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Collection Inventory
Series I. African Americans and the Left
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Scope and Content Notes: This series focuses on the role African Americans played in leftist movements and on left wing support for campaigns against racist practices and for Black civil rights, including the major role Communism played in the Civil Rights Movement before the 1950s, and influence of Black Liberation on the New Left. While the Socialist Party gave nominal rhetorical support to racial equality, most Socialist Party leaders considered racial discrimination (or gender, ethnic, or religious discrimination) as distinctly secondary to the class struggle, and a significant minority within the Party harbored racist views. Blacks folks suffered, SP leaders argued, primarily because their labor was exploited and that would only be solved by socialism.
Communists, in contrast, stressed the importance of racial discrimination, saw combatting racism as a prerequisite to progress on all other issues, and insisted on individual personal commitment to antiracism as a non-negotiable part of adherence to Party discipline. While advocacy by Black activists contributed to this posture, it resulted primarily from positions developed within the Communist International (Comintern) and pushed by key Soviet leaders such as Lenin and Stalin. Communists considered the problems of African-Americans as a special case of what they called the “national question,” that is the national aspirations of ethnic groups and peoples suffering discrimination and denial of rights because of their domination within colonial empires or within multi-ethnic European Empires such as the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian Empires. Communist concern with the national question derived mainly from two influences. First, the Soviet state incorporated the many discontented national groups of the Russian Empire forcing Soviet leaders to develop a national policy. They responded by creating a series of nominally independent ethnic republics or autonomous regions and reinventing the state as a theoretically egalitarian union of these republics. Second, Communists considered the massive popular discontent of colonial peoples as the Achilles heel of world capitalism and a great political opportunity to expand their global influence. Soviet and Comintern efforts attracted the attention of many prominent anticolonial leaders including a group of Black intellectuals who developed to develop the ideal and program of Pan-Africanism. While many Pan-Africanists eventually became disillusioned with Communism, this overlap between Communism and Pan-Africanism had enduring influence on Black nationalists within the United States into the 1960s even after the CPUSA ceased to be an even minimally viable organization.
New Left concern with civil rights and Black liberation derived first from the inspirational role of the Civil Rights movement, and second from the way the US participation in the War in Vietnam made activists aware of the problems of colonialism, imperialism, and relationships between developed and underdeveloped countries. New Leftists, inspired by Pan-Africanism (in some cases without full awareness of the history of these formulations) tended to think of African-Americans as a colonial people marooned within in the imperialist metropole.
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Box 1
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Flyer
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Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement, We Shall Overcome! compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan for The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 1963
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The Truth About Columbia Tennessee Cases
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Associated Press Photographs of African American Communist Angelo Herndon, Mid 1930's
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Jim Crow "Justice" In Korea, The Case of Lieutenant Leon Gilbert
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In Defense of Negro Rights, by Benjamin J. Davis, January 1950
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The Negro People in the struggle for Peace and Freedom, By Benjamin J. Davis, February 1951
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The Negro People on the March, Report to the National Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A., by Benjamin J. Davis, August 1956
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The Historic Fight to Abolish School Segregation in the United States, by Doxey A. Wilkerson
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"The Negro Question", Outline and Study-Guide for Five-Session Course, January 1949
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Negro History Week, 1950
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Negro History Week, 1951
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Negro History Week, 1952
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Negro History Week, February 1954
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Umbra, December, 1963
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Umbra Anthology, 1967-1968
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This Man Will Die Unless You Help
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The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Henry Winston, by Mike Newberry
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"Resolutions from the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa", September 24-27, 1964
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The White Problem
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Letter from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 1968
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Memo to contributors from the SCLC Staff, April 1968
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"Negroes Beaten in Grenada School Integration"
New York Times article, Tuesday, September 13, 1966
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Michael Zinzun for the 55th Assembly District campaign pamphlet
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"Black Party Founding Convention" flyer, 1980
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"Hear the Communist Candidates" flyer
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"Hot Thang---Bar-B-Q" Flyer, 1972
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The Road to Liberation for the Negro People, September 1937
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"Rally For Youth Rights" Flyer
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Justice For All Humanity, Colored America Answers the Challenge of Pearl S. Buck
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Africa Fights for Freedom, by Alphaeus Hunton, March 1950
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David P. Widamen For Congress 4th Congressional District Progressive Party Ticket Campaign Pamphlet
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Vote for a Fighter against War and Racism, Jarvis Tyner, Communist Candidate for Vice-President
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"Theoretical Aspects of the Negro Question in the United States"
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The New Secession- And How To Smash It, Riding to Freedom, by Herbert Aptheker and James E. Jackson, June 1961
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Forces of Progress in the South, Workers, Farmers, and the Negro People, by Jim Jackson, 1955
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American Imperialism and White Chauvinism, by Herbert Aptheker
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FEPC, How it was Betrayed, How it can be Saved, By Rob Fowler Hall, February 1950
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"The Time is Now! Mr. President Wipe Out Slums and Ghettos! Billions for Life-Not Death!" Open Letter
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"Program to End Ghettos and Fight Poverty" Flyer
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The Road to Negro Liberation, Report to the Eighth Convention of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., by Harry Haywood, June 1934
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Some Aspects of the Negro Question in the United States, by James E. Jackson, July 1959
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Now is the Time, by M.E. Travis
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Let Freedom Ride the Rails
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Negro Freedom is in the Interest of Every American, by Gus Hall, July 1964
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The Party of Negro and White, By Pettis Perry, March, 1953
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Marxism and Negro Liberation, by Gus Hall, May 1951
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"Marxism and the Negro Question"
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American Negro Problems
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The Struggle for Afro-American Liberation
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Negro Representation Now!, by Elaine Ross
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The Communist Position on the Negro Question
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On Certain Aspects of Bourgeois Nationalism Pamphlet
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Negro-White Unity, by Henry Winston, February 1967
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For These Things We Fight Pamphlet
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The Jobless Negro, by Elizabeth Lawson
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Black Coal Miners in the United States, by Paul Nyden
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The People Versus Segregated Schools, by Doxey A. Wilkerson, February 1955
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The Jerry Newson Story..., by Buddy Green and Steve Murdock, October 1950
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Behind the Florida Bombings, Who Killed NAACP Leader Harry T. Moore and his wife?, by Joseph North, February 1952
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Behind the Lynching of Emmet Louis Till, by Louis Burnham, December 1955
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The Killing of William Milton, by Art Shields, September 1948
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Lynching and Frame-Up in Tennessee, by Robert Minor, October 1946
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Stop Police Brutality, March 1952
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The Position of Negro Women, by Eugene Gordon and Cyril Briggs, February 1935
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The Communist Part and the Emancipation of the Negro People, by Earl Browder
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"Theoretical Aspects of the Negro Question in the United States"
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"Henry Winston Meets Angela Davis", by Gene Tournour
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The Negro Today, by Herbert Aptheker, 1962
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The Story of Discrimination in Government Pamphlet
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The Shadow of the South is On Our Shops! Pamphlet
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"Who are the Friends of the Negro People?", by C.A. Hathaway
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Official Proceedings of the Second All-Southern Negro Youth Conference, May 1938
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Democracy vs. Force and Violence!
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"Negro Workers! White Workers! Organize and Fight Against Lynching!" Flyer, 1930
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The Communist Position on the Negro Question, February 1947
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World Problems of the Negro People
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Negro Representation- A Step Towards Negro Freedom, by Pettis Perry, March 1952
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The Government Takes a Hand in the Cotton-Patch, by George Anstrom, November 1933
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The Legacy of Slavery and the Roots of Black Nationalism, by Eugene D. Genovese
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On the Struggle for Peace and Freedom, by Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
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"Call for Truth! To Silence Racist Ravings"
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"Make the March a Million Strong!"
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"Bibliography on the Negro Question", June 1950
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Black Workers in Revolt Pamphlet, by Robert Dudnick
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The General Policy Statement and Labor Program of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
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Eldon Ave. Revolutionary Union Movement Pamphlets (2)
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88 |
El Rum Pamphlets (4)
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Uni Rum Pamphlet
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Me Rum Pamphlet
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League of Revolutionary Black Workers on Repression Speech, by Kenneth Cockrel
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To the Point...Of Production, An Interview with John Watson
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"Core Demands to Board of Education", September 3, 1963
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Spear: Who is James Johnson Pamphlet, 1971
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Spear, V.1, N.1, 1969
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Drum: Wildcat Strike, 1968
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Drum: Challenge, 1968
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Drum: Drum's Candidate, 1969
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Drum: Hoover Road, 1969
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Drum: Lily White--Super Right, 1969
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Drum: The Root of Racism, 1969
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Drum: What Has Drum Done?, 1969
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Drum: All Out in the Wash, 1970
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Drum Hail James Johnson, 1970
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Drum: Walter Reuther is Dead and So is the U.A.W. Contract, 1970
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Cooley High Black Student Voice, November 5, 1970
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Black Student Voice: "Black Voice of Revolution", 1969
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"Elect Claude Lightfoot" Flyer, 1932
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110 |
The Spirit of George Jackson Pamphlet, September 1972
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Why Negroes Should oppose the War Pamphlet, 1940
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112 |
Printed Invitation to 23rd Testimonial Dinner of the Los Angeles Committee for the Defense of the Bill of Rights, 1973
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Invitation to 20th Annual Banquet of the Los Angeles Committee for the Defense of the Bill of Rights, October 20, 1970
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"Save Fletcher Mills" Flyer, June 13, 1952
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Dixie Comes to New York: Story of the Freeport GI Slayings Pamphlet, 1946
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116 |
The Monroe Kidnapping Newsletter, November 1961
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117 |
Vigilante Terror in Fontana: The Tragic Story of O'Day H. Short and His Family Pamphlet, February 1946
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118 |
"From Lynch Threat to Frame-Up" Flyer
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119 |
"For Immediate Release" memo, October 15 1970
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Special Report,
Lunch- Counter Desegregation in Corpus Christi, Galveston, and San Antonio, Texas, by Kenneth Moreland, May 10, 1960
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Unfinished Revolution, by Tom Kahn, 1960
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From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement, by Bayard Rustin, February 1965
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Flyer advertising a demonstration referred to as the "Mass Funeral"
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"Vote Negroes Into Office" Flyer
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"Parade and Demonstrate" Flyer
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History of the American Negro People, 1619-1918, 1941
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"International Black Workers Congress" Draft Proposal
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"Young Negro Workers! Fight Against Bosses Wars!" Flyer for youth rally
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"The Negro People in the United States, Facts for all Americans", 1953
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Inner-City Voice, April 1, 1970
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Inner-City Voice, July 15, 1970
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Inner-City Voice, November-December, 1970
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Inner-City Voice, February, 1971
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Assorted Information Regarding the Various Protests of Black Workers (Detroit Automobile Factory Workers in Particular)
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Assorted Information Regarding Black Revolutionary Activities
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Assorted Information Regarding Black Revolutionary Activities
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Take Howard Out of the National Student Federation
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A Call for a Petition Campaign and Youth March
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"Guilty of Being a Negro"
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Ernestine L. Rose, "Her Address on the Anniversary of West Indian Emancipation", 1949
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Coming! W.E.B. DuBois
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Los Angeles Congress of Racial Equality Active membership Bulletin
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Angela Davis Newsletter
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All Night Vigil, October 24, 1963
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"Free Angela Davis" Flyer ca. 1971
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"Calendar of a Frame-Up" Flyer, 1971
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"People Against Racism" Newsletter, 1968
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"My Friends" Native Son, 1940
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"Serve The People" Black Panther Flyer, 1970
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"Don't Buy At Thriftmart," ca. 1964
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Series II. Anarchists
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Scope and Content Notes: Several waves of anarchists participated in left-wing movements in the U.S., sometimes in tension with the Marxists who led the SPUSA, the CPUSA, and other left-wing organizations. From the late 1800s through the 1930s anarcho-communists predominated in anarchist circles. Like Marxists they considered private capital ownership inherently exploitative, but since they considered all authority illegitimate they criticized Marxists’ commitment to state ownership of the means of production. Other tendencies including syndicalism, communitarianism, and individualist libertarianism also influenced anarchist thought and practice.
Anarchist influence declined after the 1920s but small circles persisted not only preserving the anarchist tradition, but also developing new ideas that would become influential with the rebirth of anarchism in the 1960s. More recently many young anarchists seeking intellectual inspiration have gravitated toward anarchism in part because of the perceived intellectual and moral exhaustion of the Marxist tradition.
Although the collection includes examples from all of these waves of anarchism, anarchist materials are under-represented in the American Left Ephemera Collection because they could not match the resources of organizations like the SPUSA or CPUSA or even the Trotskyist parties so nearly all the material they produced appeared in very small numbers and has not been widely preserved.
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Alternative, V1, N3, June 1948
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Alternative, V1, N6, November 1948
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Alternative, V1, N9, February 1949
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Alternative, V2, N1, May-June 1949
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Alternative, V2. N2, October 1949
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Alternative, V2. N3, November 1949
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Alternative, V2. N6, February 1950
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Alternative, V2. N7, March 1950
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Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, 2007
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IMPACT, The Religious Right: Corrupting the Cross and the Constitution, 2006
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Sling Shot, 2008
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Profane Existence - Issue #6, October-November 1990
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Workers Democracy - Vol. 2 No. 3, September 2001
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Soapbox - Vol. 7 Issue 3, June 2007
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Slug + Lettuce - Issue #88, Summer 2006
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Radical Def - Issue #6, Summer 2001
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Fifth Estate - Vol. 39 No. 1, Spring 2004
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The Insurgent - Vol. 18 No. 2, January 2007
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Econews - Vol. 37 No. 7, August 2007
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Libertat, Butletti interior d'informancio de la Associacio Catalana d'ex-presos politics, May-June, 1978
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Mother Earth, Vol. XI No. 3, June 1916
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Mother Earth, Vol. XI No. 4, July 1916
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Black Star, Vol. 1 No. 1, ca. 1975
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The Road to Freedom Newspaper, March, 1928
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Series III. Anti-War Propaganda
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Scope and Content Notes: Four waves of peace and antiwar activity played major roles within the twentieth century American Left. First Socialists before and during WW1 opposed military preparation and American participation in the war after 1917. In the 1930s revulsion against the memory of WW1 and fear that the world was drifting towards an even more devastating world war fueled large scale antiwar and peace agitation. Antiwar activity overlapped with antifascism (as in the title of one of the largest organizations—The League Against War and Fascism) because activists perceived the militarized fascist right as the primary source of war threats. College students played a key role in the movement circulating mass petitions urging draft refusal and staging several one day national strikes for peace. In the late 1950s and early 1960s the biggest focus of peace agitation was nuclear disarmament, but by the late 1960s opposition to the War in Vietnam predominated. Peace and antiwar agitation continued through subsequent decades but never reached the levels of mass support of these earlier waves. Communists also campaigned actively for peace in the late 1940s and 1950s and opposed US participation in the Korean War, but they did not generate mass support because most Americans, including those who also opposed the Korean War, believed that Communist antiwar efforts were motivated by support for Soviet national interests rather than a more general commitment to peace.
