Puerto Rico: Departamento de Instruccion, División de Educación de la Comunidad, 1966. Fourth edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers printed in blue and red, 48 pp, illustrations. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers; small closed tear at the top edge affecting the top margin of all pages; VG overall. Three copies in..... More
n.p.: Mexican-American Political Association / Farm Workers Political Education Committee, [1968]. Three items in support of Hubert Humphrey’s 1968 Presidential campaign, which he ran unsuccessfully against Richard Nixon. Humphrey publicly support Cesar Chavez’s national boycott and even met with him privately when campaigning in California. His attempt to extend the..... More
Seattle: Rational Island Publishers, 1976-77. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ½” x 11”), 16, 24 pp., illus. In Spanish and English. Both issues with some toning, but about Near Fine. A scarce publication with only three institutions holding scattered issues in WorldCat (MSU, Stanford & UC Santa Cruz, with none holding... More
Phoenix: Communist Party of Arizona, [ca, 1946]. An 8.5” x 11” mimeographed flyer published under the auspices of the Community Party of Arizona and calling for a mass meeting to protest the discrimination faced by Mexican-American veterans during Phoenix’s post-war housing crisis. Some white Phoenicians were incensed that the proposed..... More
[California]: [Communist Party, USA], [196-?]. An 8 ½” x 14” sheet mimeographed on both sides. Light toning to paper, else Fine. One copy in OCLC at Michigan State. A statement adopted by the Northern California District Chicano Commission regarding the use of the term “Hispanic,” which the authors argue “relates..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1954. First edition. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 56 pp., 13 photographs, 2 illustrations. A publication by the Communist Party-affiliated, Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, denouncing the harassment and deportation of Mexicans under “Operation Wetback,” which began on June... More
n.p. Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization, 1976. First edition. 4to; stapled burgundy wrappers printed in black; 96 pp. on newsprint; photographs. A scarce and important document of the Puerto Rican left and New Communist movement, "Party Building in the Heat of the Class Struggle" was, according to the party at... More
Belmont: American Opinion, 1967. First edition thus. Plain, stapled wrappers (6” x 9”), 22 pp. Some toning to edges, else Fine. Three copies in WorldCat institutions (MSU, Univ. of AZ, Cal. State Fullerton). A John Birch Society offprint that documents in characteristic alarmist style, the Communist, revolutionary threat posed by... More
Belmont: American Opinion, ©1969. First edition thus. Plain, stapled wrappers (6” x 9”), 12 pp, photographs. A Fine copy. Seven copies found in WorldCat institutions. A John Birch Society offprint in which the author contends that since there aren’t many blacks in the Southwest to radicalize that the Communists are..... More