The Ally, No. 10, October, 1968
Berkeley: The Ally, 1968. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, [8] p., illus. State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin stamp to the top of the front page. More
Anti-War & Pacifism
America's Share In Japan's War Guilt + assorted ephemera
New York: American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression, 1938. Second Printing. The American Committee for Non-Participation In Japanese Aggression was founded in mid-1938 by educational missionary to China Harry B. Price, his brother Frank, and a small group of pro-Chinese missionaries, foreign policy figures, and writers. Their aim was..... More
American League Against War and Fascism: How It Developed...Its Distinctive Character Program.....Activities
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
Are You Willing to Give Up Democracy? | Do You Want to Go to War Without Being Asked? | Are You Ready to Make the U.S. a Dictatorship? | Then Speak Up Now!
New York City: America First Committee, [1941]. A flyer from the America First Committee in opposition to HR 1776, the Lend-Lease bill, referred to by America First Committee members as the "War Dictatorship Bill." The text lists 11 ways in which the bill gives the President unprecedented power over the..... More
Call for: International Days of Protest, October 15-16
Chicago: Students for a Democratic Society, [1965]. An SDS flyer calling for participation in the International Days of Protest, a series of protests that took place from October 15-16, 1965 and organized by the Berkeley-based Vietnam Day Committee in collaboration with leftwing and peace groups around the country. Besides demonstrations..... More
Campaign Book Presidential Elections 1940
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., [1940]. A CPUSA campaign book that begins with biographies of candidates Earl Browder and James W. Ford. These are followed by the Preamble to the Constitution of the CPUSA, its election platform for 1940, sections on the Republican, Democrat and Socialist parties, and the..... More
The GI Organizer, Number 4
Austin Texas: The GI Organizer, 1969. An issue of this mimeographed newsletter published from Fort Hood "for GI's by GI's." This issue features news on legal cases against GIs for their political activism, GI dissent; poetry; letters from GIs; etc. Corner-stapled 11” x 8 ½” sheets, mimeographed, 12 p. Light..... More
A handbill for a Labor Action for Peace meeting to discuss automation and nuclear power
New York: Labor Action for Peace, [196-]. Labor Action for Peace was a small, seemingly short-lived group formed in NYC in 1962 "to rally working men and women to combine their economic and social aims with the aims and requirements of peace" (qtd. on p. 86 of Fred Rose's book..... More
Man: An International Newspaper, Dummy Vol. 1, No. 1
New York: Man International, Inc., 1966. A dummy copy of a proposed international peace newspaper that never materialized, the brainchild of New York Herald Tribune reporter and photography agency founder Arthur Brackman. The articles are mostly reprinted from other well-known newspapers with printed editorial notes to the margin showing how..... More
March for Peace May 1st 1952
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
March on Washington to end the war in Vietnam, April 17, 1965
New York: Students for a Democratic Society, 1965. A pamphlet issued by SDS ahead of their march in Washington, D. C. on April 17, 1965 in response to President Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam. The cover features an illustration by Vera Williams, the two internal pages include SDS'..... More
Nuclear America
New York: War Resisters League, 1979. Second Edition. "This map was produced to graphically illustrate the magnitude and pervasiveness of the nuclear menace, to help stimulate organizing against nukes, and to emphasize the inseparable link between weapons and power." Offset printed in color on both sides of a 17" x...... More
Otis A. Hood says - Stop the Killing in Korea!!
Roxbury: Otis A. Hood, [1952]. A political handbill for the campaign of long-time Massachusetts Communist Party member Otis A. Hood who was running for Representative - Ward 14. Hood campaigned on ending the U.S.'s involvement in Korea where "Korean women and children are being burned alive by American napalm bombs."..... More
San Diego Convention Coalition
San Diego: San Diego Convention Coalition, [1972]. A pamphlet outlining the goals and plans of the San Diego Convention Coalition, a group consisting of G.I.'s, students, anti-war groups, collectives, professionals, and underground newspapers who formed to confront the Republican National Convention in 1972. The text provides a background to the..... More
The Short Times, January 1970
Columbia, SC: The Short Times, 1970. A scarce issue of this newspaper printed by and for Fort Jackson GIs. Cover article on legal proceedings against staff members of the UFO Coffeehouse in Columbia. Inside pages include short articles on anti-war organizing, letters to the editor, and a legal case against..... More
The Student Mobilizer Special Wallposter Issue No. 1, January 18, 1969
New York: Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1969. The first of at least seven posters included in issues of the Student Mobilizer, the newspaper of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The recto includes a photograph of a bandaged soldier smoking and..... More
The Student Mobilizer Wall Poster No. 5, August 21, 1969
Washington, D. C. Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1969. The fifth of at least seven posters included in issues of the Student Mobilizer, the newspaper of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The recto includes a montage of protest photographs superimposed over..... More
Two handbills issued by the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman's Peace Party
[Boston]: [Woman's Peace Party], 1917. Two handbills issuing statements by the Massachusetts branch of the Woman’s Peace Party urging the U.S. government to stay out of military conflict on the European continent (WWI) and in Mexico. The earliest handbill was likely published ca. 1916 after Pancho Villa tried to goad..... More
Violence, Non-Violence, & Change (New University Conference Crisis Paper)
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
Youth Challenges the Warmakers!: Report of the National Youth Anti-War Congress
New York: Youth Committee Against War, [1940]. The Youth Committee Against War (YCAW) was founded in 1938 as a federation of socialist, Protestant and student youth groups. Originally called the Youth Committee for the Oxford Pledge, it was militantly pacifist and anti-imperialist and attached itself to the equally isolationist Keep..... More
Peace Service Projects
[Philadelphia]: [American Friends Service Committee], [1941]. A project notebook for peace caravaners developed by Harold Chance, head of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. Published in the summer of 1941, the notebook begins with a short preface by influential Quaker Rufus Jones followed by quotes from Rupert..... More
Schoolboy “Expendables”: Our Retrogression to Barbarism
Glenshaw, Pa.: W. S. Chase, 1947. Fourth printing. Stapled wrappers (3 ¾” x 6 ¾”), 22 pp. Rust to staples, else Fine. Two copies in WorldCat at the Wisconsin Historical Society & Alexander Turnbull Library in NZ. A vituperative anti-war screed that accuses the U.S war class of sacrificing young schoolboys..... More
Congress Journal, Third National Youth Anti-War Congress, December 27-30, 1939
Chicago: 1939. This Congress Journal was issued at the Youth Committee Against War’s (YCAW) third national youth anti-war congress held from Dec. 27-30, 1939 at the International House in Chicago. It includes the YCAW’s program, comments from YCAW officers Frank Littell and Fay Bennett, the congress agenda, various adverts and..... More
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[CRV/NY Newsletter, Number One?]. Vietnam is a Stake Not a Mistake
New York: Committee of Returned Volunteers/New York, [ca. 1970]. A 23” x 17” newsprint sheet folded to make 8 panels. Small closed tears to edges and folds, newsprint toned, but VG overall. One copy under the title “Vietnam is a stake not a mistake” in OCLC at the New York..... More
Never Again! United Youth Conference Against War
New York: United Youth Conference Against War, 1932. A conference document for the inaugural United Youth Conference Against War, which was held at the Rand School of Social Science in NYC from November 25-27, 1932. The internal pages include a Call to Action by Nathaniel Weyl (temporary chairman) and Paul..... More