The American Left Ephemera collection includes items from of all of these eras. Communist material from the Cold War and Korean War are overrepresented, compared to the support they actually commanded, because even as the Party declined, it still had sufficient resources to support substantial publication of its materials.
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"Address of Dr. Harry F. Ward American Congress for Peace and Democracy", January 7, 1939
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"Summary of Proceedings of American Congress for Peace and Democracy", January 13, 1939
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"Proposed Draft of Revised Constitution of the American League for Peace and Democracy for Discussion at the Congress"
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The World Congress Against War, August 27-29, 1932
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The American Struggle for Peace, 1952
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A Key to Survival, by Margret Hofmann, 1962
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The Dean of Canterbury To the People of America, "We Can Keep Peace"
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"Sure, War is Hell! But What Can You Do About It?, The Reverse Side of This Leaflet Tells What You Can Do About It...", March 13, 1953
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Southern California Peace Crusade, "Peace with Jobs!", 1953
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"Memo from a Veteran Who's Still Fighting"
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National Defense, by John Franklin, April 1936
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Which Way for Young Americans?, by Gus Hall, October 1950
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"Meet Your Local Merchant of Death", compiled By Narmic, June 1977
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"Stop Iran Iraq War, Iran-Iraq Peace Movement..." Sticker
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"Damage Report, How Reagan Administration has hurt workers, the needy, the elderly...enriched the rich, Big Oil, the corporations, AFL-CIO Solidarity Party", September 19, 1981
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"The Cruise Missile", by Dan Smith, 1977
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$222 Billion Dollars
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Assorted Holiday Cards for Peace
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"American League for Peace and Democracy Report" by Russell Thayer, Acting Executive Secretary, 1938
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Assorted Flyers Petitioning Against the Fleet of 244 B-1 Bombers
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Antiwar Speak out Flyer
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From Korean Truce to World Peace, by Robert Mann
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The American People Want Peace, A Survey of Public Opinion, by Jessica Smith, 1955
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The Atomic Arming of the West German Federal Republic-
An Imminent Danger To Peace, 1964
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Guns are Ready, by Seymour Waldman, January 1935
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How to Keep America Out of War, by Kirby Page, 1939
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The Price of Peace, by E. Guy Talbott, 1935
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"Peace- The Present Imperative"
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"Black Shirt Black Skin", by Boake Carter
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Military "Glory" in the Colleges, by Paul Blanshard, February 18, 1925
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The Menace of a New World War, January, 1936
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"Hell in the Heavens", June 1931
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Selections from War Without Violence, By Krishnalal Shridharani, 1939
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"Program for Governmental Action To Keep The United States Out of War and War Out of the World", Mid 1930's
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A Call To Peace Now, A Message to the Society of Friends, by Dorothy Hutchinson
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178 |
Keep America Out of War
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Report to FDR, Documentary Evidence on the Origins of the Cold War, 1955
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180 |
Is Disarmament Possible?
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"The United States and Disarmament", 1931
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Box 13
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Drive the Snakes Out of El Salvador; St. Patrick's Day Benefit Flyer, 1981
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Peace Pipe, 1962
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"Peace Walk to the World's Fair", May 5, 1962
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"Friends! We Need Your Help!"
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Stop The U.S. War in El Salvador, March 27, 1982
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"Protest Protest Protest Kirkpatrick Visit" Flyer, April 26, 1981
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This Administration Has Declared War On Americans, 1981
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An Evening of Solidarity With The People of El Salvador, March 23 1982
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"No More Three Mile Islands U.S. Out of El Salvador" Flyer, 1981
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Series IV. Christian Socialism
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Scope and Content Notes: Both the Marxist and anarchist traditions usually opposed religion because they conceived of rationalism as the only path to human liberation. Religion, they argued, befuddled the masses in two ways. First, by basing itself on the supernatural, religion encouraged irrational thinking and discouraged the masses from developing rational capacities. Second, by promising rewards in a future life for dutiful behavior in this life, religion encouraged passivity and discouraged protest. However, these arguments ignored how radical social movements had been inspired by egalitarian elements in Judeo-Christian theology from the peasant wars of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance mobilized by dissenting Protestants and heretical Catholics to the radical wing of the English civil war inspired by radical Christian sects to the abolitionist movement in which evangelical Christians had played an overwhelming role.
Two significant cohorts of Christian Socialists operated within the orbit of the major left-wing movements from the 1890s through the 1960s: Protestants influenced by Social Gospel Protestantism and Catholics influenced by liberation theology. Both argued that the moral visions of socialism and Christianity overlapped and that you could not be a true Christian in the modern world unless you committed yourself to social and economic justice. The first group formed a Christian Socialist Fellowship affiliated with the Socialist Party that published The Christian Socialist and encouraged ministers to seek Socialist Party nominations for public office. Some of the most prominent Socialist politicians were ministers and members of the Christian Socialist Fellowship including George R. Lunn, mayor of Schenectady ,N.Y. and J. Stitt Wilson, mayor of Berkeley, Cal.
While several individual Catholic priests also supported the Socialist Party and the IWW, they faced concerted opposition from an overwhelmingly anti-socialist church hierarchy. Catholic support for the left expanded in the 1930s when Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker movement garnered support not only among lay Catholics but also among some members of the Church hierarchy. Both the rise of the CIO and the emergence of the Popular Front in the late 1930s offered more political space for radical Catholics. The former involved massive strikes and protests by industrial workers who were disproportionately Catholic and expected Church validation for their actions. The Popular Front made collaboration between religious and non-religious agitators less problematic because the Communists toned down their inflammatory rhetoric and actively sought alliance with anyone who would work with them.
By the 1960s liberation theology had become a mass movement in Latin America and radical Catholics could take prominent roles in both the Civil Rights movement and the antiwar movement without fearing retaliation from the Church. Religion also, perhaps, fit in with 1960s protest because of protestors’ widespread interest in mysticism and spirituality.
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The Christian Socialist Newspaper
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The Kingdom of God and Socialism, by Rev. Robert M. Webster, June 1903
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A Christian View of Socialism, by G.H. Strobell
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The Melish Case, Challenge to the Church, 1949
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The Profits of Religion
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"Peace on Earth...", by Rev. Clarence E. Duffy, Priest of the Catholic Church, 1952
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I Saw the Morning Break, The Church of the People
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A Worker Looks at Jesus, by David Grant
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"Christian Pacifist Faith"- An Affirmation
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A Christian Approach to Nuclear War
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The Relation of Religion to Social Ethics, 1901
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Constitution of the United People's Church
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United People's Church of Pittsburgh
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Series V. Citizens Party
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Scope and Content Notes: Dissatisfaction with the Carter administration led a diverse array of activists to form the Citizen’s Party in 1980 around a program combining environmentalism with calls for “economic democracy.” The party nominated environmentalist Barry Commoner for president. Commoner’s candidacy initially attracted both press coverage and endorsements by several prominent labor leaders and liberal Democratic elected officials, but the campaign was not well-organized and many initial supporters ending up voting for Carter out of fear of a Reagan victory. Commoner received only 221,000 votes. A handful of party candidates won local offices in 1980 and after, but the 1984 Citizen’s Party presidential candidate, Sonia Johnson, received less than a third of Commoner’s total (72,000) and the party disbanded. In Pennsylvania the Citizen’s Party achieved ballot status in the Consumer Party’s (a previously existing Philadelphia based) third party line.
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Platform of the Citizens/Consumer Party as adopted at Party Convention April 1980
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Vote Consumer for a Change, 1980
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"Vote for a Real Alternative in 1980!" Flyer, 1980
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"John Zingaro ...a Consumer voice on City Council" Flyer, 1980
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The Citizens Party News Bulletin, June 17, 1981
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Flyer for the Consumer-Citizens Party Presidential Candidate Barry Commoner
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Flyer for a Free Concert in Support of John Zingaro, the Consumer Party Candidate for Pittsburgh City Council
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Flyer for Pittsburgh Consumer Party's Bastille Day Celebration
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Flyer for Consumer/Citizens Party, 1978
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Consumer Party 1980 Campaign Flyer
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Series VI. Communists and Civil Liberties
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Scope and Content Notes: Communists and their supporters issued most of the items in this section during the period following World War II when the Federal Government, several state governments, and numerous private organizations began systematic surveillance, prosecution, and harassment of Communist Party members, close fellow travelers, and former Communists suspected of still harboring sympathy for communism. While many observers call this the McCarthy Era, after Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy who garnered substantial publicity for his speeches asserting the threat of a Communist conspiracy within the Federal government, the repression began well before McCarthy’s first major speech on the question in 1950 and continued well after his censure for procedural excesses in 1954.
Federal prosecutors used three legal strategies to pursue Communists: indictment under the 1941 Smith Act (which made it a crime to conspire to advocate overthrow of the government—a legal subterfuge designed to find a way around Bill of Rights protections for speech and association); actions to revoke citizenship and deport foreign born Communists (under clauses of the immigration laws that made advocacy of violent overthrow of the government grounds for denying or revoking citizenship), and prosecution for failing to fulfill the demands of several Federal laws that required Communists and Communist front groups to register as agents of a foreign power (which, if carried out, opened those who did so to other prosecutions). In addition widespread hearings on Un-Americanism threatened those called to testify with a legal double threat. Much of the public viewed pleading the Fifth Amendment equivalent to a guilty plea, and employers frequently fired individuals who did so. But individuals who answered any question forfeited rights to refuse to answer any subsequent question and faced indictment and imprisonment for contempt of Congress if they did so. Both state and Federal governments also instituted loyalty oaths as conditions of public employment. Employees who refused to sign would be dismissed. Those who did so but were subsequently revealed to be Communists could be indicted for perjury. Private employers supplemented prosecution by denying employment to individuals known or suspected of Communist membership or sympathy. While the blacklist in the entertainment industry has been the most closely studied part of this phenomenon, the FBI routinely informed all major employers of suspected individuals employed by their firms and most employers fired such people. The FBI also released the names and addresses of suspected Communists to daily newspapers that subsequently published the lists. Individuals whose names appeared faced not only loss of employment, but also social ostracism, physical attack, and vandalism to their homes and automobiles.
Communists used three primary rhetorical approaches to seek public support in their battles against prosecution and harassment. First, they argued that their espousal of revolution was open and public, not conspiratorial, and purely rhetorical. Indeed, they vigorously opposed individual acts of violence, such as the bombings as “propaganda of the deed” advocated by some anarchists. None of the indictments against them, they pointed out, cited any specific violent acts. Second, they argued that they were a legitimate political party, functionally equivalent to the Democratic and Republican Parties. Finally they argued that harassment of Communists for their controversial views threatened the civil liberties of all Americans and stifled public discussion and thought. The first two defenses were probably valid descriptions of the frame of mind and intentions of the bulk of rank and file Communists, but prosecutors had no trouble demonstrating that Communist propaganda had frequently advocated violent revolution in the past and the necessity of revolutionary violence was a central contention of core Marxist-Leninist texts. Moreover, prosecutors had evidence (though they sometimes hesitated to present it in open court for fear of revealing details of the intelligence apparatus) that Party leaders and dozens of Party members had participated in Soviet espionage. The Communists’ third argument—that anticommunist repression stifled civil liberties and public discourse for non-Communists was true—but Communists found that liberals who they expected to support their defense on such grounds frequently refused to do so not only because of fear that they too would thereby invite harassment on themselves, but also because the Communists’ long history of sudden shifts in their public positions and vitriolic sectarian denunciations of political competitors had fundamentally undermined Communists’ credibility.
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Treason in Congress, The Record of the Un-American Activities Committee, by Albert E. Kahn
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The Schneiderman Case, United States Supreme Court Opinion with an Introduction by Carol King, August 1943
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Documents Regarding Harry F. Ward from the Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities
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Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session, 1957
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Democracy, Civil Rights and Liberty in Connecticut, by Daniel Howard, 1958
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The Mine Mill Conspiracy Case, by Sidney Lens
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"Democracy Should Begin At Home"
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America's Thought Police, October 1947
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"Happy Birthday" Postcard Issued by the National Conference to Win Amnesty for Smith Act Victims
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Freedoms and Foreign Policy, by Owen Lattimore
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Amnesty!, by Marion Bachrach, December 1952
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What Everyone Should Know About the "Bill of Rights" and other Constitutional Guarantees of Individual Freedom, A Scriptographic Study Unit, 1969
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Censored News Of Your America, Will America Become a Land of Whispers?, September 1950
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Citizens Without Rights
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What Kind of Teachers for your Child, The Facts Behind the Suspension of 8 Excellent Teachers, May 1950
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The Right to Travel, by Corliss Lamont, 1957
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The Case of the Stubborn Editor
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Note of Resignation to the Belamy Club from Edith Rickard
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"A Dangerous Woman", Stella Petrosky Held for Deportation, by Sprad, June 1936
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What Political Prisoners Do We Defend? Pamphlet
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The Bill of Rights in Danger!, by Robert W. Dunn, January 1940
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Civil Liberties in the U.S.A., A Short History of the Origin and Defense of the Bill of Rights, by S. Small
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The Big Plot, Proof of the Justice Department's Plan to Jail 21, 105 Americans
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Fellow Citizens: Our husbands are in prison!...
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Digest of Amicus Curiae Brief to the United Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of the Internal Security Act of 1950 in the case of Communist Party of the U.S.A. v. Subversive Activities Control Board
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The Twelve and You, What Happens to Democracy is your business, too!, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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"Is This What Truman Means By Civil Rights!"
