[Lansing?]: SDS & OAS. A poster promoting a folk concert at Michigan State Univ. hosted as a fundraiser for an anti-racism conference scheduled for April 7-8, 1973 (?). The concert, held in Phillips Cafeteria, featured Peter Corey & Paul Perpich, Mary Sue Herdliska and Mary Jo McElheron and was sponsored..... 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
Cambridge: Community Press Service, 1973. A single issue of this strangely formatted underground publication, which is composed of 16 11” x 17” loose sheets printed on rectos only (with blank yellow cover sheet). Content includes original and reprinted articles on union activity and workers’ rights, rent control protests and rent..... More
Washington, D. C. Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate, 1974. A scarce copy of the Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate’s first annual report, which provides a brief history of the group’s formation, its philosophy, the group’s activities for 1973 (including separate entries for CARIC, the Intelligence Documentation Center, and..... More
Minneapolis: New American Movement, [1973]. A tabloid calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon by the New American Movement. Much of the content was produced by the People's Assembly to Impeach Nixon (P.A.I.N.) in Austin, TX. Includes a large centerfold Wanted poster. NAM was founded in 1971 as a post-New..... More
Philadelphia: Populist, 1970. Two tabloid issues of this short-lived student paper at Temple Univ.; each issue 4 pp. As stated in the inaugural issue: "Our one cardinal rule (for those of you who may consider submitting an article) is that we will not print rhetoric; our issues will stand or..... More
New York: CFC Communications Section, 1974. A scarce single issue of the organ of Centers for Change, an organization founded in NYC in 1968 as IF...THEN. The group was founded by Dr. Fred Newman and was initially anarchistic and confrontational before focusing on serious political organizing. They operated a therapeutic..... More
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus, [ca. 1969]. An eight-point program from the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus of SDS on a proposed transitional program “to fight the oppression of women in society and on the job.” The program is divided into three sections: For the abolition of family restrictions (e.g., the abolition of abortion..... More
Wrightstown, N.J.: Shakedown, 1969. A single issue of this GI-published underground paper from Fort Dix in New Jersey. Mostly coverage of the large protest that took place at Dix on Oct. 12, 1969 with photographs of protesters squaring off against the military. As noted by Wachsberger, this paper was alternately..... More
Springfield, MA: Smash, [1970]. 4to; stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 24 pp, illus. The first (and last?) issue of this radical high school student publication out of Springfield, MA. Women’s liberation, community policing, what a drag high school is, pig-this and pig-that, a nice UAW/MF centerfold poster (‘Armed Love’), etc. A well-done..... More
[Los Angeles?: South Bay Peace and Freedom Clubs], [1968]. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer printed on light blue stock advertising a picnic sponsored by 46th A.D. Democratic Council and the South Bay Peace & Freedom Clubs. Entertainment was provided by The Pie & Awning Company and The Brothers &..... More
Oakland: Spider Magazine, 1965. A single issue of this short-lived leftist magazine founded at UC Berkeley. Content for this issue includes an article critical of CORE for their lack of support during the Filthy Speech Movement; an interview with Mark Comfort (of the Black Panther Party-affiliated Oakland Direct Action Committee);..... More
n.p. Youth International Party, [1969]. A Yippie flyer calling for a demonstration at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 15, 1969 in support of imprisoned Black Panther, Bobby Seale, who’d been sentenced to four years in prison for contempt at the beginning of the Chicago Eight Trial..... More
[Berkeley?]: Third World Liberation Front, [1969]. A pamphlet written and published by the Third World Liberation Front providing a detailed chronology, a discussion of the politics and tactics of the strike, and a proposal for an alternative Third World College. Published after the strike was temporarily suspended on March 14..... More
[New York]: Independent Socialist Clubs, 1969. Three internal documents from the women’s caucus of the Independence Socialist Clubs (ISC), a third camp Trotskyist group founded in Berkeley in 1964 by Hal Draper. These three items provide insight into the group’s structure, its place within the second wave feminist movement and..... More
Chicago: New University Conference, 1970. First edition. One sheet folded, 4 pp. One in a series of crisis papers issued by NUC to address the political and tactical differences between different factions of student radicals. This paper focused on the question of violence on college campuses. The author(s) discuss seven..... More
[Los Angeles]: Peace and Freedom Party, [1968]. A flyer for the Peace and Freedom Party’s 1968 campaign, which ran Eldridge Cleaver for President and Peggy Terry for Vice-President. Cleaver was left off the ballot since he didn’t meet the age requirement, so the party encouraged voters to vote for Terry..... More
[Philadelphia: West Philadelphia Broadside], 1970. A one-off publication by the East Powelton Concerned Residents, one of the community groups most actively opposed to the West Phila. Corp.'s development plans around Drexel and Penn. Includes a long profile of the West Philadelphia Corporation, on an injunction prohibiting the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority..... More
Madison: The History of Wisconsin's People Project, [1973]. An 11” x 17” thread-bound calendar printed in color by the RPM Printing Collective. In Fine condition except for a small pen squiggle between the columns of each page and on the rear cover. Three copies in OCLC at the Univ. of..... More
Washington, NJ: Times Change Press, ©1970. Second edition - second printing. An account of the author’s experience in Sudsofloppen, a small women’s liberation group in San Francisco, and the four stages of the group’s process: opening up, sharing, generalizing and abstracting. As described the author: “When the small group functions..... More
Boston: New England Free Press, [1969]. The founding statement of the Weatherman (later the Weather Underground) originally published in the June 18, 1969 issue of New Left Notes, which was distributed on the first day of the schismatic 1969 SDS National Convention in Chicago. The turgid New Left prose advocates..... More
New York: Attica Brigade, 1974. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed in black on newsprint; 8 pp.; illus. Articles on the seizure by the Attica Brigade of the Statue of Liberty; African Liberation Day; May Day International Workers' Day; various demonstrations at the Univ. of Conn.; etc. The Attica Brigade..... More
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Berkeley: Bay Area Research Collective, 1976. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), 57 pp, illus. A Fine copy. The final issue of this Bay Area Research Collective publication, which served as an aboveground mouthpiece for a variety of leftist terrorist groups including the Symbionese Liberation Army, New World..... More
New York: V. R.-Leviathan Publications, Inc., 1969. Tabloid format, stapled, printed in red and black on newsprint, 55 pp, illus. Although folded at one time, this copy has been stored flat, darkening at fold, newsprint slightly browned, but a Near Fine example. The inaugural issue of this influential underground paper..... More
[Philadelphia]: The Free University, 1971. First edition. A course catalog for the Spring 1971 semester of the Free University, an alternative university funded by the University of Pennsylvania’s student government. Includes an introductory letter from co-directors Robert S. Brody and Don Cooper followed by a list of courses with descriptions..... More