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

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

[San Francisco]: Drug Research Project, [ca. 1973]. An anti-methadone broadside from the Drug Research Project, “a [San Francisco] group of third world and white people involved in struggling against drug abuse in their communities.”. The broadside’s title references the theory that the U.S. government was using drug addiction as a...... More

Philadelphia: Phila. Prairie Fire Dist. Comm, [1976]. An 8 ½” x 11” bilingual flyer issued by the Philadelphia branch of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (here called the Phila. Prairie Fire Dist[ribution] Comm[ittee]) in opposition to the “chauvinistic birthday party” thrown under the guise of the nation’s bicentennial. The flyer’s..... More

[Madison]: [SDS], [1973]. A poster for a screening and discussion of D. W. Griffith’s classic film, Birth of a Nation, as part of an anti-racism teach-in sponsored by SDS at UW-Madison in 1973. The panel discussion featured Finley C. Campbell, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, Kwame Salter, director of..... 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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

[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