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Due Process in a Political Trial, The Record vs. The Press
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The Reign of Witches, The Struggle Against the Alien and Sedition Laws, by Elizabeth Lawson, 1952
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Red Tape and Barbed Wire, by Sender Garlin, 1952
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In Danger, The Right to Speak for Peace, by Harold Spencer
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"The Persecution of Oleta O'Connor Yates"
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Patriotism against McCarthyism
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"Turn Informer or Go to Jail! Which Choice Would You Make?, Oleata O'Connor Yates Made Hers!"
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Books on Trial, The Case of Alexander Trachtenberg, 1952
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Greet the New Year with the L.A. Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
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"Summary and Analysis of Important Features of the Alien Registration Act of 1940, Smith Act", November 3, 1951
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"Supreme Court of the United States" Pamphlet
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The Case of Carl Marzani
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"It Can Happen to You" Flyer
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"Jailed for Fighting Franco, Free Them!"
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"In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1948, No. ........"
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"The 13th Juror, The Inside Story of My Trial, A Dramatic Revelation", by Steve Nelson
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"S.F. No. 16,935 In the Supreme Court of the State of California"
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600 Prominent Americans Ask President to Rescind Biddle Decision, 1942
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The Walter- McCarran Law, Extracts From Testimony Before President's Commission on Immigration & Naturalization
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Man Bites Dog, Report of an Unusual Hearing before the McCarran Committee
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The People Vs. McCarthyism, The Case Against the McCarran Act, by John Abt
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Mandel Vs. McCarthyism,
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Only the People Can Decide
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Rights, Un-American Activities Committee Acts Unconstitutionally, October 1959
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Report of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on Judiciary Pertaining to Loyalty Oaths, March 1959
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Hate Groups and the Un-American Activities Committee, by David Wesley, 1962
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For Abolition of the Inquisitorial Committees of Congress
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"When Conscience Speaks"
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"The Bill of Rights and The Mundt-Ferguson Bills", An Analysis of the Provisions and Opinion on their Constitutionality
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Vengeance of the Young, The Story of the Smith Act Children, by Albert E. Kahn, June 1952
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The People's Case, The Story of the IWO, by Albert E. Kahn, 1951
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Creeping McCarthyism: Its Threat to Church, School and Press, 1953
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The Crime Against Jean Field, by Albert E. Kahn, February, 1952
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Is a Fair Trial Possible at the Hands of Federal Juries
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Scholar and School- New Targets for Bigotry
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Shall Freedom of Speech Apply to all Americans?
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Not Guilty!, The Case of Claude Lightfoot, June 1955
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The Strange Trial of Stanley Nowak, by Conrad Komorowski, December 1954
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McCarthy on Trial, 1954
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"Remove the Dagger! From the Heart of the Bill of Rights"
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Elizabeth Bentley and Her Role in the Attack on the New Deal
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"Defend the Bill of Rights Rally" Flyer
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An Open Letter to the American People
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Morton Sorbell, Prisoner on Our Conscience, A Newspaper to Secure Justice in the Case of Morton Sorbell, November 1956
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Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1952, No. 687, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg vs. United States of America
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Flyer Instructing Communists to Take Action Against Los Angeles City Councilman Davenport
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Exile, The Story of David Hyun
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Scholar and School- New Targets for Bigotry
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Why Did They Fire My Teacher?
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In the Shadow of Liberty, The Inhumanity of the Walter- McCarran Law, by Abner Green, September 1954
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Can Americans Tolerate Prison for Ideas? Pamphlet with Accompanying Letter, April 1954
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"Journal for 1956, Published for the 6th Annual Conference to Repeal the Walter-McCarran Law and Defend its Victims", April 7, 1956
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"An Open Letter to the American People"
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The Rape of the First Amendment, by Alexander L. Crosby
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Free American's from the McCarran Act Danger!, by Gus Hall
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End McCarrasnism on this we Stand Together
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The McCarran Act, Fact and Fancy, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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"...And What Can We Say to Gus Polites?, We Need a Statute of Limitation!"
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"Facts and Opinions McCarran Internal Security Act" Pamphlet
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"Rules and Procedures for the Walk for the Bill of Rights" Flyer
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"Defend Academic Freedom: Stop McCarthyism Now!", A Statement on Academic Freedom Week by the Labor Youth League
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Burlington Dynamite Plot, by Walt Pickard
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Letters from the Tombs, by Morris U. Schappes, 1941
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The Case of Claude Lightfoot
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We Accuse McCarthyism, February 1954
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The Heat is On!
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Loyalty Oath, If We Remain Silent...
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Smear and Run...An Un-American Activity
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Who's Unamerican!, July 1947
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"CRC Monthly News Letter Exclusively for CRC Member", November 1950
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"Let Freedom Ring for Earl Browder", by Carl Ross, February 1942
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"Earl Browder Takes His Case to the People", January 1940
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"An Open Letter to J. Howard McGrath", Attorney General of the United States, 1951
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Speaks to the Court, Opening Statement to the Court and Jury in the Case of the Sixteenth Smith Act Victims in the Trial at Foley Square, New York, July 1952
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"The Smith Act", New Conspiracy Against American Labor
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Report on the Denial of Labor and Civil Rights in Hudson County, New Jersey, February 1937
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A Letter to Congress: Defeat the Anti-Labor Smith Bill!, by William Z. Foster, June 1952
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The Smith ...McCarran...Taft-Hartley Conspiracy to Strangle Labor, by George Morris, October 1951
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The Smith Act- A Threat to Labor
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"It is Later Than You Think..." A Solemn Warning and Appeal to the People of Los Angeles County!
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13 Communists Speak to the Court, March 1953
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McCarthyism and the Big Lie, by Milton Howard, November 1953
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Courage is Contagious, The Bill of Rights versus The Un-American Activities Committee, 1953
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Either the Constitution or the Mundt Bill, America Can't Have Both!, by Simon W. Gerson, June 1950
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In Defense of the Communist Party and the Indicted Leaders, by William Z. Foster, July 1949
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"Don't Let it Happen Here", A Call to the American People
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"Communists Trial Defendants Join Picket Line" Photograph, June 7 1949
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The Twelve and You, What Happens to Democracy is Your Business, too!, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, September 1948
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"To Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case" Pamphlet, 1951
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"An Appeal for Clemency" Pamphlet, 1952
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Mercy for the Rosenbergs Flyer, 1952
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"Fact Sheet in the Rosenberg Case" Pamphlet, 1953
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"The Nelson Case: State Sedition Laws are Weapons of Anti-Labor, Anti-Negro, Anti-Semitic Repression" Leaflet, May 1955
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"Defend Academic Freedom! A Statement on Academic Freedom Week by the Labor Youth League" Pamphlet, 1955
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Rights, V.1 N.10, June 1954
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McCarthyism in the Courts: the story of the Steve Nelson Frame-up Pamphlet, 1951
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"Constitution of the International Labor Defense"
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Ten Years of Labor Defense, by Sasha Small, 1953
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Labor Research Association's Monthly Labor Notes, August 1938
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Night Riders in Gallup, by Louis Colman, May 1935
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Friedel Rosenthal, U.S. Hostage in Germany, by James C. Bilotta with Accompanying Letter from the Author
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We Want Drastic Revision or Outright Repeal of the Racist & Discriminatory Walter-McCarran Law By the 85th Congress!, April 6, 1957
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"Fight the Blacklist!" Flyer
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"Conference of Inquiry", Source Material for Panel Discussion
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Series VII. Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
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Scope and Content Notes: The Communist Party U.S.A., successor to the multiple left-wing factions that split off from the Socialist Party U.S.A. at its 1919 convention, did not develop significant influence until the mid-1930s. While they initially commanded at least nominal support of perhaps 70,000 of the SPUSA’s 110,000 members, that support drifted away as the rival Communist factions operated as secret undergrounds and refused to cooperate. The Comintern pressured them to combine into as an open political party, the Workers Party of America, in 1922, but they maintained a dual underground structure for several years thereafter, and continued factional squabbles. Ultimately the Party only achieved working unity between 1927 and 1929 by expelling the significant portions of the leadership who identified with Stalin’s factional rivals in the Soviet Party. The Party, thus, entered the Depression unified but isolated with a membership not much bigger than 10% of the combined membership of the 1919 Communist factions. Their dependence on Soviet intervention to settle disputes shaped the Party’s subsequent political culture. While all Communist Parties had to adhere to Comintern policy as a condition of membership, the CPUSA usually maintained less independence from Soviet direction than many other Communist parties.
American Communists expanded their influence in the 1930s by energetic agitation for the unemployed, industrial unions, civil rights, and antifascism, especially after the shift in Comintern policy from the highly sectarian ultra-revolutionary Third Period (1927-1935) to the antifascist alliance of the Popular Front (1935-39). By 1939 they had about 75,000 members and several hundred thousand fellow travelers. The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 undermined their political credibility, especially among their not insubstantial base among intellectuals and cultural producers. During the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union they regained lost membership but not the level of moral authority they had enjoyed in some circles during the Popular Front. Perhaps that is why they were so quickly politically isolated at the beginning of the Cold War. However, despite the travails of McCarthyism, the Party maintained at least a third of it peak membership until the Khrushchev speech on ”the crimes of the Stalin era” at the 1956 20th Soviet Party Congress. After a brief unsuccessful attempt to reinvent the Party around democratic socialism, veteran members fled leaving an aging vestige of probably less than 5,000 active members (although they claimed more) by the late 1950s.
Throughout the Party’s history, the CPUSA sought to expand its influence by organizing and participating in a broad array of single issue organizations. Some were genuine mass movements with handfuls of Communists amidst tens or even hundreds of thousand of members. Others were Potemkin villages with little more than an office and impressive looking letterhead. Typically Party members filled important leadership slots in such organizations and Party members exercised influence beyond their numbers because of their energy and their policy of acting as a disciplined voting bloc. Both Communists and their critics referred to such organizations as front organizations, although for Communists the usage reflected their notions of “united front’ while for critics the word evoked “false front’ as in a Hollywood movie set. For simplicity, I decided to group many publications by such front organizations in the same section with publications and other ephemera produced by the Party itself. This is not intended as an editorial position on the nature of such front organizations.
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"Labor Committee Report"
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What is the New Deal?, by Earl Browder
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Dimensions Volume 1 Number 1, Discussion Journal of the W.E.B. Dubois Clubs
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United We Stand for Peace and Socialism, by Gil Green, 1935
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Puerto Rico- 'Island Paradise' of U.S. Imperialism, by Patricia Bell, February 1967
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The Crime of El Fanguito An Open Letter to President Truman on Puerto Rico, by William Z. Foster, April 1948
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Report of the Fifth National Convention of the Young Communist League of U.S.A.
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No Jobs Today, A Story of a Young Worker in Pictures, by Phil Bard
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Peace or War, The People against the Warmakers!, by Eugene Dennis, May 1946
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New Program of the CPUSA, 1966
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Reconversion, by George Morris September 1945
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The Menace of American Imperialism, by William Z. Foster October 1945
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The Crisis of U.S. Capitalism and the Fight-Back, Gus Hall
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The Meaning of the 9-Party Communist Conference, by William Z. Foster, November 1947
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Horizons of the Future, For a Socialist America, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, December 1959
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The American Way to Jobs, Peace, Equal Rights and Democracy, September 1954
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The Communist Party & How it Works, A Hand Book on its Organization & Functioning, March 1976
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"Forge Fighting Unity Against the Wall Street Warmakers and the Exploiters of the Southern Masses", by Jim Jackson, 1950
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The Constitution and By-Laws of the Communist Party of the United States of America, August 1938
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"History Will be Made at the Stadium Sun., Sept. 24th"
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"On Certain Aspects of Bourgeois Nationalism" Pamphlet
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"An American People's Program to End Poverty and Unemployment in the U.S.", Economic Program of the Communist Party, U.S.A.
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Economic Crises
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Proceedings (Abridged) of the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A., May 1957
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What is Socialism?, by Ernst Fischer
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Thesis and Resolutions for the Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party of U.S.A., by Central Committee Plenum
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"Congressional Election Platform of the Communist Party"
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Acceptance Speeches
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"Vote Straight Communist"
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"Smash the Bosses Hunger Program", Fight for Unemployment Insurance, Cleveland Communist Election Platform, I.O. Ford for Mayor
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How to Make Your Vote Count, The Communist Position on the Issues and Candidates in the 1948 Elections, by George Morris, October 1948
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"Southside Election Rally"
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"Workers of Hamtrack Vote Communist- Against Hunger and Fascism"
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"The Platform of the Class Struggle", National Platform of the Workers (Communist) Party, 1928
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"Vote for John Makowski", Communist Candidate for Council- Ward 21
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Vote Communist Workers of the World United, "Congressional Platform of the Communist Party, 1934
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"Support the People's Cause..."
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"McCarthyism and the New Jersey Elections"
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"1948 Election Platform of the Communist Party", 1948
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"1952 Election Platform of the Communist Party", 1952
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"The Communist Election Platform 1936", 1936
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"What the People of Texas Need", The Communist Program for the Lone Star State
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"The 1940 Elections, How the People Can Win", By Earl Browder, May, 1939
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"America Needs Earl Browder", By A.B. Magil
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"Milestones in the History of the Communist Party", By Alex Bittelman, August, 1937
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"How Can We Share the Wealth?", The Communist Way Versus Huey Long, By Alex Bittelman, April, 1935
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"An Open Letter to all the Members of the Communist Party"
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"Labor and Anti- Semitism", By George Morris, May, 1953
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"A Brief History of U.S. Asian Labor", By Karl Yoneda
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"The Meaning of the XXth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union", Report to the National Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A., By Max Weiss, 1956
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"Delegate, Special Convention Communist Party, U.S.A., July 4-7, 1968"
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"Religion and Communism", By Earl Browder, June, 1935
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"Talks to America", By Earl Browder, February, 1937
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"Social and National Security", By Earl Browder, December, 1938
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"An American People's Program to End Poverty and Unemployment in the U.S.", Economic Program of the Communist Party, U.S.A.
