Washington, D.C.: Books by U.S. News and World Report, 1970. Second printing. 8vo.; trade paperback with clenched fist on both covers, 222 pp, photographs throughout. Some rubbing to wrappers, but Near Fine. An attempt by U.S. News and World Report to explain the principles of the New Left (especially as related..... More about Communism and the New Left
New York: Socialist Labor Committee, 1971. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, 4 pp. Browning to newsprint, a few creases. Scattered issues appear in six OCLC institutions with none holding this inaugural issue. “Crisis” was an apt title for a paper issued in the wake of the factional dispute in..... More about CRISIS, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 14, 1971
[Berkeley]: n.p., [1969]. An 8 ½” x 11” two-sided flyer printed in purple and black and announcing a Memorial Day march to the People’s Park following numerous violent incidents beginning on May 15. Recto features a photograph of men digging in the park and verso features an illustration of an..... More about Join the Struggle for the People's Park
Minneapolis, MN: New American Movement, [1974]. Two unbound sheets folded, 8 pp, illus. Folded once for mailing; stamps and address label to rear, else a well-preserved, Near Fine copy. No record for this item in OCLC. The conference program for the third annual national convention of the New American Movement held... More about New American Movement: A Revolutionary Socialist Organization. 3rd Annual Convention, July 11-14,...
Lansing, Michigan: Outside the Net, [ca. 1973]. Tabloid format printed in red, yellow & black; 32 pp.; illus. The stated aim of "Outside the Net" is to analyze and reveal the dominant educational system from a radical perspective and to work to create a new one. More about Outside the Net: A Magazine in Radical Education, Number 6
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 about Populist, Vol. 1, Nos. 1, 3
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 about Smash, Vol. 1, No. 1
[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 about South Bay Liberal Coalition is having a FAIR, Sunday, October 6 at Redondo Beach City Park Bandshell
n.p.: Youth International Party, [1969]. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer printed in red and black on white stock. Some soiling with some small pieces missing across the lower edge partially affecting the ‘Y’ in Youth and ‘P’ in Party. We were unable to locate this flyer by title in..... More about Stop the Trial
Fairhaven, Mass.: Folkway Agency of New England, ©1969. A 14” x 19” offset poster featuring an iconic raised fist with the word ‘STRIKE’ emblazoned boldly in red. We could find out nothing about the Folkway Agency of New England making this probably the rarest poster in the world. Some general..... More about Strike
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 about Violence, Non-Violence, & Change (New University Conference Crisis Paper
[Ann Arbor?]: American Revolutionary Media, [1971]. First edition. Tabloid format printed in black, blue and yellow on newsprint; 24 pp.; illus. A one-off publication from the Michigan chapter of American Revolutionary Media (ARM) following the three day Student and Youth Conference on a People's Peace, which took place in Feb... More about People's Peace
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 about Fight Back!, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 1974
[Brooklyn]: Butterfly Collective, 1972. Five corner-stapled leaves, 10 pp, illus. Some offsetting to front cover, else Near Fine. No record for this publication in OCLC. An independent publication by a collective at Brooklyn College. Articles critical of the Jewish Defense League, on women’s lib issues, the establishment of the “liberation library,”..... More about People's Road, No. 1, Feb. 1972
Washington, D.C.: Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate, [1974]. Stapled wrappers (7 ¾” x 11”), 32 pp, illus. Slight rippling and rubbing from storage, else Fine. Two early issues in one volume of this important watchdog journal established by the Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community (CARIC), which merged... More about Counter-Spy, Vol. 1, Nos. 4-5
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1967. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 12 pp., illus. Center fold, very light wear and toning, about Near Fine. A single issue of the SNCC-affiliated newspaper. Content for this issue includes an interview with Fannie Lou Hamer about organizing efforts on behalf of blacks in Mississippi... More about The Movement, Vol. 3, No. 10, October, 1967
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1967. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 12 pp., illus. Center fold, very light wear and toning, about Near Fine. A single issue of the SNCC/SDS-affiliated newspaper. Content for this issue includes an interview with Greg Calvert of SDS on the white student movement, student protests on... More about The Movement, Vol. 3, No. 12, December, 1967
n.p., n.d. Nine corner-stapled 8½” x 11” mimeographed sheets printed rectos only. An influential essay from the one-time Maoist and co-founder of Revolutionary Union, H. Bruce Franklin, which initially appeared in RU’s Red Papers 2, and later “Modern Review.” Franklin resituates the Marxian term ‘lumpenproletariat’ to describe the section of..... More about The Lumpenproletariat and the Revolutionary Youth Movement
[New York]: n.p., [ca. 1978]. First edition thus. Stapled card wrappers, [8] pp. printed on blue stock; photographs. An anonymously published English translation of A. Grossman’s “The Baader Meinhof Gang” originally published in a pirate edition of “Le Monde diplomatique,” Nov. ‘77. A criticism of the Red Army Faction’s attempt..... More about "State Fetishism:" some remarks concerning the Red Army Faction
New York: Distributed by Students for a Democratic Society and its Economic Research and Action Project, [1963]. First edition thus. Five corner-stapled, mimeographed sheets, 7 pp. Very light edgewear, else Fine. Four copies in WorldCat (Northwestern, Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas, UC Davis). A seemingly influential document on SDS’s Economic Research and..... More about The “Dual Approach”: An Alternative in Community Development
Madison: Links, [1968]. First edition. Tabloid format newspaper printed in black on newsprint; unpaginated [12 pp.]; illus. No issue number or date is provided, but we believe this to be the second issue of this underground high school newspaper, published in September 1968. By the early 1970s many underground high... More about LINKS: Voice of the Wisconsin High School Underground
Palo Alto: Palo Alto Resistance, 1969. First edition. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint; 12 pp. A scarce single issue of the national newspaper of The Resistance, an anti-war organization that was instrumental in organizing against the draft. The group's most prominent spokesperson was David Harris who was married... More about Plain Rapper, Vol. 1, No. 3, March 21, 1969
New York: National Caucus of Labor Committees, [1973]. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer mimeographed in red on cream stock. Very light wear, but about Fine. No record for this flyer in WorldCat. A flyer issued in the midst of “Operation Mop-Up,” the name given to a series of violent attacks..... More about Why Are Campus "Radicals" Afraid?
[New York]: Peace and Freedom Party, [1968]. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed flyer printed recto only. Four holes punched along the top, shallow vertical crease, VG. No record for this flyer by title in WorldCat. A hastily produced flyer for a midnite [sic] demonstration at Foley Sq. following the murder... More about Martin Luther King Murdered!
[Philadelphia: Philadelphia Caucus of RYM-2/SDS], [1969]. Two-sided, screenprinted flyer measuring 8.5" x 11" produced by the Philadelphia caucus of RYM-2 / SDS. The recto features color artwork of an American flag-draped skeleton celebrating on a pile of dead bodies. On the verso is a brief analysis of the U.S. ruling... More about Come to Washington D.C., Nov. 14-16 / U.S. Get Out of Vietnam Now - Revolutionary Youth Movement...