New York: American League Against War and Fascism, 1936. A pamphlet that outlines the history, program, and activities of the American League Against War and Fascism, which was founded at the U.S. Congress Against War held in September 1933. Tri-fold pamphlet (8 ½” x 5 ¼”), six panels. Slightly mis-folded..... More
Bronx: The Anti-Fascist Commentator, 1973-1976. Half of all published issues of this newsletter-turned-newspaper issued by a Marxist-Leninist collective in the Bronx between 1973-77. The group believed that Nixon represented America's slow descent into fascism and therefore originally called its newsletter The Anti-Fascist Commentator. But by 1974, beginning with issue no..... More
New York City: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1942. An appeal by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany which "was allegedly found on the body of a German non-commissioned officer who was killed in action on the Eastern Front, and that the leaflet on which the appeal was..... More
New York: American People's Mobilization, [1941]. On June 22, 1941, the American Peace Mobilization changed its name to the American People's Mobilization to signify its new pro-war stance and to inaugurate its Victory Over Fascism campaign. The APM was founded as a non-interventionist, peace group in September 1940 following the..... More
Chicago: Alexander Berkman Aid Fund, [1948]. A pamphlet on the repression of Bulgarian anarchists, which includes a lengthy study on the topic titled, "Bulgaria: The New Spain, Pseudo-Liberations," a short article on Communist Concentration Camps in Bulgaria, a partial list of anarchist and anarcho-syndicalists in these camps, an activity report..... More
[San Francsco]: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, [1981?]. A meeting called by the radical activist group Prairie Fire Organizing Committee around issues affecting progressives and minorities in San Francisco. Topics include crime and law and order, gentrification of third world neighborhoods, violence against women and gays, police brutality, and the rise..... More
n.p. American Student Union, [1938]. A flyer issued by the American Student Union at UC Berkeley urging students to support the five-point program adopted by the Associated Students of the Univ. of California’s Peace Committee and calling for a “mass protest rally against Hitler’s invasion of Austria.” The ASUC’s program..... More
Arlington: Terrorist Information Project (T.I.P.), [1976]. An expose of Lyndon LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees by the Fifth Estate organization's Terrorist Information Project. The publication provides an in-depth history of the origin, philosophy, financing and tactics of the NCLC and its authoritarian leader Lyndon LaRouche (b. Lynn Marcus) and..... More
Boston: Communist Party of Boston, [1942]. A handbill issued by the Communist Party of Boston right before Evacuation Day, 1942, in which Bostonians are congratulated for preventing the Nazi apologist Congressman Hamilton Fish from speaking. Fish is referred to as “an enemy of our Commander-in-Chief, President Roosevelt, and his win-the-war..... More
New York City / Brooklyn: United Action Front 76, [1976]. A flyer encouraging activists to join United Action Front 76 in disrupting the Democratic National Convention to demonstrate the "multi-issue struggle" that has replaced the single issue organizing of the 1960s against the Vietnam War. The text emphasizes five ways..... More
New York: Youth Committee Against War, [1940]. The Youth Committee Against War (YCAW) was founded in 1938 as a federation of socialist, Protestant and student youth groups. Originally called the Youth Committee for the Oxford Pledge, it was militantly pacifist and anti-imperialist and attached itself to the equally isolationist Keep..... More
[New York]: New York District, Communist Party, 1935. Stapled wrappers, 15 p. Faint offsetting to wrappers, about near fine. More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1943. On the need for Jewish labor to be the vanguard of a movement for Jewish unity in the U.S. in the fight against fascism abroad. Stapled wrappers, 63 pp. A near fine copy. More
Chicago: 1939. This Congress Journal was issued at the Youth Committee Against War’s (YCAW) third national youth anti-war congress held from Dec. 27-30, 1939 at the International House in Chicago. It includes the YCAW’s program, comments from YCAW officers Frank Littell and Fay Bennett, the congress agenda, various adverts and..... More
New York City: New Age Publishers, 1937. A pamphlet connecting the revolutionary struggle of the founding fathers with the Communist Party's fight against fascism, war, and capitalism and the dignity of workers and minorities. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 32 pp. A near fine copy. More
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New York: The German American, Inc., [1947?]. First edition. Small 8vo (5¼” x 8”); stapled newsprint wrappers, 16 pp. A reprint of a speech delivered by the German anti-fascist, Gerhart Eisler, before a meeting of the German American, Inc. on Dec. 11, 1946. Eisler was a prominent and peripatetic German..... More
Detroit: Romanian American Publishing Association, [ca. 1949]. First edition. A relatively scarce expose of ex-King Michael of Romania and his history of graft, exploitation and fascist conspiracy. The author, editor of the Romanian progressive weekly newspaper, “Romanul American,” in Detroit accuses American big business interests of collaborating with Romania's anti-democratic..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1947. In this pamphlet, the noted labor organizer, Communist, and women's advocate discusses women's role in the struggle against capitalism, fascism, and war and the fight for equality and Communism. Stapled wrappers, 16 pp. A near fine copy. Uncommon in the trade. More
London: I.N.G. Publication, 1945. First edition. The story of the Committee "Free Germany" in Great Britain and their participation in the resistance to Nazi aggression in France. Stapled wrappers (5” x 7 ¼”), with cover design by John Heartfield, 24 p. Light rubbing, else Fine. A relatively uncommon title in..... More
Caracas: F.I.J.L., 1962. First edition. A small format anti-Franco booklet written by the “Marco Polo of Anarchism,” Germinal Gracia, writing under one of his pseudonyms. Gracia presents an objective analysis of Spain under the Franco regime to demonstrate the situation for the student, immigrant, worker, and peasant. As a teenager Gracia..... More
New York: Young Communist League, 1942. A militantly pro-war pamphlet from the Young Communist League, which argues for an all-out offensive against Hitler and the Axis powers, opposition to the defensive posture of American isolationists, and combating the poisonous anti-Bolshevist propaganda emanating from Germany. The pamphlet also demands the release..... More
New York: Friends of Democracy, Inc., [1943]. First edition. The author argues that Germany, under Bismarck, William II and Hitler, has maintained a pattern of systematic aggression, which led inevitably to WWII. Includes a preface by National Director, Friends of Democracy, L. M. Birkhead. 8vo. Burgundy, gilt-stamped cloth, ii, 87..... More
[New York]: Library of the Polish Embassy, [1946]. A statement by the Polish Ambassador before the Security Council in New York on the post-war danger of Fascist Spain. Stapled wrappers, 22 pp. Slight rubbing to wrappers. An uncommon title. More
New York: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, [1960?]. A report on the many political prisoners held in Spain by a former Univ. of Madrid mathematics professor. A refutation of a claim made by Franco in an interview with Le Figaro in June 1958. The rear cover includes an open..... More
Los Angeles: Published by the author, 1951. First edition. A dense work in which the author discusses the six roads that America can take: four leading to socialism, one to fascism and one to true democracy where the sovereign individual may flourish. Whitney Hart Slocomb, was a little-known, yet prolific..... More