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"Passage to Progress", The '64 Election Mandate and the Road Ahead, December, 1964
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"A Communist Talks to Students", March, 1964
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"Youth Demands Peace", By James Lerner
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"The Philosophy of Communism", By James E. Jackson, 1963
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"Invitation to Join the Communist Party", By Robert Minor, February, 1943
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"In Defense of the Communist Party", Guide for Study and Discussion of William Z. Foster's Pamphlet, August, 1949
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"The Truth About Father Coughlin", By A.B. Magil, 1935
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"Policy for Victory", By Earl Browder, May, 1943
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"Coal Miners and the War", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, August, 1942
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"Life in the U.S. Army", By Walter Trumbull
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"Youth Serves the Nation", By Max Weiss, February, 1942
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"Youth for Victory in 1943", By Max Weiss, February, 1943
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"Fight for Your Future Now!", By Max Weiss, November, 1942
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"Peace or War, The People against the Warmakers!", By Eugene Dennis, May, 1946
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"The Year of Great Decision, 1942", By Robert Minor, May, 1942
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"The MacArthur Ouster", By Eugene Dennis
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"Intellectuals and the War", By V.J. Jerome "Intellectuals and the War", By V.J. Jerome
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"Two Questions on Winning the War", By Roy Hudson, May, 1942
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"The Trade Unions and the War", By William Z. Foster, June, 1912
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"What's What About the War", Questions and Answers, By William Z. Foster, July, 1940
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"Quarantine the War Mongers", By William Z. Foster, November, 1947
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"May Day Anti-War Rally" Flyer, 1946
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"Make the Democrats Keep Their Promises", June, 1933
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"Youth Confronts the Blue Eagle", By Gil Green
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Complete Schedule of Classes at the California Labor School
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"How to Win Jobs!", By Leonard Sparks
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"Labor and the Menace of Goldwaterism", By George Morris, September, 1964
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"Industrial Slavery- Roosevelt's 'New Deal'", By I. Amter, July, 1933
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"The Trotskyite Fifth Column in the Labor Movement", By George Morris, January, 1945
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"Company Unions Today", By Robert W. Dunn, 1935
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"Labor and the Marshall Plan", By William Z. Foster, March, 1948
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"Reaction Beats Its War Drums", By William Z. Foster, May, 1946
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"Smash Hitler's Spring Offensive Now!", By William Z. Foster, March, 1942
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"Why Work for Nothing?", By Herman Schendel, 1946
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"The People and the Congress", William Z. Foster, February, 1943
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"Should Americans Back the Marshall Plan?", Joseph Starobin, February, 1948
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"The Farmer's Way Out", Life Under a Worker's and Farmer's Government, By John Barnett June, 1935
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"Work for all or Unemployment"
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"Illinois Needs a Farmer- Labor Party", By Morris H. Childs
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"Industrial Insurance: A Snare for Workers", By Mort and E.A. Gilbert, 1936
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"How to Fight High Prices", By Louise Mitchell, November, 1947
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"Where to Begin?", How to Build a Mass Young Communist League, By F. Fuerenberg
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"Americans of Foreign Birth in the War Program for Victory", By Hon. Earl G. Harrison
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"Reconversion", Security or Crisis, By Allan Ross
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"World-Wide Unemployment", 20,000,000 Unemployed
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San Francisco Conference Pamphlet
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Clarity, Notes on the National Question, September, 1944
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"Schools and the Crisis", By Rex David, 1934
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"Poverty 'Midst Riches, Why We Demand Unemployment Insurance"
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"The History of May Day", By Alexander Trachtenberg (3), 1935, 1937, 1947
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"May Day", 1886: 8 Hour Work Day, 1959:6 Hour Work Day, 1959
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"Appalachia U.S.A.", A Study in Poverty, By George Meyers
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"How's Your Health?", The Fight for a National Health Program, By Robert Friedman, February, 1947
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"Broaden the Fight for Peace and Democracy!", By Joseph Rockman, September, 1952
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"Fight! Don't Starve!", Demands for Unemployment Insurance Made Upon the United States Congress
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"On the Struggle Against Revisionism", January, 1946
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"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Solider-for Wall Street", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, February, 1940
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"Unemployment Insurance", The Burning Issue of the Day, By Earl Browder, April, 1935
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"20th Century Methods!" Pamphlet
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"A Democratic Way Out of the Crisis in Education", A Program for Resolving the Crisis in the New York City Public School System
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Educational Bulletin, March, 1956
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"Your Questions Answered", On Politics, Peace, Economics, Fascism, Anti-Semitism, Race Prejudice, Religion, Trade Unionism, Americanism, Democracy, Socialism, Communism, By William Z. Foster, 1939
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"Heroines", By Sasha Small
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"Everybody Can Be Rich- and Still Be Honest!", The Bread-And-Butter Facts of Life, By Jim West
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"What Price Profits?", By Max Weiss, April, 1947
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"March for Peace May 1st 1952", United Labor and People's Committee for May Day, 1952
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"The Real Father Coughlin", By A.B. Magil, May, 1939
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"More Agitation, More Propaganda!, By E. Fisher
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"Smash Michigan's Fifth Column!", August, 1942
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"White Guard Terrorists in the U.S.A.", By Leon Dennen
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"The Black Legion Rides", By George Morris, August, 1936
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"Texas Survey" Pamphlet
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"Here's to Health!" 1938-1939
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"Hold That Rent Ceiling", By Louise Mitchell, January, 1947
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"America's Housing Crisis", By Louise Mitchell, May, 1946
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"The Fascist Revival...the Inside Story of the John Birch Society...Who is in it? Who is Behind it? Who Directs and Finances it?", By Mike Newberry, June, 1961
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"How Mellon Got Rich", By Harvey O'Connor, 1933
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"The Truth About the MTA", By Daniel B. Schirmer
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Sales, Tax is Robbery!, Mass Action Will Force Its Repeal
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"The Elections and the Outlook for National Unity", By Eugene Dennis, December, 1944
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"Where Do We Go From Here?", By "Americus", November 6, 1948
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"The Watson-Parker Law", The Latest Scheme to Hamstring Railroad Unionism, By William Z. Foster, 1927
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"This is Treason!", By Sol Vail
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"Housecleaning by Labor, Not Housewrecking by Congress"
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"The American Way to Jobs, Peace, Democracy", May, 1954
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"Democracy in Danger", By Mary Collins, September, 1938
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"The Case Against David Dubinsky", By William Weinstone, June, 1946
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"Freedom Begins at Home", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, July, 1961
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"The Menace of Opportunism", By Max Bedacht
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"The Rankin Witch Hunt", By William Z. Foster, December, 1945
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"Science and Life", By J.G. Crowther, 1938
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"Is Anybody Pushing You Around?"
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"The American Holiday, May Day 1939", By Jane Filley, April, 1939
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"William Z. Foster, An Appreciation", By Joseph North, 1955
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"I Challenge the Un-Americans", By Eugene Dennis, May, 1947
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"My Side of the Story", The Statement the Newspapers Refused to Print, By Gerhart Eisler, March, 1947
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"DEBS and DENNIS, Fighters for Peace", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, October, 1950
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"Stool-Pigeon", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, July, 1949
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"Food Prices and Rationing", By Louise Mitchell, January, 1943
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"Jews and the National Question", By Hyman Levy, 1958
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"Jews in Action"
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"The Jewish People and the War", By Earl Browder, May, 1940
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"The C.I.O. Today", By George Morris, March, 1950
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"World Capitalism and World Socialism", By William Z. Foster, March, 1941
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"The 'Foreign Agent' Hoax Exposed", April 4, 1947
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"Hamtrack Municipal Election of 1934" Pamphlet, 1934
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"In the Dungeons of Mussolini", By Carlo Rossi, March, 1936
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Peoples Educational Center Directory (Spring), 1945
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"Facts About Gerald L. K. Smith", June 26, 1944
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"Resolution on the Path to Native American Indian Liberation, December, 1979
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"The Working Class and the Nation" and "Changes in Bourgeois Nationalism", By Peter Weiden, 1938, 1939
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"It's You They're After!"
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"The Foreign Born in the United States", By Dwight C. Morgan 1936
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YCL Pacesetter, August, 1939
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"In Flanders Field...", By Mac Weiss, May, 1935
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"Nazis Preferred", The Renazification of Western Germany, By Moses Miller, June, 1950
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"Pattern for American Fascism", By John L. Spivak, September, 1947
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"Post-War Jobs for Veterans, Negroes, and Women", By Roy Hudson, November, 1944
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Pamphlet About Reuben W. Borough
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"The U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., War Allies and Friends", By William Z. Foster, October, 1942
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"The Fight Against Hitlerism", By William Z. Foster and Robert Minor, July, 1941
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"The Menace of a New World War", By William Z. Foster, March, 1946
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"The 'Free' Press", Portrait of a Monopoly, By George Marion, June, 1946
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"New Program of the Communist Party USA", The People versus Corporate Power, January, 1982
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A Pamphlet for the Communist Party Presidential Candidate Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner for Vice President
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A Flyer for the American Youth Congress Citizenship Institute in Washington, D.C.
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"Programme of the Young Communist International"
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"Program of the Communist International", December, 1929
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The Communist, June 12, 1920
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"The Truth About the American Youth Congress", By Arthur Clifford, 1935
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"15th National Student Congress, August 19- August 30, 1962"
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"Our Generation Will Not Be Silent!", September, 1953
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"You've Got a Right", Defending Democracy, By Sasha Small, 1938
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"American Youth Acts", The Story of the American Youth Congress, By William W. Hinckley
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"How Fare Youth?", By Tom Dennison
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"Towards An American Student Union"
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Box 4
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"Students Take A Stand", An Account of Student Conferences in Washington During Christmas Week, 1933
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"Building a Militant Student Movement", Program of the National Student League
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"The American Youth Congress", What It Is, How It Works
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"For a New Youth Organization Dedicated to Education in the Spirit of Socialism!", by Leon Wofsy
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"Our Generation is in Danger"
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"Youth Fights for Peace, Jobs, Civil Rights"
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"Youth Demands a Peaceful World", Report of the Second World Youth Congress
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"Children Under Capitalism", By Grace Hutchins, 1933
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"Dust Off Your Dreams", The Story of American Youth for Democracy
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"Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States of America", July, 1975
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"Class Unity, All-People's Unity- The Only Way", By Gus Hall, August, 1987
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"Program For Victory" NY State Communist Party Election Platform, 1942
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Sedition! To Protest and Organize against War Hunger and Unemployment, By J. Louis Engdahl, 1930
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The Kodak Worker, V.1, N. 6, July 1928
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The Kodak Worker, V.1, N. 8, September 1928
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The Kodak Worker, V.1, N.11, January-February 1929
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"The Crisis in the Socialist Party", By William Z. Foster, November, 1936
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"The Path to Peace, Progress and Prosperity"
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19 |
"Take a Stand for Peace, Jobs & Equality", June, 1982
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"The Reds in Dixie", Who Are the Communists and What Do They Fight For in the South?, By Tom Johnson, March, 1935
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"The Challenge to Labor", March, 1960
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"New Program of the Communist Party U.S.A.", Ma, 1970
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"Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States of America", April, 1957
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"On the Road to Bolshevization", 1929
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"AFL Upsurge Challenges Policies of Old Guard", By Leon Kaplan, April 18-19, 1947
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"Security with FDR", By Vito Marcantonio, September, 1944
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"The Real Huey P. Long", By Sender Garlin, May, 1935
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28 |
"The Big Tax Swindle and How to Stop It", An Analysis and Program for Action, May, 1969
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"Who are the Americans?", By Earl Browder, July, 1936
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"Unite for Peace, Negro Freedom, Labor's Advance, Socialism", Resolutions of the 18th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A., 1967
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"Shall the Communist Party Change Its Name?", February, 1944
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"Teheran and America", By Earl Browder, January, 1944
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"Teheran, Our Path in War and Peace", By Earl Browder, 1944
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"Draft Resolution for the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A.", Adopted Sept. 13, 1956 September, 1956
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"The United States in Crisis- The Communist Solution", September, 1969
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"Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States of America", October, 1948
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"Constitution of the Communist Political Association"
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38 |
"Draft Main Political Resolution", An Assessment and a Production, January, 1969
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"What New York State Needs", By The Communist Political Association of New York State
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"Let's Pull Together for Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace", By Carl Ross, September, 1938
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"The American Way to Jobs, Peace, and Democracy", Draft Program of the Communist Party, March, 1954
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42 |
"What America Faces", The New War Danger and the Struggle for Peace, Democracy and Economic Security, By Eugene Dennis, March, 1946
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"America at the Crossroads: Postwar Problems and Communist Policy", By Eugene Dennis, December, 1945
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"The Struggle for Detente", By Gus Hall
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"What America Needs", A Communist View , By Eugene Dennis and John Gates, March, 1956
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"1977 The Year of the Press", By Mike Zagarell, January, 1977
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"Make Your Dreams Come True", By Gil Green, June, 1937
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48 |
"The Youth and the Russian Revolution"
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"The People Against the Trusts", Build a Democratic Front to Defeat Reaction Now and Win a People's Victory in 1948, By Eugene Dennis, December, 1946
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The Communist International, Vol. XIV, No. 12, December, 1937
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"World Voices on the Moscow Trials", A Compilation from the Labor and Liberal Press of the World, October 22, 1936
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52 |
"Regional Autonomy for the Southwest", 1974
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53 |
The Party Review
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54 |
"The Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States of America"
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55 |
"Main Political Resolution adopted by the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A.", February 9-12, 1957, April, 1957
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56 |
"Fundamentals of Communism"
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57 |
"Call to 16th National Convention Communist Party, U.S.A.", February 9-12, 1957
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58 |
"The Communists Take a New Look", Report to the National Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A., By Eugene Dennis, May, 1956
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"The Heritage of the Communist Political Association", By Robert Minor, August, 1944
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"The Carter Administration's African Policy", By Henry Winston
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"The Communist Party- 'The mind, the will and the honor of the working class!'", By James E. Jackson
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"21 Questions About War and Peace", By Eugene Dennis, August, 1950
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A Letter from the Communist Party of Los Angeles County, May, 1954
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"The Communist Party", Vanguard Fighter for Peace, Democracy, Security, and Socialism, By Pettis Perry, April, 1953
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"Communists and the People", Summation Speech to the Jury in the Second Foley Square Smith Act Trial of Thirteen Communist Leaders, By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, May, 1953
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"Pattern for American Fascism", By John L. Spivak, September, 1947
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"The Fascist Danger and How to Combat it", By Eugene Dennis, August, 1948
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"Theory and Practice of the Communist Party", November, 1947
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"The Red Baiting Racket and How it Works", By George Morris, October, 1947
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"Is Communism Un-American?", 9 Questions About the Communist Party Answered, By Eugene Dennis, March, 1947
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"Let the People Know", The Truth About the Communists Which the Un-American Committee Tried to Suppress, By Eugene Dennis, April, 1947
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"The Red-Baiters Menace America", By Eugene Dennis, October, 1946
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"Meet the Communists", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, March, 1946
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"Communists and the Trade Unions", By Roy Hudson, October, 1943
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"Communism Versus Fascism", By William Z. Foster, June, 1941
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Young Communist Review, November, 1938
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"Party Organizer" (5), October 1937, April-June, 1938 and August, 1938
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"Hague over Jersey"
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"Who are the Reds?", By Roy Hudson, June, 1937
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"Beat the Steel Crisis! Save Every Job!", By Gus Hall
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"The Trotsky Opposition", Its Significance for American Workers, By Bertram D. Wolfe, 1928
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Socialism, What's In It For You, By A.B. Magil April, 1946
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"The Little Red Diary" No.1, Trade Unions in America, By W.Z. Foster, J.P. Cannon, and E.R. Browder, 1925
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"The Russian Constitution", Adopted July 10, 1918, January 4, 1919
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"Why Communism?", Plain Talks on Vital Problems, By M.J. Olgin, 1935
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"The Truth About Communism!", 1930
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Frontiers, October 1931
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Frontiers, January 1932
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Frontiers, April 1932
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Frontiers, June 1932
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Frontiers, November 1932
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"Who Are the Young Pioneers" Martha Campion, October 1943
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"Meet the Communists", 1943
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"The People's Demands" Pamphlet
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"A Guide to the Club, Its Role in Building the United Front in 1950", A Handbook for Community Club Officers, Prepared By Carl Dorfman
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"Unity or Else..."
