Various cities: Various publishers, 1983-2001. Four items related to the Vancouver Five, a group of Canadian anarchists affiliated with Direct Action and the Wimmens' Fire Brigade who were arrested and jailed in 1983 for a series of bombings committed against the Cheekeye-Dunsmuir Hydro substation, the Litton Industries plant, and three..... More
New York: Libertarian Analysis, 1970. The first issue of this libertarian journal founded to “serve as an open forum to clarify the diverse libertarian and anarchist ideas and strategies, and thereby do our part in making them a personal and social reality” (p. 2-3). The contributions for this issue came..... More
[Chicago?]: [Solidarity Bookshop?], [1973?]. A two-sided poster celebrating the life of the famed anarchist militant Buenaventura Durruti. Durruti was a CNT-FAI leader who was killed in Madrid under disputed circumstances on Nov. 20, 1936. A reported half a million people attended his funeral. The recto features a black & white..... More
New York: The Commune, 1968. A packet comprising a complete run in two unnumbered issues of The Commune’s eponymous newsletter; a fold-out flyer titled “Resistance or Revolution?” explaining the (deserving) disdain segments of the working class have for radical students; and a laid-in flyer titled, “The Wilting of a Couple..... More
[Philadelphia], [2011]. An 11” x 14” two-sided poster listing daily events as part of Philadelphia Month of Anarchy in May, 2011. Activities include Food Not Bombs, a walking tour, skillshares, live music, Books Through Bars, author discussions, etc. The locations for these events took place across Philadelphia radical spaces including..... More
n.p. n.p., [ca. 1970s]. An unattributed nine-point program for revolutionary anarchists, which includes demands for a “free stateless socialist society” easily accomplished through class war, strikes and urban guerrilla warfare, BAKUNINST-MALATESTEAN [sic] principals [sic] and the “construction of a UNITED FRONT of all parties who oppose U.S. imperialism.” Undated, but..... More
[Milan?], [1984]. An 11 ¾” x 16 ½” poster for Amebix’s show in Milan at Virus club featuring local support acts Peggio Punx, Diffondere Uguaglianza, FDM and L’Inizio della Fine. This tour followed the band’s “No Sanctuary” 12” released by Southern Records in November, 1983. As vocalist/bassist Rob ‘The Baron’..... More
Oldham: General Defense Committee Local 14 (Leeds) of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1979. A complete (?) run of the anarcho-syndicalist organ of the General Defense Committee Local 14 (Leeds) of the Industrial Workers of the World. Content includes contemporary and historical coverage of labor campaigns and workers’ rights..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Solidarity, 1972-1975. A near complete run (nine of 12 published issues) of this Philadelphia libertarian socialist (i.e., anarchist) newspaper. Philadelphia Solidarity began as the Philadelphia branch of Socialist Reconstruction, which emerged from various splits in the Socialist Labor Party. Members were involved in labor organizing in Philadelphia, in..... More
Bowling Green, Ohio: Anarcho-Media Collective, 1972. 8vo; stapled, wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), 17 pp, illus. The first (?) of only two issues published of this countercultural anarchist journal by students at Bowling Green State Univ. in 1972. Most of the content is reprinted from LNS and includes stories on..... More
![Item #9228 What Individualist-Anarchists Want [with] What We Are For - What We Are Against: A...](https://davidanthembookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9228.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1637939828)
Bristol: S. E. Parker, [196-]. A handbill and pamphlet stating the positions of individualist-anarchism by one of its best known expositors, E. Armand, one of numerous pseudonyms of French anarchist Lucien-Ernest Juin (1872-1962). Armand was a prolific writer and edited no less than eight anarchist journals. Both items were published..... More
Québec: Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2004. A single issue of this anarchist theoretical journal published by the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Please see photo for Content for this issue. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ½” x 11”), 64 p., illus. Rubbing and faint soiling to wrappers, small stain along the top fore-edge..... More
