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
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
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
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
[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
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
[Philadelphia]: The Free University, 1971. First edition. Quarto-size; [16] pp. A list of courses for the Spring 1971 semester of the Free University, an experiment in education funded by the University of Pennsylvania's student government. Courses include "Marxism-Leninism: What's So and What Isn't," "How to Buy Stereo Equipment," "Swingers, Wife... More
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
Philadelphia: Freedom Press, Inc., 1969. First edition. Tabloid format printed in black and red on newsprint, 16 pp, illus. A single issue of Philadelphia's radical counterculture paper first published at Temple Univ., and following the June 6, 1969 issue, independently as the Philadelphia Free Press. Content for this issue includes... More
[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
n.p., [1967]. First edition. Plain stapled wrappers; 25 pp. A scarce copy of Noel Ignatiev’s pseudonymously self-published (?) pamphlet, which reprints his lengthy letter to “Progressive Labor” and a friend’s agreeable letter sharing Ignatiev’s position. In his letter, Ignatiev, who took the name Ignatin after joining the Communist Party, but..... More
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
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
Palo Alto, Calif. Midpeninsula Free University, 1970. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format; 24 pp.; illus. Scarce single issue of the publication of the Midpeninsula Free University, a countercultural laboratory in Palo Alto, CA, that existed from 1966-1971. Although a newsletter had existed since the school's inception, it didn't adopt a.... More
Palo Alto, Calif. Midpeninsula Free University, 1970. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format; 24 pp.; illus. Scarce single issue of the publication of the Midpeninsula Free University, a countercultural laboratory in Palo Alto, CA, that existed from 1966-1971. Although a newsletter existed from the school's inception, it didn't adopt a tabloid-style... More
Berkeley: Negation, [1972]. First edition. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 22 pp, illus. A Situationist-inspired critique of the New Left and state socialism in general by this Berkeley, post-S.I. group. Mocks actions such as the “authentic moment of revolutionary expropriation” of People’s Park, in which short-sighted militants “dutifully watered with partial solutions..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, ©1971. Second printing. Octavo; black cloth stamped in blue and red; xvii, 225 pp.; photographs; dust jacket. A biography of the Weather Underground idealist, Diana Oughton, who along with two other WU members was blown to bits by their own bomb in a Greenwich Village townhouse... More
Stony Brook, L.I., N.Y.: Red Balloon Collective, [1971]. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, 12 pp, illus. An unnumbered but early issue of the irregularly published organ of the Red Balloon Collective, a radical student group at SUNY Stony Brook described by founder Mitchel Cohen as an "anarcho-marxist direct... More
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Washington, D.C.: Red Engine Collective, [1971]. First edition. Tabloid format printed in many colors on both newsprint and paper; 8 pp.; illustrated. One of the more graphically striking underground publications we've seen, this item was apparently placed in Washington DC's underground paper, the "Quicksilver Times," in the lead up to... More
Chicago: Revolutionary Student Brigade, 1977. First edition. Tabloid format printed in red and black on newsprint; 20 pp.; illus. A single issue of the the national newspaper of the Revolutionary Student Brigade (RSB). The organization changed its name from the Attica Brigade at a conference in 1974 and lasted until... More
[Chicago?: Students for a Democratic Society], [ca. 1969]. One large sheet folded, 4 pp. A compendium of various reprints concerning the black worker led labor movement in Detroit auto plants. Includes DRUM’s self-identified objectives, two articles from “The Guardian” on DRUM, a “Movement” article by Donna Shoemaker on DRUM, and..... More
[Boston]: SDS, 1970. First edition. Quarto-size. Pink, stapled wrappers printed in black; newsprint; 22, [2] pp.; photographs, illustrations. A collection of articles written by various SDSers on ecological issues. A scarce SDS publication with no other copies found in the trade and only five copies located institutionally via WorldCat. Covers... More
Houston: Lyman Padde Educational Project, 1970. Tabloid format printed on newsprint; 24 pp.; illus. A single issue of this important underground newspaper published in Houston Texas from 1969-72. This issue includes cover art and a centerfold spread commemorating the lives of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix; an undercover report from... More
Syracuse: Student Research Group, 1974. First edition. Quarto (28 cm). Saddle-stapled wrappers; 46, [3] pp. Compiled after the decision by Syracuse's Board of Trustees to disaffilate the University from military research, the Student Research Group attempts to show how S. U. is still "one cog in the huge Military-Industrial-University-Police machine."... More
Boston: Students for a Democratic Society, 1970. First edition. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint; 8 pp.; illus. A continuation of coverage of the 1970 GM auto workers strike from issue 18; Brighton, MA bank robbery allegedly by revolutionaries; SDS's opposition to revolutionary terrorism in response to bombing at... More