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The Student Advocate, February 1936
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The Student Advocate, March 1936
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The Student Advocate, May 1936
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The Student Advocate, October-November 1936
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Student Review, December 1933
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Student Review, 1934
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Student Review, April 1935
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Student Review, October 1935
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General View of the 1st Annual National Communist Veterans Encampment at Turner's Arena, May 8, 1947
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"Motion Picture Workers: Keep Your Eye on the Ball The Eight Ball You Are Behind It!" Pamphlet, 1947
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New Foundations, V. VI, N. 4, June 1953
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Equal Justice, Fall 1941
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"Economic Questions, Commentary" 1952
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"The Soviet Union", Your Questions Answered, By Margaret Cowl, 1934
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"Agents of Peace" Pamphlet, 1951
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The Gil Green League Building Bulletin
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California's Brown Book, 1934
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"The Mexican People of the Southwest", August 3 1948
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"Men in Overalls, The Danger is Real- the Danger is Now!, You Can Make Truman Veto the Un-American Anti-Labor...Taft-Hartley Slave Bill!, You Can Also Force Blakney, Vandenberg, and Ferguson to Support a Veto"
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15 Years of the Communist Party, By Alex Bittelman, August, 1934
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City College and War, Why were Twenty-one Students Expelled?, October, 1933
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Beware of the War Danger!, Stop, Look, and Listen!, By William Z. Foster, April, 1948
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"Everything for Unity and Victory", By William Schneiderman
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The Kefauver Committee and the Pete Panto Murder, By Michael Singer, May, 1951
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Youth Unity for Peace Against Militarization
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A Statement to the President, the Congress, and the People of the United States from the American Congress for Peace and Democracy, 1939
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"They Shall Not Pass!"
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The Workers Monthly, January, 1925
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"How Wall Street Picks Your Pocket", By George Morris, October, 1946
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"Defend Dissent! Defeat the Racists and Warmakers! Support Dubois! Stop SACB Hearings!"
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Photograph of Communists and Unemployed, Carrying Huge Placards Calling for Work or Wages
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Photograph of Youth Demonstrators Staging a Sit-Down Squatting in the Driveway of the White House. They Wanted to Present a Petition on Behalf of the Lundeen Bill. February 20, 1937
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Photograph of the entrance of the Communist office headquarters in America, August 25, 1938
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Photograph of an Exhibit of Soviet Literature Shown Before the DIES Committee, August 19, 1938
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A Photograph of Communists Picketing in front of the Japanese Consulate, July 31, 1937
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A Photograph of Communists, March 20, 1937
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Photograph of a Page from the July Issue of the Communist International, September 25, 1936
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Photograph of a Vehicle Emblazoned with Communist Pledges, April 26, 1936
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A Photograph of a Mass Police Demonstration in Union Square to Celebrate the Anniversary of the Founding of the Soviet Union, August 5, 1929
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A Photograph of Police Dispersing Communist Agitators in Front of New Bedford Mill, January 22, 1930
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A Photograph of the New York Police Dispersing Several Hundred Communists Who Gathered in the City Hall Park, January 28, 1930
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A Photograph of Los Angeles Communist Riots, February 28, 1930
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A Photograph of A Female Communist Demonstrator, March 4, 1930
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A Photograph of a Communist Demonstrator Being Arrested, March 7, 1930
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A Photograph of Communists, March 7, 1930
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A Photograph of Police Arresting a Communist Parader, March 7, 1930
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A Photograph of One of the Sacco-Vanzetti Demonstrations on "Red Thursday", March 8, 1930
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A Photograph of a Demonstration at Union Square on "Red Thursday" Being Broken Up, March 10, 1930
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A Photograph of Communist Rioters in Cleveland, Ohio, October 3, 1930
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A Photograph of a Communist Cheering for Released Prisoners at Madison Square Garden, October 25, 1930
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A Photograph of a Communist Demonstration in Front of the Capital Building, December 8, 1930
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A Photograph of a Communist Dropped Over a Car's Fender, February 11, 1931
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A Photograph of a Communist Rioter Getting Chased by a Police Officer, February 11, 1931
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A Photograph of Radical Communists Rioting in Chicago, May 7, 1932
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A Photograph of Radical Communists Rioting in Chicago, May 7, 1932
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A Photograph of an Anti-Hitler Demonstration Before the Consulate, December 19, 1933
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A Photograph of Police Dispersing Communist Demonstrators in Sacramento, CA., April 24, 1934
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A Photograph of a Map from the Library of D.A.R. which Shows the Headquarters of Communists in the U.S., April 24, 1934
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A Photograph of a Inter-Protest Fighting in Front of City Hall, April 5, 1934
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A Photograph of a Communist Procession from Battery Park, May 1, 1934
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A Photograph of a Mass Picketing Demonstration Before the P.L. Bergoff Offices, July 19, 1934
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A Photograph of the East Bay Raid. In the Photograph, Civilians Demolish the Hall Used for Meetings By Communists, July 21, 1934
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Photograph of the Red May Day Parade, May 6, 1935
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Photograph of the Front Cover of the Magazine
Communist International, September 25, 1936
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Photograph of a Radical Communism Propaganda Center Located in Georgia, February 16, 1936
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Photograph of a Radical Propaganda Center, February 23, 1936
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Photograph of a "Comrade" During the Arizona Disorders, April 18, 1936
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Photograph of a Scene in Phoenix When Naff was Leader of Movement, April 25, 1936
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Three Men Pictures at the 1st Annual National Communist Veterans Encampment at Turner's Arena, Washington, D.C., May 8, 1947
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Photograph of a Demonstration to "Free Tom Mooney", May 1, 1936
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Photograph of a Man Observing a Guarded Wall of Leftist Leaflets
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Photograph of Some of the Eleven Communists Who Surrendered at Old Bailey and Were on Trial for Conspiracy, December 1, 1925
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Photograph of a Protest Against Winston Churchill in front of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel N.Y.C and Additional Information, March 15, 1946
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Assorted Documents Which Discuss Leftist Movements in the U.S.A. and Overseas
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The New Sport and Play, January and February, 1934
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"Second Southern California District Convention, By Dorothy Healey, January 29, 1960
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Letter/Flyer from the Young Communist League, July 24, 1939
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Assorted Newspapers (3), 1932-1934
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People's World, October 24, 1939
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Review, July 21, 1941
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"Of the People for the People, Pictorial Highlights of Fifty Years of the Communist Party, USA, 1919-1969", May, 1970
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The Communist International (2) March, 1936 and February, 1937
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New World Review (3), August-October, 1952
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Party Organizer (4), July, 1937, November-December, 1937, March, 1938
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Numerous Copies of
Soviet Russia, Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau
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Leaflets for Student Strike at Franklin High School
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The Struggle Against White Chauvinism, September 1949
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The American Foreign-Born Workers, ca. 1923
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"The Program of Class Struggle Co-operation" Pamphlet, 1931
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"Join the Big Youth Parade May 30" Flyer, ca. May 30 1931
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Tenement Children Protest, New York City, February 26 1934
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"Resolution of the Free Tom Mooney Congress"
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High Time, January, 1939
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High Time, March 1939
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High Time, May, 1939
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Red Pen, May, 1937
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The Class Mark, November, 1935
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Hunger March on Salem, OR, January 13 1933
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The Workers Monthly, December 1925
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The Communist - Vol. VI No. 4-Vol. XXIII No. 12, June 1927-December 1944
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Masses & Mainstream - Vol. 1 No.1-Vol. 16 No. 8, March 1948-August 1963
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New York Daily Worker - Vol. 22 No.1-Vol. 22 No. 52, January 1945-February 1945
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New York Daily Worker - Vol. 22 No. 104-Vol.22 No. 156, May 1945-June 1945
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Voice of Action - Volume 1 - Complete, 1933-1934
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Series VIII. Ethnic Radicalism
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Scope and Content Notes: Immigrant radicals carried left wing politics to the U.S. in their cultural baggage. They settled in American ethnic communities and continuing organizing and agitating, gaining traction among fellow ethnics for two reasons. First, many immigrants still followed old country politics both for emotional reasons and because they frequently intended to return home after a sojourn in America. Especially for immigrants from countries where the Left expanded rapidly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the strength of left-wing organizations in their homelands gave left-wing politics credibility despite the weaknesses of the Left in the U.S. Second, ethnic discrimination and deplorable living and working conditions disillusioned and radicalized some immigrant who had come to the U.S. with grandiose expectations of their prospects in Golden America.
Ethnic radicals maintained cultural influence and organizational stability by creating and controlling three types of institutions: newspapers, ethnic sections of left-wing parties, and fraternal and mutual insurance societies. Left-wing newspapers and magazines published in immigrants’ native languages often had readerships many times larger than ethnic party memberships or voting totals. Ethnic restaurants, bars, breweries, shops, funeral parlors advertised in their pages. Clubs announced their meetings. Newspaper offices functioned as focis of political activity. Hundreds of such publication supported the SPUSA, the CPUSA, and the anarchist movement. Socialist Party locals and later Communist locals in ethnic neighborhoods frequently included a preponderance of members from a non-English speaking ethnic group and conducted local business in that language. The Socialist Party recognized and accommodated this tendency by allowing these ethnically based locals to amalgamate into national foreign language federations within the Socialist Party. The foreign language federations gradually increased their influence within the SPUSA, especially after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution inspired many Eastern European immigrants. Some of them, most notably the Finnish Socialist Federation, went over to the incipient American Communist movement almost en masse. Indeed, the Finns represented 40% of the CP’s membership in 1924 and its most dependable base of financial support. In the late 1920s, however, as part of the policy of Bolshevization of the CPUSA (e.g. Stalinization), the Party disbanded much of its ethnically based organizational apparatus.
Ethnic radicalism continued to flourish within the Communist orbit, especially during the Popular Front period within the traditional third leg of ethnic radicalism: fraternal and mutual insurance associations. Ethnic fraternal and mutual insurance associations offered secular alternatives to church-based ethnic community activities and sold cheap insurance benefits to working-class families who could not afford the premiums of conventional commercial insurance. Leftist exercised a disproportionate influence in ethnic fraternal life in many nationalities (e.g. Finns, Eastern European, Jews, Croatians, Slovaks). Among the most successful was the Jewish Arbeiter Ring (Workmen’s Circle). In 1929 Communists within the AR, in keeping with sectarian Third Period Comintern policies split off to form an explicitly Communist and revolutionary alternative, the IWO, International Workers Order. The IWO began with probably less than 5,000 members but expanded rapidly during the Popular Front period reaching a peak membership of over 200,000 in the mid-1940s and expanding its ethnic representation to many other nationalities beyond the original Jewish base.