![Item #02635 Workers' Democracy, Vol. 3, No. 3; Nos. 18-21, 23, 25-26 [eight issues]. Don FITZ,...](https://davidanthembookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/02635.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1543172657)
St. Louis: Workers' Democracy, 1983-88. First edition. Eight uniform issues of this libertarian socialist newsletter published out of St. Louis from 1981-89. A useful source of information detailing labor struggles, solidarity campaigns and other Left labor tendencies. All issues Very Good or better; a few with mailing labels of Libertarian..... 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
Los Angeles: Freedom Club, [1952]. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Plain, saddle-stitched wrappers; 32 pp. From an address given by Frank Holman to St. Alban Conclave No. 18, Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine, Seattle, Washington, March 8, 1952. The author argues against the U.S.'s membership in the U.N...... More
Los Angeles: Christian Freedom Foundation, Inc., 1968-70. A run of what was likely the last 36 issues of this long-running Christian libertarian paper, which was the organ of the Christian Freedom Foundation (CFF). The CFF was founded by millionaire oilman and philanthropist J. Howard Pew in 1950, but run by..... More
![Item #05302 The Community Church of Boston [1963 program] [Sacco & Vanzetti interest]. Rev....](https://davidanthembookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/05302.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1524422675)
[Boston: The Community Church of Boston], 1963. One sheet folded to make 4 pp. A program for the social justice Community Church of Boston, which at the time was presided over by the Rev. Donald G. Lothrop. The address for Sun., Nov. 3, was from white civil rights activist and..... More
Perfectbound (24 cm), printed in red and black; 197 pp. In French. A single issue of this long-standing French quarterly established in 1960 by Jean Maitron. This issue focused on anarchism, with an interesting contribution from the American anarchist, Sam Dolgoff, on American neo-anarchism (“Le néo-anarchisme américain. Nouvelle gauche et..... More
New York: The Jewish Anarchist Federation of America, 1935. A primer on the principles of anarchism and its two main schools of thought: Proudhonian and Kropotkinian. Jacob Abraham Maryson (1866-1941) was a Jewish doctor and anarchist and a member of the Pioneers of Liberty, the first Jewish anarchist group in..... More
Bromley, Kent: Solidarity, 1967. First English language edition. 4to; side-stapled, mimeographed wrappers, xii, 56 pp. (variegated stock). An about Fine copy. First English language edition. Originally published in French in 1938. Published in English to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Solidarity’s translation and elaboration of Ida Mett’s..... More
Osaka, Japan: Namazu Collective, 1979. A single issue of this English-language, Japanese anarchist publication, which was “produced almost entirely by Hans Enday with the help of Tohyama Hiroko of the Osaka Women Against Nukes.” Content consists primarily of two articles, “Three Mile Island and Japan” and the lengthier “The Anti-Nuke..... More
Multiple cities: Direct Action Network, 2000. Tabloid format printed in red and black on newsprint, 8 pp, illus. Bilingual. Some crinkling and light toning to newprint, smudge to rear wrapper, VG. From the editorial statement: “This broadsheet was conceived to aid all direct action efforts at the Democratic and Republican..... More
New York: Resistance Magazine, 1951. 4to; stapled wrappers, 20 pp. A hint of rubbing to wrappers; some very shallow grazing to top rear wrapper, but still about Near Fine. Printed by Libertarian Press - A Workers Cooperative, Glen Gardner, N.J. Any issue uncommon in commerce. (Goldwater, 226) A single issue of..... More
Philadelphia: Insubordination, 2003. Two issues of the Philadelphia anarchist publication founded by independent journalists, Arthur Stamoulis and Hans Bennett. The July 4th, 2003 “special issue” features coverage of anti-war and Mumia protests, an interview with Ramona Africa, etc. And the final “special issue” includes a lengthy interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal..... More
New York: Edwin C. Walker, 1908. A single issue of this anarchist journal, “Published sometimes, when the good spirit of currency moves.” Walker writes a long critique to Clarence Darrow’s famous address to prisoners at the Cook County Jail; a tribute to social reformer Hugh O. Pentecost; on the sex..... More