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
New York: National Organizing Committee, U.S. Congress Against War, 1933. In 1933, writers Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair called for a united front against war, which was organized as the U.S. Congress Against War and held from Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in NYC (apparently changed from the date listed..... 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
New York: Communist Party of U.S.A., [1933]. An early anti-fascist pamphlet from the CPUSA originally published as an editorial in the April 1933 issue of The Communist, and reprinted as a pamphlet for the Madison Square meeting against Fascism, April 5, 1933. The Party traces fascism’s emergence in Germany and..... More
New York: The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, [ca. 1953]. Counter propaganda from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against the Red Scare-influenced McCarran Act. The group was investigated by the Subversive Activities Control Board for their alleged Communist sympathies and here counter with their record of heroic..... More
[New York?]: American Student Union, [1939]. A flyer announcing a ‘Stop Hitler Parade’ in protest of Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. Issued by the CCNY branch of the American Student Union. Previously a pacifist organization, the American Student Union voted to change its position on the war at its third annual..... More
[Milwaukee]: Federated Czech and Slovak Societies, [1938]. A handbill for a mass demonstration and meeting in Milwaukee following the signing of the Munich Agreement, in which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany against Czechoslovakia’s wishes. Great Britain and France signed the agreement, which the handbill references as the “shameful deals..... More
Boston: Communist Party of Massachusetts, [ca. 1942]. A pamphlet issued by the Communist Party of Massachusetts, in which they tout their long-time opposition to Hitler while accusing Chamberlain, Daladier, Roosevelt, and the “Jewish Chamberlains” (American Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith, Zionist societies) of emboldening and aiding Hitler. The accusation that Roosevelt..... 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
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
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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. Plain, stapled, illustrated wrappers; 24 pp. 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..... 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
London: London:, 1951. First edition. Octavo (22 cm); [8], 9-496 pp.; dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt spine. Book is in Near Fine condition with some light spotting to endpapers, but clean throughout. Cheap paper is a bit browned. Text completely in Polish. Unclipped and scarce dust jacket is very..... More