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Tyomiehen Joulu, XX, 1922
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Tyomiehen Joulu, XXI
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Tyomiehen Joulu XXII, 1924
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Tyomiehen Joulu, XXVII, 1929
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Magyarok Amerikaban, 1951
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"Foreign-Born Americans and the War"
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"Our Badge of Infamy, A Petition to the United Nations on The Treatment of the Mexican Immigrant", April, 1959
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"The Chicanos", 1973
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"1944...Crucial Year, The Need of Dynamic Unity in the Immigrant Groups, Two Addresses by Louis Adamic"
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"The Reapers, A Colorful Social Drama, By Siskind Liev"
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Pamphlet Written in Yiddish 1950
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"The Jewish Fraternalist, Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order Celebrates 20th Anniversary", February-March, 1950
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Book Written in Yiddish, 1910
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Book Written in Yiddish, 1934
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Book Written in Yiddish, (25th Anniversary Publication)
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"The Town Hall" Program, 1971
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Roots of Jewish Nonviolence
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"Yiddish Short Stories", 1923
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Ahjo (The Forge), Tieteellis-kaunokirjallinen Julkaisu, September, 1918
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Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order, January, 1939
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Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order, March, 1939
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Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order, May, 1939
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Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order, July, 1941
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Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order, November, 1941
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International Workers Order Membership Aid 1 Cent Stamps (6)
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Jewish Currents, April, 1995
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Jewish Currents, May, 1995
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Jewish Currents, July-August, 1995
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Jewish Currents, October, 1995
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Jewish Currents, November, 1995
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Jewish Currents, December, 1995
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Jewish Currents, May, 1996
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Jewish Currents, December, 1996
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Jewish Currents, January, 1997
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Jewish Currents, February, 1997
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Jewish Currents, March, 1997
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Jewish Currents, April, 1997
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Jewish Currents, May, 1997
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Jewish Currents, July-August, 1997
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Jewish Currents, October, 1996
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Jewish Currents, November, 1997
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Jewish Currents, December, 1997
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Jewish Currents, January, 1998
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Jewish Currents, February, 1998
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Jewish Currents, June, 1999
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Jewish Currents, December, 1999
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Jewish Currents, February, 2000
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Jewish Currents, March, 2000
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Jewish Currents, April, 2000
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Jewish Currents, May, 2000
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Jewish Currents, June, 2000
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Jewish Currents, July-August, 2000
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Jewish Currents, November, 2000
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Jewish Currents, December, 2000
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Jewish Currents, January, 2001
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Jewish Currents, February, 2001
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Jewish Currents, March, 2001
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Jewish Currents, July-August, 2001
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Jewish Currents, May-June, 2002
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Jewish Currents, July-August, 2002
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Jewish Currents, November-December, 2002
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Jewish Currents, January-February, 2003
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Jewish Currents, March-April, 2003
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Jewish Currents, July-August, 2005
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Jewish Currents, November-December, 2005
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Jewish Currents, Janurary-February, 2007
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Jewish Currents, March-April, 2007
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Jewish Currents, September-October, 2007
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Jewish Currents, November-December, 2007
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Jewish Currents, January-February, 2008
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Jewish Currents, March-April, 2008
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Slavic Americans in the fight for Victory and Peace, By George Pirinsky, March, 1946
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Struggle, Louis Adamic, 1935
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Are We Aryans?, By Gino Bardi, May, 1939
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Program for Survival , The Communist Position on the Jewish Question, By Alexander Bittelman
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Crisis in Palestine, By Moses Miller, September, 1946
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Should Jews Unite?, Jewish People's Unity As a Force for American National Unity, By Alexander Bittelman
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"School Bulletin"
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Viesti, March, 1933
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Viesti, April, 1933
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Viesti, May, 1933
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"A Youth Fraternal Order" Pamphlet, 1931
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"We saw Spain" IWO meeting flyer, 1936
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Laging Una, V.16, N. 1, January 5 1965
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"Anti-Semitism and Reaction, 1795-1800, By Morris U. Schappes
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"The Ashes of Six Million Jews", By Fred Blair, 1946
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"Nowhere to Lay Their Heads", The Jewish Tragedy in Europe and its Solution, By Victor Gollancz
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Box 13
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Poster Printed in Yiddish
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Ten Years Artef, March, 1937
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"Workmen's Circle 37th Convention Journal 17th Kinder Ring", May, 1937
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Manila Envelope Addressed to Anna Luczecgko from the International Workers Order
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Book Written in Yiddish December 20, 1935
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Revolt of the Reapers, By Siskind Liev
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Resistance is the Lesson: the Meaning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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"Where Are We Now?," 1956
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I.W.O. on Parade, 1938
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Letters to Anna Luczeczko, IWO member, 1939
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IWO Duplicate Membership Form, 1939
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Give Them Aid and Comfort - Solidarity Gifts
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Series IX. Feminism, Gay, Lesbian
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Scope and Content Notes: The sexual and gender politics of leaders of the Old Left generally did not stray very far from conventional bourgeois norms, but their movements nonetheless offered political space for feminists and radical critics of the gender system. The dominant position within both the SPUSA and the CPUSA viewed the “Women Question” as a special case of the Class Question. Capitalism fostered discrimination against women as a way of maintaining a subservient reserve army of labor that could be used to divide workers and lower wages. Only socialism would solve the Women Question. Both parties officially supported equal rights for women and opposed gender discrimination, but top leaders rarely gave these issues priority.
Nonetheless, both parties offered political space for female activists concerned with gender issues and for thinkers with more penetrating critiques of the gender system than the standard Party orthodoxies. Women with organizational skills, oratorical flair, or literary talents gained visibility and political capital within these Parties as well as access to wider networks of political influence. Both the SPUSA and CPUSA published writings on gender issues that anticipated arguments more generally associated with post 1960s radical feminism.
Gender issues and critiques of the gender system became much more visible in the New Left than the Old. In part, that reflected the New Left’s greater emphasis on personal liberation and quality of life issues. In part, it reflected wider social changes that had started to undermine older gender norms and empowered women (globally as well as in the US)—declining birth rates and increased access to birth control; increased female labor force participation; increased female access to education.
This greater visibility of political critiques of the gender system also facilitated the emergence of radical movements among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender sexual minorities. The Old Left rarely addressed questions of sexual identity or the oppression of sexual minorities. Neither the Socialist nor the Communist Party questioned heterosexual orthodoxy, although some anarchists did so occasionally. Some ex-Communists did play notable roles in the early stages of the Gay Rights movement such as several of the founders of the Mattachine Society. But the surge of radical feminism within the New Left encouraged far greater militancy and political visibility among LGBT activists.
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National News, Birth Control Pamphlet, November, 1936
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The Mothers Bill of Rights Pamphlet
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Feminist Revolution, 1975
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The Rhythm Method of Natural Birth Control, By Joseph McCabe, 1934
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Sister, New Haven's Women's Liberation Newsletter, February 1, 1972
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Woman's Place-In the Fight for a Better World, By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, March, 1947
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Women & The Cuban Revolution, Speeches by Fidel Castro, Articles by Linda Jenness
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Sisterhood is Powerful, By Betsey Stone, December, 1970
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Women- Vote for Life!, By Ann Rivington
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Women in History, A Recreation of Our Past
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Women and Equality, By Margaret Cowl, February, 1935
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Women, War and Fascism, By Dorothy McConnell, December, 1935
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Consider the Laundry Workers, By Jane Filley and Therese Mitchell, June, 1937
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Women on Guard, How the Women of the World Fight for Peace, By Betty Millard, February, 1952
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Women Who Work, By Grace Hutchins, 1952
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What Every Working Woman Wants, By Grace Hutchins, February, 1935
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Women in Action, By Sasha Small, February, 1935
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Women in the Struggle for Peace and Security, By Claudia Jones, April, 1950
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Win Magazine, January, 1970
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The Gay Question, A Marxist Appraisal, By Bob McCubbin, 1976
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Mattachine Review (8), November-December, 1955-December, 1956
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Front Line of Freedom, 1981
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Women and the New World
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Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement, 1972
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Socialism
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Women of Yesterday and Today
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Work Among Women
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"The Way We See It" Pamphlet, August 26 1970
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Series X. Labor
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Scope and Content Notes: The SPUSA and the CPUSA, like virtually all left-wing organizations that considered themselves Marxist, described themselves as parties of the working class although significant portions of their membership were intellectuals, professionals, small business owners and farmers. Indeed, Trotsky, during his brief sojourn in NYC before the Bolshevik Revolution, is alleged to have described the American Socialist Party as a party of dentists and lawyers.
Since their theory told them that the working class was the agent of historical change, both parties considered participation in the daily workplace struggles of industrial workers as one of their highest political priorities. However, neither party reached consensus on how to relate to the labor movement. Both parties recruited nationally prominent labor organizers and trade union officials (e.g. Eugene Debs, William Z. Foster) as well as significant cohorts of local union officials and labor activists. But the majority of AFL (American Federation of Labor) unions subscribed to Samuel Gompers’ strategy of “pure and simple unionism” emphasizing short range limited goals such as wages, hours and working conditions and eschewing advocacy of utopian societal reconstruction such as socialism. Socialists and other radicals critical of the AFL organized the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905 as a revolutionary alternative, but many Socialists considered the IWW a sectarian and schismatic division of working class solidarity. Debates over how the Socialist Party should relate to the AFL or the IWW became one of the most important sources of the factional conflict that undermined the SPUSA.
Similar debates bedeviled the CPUSA. The Party shifted back and forth from a policy of “boring from within” the AFL to a policy of attacking the AFL and sponsoring rival revolutionary unions. Generally these shifts in CP trade union policies corresponded with shifts to the left or right in the Comintern line. In the years immediately after the Bolshevik Revolution, American Communists devoted considerable energy to recruiting the IWW to the Communist movement. As the worldwide revolutionary wave crested without successful revolutions anywhere but the Soviet Union, Soviet leaders sought to consolidate their power and to convince their followers around the world to settle in for a long period of inconclusive political struggle. They urged American Communists to abandon notions of pure revolutionary unions and seek to garner influence within the AFL instead. William Z. Foster, by far the most prominent labor leader in the CPUSA, had organized the Trade Union Education League (TUEL) for labor radicals in the AFL in 1920, and in 1922 the CPUSA and the Comintern adopted and subsidized the TUEL.
However, during the Third Period (1928-1935) as the Comintern dictated labor policies of pure revolutionary unionism, the CPUSA disbanded the TUEL and organized instead the Trade Union Unity League (TUUL) as a federation of revolutionary Communist unions organized as rivals to AFL unions. With the shift to the Popular Front in 1935, the CPUSA shifted back to engagement with the mainstream labor movement. Fortuitously, this shift corresponded with the appearance of the CIO in 1935. Communists devoted themselves to the CIO and played critical roles in organizing many of the CIO’s most important unions. Their dedication to the CIO earned them the regard of many trade unionists who did not necessarily agree with Communist ideology. The political capital Communists earned within the CIO was probably the most important source of the Party’s influence in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
The New Left also had difficulty deciding how to relate to the labor movement. As a middle class movement and as a movement that arose out of disappointment with the Old Left, many early New Leftists doubted Marxist formulations about the historic mission of the working class and tended to view labor union officials as part of the Establishment, e.g. part of the problem more than the solution. On the other hand, as New Leftists moved off campus to engage in civil rights campaigns or community organizing, many began to appreciate both the skills and dedication of veteran labor union activists. This shift in point of view was encouraged by small schismatic Old Left parties such as the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Maoist Progressive Labor Party (PL), both of which had surprisingly large influence within the leading New Left student organization, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during SDS’s final years. Also, as increasing numbers of student activists graduated from universities they looked for meaningful strategies to continue radical political activity. A variety of New left offshoots, as well as such Old Left parties as the SWP and PL, encouraged them to take jobs in factories, coal mines, and trucking companies. Several thousand former SDS’s did so.
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Textile Strike Bulletin, July 22, 1931
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Automation and Labor, By William Kashtan, October, 1964
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Guaranteed Annual Wage, By Wyndham Mortimer, November 20, 1953
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U.S. Labor Looks at Europe, 1951
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The History of the Shorter Workday, 1942
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A Manual of Industrial Unionism, Organizational Structure and Policies, By William Z. Foster, August, 1937
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The Steel Workers and The Fight for Labor's Rights, By William Z. Foster, June, 1952
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Organized Labor and the Fascist Danger, By William Z. Foster, August, 1947
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Organized Labor Faces the New World, By William Z. Foster, May, 1945
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The Strike Situation and Organized Labor's Wage and Job Strategy, By William Z. Foster, November, 1945
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The Railroaders' Next Step- Amalgamation, By William Z. Foster
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Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry, By William Z. Foster, October, 1936
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Halt the Railroad Wage Cut, By William Z. Foster, October, 1938
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What Means a Strike in Steel, By William Z. Foster, February, 1937
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Stop Wage-Cuts & Layoffs on the Railroads, A Reply to President T.C. Cashen of the Switchmen's Union of North America, By William Z. Foster, April, 1938
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Organize the Unorganized, By William Z. Foster
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The C.I.O. Convention and National Unity, By Roy Hudson, December, 1941
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Labor Unity, What AFL-CIO Merger Means for Workers, By George Morris, March, 1955
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Miners Unite!, For One Class Struggle Union, By B. Frank
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Little Brothers of the Big Labor Fakers, By William Z. Foster
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Wrecking the Labor Banks, By William Z. Foster
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"Do You Know Your Neighbor"
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The Trade Union Unity League Today, Its Structure, Policy, Program and Growth, By Nathaniel Honig, June, 1934
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The Trade Unions Since the N.R.A., By Nathaniel Honig, April, 1934
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Kentucky Miners Fight, By Harry Gannes, 1932
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Company Unions, By Robert W. Dunn
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The White Collar Clarion, January, 1936
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The Trade Union Unity League, Its Program, Structure, Methods and History
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"Program of The Trade Union Educational League"
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Strike Strategy, By William Z. Foster, 1926
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The Hearst Worker, January, 1935
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Gastonia Citadel of the Class Struggle in the New South, By William F. Dunne, 1929
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Solidarity, June, 1929
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Industrial Worker, September 30, 1944
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Industrial Worker, November 13, 1948
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"General Organization Bulletin", May, 1936
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Agricultural Workers Industrial Union Financial Statements (4), 1936
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Industrial Worker, Official Newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World, October, 2007
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Showdown in Coal: The Struggle for Rank-And-File Unionism, By Linda and Pual Nyden, January, 1978
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Issues of
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Workers' Education, A Quarterly Journal, February, 1924
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, February 1979
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, May 1979
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, August-September 1979
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, January-March 1980
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, April-June 1980
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, July-September 1980
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, October-December 1980
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Spring 1981
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Fall 1981
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Winter 1981-1982
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Spring 1982
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Fall 1982
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Spring 1983
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Winter 1983-1984
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Fall 1984
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Spring 1985
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Winter 1985-1986
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Fall 1986
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Summer 1987
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Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, Summer 1988
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"Community Council in Support of Labor Petitions"
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"Tom Mooney" Files
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"Smashing Chains, Labor Struggles in Pictures"
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IWW --
Industrial Worker, November 6, 1920
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Build Labor Party, 1946
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LC News Letter Vol. 2, No. 3, March 1940
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LC News Letter Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1940
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LC News Letter Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1940
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LC News Letter Vol. 2, No. 12, December 1939
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LC News Letter Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1940
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LC News Letter Vol. 3, No. 2, February 1940
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LC News Letter Vol. 3, No. 6
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Series XI. Leftist Organizations Thought in Relation to the Rest of the World and U.S. Economics/Imperialism
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Scope and Content Notes: Although they organized nationally based political parties, all of the Marxist parties considered themselves internationalists rather than nationalists. The SPUSA expressed this internationalism through its affiliation with the Socialist Second International. For the CPUSA its affiliation with the Communist Third International was even more fundamental to Party identity because the Comintern functioned in part as a franchising organization. The right of revolutionary activists anywhere in the world to call themselves Communist was contingent on their willingness to follow the discipline and policies of the Comintern. Therefore, not surprisingly both the SPUSA and the CPUSA paid close attention to events in many parts of the world and frequently circulated radical publications and pamphlets from other countries. Although New left organizations did not formally affiliate with bodies like the Second and Third Internationals, because the Vietnam War and more broadly Third World Revolution fundamentally shaped the New Left, New Left publications also addressed a wide range of international concerns and global issues.
