Boston: Socialist Party, 1947. A flyer announcing a 20th anniversary Sacco & Vanzetti memorial meeting organized under the auspices of the Socialist Party and held Sunday, August 24, 1947 at the Parkman Bandstand at Boston Common. Scheduled speakers were McAlister Coleman, Joseph Massida, Rose Pesotta, Simon Rottenberg, and Caleb Smith..... More
Los Angeles: “Morning Freiheit”, [1963]. A seemingly unrecorded broadside (8 ½” x 11” published by the Los Angeles branch of the “Morning Freiheit” and issued in the wake of the Slánský trial in Prague - regarded by many in the Jewish community as an anti-Semitic show trial. Refutes the fear-mongering..... More
New York: Workers' Library Publishers, [ca. 1932]. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”), 17, [3] pp. Some light chipping to wrapper edges, two-hole punched near spine, not affecting text, VG overall. A little over a dozen copies of this edition in WorldCat. Scarce in commerce. Communist propaganda..... 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
n.p.: n.p., [ca. 1939]. A purported confidential document issued before the U.S. entered WWII describing the ways Communists have infiltrated the U.S. Armed Forces. The first section includes excerpts from Communist publications describing the Communist attitude and objectives within the armed forces. The second section lists the methods of infiltration..... More
New York: American Youth Congress, 1935. The Declaration of Rights of American Youth was adopted by the Second American Youth Congress at Detroit, Michigan July 4-7, 1935. The document espouses the inalienable rights of young people, demands the abolition of child labor, and affirms the right of full employment, vocational..... More
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[New York: The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson of the City of New York], [1896]. First edition. A scarce surviving broadside (9 ½” x 15”) printing the proposed platform, constitution and resolution of the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson (officially, The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson of the City of New York), a...... More
n.p. American Student Union, [1938]. A flyer issued by the American Student Union at UC Berkeley urging students to support the five-point program adopted by the Associated Students of the Univ. of California’s Peace Committee and calling for a “mass protest rally against Hitler’s invasion of Austria.” The ASUC’s program..... More
Detroit: National May Day 1980 Committee, [1980]. An 8 ½” x 14” double-sided flyer distributed by the Revolutionary Communist Party on the “planned political execution” of Damian Garcia, an RCP member, who was stabbed to death in the Pico Aliso housing project in East LA on April 22, 1980. Contrary..... More
[France?]: Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, [198-]. A large newsprint poster celebrating Mao produced by Bob Avakian’s Revolutionary Communisty Party, USA, on behalf of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI). The RCI was founded in France in 1984 by 17 Maoist organizations, including the RCP. Avakian and other Party leaders fled to..... More
Detroit: Allan for Council Committee, [1946]. A mimeographed campaign flyer for Communist Party member William Allan’s campaign for the Detroit Common Council. Addressed to the National Negro Congress, a Communist Party affiliated organization founded in 1935, Allan criticizes the Council for “wasting” $100,000 on the Automotive Golden Jubilee while refusing..... More
[New York]: Workers Armed Defense Group, 1970. A single issue of this Marxist-Leninist newsletter and predecessor to “Red Star,” organ of the Red Women’s Detachment. In this issue, “Class War!” on the realization “that a peaceful solution to the class struggle is impossible;” an excerpt from Lenin’s “The Military Programme..... More
[Detroit?: n.p.], [1949]. First edition. Saddle-stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers; [12] pp.; illus. A scarce pamphlet in honor of Communist labor organizer, Bill McKie's, 72nd birthday. McKie was a Scottish-born member of the Sheet Metal and Braziers Union who emigrated to the U.S. in 1927 and began organizing a union at Ford..... More
New York: The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, [ca. 1953]. First edition. Small, stapled wrappers (3 ¾” x 7 ¼”), 19 pp, three photographs. Light rubbing to wrappers, some toning to a small portion of rear wrapper. A dozen copies in WorldCat. Counter propaganda from the Veterans of the Abraham..... More
Baltimore: Firestarter Press, 2003. Reprint. Stapled, photocopied wrappers, 64 pp, illus. First issued in 1991, this pamphlet comprises a number of documents - most originally in Kurdish - of the 1991 Kurdish uprising in Iraq. Many of the documents are primary source statements and letters written by Kurdish workers involved..... More
[New York]: [Communist Party USA], [1956]. An important internal document issued by the Harlem Regional Committee in response to the controversial Draft Resolution for the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A.. This report from the Harlem Committee states that “the Draft Resolution must state unequivocally that only a...... More
[New York: Marxist-Leninist Party], [1971]. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed broadside published by the ultra-orthodox Marxist-Leninist Party on the true nature of May Day. The MLP contends that the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeoisie have co-opted May Day with their “solemn ceremonies of bourgeois ‘Law Day’ carried out by the dust-covered..... More
London: Red Star Press Ltd., 1976. First edition thus. Small, glossy wrappers (4” x 5 ¾”), 58 pp. Soiling and foxing to wrappers, old price sticker to rear wrapper, about VG. Four copies in WorldCat (NYU, Michigan, Calif. State Univ., UC Davis). Originally published as an article in “Red Flag” no..... More
New York: Committee to Rebuild the National Welfare Rights Organization, 1973. The inaugural issue The Organizer, formerly the East Coast Organizer, the organ of the rebranded National Welfare Rights Organization after it had been taken over by Lyndon LaRouche’s National Caucus of Labor Committees. Much of the content related to..... More
[San Francisco]: Fillmore Club, Communist Party, [ca. 1946]. First edition. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed broadside on newsprint. Browning to paper; small hole, minor edgewear. No record for this broadside in WorldCat. Accuses the British and American ruling-class of establishing a military alliance that would declare war on the Soviet..... More
New York: The Commune, 1968. A packet comprising a complete run in two unnumbered issues of The Commune’s eponymous newsletter; a fold-out flyer titled “Resistance or Revolution?” explaining the (deserving) disdain segments of the working class have for radical students; and a laid-in flyer titled, “The Wilting of a Couple..... More
New York: Youth Against War & Fascism, 1970. A special issue of YAWF’s paper on the Vietnam War. One long article comprised of the following sections: I. Peace - an interlude between wars II. The class roots of the war III. “War is the continuation of politics by other means”..... More
New York: New York Council, and Youth Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1961. An 8 ½” x 11” hand-lettered, mimeographed flyer for an anti-HUAC event featuring Pete Seeger, Carl Braden and Frank Wilkinson held at the St. Nicholas Sports Center in NYC on April 21, 1961. The..... More
n.p., [1948?]. First edition. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 27 pp, photographic plates. A report by seven American Protestant clergymen and editors of religious journals who visited Yugoslavia in the summer of 1947. They found “a genuine equality of religion before the law and the beginnings of true tolerance.” This was contrary..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Solidarity, 1972-1975. Six of only 12 issues published of this Philadelphia libertarian socialist (i.e., anarchist) newspaper. Philadelphia Solidarity began as the Philadelphia branch of Socialist Reconstruction, which emerged from various splits in the Socialist Labor Party. Members were involved in labor organizing in Philadelphia, in republishing material from..... More