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
London: W. Speaight & Sons, 1916. Stapled wrappers, 12, [1] p. Toning to cheap paper stock, faint offsetting. 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
Los Angeles: “Morning Freiheit”, [1963]. A seemingly unrecorded broadside (8 ½” x 11” published by the Los Angeles branch of the “Morning Freiheit” and issued in the wake of the Slánský trial in Prague - regarded by many in the Jewish community as an anti-Semitic show trial. Refutes the fear-mongering..... More
New York: Socialist Workers Party, [1972]. A small poster featuring the election slogan of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) printed against the Pan-African flag designed by Marcus Garvey's UNIA in 1920. The flag symbolized freedom, pride and the political power of black Americans. The SWP first used the slogan Black..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., [1940]. A CPUSA campaign book that begins with biographies of candidates Earl Browder and James W. Ford. These are followed by the Preamble to the Constitution of the CPUSA, its election platform for 1940, sections on the Republican, Democrat and Socialist parties, and the..... More
Chicago: Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists, 1977. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, 61, [3] pp. A near fine copy. More
[San Diego]: [San Diego Catholics for Better Libraries?], [1963?]. A document describing nine titles published by the CPUSA publishing house International Publishers and exhibited at the 39th annual Conference of the Catholic Library Association in 1963. Also included is information on International Publishers, church policy on promoting Communism, and information..... More
[Cleveland?]: [Revolutionary Union], [1975]. A pamphlet on International Women's Day and inviting readers to a benefit for the Rainbow Terrace Rent Strike in Cleveland. Single sheet folded, 4 p., photographs. More
[Chicago?]: Revolutionary Student Brigade, [ca. 1975]. A 14” x 8 ½” flyer for an International Women's Day event organized by the Revolutionary Student Brigade featuring a women's slide show and skit. The text provides a brief history of International Women's Day and its origin in labor struggles, which often involved..... More
[California]: n.p., 1975. A 14” x 8 ½” bilingual flyer for International Women's Day, 1975. Advertises an event at the Cudah Civic Center in Cudahy, CA. LIkely published by a branch of the Revolutionary Union based on provenance. More
Detroit: Motor City Labor League, 1971. The first of only six published issues of the newspaper issued by the Motor City Labor Coalition, a Marxist-Leninist group that formed in Detroit in late 1970 by activists involved with the Ad Hoc Action Group led by Sheila Murphy and People Against Racism..... More
Detroit: Motor City Labor League, 1972. The final of only six published issues of the newspaper issued by the Motor City Labor Coalition, a Marxist-Leninist group that formed in Detroit in late 1970 by activists involved with the Ad Hoc Action Group led by Sheila Murphy and People Against Racism..... More
New York: Workers' Library Publishers, [ca. 1932]. First edition. Communist propaganda on the destruction of the “proletarian city” Chapei, the Chinese portion of Shanghai, by Japanese imperialists threatened by the organized Chinese working class. Published simultaneously by British socialists under their Modern Books imprint. The U.S. edition was published by..... More
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New York: American Student Movement, 1970-1971. Two issues of newsletters associated with the Maoist American Student Movement at Columbia University. The earlier issue is called “Columbia Newsletter: Local Organ of American Student Movement (anti-imperialist) at Columbia University” and the later issue is “Columbia Student: Newsletter of the Columbia United of..... More
Covent Garden, [London]: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1921. The second issue of the theoretical journal of the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain, which was founded in the summer of 1920. Publication of this issue was delayed by a Special Branch raid on the party's headquarters in May..... More
Berkeley: Racism Research Project, 1975. A Marxist critique of the Black Nation Thesis, which the Racism Research Project contends was a misapplication of Stalin’s thesis on nationhood and the perpetuation of arbitrarily assigned racial categories. Stapled wrappers (8 ½” x 5 ½”), 32 p. A near fine copy. More
Boston: New England Committee of Foreign Born, [1954]. On the case of Giacomo Quattrone, an Italian-American deported for his alleged membership in the Communist Party. The Supreme Court rejected Quattrone’s appeal and he was deported in June, 1954. Two corner-stapled, mimeographed leaves (14" x 8 ½”). Horizontal crease from folding..... More
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[New York: The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson of the City of New York], [1896]. First edition. A scarce surviving broadside (9 ½” x 15”) printing the proposed platform, constitution and resolution of the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson (officially, The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson of the City of New York), a...... More
New York: National Education Department, Communist Party, 1949. This copy was cherished by a comrade until his/her kid began doodling all over the front cover in pencil. Stapled wrappers (10 ¾” x 8 ½”), 14 p. Small split along lower spine, aforementioned doodling, flirting with very good. More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Three articles on the success achieved by Chao Pu-yu and colleagues in using acupuncture to treat deaf-mutes in China. Their research and observation was based on their commitment to Mao's philosophical works and the use of materialist dialectics. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, ii, 35 pp. Small..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Three articles on the success achieved by Chao Pu-yu and colleagues in using acupuncture to treat deaf-mutes in China. Their research and observation was based on their commitment to Mao's philosophical works and the use of materialist dialectics. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, ii, 35 pp. Small..... 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
[Chicago?]: United Mayday Committee, 1975. A bilingual publication issued by the United Mayday Committee, a front group for the Revolutionary Union, for a May Day demonstration in NYC. "MayDay 1975 will be a demonstration of our growing strength, a statement of our class to rouse all our class brothers and..... More