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
New York: American League Against War and Fascism, 1936. A pamphlet that outlines the history, program, and activities of the American League Against War and Fascism, which was founded at the U.S. Congress Against War held in September 1933. Tri-fold pamphlet (8 ½” x 5 ¼”), six panels. Slightly mis-folded..... 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: National Organizing Committee, U.S. Congress Against War, 1933. In 1933, writers Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair called for a united front against war, which was organized as the U.S. Congress Against War and held from Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in NYC (apparently changed from the date listed..... 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
Berkeley: Racism Research Project, 1975. A Marxist critique of the Black Nation Thesis, which the Racism Research Project contends was a misapplication of Stalin’s thesis on nationhood and the perpetuation of arbitrarily assigned racial categories. Stapled wrappers (8 ½” x 5 ½”), 32 p. Faint soiling to bottom of pages..... 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
New York: American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, [1961]. A pamphlet issued by the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born to highlight the cases of Pedro Gonzalez, William Mackie, Hazel Wolf, Hamish MacKay, Refugio Martinez, and other Communist sympathizers who were targeted under the Immigration and Nationality Act..... More
Brooklyn: Progressive Labor Party, [1972]. A Spanish language pamphlet by the Progressive Labor Party on the little-known history of Cuban communism from 1925-1945, with an analysis of “Fidelism” after 1952. Stapled, photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers (10 ¾” x 8 ”), 22 p., 12 photographs, two illustrations. Bottom corner slightly chipped, browning..... 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
New York: Communist Party of U.S.A., [1933]. An early anti-fascist pamphlet from the CPUSA originally published as an editorial in the April 1933 issue of The Communist, and reprinted as a pamphlet for the Madison Square meeting against Fascism, April 5, 1933. The Party traces fascism’s emergence in Germany and..... 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
Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, [1968?]. An anti-Kiesinger publication by the socialist National Front of Democratic Germany, which includes photostat documents portraying Kiesinger as a Nazi, anti-Semite and collaborator with Joachim von Ribbentrop and Joseph Goebbels. Although a member of the Nazi Party, Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904-1988) was criticized by..... More
Boston: Communist Party of Massachusetts, [1938]. A pamphlet published by the Communist Party of Massachusetts accusing Democratic governor Charles Hurley of being an anti-New Deal reactionary and describing his manifold anti-progressive policies. The rear cover includes a list of the Communist Party’s 14-point program along with a call to defeat..... 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
Chicago / Cambridge: New University Conference, 1970. A collection of articles written and produced collectively by a group of Harvard women affiliated with the New University Conference, who claim in the prologue, “The relation of Harvard to its women is similar to that of the missionary to his heathen.” Articles..... More
[Detroit?]: n.p., [1949]. A tribute to long-time Communist labor organizer, Bill McKie's, on the occasion of his 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. He was an inveterate Communist..... More
New York: The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, [ca. 1953]. Counter propaganda from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against the Red Scare-influenced McCarran Act. The group was investigated by the Subversive Activities Control Board for their alleged Communist sympathies and here counter with their record of heroic..... 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: United Labor and People's Committee for May Day, 1952. A pamphlet preceding May Day activities for 1952, which highlights the history of the holiday and the struggle for Negro rights, labor organizing, and peace. The United Labor and People’s Committee for May Day was a Communist front organization..... 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
[New York?]: American Student Union, [1939]. A flyer announcing a ‘Stop Hitler Parade’ in protest of Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. Issued by the CCNY branch of the American Student Union. Previously a pacifist organization, the American Student Union voted to change its position on the war at its third annual..... More