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What are we doing in the Congo?, By Dr. Hyman Lumer, February, 1965
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On Events in Czechoslovakia, Facts, Documents, Press Reports and Eye-Witness Accounts, 1968
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76 Questions and Answers on the Bolsheviks and the Soviets, By Albert Rhys Williams
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Freedom, Peace and Bread!, The Activities of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, Report by Wilhelm Pieck, October, 1935
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Capitalist Stabilization Has Ended, Thesis and Resolutions of the Twelfth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, September, 1932
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Medical Relief Bulletin, Published by The Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy
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The Social and State Structure of the U.S.S.R., By V. Karpinsky 1952
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Toward a Land of Plenty, By A.I. Mikoyan, 1936
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The Camp of Socialism and the Camp of Capitalism, By A.I. Mikoyan, 1952
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Discurso Pronunciado En El XX Congreso Del P.C.U.S., By A.I. Mikoian, 1956
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Soviet Economy, Twelve Questions Answered By P.S. Mstislavsky, November, 1962
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The Struggle Against Imperialist War and the Tasks of the Communists, Resolution of the VI World Congress of the Communist International July-August, 1928, March, 1932
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Turning Point in China, By Mao Tse-Tung, April, 1948
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Whence the Differences?, A Reply to Thorez and Other Comrades, 1963
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Long Live the Victory of the People's War!, In Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of Victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japan, By Lin Pao, 1965
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Indo-China and World Peace, By Richard Walker, June, 1954
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Report on the War in Indo-China, By Nicholas Read-Collins
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For World Peace and Freedom, A Survey of the Twenty-Five Years of Soviet International Policy, By Alexander A. Troyanovsky
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Continuous Working Week in the Soviet Union
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Marx, Engels and Lenin on Ireland, By Ralph Fox, 1940
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Japan's Drive for Conquest, By Grace Hutchins, 1935
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Terror in Kenya, The Facts Behind the Present Crisis, December, 1952
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Der Tag Begann..., Freiheit und Unabhangigkeit fur alle Volker
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From the February Revolution to the October Revolution 1917, By A.F. Ilyin-Genevsky, 1931
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The Next Step In Britain, America and Ireland, Speeches and Reports By Gusev, Pollitt, Troy and Pringle
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Professionals in a Soviet America, By Edward Magnus, November, 1935
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The Telephone and Telegraph Workers, By Hy Kravif, 1935
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This is America, By Derek Kartun, 1947
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"Burning Cards and Flaming Villages", By James E. Jackson
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Soviet Impressions, After an Interval of Eighteen Years, 1932-1950, By Dr. John A. Kingsbury
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What Russia Did for Victory, By Sergei Kournakoff, October, 1945
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Anti-Soviet Sabotage Exposed, By G.M. Krzhyzhanovsky
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The Twenty-One Conditions of Admission Into the Communist International, By O. Piatnitsky, February, 1934
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Communism in Latin America, A Report on Power Politics, By Stanley Ross, 1947
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The Communist Party of France Manifesto
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Les Conditions de la Grandeur Francais, January, 1959
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L'Aggravation de la Situation Economique et Sociale et les Solutions Proposees par le Parti Communiste, January, 1959
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La Lutte Pour la Restauration et la Renovation de la Democratie, January, 1959
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Grasp the Weapon of Culture!, By V.J. Jerome, 1951
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Do You Know Thaelmann?, By Henri Barbusse, June, 1934
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The Revolutionary Crisis of 1918-1921 in Germany, England, Italy and France, By William Foster
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Anti-Fascist Italy Speaks for a Government of Peace and Freedom in Italy!, Appeal of the "Italian National Front" at the Underground Conference in Milan, December, 1942
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The Second International in Dissolution, By Bela Kun
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15 Years of the Communist International
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Our Ally The Soviet Union, By Robert Minor, January, 1942
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Socialism Marches On in the Soviet Union, By James B. Turner, 1937
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One War To Defeat Hitler, By Robert Minor, November, 1941
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Japan Wars on the U.S.A., By Grace Hutchins, December, 1941
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The Soviet Law On Marriage, 1933
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The Assassination of Kirov, Proletarian Justice Versus White-Guard Terror, By M. Katz, February, 1935
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Wyndham Mortimer Meets The Soviet Auto Workers
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25 Years of Soviet Power, By Emelyan Yaroslavsky
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The National Question in the Soviet Union, By M. Chekalin, June, 1941
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The Red Army, June, 1934
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Russian Women in the Building of Socialism, By Anna Razumova
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The USSR Today, 50 Years of Socialism, By George Morris, January, 1967
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The USSR and Finland, Historical, Economic, Political Facts and Documents, 1939
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A History of Soviet Foreign Policy, By M. Ross, December, 1940
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The Revolt on the Armoured Cruiser "Potemkin", By A. Kanatchikov
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The Communists and the Liberation of Europe, By Maxine Levi, March, 1945
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Book Publishing Under Tzarism, By M.S. Kedrov, 1932
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The Individual in Soviet Law, By Leon Josephson, 1957
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At the Moscow Trial, By D.N. Pritt, K.C., M.P., 1937
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Russia and the United States in War & Peace, By Daniel Howard, 1943
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Espionage, Foreign Secret Service Recruiting Methods Against the Soviet Union, By S. Uranov, July, 1937
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What About Russia?, An Honest Reply to Honest Questions, By Anna Louise Strong
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What I Saw In The Soviet Union Today, By George Morris, August, 1959
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A Tale of Two Workers, By David Englestein and Carl Hirsch, July, 1949
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The Road to Woman's Freedom, By K. Kirsanova, January, 1935
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43 |
Mita Sosialifascismi, Sen Historiallinen ja Teoreettinen Tausta, By Earl Browder, 1934
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Soviet Woman, A Citizen With Equal Rights, By N. K. Krupskaya, 1937
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Russia Our Ally, By A. Keesing
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Protection of Motherhood and Childhood in the Soviet Union, 1933
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47 |
New Aspects of Imperialism (2), By Peter Wieden, April, 1941
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48 |
War in Africa, Italian Fascism Prepares to Enslave Ethiopia, By James W. Ford and Harry Gannes, June, 1935
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This Is Our Enemy, By Peter Wieden, March, 1943
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Spain Defends Democracy, August, 1936
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51 |
"Speech by Harold L. Ickes Secretary of the Interior To the 2nd American Slav Congress", 1944
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52 |
Assorted American Congress/League for Peace and Democracy Documents
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53 |
"Draft Program and Purpose for 1939 As Submitted by the Executive Board to the National Congress", December 20, 1938
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"How Cuba Uprooted Race Discrimination", By Harry Ring, June, 1961
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"Italy Under Fascism", Its Economic, Political and Moral Aspects, Discussed By Professor Gaetano Salvemini and Professor Bruno Roselli, February, 1927
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"The Fate of Trade Unions Under Fascism", By Francis J. Gorman, Alfons Goldschmidt, and Gaetano Salvemini, April, 1937
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"Geography of Korea", By V.T. Zaichikov, 1952
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58 |
"300 Million Slaves and Serfs", Labor Under the Fascist New Economic Order, By Jurgen Kuczynski, 1943
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"American Economic Imperialism", A Survey of the Literature, By William Caspary
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60 |
"The Austrian Civil War", By James O'Neal
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61 |
"What is the Five Year Plan?", Building Up Socialism
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62 |
"Primera Conferencia Sindical Mundial de la Juventud Trabajadora", 1958
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63 |
"Tito's Plot Against Europe", The Story of the Rajk Conspiracy in Hungary, By Derek Kartun, 1950
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64 |
"The Counter-Revolutionary Forces in the October Events in Hungary"
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65 |
"Who Fights for a Free Cuba?", By Martin Kaye and Louise Perry
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66 |
"What Next in France?", By Maurice Thorez, November, 1948
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67 |
"The Epic of the Black Sea Revolt", By Andre Marty, March, 1941
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68 |
"The Unity of the French Nation", By Maurice Thorez, 1936
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69 |
"Le Front Populaire C'est la Guerre", June, 1937
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| Folder |
70 |
"Cinq Ans de Dictature Hitlerienne", By N. Marceau, 1938
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71 |
"French Miners Say", 1953
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72 |
"How France Was Betrayed", By Andre Marty, May, 1941
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73 |
"Where France Begins", What I Saw In Algiers, By Frank Pitcairn
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| Folder |
74 |
"L'Heure de la France a Sonne", By Andre Marty, 1943
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| Folders |
75 |
Pour la Veritable Grandeur Francaise, "La Lutte Pour L'Union des Forces Democratiques et Nationales", January, 1959
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| Folder |
76 |
"Juifs Russes", Le Bund et le Sionisme, Un Voyage D'Etudes
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77 |
"Pour L'Ecole de Peuple", By G. Cogniot
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78 |
"Les Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Francais", By Fernand Grenier, 1944
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79 |
"Des Jeunes Qui Servent L'Interet de la France", January, 1959
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80 |
"The Truth About Korea"
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81 |
"The Crisis in India", By James S. Allen, September, 1942
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82 |
"Hands-Off Guatemala!"
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83 |
"The Struggle for Liberation in Brazil", By Luis Carlos Prestes June, 1936
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84 |
"Brazil", By Bryan Green, 1937
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85 |
"Formosa", Fact and Fiction, By John W. Powell
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86 |
"The Economics of Barbarism", Hitler's New Economic Order in Europe, By J. Kuczynski and M. Witt, 1942
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87 |
"Ernst Thaelmann", The Leader of the German Workers, By R. Groetz, July, 1934
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88 |
"El Salvador: Is There No Limit to U.S. Lies?", February 27, 1981
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89 |
NACLA's Latin America & Empire Report, "Women's Labor, Also: Women in Chile", September, 1975
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| Folder |
91 |
"Soviet Democracy and the War", By William Z. Foster, December, 1943
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92 |
"Haiti Faces Tomorrow's Peace", By Max L. Hudicourt
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93 |
"Youth in the World War", By V. Motyleva
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94 |
"Vietnamese Intellectuals Against U.S. Aggression", 1966
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95 |
"The Truth About Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union", By Tom O'Connor
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| Folder |
96 |
"Soviet 'Anti-Semitism' - The Big Lie!", By Moses Miller
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| Folder |
97 |
"Religion Today in the U.S.S.R.", By Rev. William Howard Melish
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| Folder |
98 |
Crisis in the Middle East, "Which Way Israel?", By A.B. Magil, February, 1956
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99 |
"A Churchman Examines American-Soviet Relations", By Rev. William Howard Melish
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100 |
"We Were There", A Report on the World Jewish Conference Against German Rearmament, June 18-19, 1955, Paris, France, October, 1955
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| Folder |
101 |
Dissent, A Culture in Torment, "The Plight of the Jews in the Soviet Union", By David W. Weiss July-August, 1966
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Box 14
| Folder |
23 |
Assorted "Informacion Italiana" Publications, 1944-1945
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Series XII. New Left Organizations
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Scope and Content Notes: In contrast to the Old Left, the New Left did not feature tightly knit organizations with bureaucratic structures, disciplined policy formation, strategic planning, or even something as simple as formal membership lists. Instead “the Movement,” as participants frequently called it, consisted of a wildly fluctuating body of free-floating activists united by a common political style and sensibility. This section of the American Left Ephemera collection includes ephemera produced by a broad range of single issue organizations, short-lived local organizing committees, ad hoc groups, and underground newspapers. Also included here are publications of the Radical Education Project, a New Left publishing cooperative—loosely affiliated with SDS-- located in Ann Arbor and later Detroit, Michigan; and portions of the National Guardian, an Old Left newspaper founded by fellow travelers in 1948 that made a transition to New Left orientation in the 1960s.
