel brochure]
Vancouver: n.pub. [1968]. 8.5x11 inch brochure, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. Opposes the bill as a threat to unions and the right to strike. More
Cat.No: 202331
Bill 42 aims to "muzzle" labor
Vancouver: Communist Party of Canada, BC Provincial Committee, [1961]. Four-panel brochure, 6x9.5 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 201908
Bill Marcy and Old Man Utilities team up again. "But he's my Bill" - Song of the Utilities
Buffalo, NY: [Democratic Party, Erie County], [1935]. Single sheet folded to make 4-panel brochure, approx. 5x7 inches, with cartoon by George Diestel on cover. Date 1935 penned at edge of cover. Not found in OCLC. Accuses Republican Assembly campaign of being in the pocket of the utility companies. Cartoon depicts..... More
Cat.No: 145262
Black history and the class struggle
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1990. 16p., 8.25x11 inches, wraps, very good. Later printing of 1983 original. Black history and the class struggle 1. More
Cat.No: 139866
Black history and the class struggle
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1990. Pamphlet. 16p., 8.25x11 inches, wraps, very good. Later printing of 1983 original. Black history and the class struggle 1. More
Cat.No: 238516
Black history and the class struggle [Nos. 1-21]
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1983-2011. Twenty-one pamphlets in the series, a number of them official reprints of 1980s originals, all 8.25x11 inches, very good in wraps. Topics range from Black leadership in the revolutionary movement, The Mumia case, Black Panther history, and prison issues, to Obama as "CEO of..... More
Cat.No: 157989
Black Liberation Month News. February '80
Chicago: Peoples College, 1980. 4p. tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold, evenly toned, otherwise very good. The radical Panafricanist Peoples College, headed by Abdul Alkalimat, emphasized principles of unity among revolutionary forces in the US as well as in Africa. More
Cat.No: 239766
Black Liberation Month News. February '82
Chicago: Peoples College, 1982. 4p. tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold, evenly toned, minor edgewear. The radical Panafricanist Peoples College, headed by Abdul Alkalimat, emphasized principles of unity among revolutionary forces in the US as well as in Africa. More
Cat.No: 239770
The Black Panther black community news service vol. III, no. 29, Saturday, November 15, 1969
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1969. Newspaper. 20p. illus. tabloid newspaper, horizontal fold, light browning, minor staining along left margin. "Inside this Issue: Message to All Progressive Forces," "U.S. Pilots Captured in Vietnam." Rear poster reads "Progressive Journalists of the five continents, powerful revolutionary pen and sternly condemn U.S. Imperialism." Artist..... More
Cat.No: 200036
The Black Panther international news service, vol. 1, no. 1 (Summer 1996)
Los Angeles: New African American Vanguard Movement, 1996. First issue of the 12p. newspaper founded by the New African American Vanguard Movement to fight for reparations and other panAfricanist issues. NAAVM was founded by ex-Panthers, former Bloods and Crips and other activists. More
Cat.No: 116561
The Black Panther international news service, vol. 1, no. 4 (Spring 1998)
Los Angeles: New African American Vanguard Movement, 1998. Single issue of the 24p. newspaper founded by the New African American Vanguard Movement to fight for reparations and other panAfricanist issues. NAAVM was founded by ex-Panthers, former Bloods and Crips and other activists. Horizontal fold, mild toning. More
Cat.No: 245959
Black Raven, vol. 1 no. 6 (July 24, 1973). [cover title: Anarchy]
Stockton, CA: Woodstock Anarchist Party, 1973. Four-panel newsletter, very good, 8.5x11 inches. This issue mostly consists of the "Black Raven declaration of principles (or non-principles)." More
Cat.No: 214318