Madison, WI: Community Action on Latin America (CALA), [197-]. A two-sided flyer published shortly after the September 1973 military coup that overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende. Directed toward an American left-wing audience, it summarizes the reforms of Allende’s Popular Unity government, condemns the role of American corporations, the CIA, and..... More
Philadelphia: From This Side, Inc., 1989. The first of only two published issues of this bilingual "cultural journal with a Latin American orientation, that arose out of the first Book and Crafts Fair organized by Taller Puertorriqueno of Philadelphia, held on April 25, 1987." This issue features mostly poetry, by..... More
Bronx: Committee to Defend Juan Otero, [1973]. A flyer on behalf of imprisoned Puerto Rican activist Juan Otero, a “victim of a campaign by vengeful Bronx cops and angry contractors in the building trades, long a stronghold of racism.” Otero is described as a “family man, educational specialist, respected community..... More
New York: Provisional Committee for Cuba, [1935]. States that members of the delegation (including Clifford Odets, Manning Johnson, Rev. H. Reissig, and J. Ordoqui Mesa) will be present to relate their experiences at the Tiscornia Immigration Camp. “Protest the arrest of 50 Cuban workers who came to greet the delegation..... More
[Miami?]: [F.O.R.D.C.?], [ca. 1965]. An evocative flyer issued by the Frente Obrero Revolucionario Democrático Cubano (FORDC) depicting an exhausted Cuban bricklayer building Castro’s socialist state. The FORDC was a Cuban exile group based in Miami and funded by the CIA. It was founded in 1960 by a group of exiled..... More
Montevideo: [193-]. Letterhead from this Uruguayan political party founded at the end of 1932 following the passage of the woman’s suffrage law. The party was founded by the militant feminist and lawyer, Sara Rey Alvarez, and participated in the 1938 general elections, but without much success. Printed on an 8..... More
La Habana: Editorial Orbe, 1975. A collection of documents from the Federation of Cuban Women’s Second Congress held Nov. 25-29, 1974. “The collection includes the interim report, the accords and resolutions, and the most important documents approved at the Congress, as well as the extraordinary closing speech by Commander-in-Chief Fidel..... More
New York / Berkeley: North American Congress on Latin America, 1970. A manual for conducting “power-structure research,” prepared by NACLA to help New Left organizers expose the institutional networks underlying American political and economic power. Rejecting the view of corporations, government agencies, universities, foundations, labor organizations, and the media as..... More
[Havana, Cuba?]: Cuban Revolutionary Government, [196-?]. Photo-illustrated propaganda from the Cuban government emphasizes the importance of education in the pursuit of socialism. 85 black & white photographs depict men, women, and children engaged in educational pursuits in a variety of context (e.g., guerrillas, schools, agricultural settings, etc.). Sporadic captions in..... More
Philadelphia / New York City: U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners, 197-. A small group of flyers from the U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners (USLA), a civil liberties group founded in the early 1970s. Two flyers relate to the bombing of the USLA..... More
Belmont, Massachusetts: American Opinion, [1966]. American Opinion offprint on the Communist-directed grape strike by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in Delano, California. Plain, stapled wrappers, 14 pp., a dozen photographs. Faint Wilcox Collection stamp to the top corner of the front wrapper, Freedom Center Bookstore stamp to the..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1961. A Communist perspective on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the rise of reactionary forces in the U.S. Stapled wrappers, 31 p. A near fine copy. More
Belmont, Massachusetts: American Opinion, 1960. A reprint by the John Birch Society of a purported booklet smuggled out of Caracas in 1960 by an underground anti-Communist group. The text accuses Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt and his Democratic Action party of preparing Venezuela for Soviet domination. Allegations of military infiltration, clandestine..... More
Bogota: Editorial Cromos, 1933. A history of the early 20th century border disputes between Peru and Columbia. Wrappers (6 ¾” x 9 ¾”), 47 p., two maps, one folding. Light wear and faint foxing to wrappers, corners gently bumped. A fairly uncommon title with less than two dozen copies in..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. First English Language Edition. An intimate look at the work of Maria-Jose, the Brazilian spiritual sect leader of Macumba, an Afro-Brazilian religion most closely related to Haitian Voodoo. 8vo. Cloth boards, 214 pp., many photographs throughout, dust jacket. A fine copy in an equally..... More
Habana: Ucar, García y Cía, 1938. A pamphlet by the Cuban academic on the new historical consciousness Stapled, illustrated wrappers (6 ” x 9”), 22 p. Edgewear, rubbing to wrappers. More
Silver Spring, MD: CARP, [1982]. An 7½” x 11¼” two-sided flyer printed on newsprint. An anti-FMLN/DRU flyer issued in the lead up to the 1982 El Salvador elections, in which the author(s) maintain that the threat to democracy in El Salvador comes from the left-wing guerrillas. Concludes, “The government of..... More
The Hague / New York: International Industrial Relations Institute, 1938. A post-revolution study critical of the foreign ownership of Mexico's natural resources and the "failure to utilize them for the improvement of living conditions." Industries studied include agricultural, mining, oil, railways, maritime, roads, aviation, communication, manufacturing, electric power, commerce, and..... More
New York: Merit Publishers, [ca. 1969]. Speech given by Major Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government, at the ceremony commemorating the seventh anniversary of the defeat of Yankee imperialism at Playa Giron, April 19, 1968. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers..... More
[Havana?]: Discursos Instituto del Libro, [ca. 1967]. Stapled wrappers (8 ½” x 5 ¼”), 59 pp. Tape repair along the spine; owner's stamp to the top right corner of the front wrapper. An uncommon title. More
New York City: Fair Play For Cuba Committee, [1961]. A rare Fair Play for Cuba Committee pamphlet collecting two speeches: Fidel Castro's "May Day Speech" delivered at Havana May Day celebration in 1961 and Che Guevara's "Economic Planning in Cuba" as part of a new series of university lectures. Stapled..... More
Hollywood: Cinema Educational Guild, Inc., 1962. In this bulletin, Fagan compares Roosevelt's foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor as a pretext for war with JFK's full awareness that the Soviets were establishing a Communist satellite state in Cuba. He then blames the media for being complicit in attempting to..... More
Guadalájara, Jal., Mexico: Mexico Comité de Representantes Anticomunistas de América Látina, 1985. An issue of this anti-communist and anti-Semitic magazine established in 1967 and affiliated with the Mexican neo-Nazi organization Tecos, and its front group FEMACO (Mexican Anti-Communist Federation) and the IACCD (Inter-American Confederation of Continental Defense). Originally published in..... More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, [1960]. This pamphlet consists of a series of articles, written in defense of the Cuban Revolution, which appeared in the Militant from May 9 to August 22, 1960. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 48 pp. Dampstain to the lower portion primarily affecting covers. More
Coral Gables, Florida: Institute of Interamerican Studies, [1982]. The author, a history professor at the University of Miami, ascribes tensions between Brazil and Israel and rising anti-Semitism in Brazil to the writings of Brazilian journalist Paulo Francis (b. Franz Paul Heilborn). Levine, a Jew, includes a brief biography of Francis..... More