See also SDS, SPU, Vietnam,Feminism
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Box 7
| Folder |
102 |
"Patching Up the Movement", A First Aid Manual, By Linda Borenstein, John Johansson and Richard Winklestern
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103 |
"The Meaning of Economic Imperialism", By James O'Connor
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104 |
"Stock Ownership and the Control of Corporations", By Don Villarejo
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105 |
"I'd Rather Vote for Something I Want...", A Brief Introduction to the Human Rights Party Pamphlet
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| Folder |
106 |
"The Other Israel", A Critique of Zionist History and Policy, By the Israeli Socialist Organization (MATZPEN)
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107 |
"Free Lee Thomas & the Lansing 7" Flyer
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| Folder |
108 |
"The Chairman!", Classwar Comix
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| Folder |
109 |
"The People's Party" Flyer
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110 |
"Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth through Escalation to Nuclear Destruction", By Andre Gunder Frank
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| Folder |
111 |
"The Human Rights Party, Ann Arbor City Council Record" Pamphlet
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| Folder |
112 |
Assorted Letterheads (5) for Various Leftist Groups
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| Folder |
113 |
Monthly Planet, October 3, 1969
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| Folder |
114 |
Assorted Papers (3) from the Peace and Freedom Club, 1968
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| Folder |
115 |
CNVA Bulletin, May 3, 1962
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| Folder |
116 |
Spring Movement, April 8, 1971
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| Folder |
117 |
"How to Research Your Own Hometown", By Robert K. Lamb
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| Folder |
118 |
"The Decline of American Radicalism in the Twentieth Century", By Gabriel Kolko
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| Folder |
119 |
Philadelphia Free Press (2), September 15, 1969 and December 15, 1970
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| Folder |
120 |
"The Earth Belongs to the People", Ecology & Power, 1970
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| Folder |
121 |
"San Diego Convention Coalition", 1972
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122 |
"Genetic Engineering", Science and Society Series, November, 1973
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| Folder |
123 |
Issue!, April 15, 1968
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| Folder |
124 |
34th Street, October 11, 1966
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| Folder |
125 |
"The Struggle Inside"
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| Folder |
126 |
"Basis of Unity for the Campus Anti-Imperialist Coalition"
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| Folder |
127 |
"New Left May Day Manifesto", 1967
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| Folder |
128 |
"On University Neutrality" May, 1970
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| Folder |
129 |
"Suggestions for RSU Structure and Committees for Fall Quarter"
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| Folder |
130 |
"Where It's At", A Research Guide for Community Organizing, By Jill Hamberg, 1967
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| Folder |
131 |
Flyer for a Benefit Concert for Senator George McGovern
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| Folder |
132 |
"Trashman the Avenger" Comic
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| Folder |
133 |
"Call to Public Vigil and Witness" Flyer, November 1965
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| Folder |
134 |
"Davin City Council" Flyer
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| Folder |
135 |
"Guess Who's Coming to Palo Alto?" Flyer, April 8 1972
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| Folder |
136 |
The Sewer, V.1, N.1, May 3 1967
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| Folder |
137 |
The Sewer: The Van Nuys Underground V. IV, N, 5, 1969
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| Folder |
138 |
Invitation letter to 23rd Testimonial Dinner of the Los Angeles Committee for the Defense of the Bill of Rights, November 8 1973
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| Folder |
139 |
"Yeah A Look at the White Problem" Pamphlet, December 1963
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Box 8
| Folder |
1 |
"Who Makes the Violence? a forum on Police-Citizen Confrontation" Flyer, September 15 1968
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| Folder |
2 |
"Don't Shop at Hudsons Boycott Farrah Pants" Flyer, December 1973
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3 |
An Open Letter to President Kennedy, November 16 1961
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| Folder |
4 |
"The Youth Peace Corps and the Cold War" Memo, 1961
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| Folder |
5 |
"The Pacifist Ethic and Humanism" Pamphlet, ca. 1961
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| Folder |
6-19 |
The Spectacle - Vol. 1 No. 1-Vol. 3 No. 4, March 1974-January 1976
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Box 14
| Folder |
24 |
The New Liberator, March 16 1962
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| Folder |
25 |
The New Liberator, June 7 1962
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| Folder |
26 |
"No More Broken Treaties" Flyer
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| Folder |
27 |
La Wisp (3), May-June, 1969 and October, 1969
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| Folder |
28 |
Freedom is a Constant Struggle--Defend Victims of Racism and Repression
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| Folder |
29 |
Outcry from Occupied Berkeley
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30 |
Anti-Imperialist Peoples' Communique June 19th, 1972
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| Folder |
31 |
"Balls The Ungarbled Word", 1968
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| Folder |
32 |
"Resistance At Penn" Flyer, April 11 1967
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| Folder |
33 |
The Two Souls Of Socialism, by Hal Draper, 1966
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| Folder |
34 |
People Against Rizzo Newsletter, 1971
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| Folder |
35 |
General Meeting Campus Anti-Imperialist Coalition Flyer, March 1 1972
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36 |
Peace, Freedom, Jobs Flyer, March 28 1970
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37 |
California-Berkeley Bail Bucket Flyer
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Series XIII. Other Radical/Leftist Organizations
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Scope and Content Notes: Basically this section of the collection is catch all for a variety of material does not fit obviously into other categories or includes too few items to merit an entire section of its own.
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Box 8
| Folder |
20 |
"The Demands of Democracy", By Eugene J. McCarthy
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| Folder |
21 |
"Four More Nixon Years?" Pamphlet
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| Folder |
22 |
The Southern Patriot, November, 1958
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| Folder |
23 |
The Southern Patriot, December, 1976
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| Folder |
24 |
"Impeach Nixon No Deals, Force Congress to Impeach Nixon"
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| Folder |
25 |
"The Whole World is Watching! Inauguration Day '69" Flyer, 1969
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| Folder |
26 |
Letter from George McGovern
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| Folder |
27 |
"Exploring Nonviolent Action", A Guide to Research, By George Lakey, April, 1970
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| Folder |
28 |
"Monthly Review Press", Spring 1969, 1969
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| Folder |
29 |
"Hugh Hardyman 1902-1960"
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| Folder |
30 |
Flyer for the Peace and Freedom Party Nominee for Lieutenant Governor, Clyde Kuhn, 1986
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| Folder |
31 |
"Poverty Amidst Plenty", A Scientific Anachronism
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| Folder |
32 |
"For a Labor Party in Connecticut"
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| Folder |
33 |
The American Progress, November 9, 1933
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| Folder |
34 |
"The A.F.T. Strike Continues!!", Policy on the First Week of the Semester
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35 |
"Building Economic Alternatives", A Quarterly Publication of Co-op America, Spring 1986, 1986
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36 |
"March for Economic Survival, Saturday-September 28, 1974 August 20, 1974
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37 |
Flyers (4)Calling People to March and Protest, 1974
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38 |
Southern Exposure, "Here Come a Wind", Labor on the Move, 1976
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39 |
Southern Exposure, "Growing Up Southern", 1980
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Southern Exposure, "Festival", Celebrating Southern Literature, 1981
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Southern Exposure, "Stayed on Freedom", 1981
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Fact Sheet, Details of the Community Control of the Police Proposition January, 1971
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43 |
"Too Much Garbage from City Council"
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44 |
"A Short Introduction to Consumers' Cooperation", By Ellis Cowling, 1935
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"Disarm the Corporations"
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The Principal Principle, June, 1931
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| Folder |
47 |
"The Big Guns", By Matthew Josephson, January 14, 1956
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48 |
"Technocracy an Interpretation", By Stuart Chase, 1933
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| Folder |
49 |
"Smog over Los Angeles", 1959
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| Folder |
50 |
"Rich Man Poor Man", By Ryllis Alexander Goslin & Omar Pancost Goslin, 1935
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| Folder |
51 |
Issues of World Events (14), By Scott Nearing, 1947-1948
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52 |
"In Memoriam of Victor Alter Henryk Erlich", March 30, 1943
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53 |
"Our Maturing Fascism", By Hugh Hardyman, 1949
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"Synthesis is our Only Possibility", By Bob Dickens
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55 |
Flyer from the National Organization for an American Revolution
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56 |
"San Francisco and the Un-American Activities Committee"
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IS Bulletin, May 15, 1971
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"Economics for Beginners", Elementary Economics in Simple Language, By John Keracher, 1935
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"Are Our Banks Betraying Us?", By Alfred Wayland, 1932
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60 |
Flyers for "Food Not Bombs" and The Conscious Alliance
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61 |
"What They Won't Tell You About Jobs and Prices", The Unemployment- Inflation Trap and the Way Out of It, By Edward Boorstein October, 1980
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62 |
"The Socialization of Money", By E.F. Mylius
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"Inaugural Address"
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"The World's Crisis Analyzed- Solution Offered", Open Letter to President Harding, By H.L.A. Holman
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65 |
The Industrial Communist (2), September, 1920 and May, 1921
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| Folder |
66 |
"Countdown to a Nuclear Moratorium", Environmental Action Foundation, April, 1976
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| Folder |
67 |
Progressive Student Union Rearguard, 1990
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| Folder |
68 |
"Somebody Had to Say 'the emperor wears no clothes'"
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69 |
"Come Home, America", A Flyer for Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern
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70 |
General Informational Sheet for a March in Harrisburg
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| Folder |
71 |
"Use Nuclear Electric Power and Reduce Oil Dependency" Flyer
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72 |
"Era Walk '80" Flyer, October 18, 1980
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Flyer for "Boycott GE Products Until General Electric Gets Out of the Nuclear Business"
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| Folder |
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"What's Wrong With Big Rock? Plenty!!" Flyer
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Flyer Calling for Support of Haitian Refugees
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"Let There be a World", By Felix Greene, 1963
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"Watts Uprising '65"
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| Folder |
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"The Making of a Pollution-Industrial Complex", By Martin Gellen, 1970
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79 |
"The Real Cuba as Three Candidates Saw it", June, 1964
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| Folder |
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"N.A.C.L.A. Research Methodology Guide"
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81 |
"A New Look at Cuba", The Challenge to Kennedy, By Jesse Gordon and Gen. Hugh B. Hester
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| Folder |
82 |
Flyer for a Rally for McCarthy
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| Folder |
83 |
Pamphlet about the SLATE Organization
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| Folder |
84 |
"Aid Victims of Southern Africa's Rule of Terror" Pamphlet
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| Folder |
85 |
"Strike" Pamphlet
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86 |
Program for "The Snow Fairy", 1912
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87 |
"WorkForce Resource Guide: Organizing" Newspaper
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| Folder |
88 |
Assorted Anti-Nixon Memorabilia
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| Folder |
89 |
"I Support Consumers Education and Protective Association" card
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| Folder |
90 |
"Boycott the Elections!" Marxist-Lenist Party Red Women's Detachment
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| Folder |
91-118 |
The People's Tribune - Vol. 9 No. 8-Vol. 10 No. 10, April 12, 1982-May 10, 1983
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119 |
Underground - Vol. 1 No. 2, March 1971
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| Folder |
120-164 |
National Guardian, April 12, 1954- April 6, 1968 ()
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Box 9
| Folder |
1-195 |
National Guardian, April 13, 1968- October 17, 1970
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Box 14
| Folder |
38 |
The Progressive, Hidden History of the United States Calendar, 1982
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| Folder |
39 |
Students Picket Churchill at Columbia
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| Folder |
40 |
"Five Years of Hitler"
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"America of the Rich, by the Rich, and for the Rich"
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| Folder |
42 |
"A Blueprint for America", Peoples' Party of the United States
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43 |
"Prospects of American Radicalism", American Socialist Publications
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| Folder |
44 |
"Where Are We Going?", Hugh Hardyman
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45 |
"Free Our Political Prisoners" Pamphlet, ca. 1919
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Section: Lovestonites
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Scope and Content Notes: In 1929 the CPUSA expelled former Party General Secretary Jay Lovestone and a substantial group of followers including Benjamin Gitlow, the CP’S 1924 and 1928 VP candidate. The Lovestone group supported the Soviet faction aligned with Nicholai Bukharin and opposed Comintern Third Period polices which they considered (correctly) sectarian and impractical. Initially the Lovestone group considered itself a loyal opposition to the officially recognized leadership of the CPUSA, but gradually developed a separate organizational identity. Although the group’s membership never exceeded a few hundred, it had more influence than might be expected both because officials in several unions respected the advice of prominent Lovestoneites and because the group included several important public intellectuals. Lovestone went on to a career as an activist against Communist influence in the labor movement, both domestic and foreign, and an advisor to portions of the U.S. national security apparatus concerned about that issue.
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Box 10
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"Marx and America" by Bertram Wolfe, 1934
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| Folder |
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"The Crisis in the Communist Party, U.S.A", Statement of the Principles of the Communist Party (Majority Group), February, 1930
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| Folder |
3 |
"Pro-War Communism", By Veritas, 1937
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Series XIV. Popular Front Culture
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Scope and Content Notes: The Popular Front grew out of the mutual recognition of Communists and non-Communist leftists in the mid-1930s that they needed to join forces against the threat of fascism. Formalization of this recognition included the 1935 shift in the Comintern line from Third Period policies that had mandated that Communists attack others on the Left as “social fascists” to Popular Front policies for a united front of the Left, and the electoral alliances that led to victories in 1936 elections in France and Spain.
In the US, the Popular Front functioned like the left wing of the New Deal. It drew support disproportionately from ethnics and racial minorities—e.g. immigrants and their children of Eastern and Southern European heritage, especially Eastern European Jews, and African Americans and Mexican-Americans. Popular Fronters championed the CIO, supported the Spanish Republic and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and campaigned for racial equality. It was also a cultural movement as well as a political movement featuring a left-patriotic ethos and a set of stylistic preferences including topical songs in a folk motif, populist paintings inspired by the example of the Mexican muralists, agit-prop Brechtian theater, and social realist literature. A startling array of cultural producers who were either already famous or would later become so participated in Popular Front culture.
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Box 10
| Folder |
4 |
From These Honored Dead..., By David McKelvy White and James Hawthorne
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| Folder |
5 |
Photograph of Aiding State Trooper Michael Murray as He Lies on the Ground September 4, 1949
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| Folder |
6 |
Wendell Phillips, By James J. Green, 1943
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| Folder |
7 |
Poems for Workers, An Anthology, Edited by Manuel Gomez
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| Folder |
8 |
"Ajut Infantil De Reraguarda" Flyer
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| Folder |
9 |
"One Year of the Writers and Artists Committee for Medical Aid to Spain" Pamphlet, January-December, 1937
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| Folder |
10 |
"Marxism and Culture No. I", A Brief Bibliography of Marxism and the Arts, Edited by Louis Harp
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| Folder |
11 |
Hear...Ludwig Renn, Chief of Staff of International Brigades, 1937
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| Folder |
12 |
Medical Bureau & North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy Flyers (2)
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| Folder |
13 |
20 Years After, 1914-1934, By James Lerner
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| Folder |
14 |
"Critics Group Dialectics #1" Pamphlet, 1937
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| Folder |
15 |
Issues #2, #4 and #5 of
Critics Group Dialectics Stories
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| Folder |
16 |
The Brave and the Blind, A One-Act Drama, By Michael Blankfort, 1937
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| Folder |
17 |
Issues #3, #6 and #10 of
Partisan Review, November-December, 1953,Summer, 1955, and October, 1948
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| Folder |
18 |
Washington and Lincoln, The American Tradition, By Joseph North
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| Folder |
19 |
Photograph of Men from The New York State Young Communist League Boycotting Japanese Goods
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Series XV. Progressive Party
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Scope and Content Notes: Former Vice President Henry Wallace ran for President on a third party Progressive ticket in 1948. The Progressive Party emphasized three themes: opposition to Cold War policies, expansion of New Deal reform towards something closer to European social democracy, and racial equality. Serious discussion of a possible left third party began in 1946. In its earliest stages this movement drew support from a broad array of New Dealers, officials and activists in state third parties such as the New York American Labor Party, the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party, or the Washington Commonwealth Federation (more of a faction in the Washington State Democratic Party than a third party), CIO officials, and left-wing intellectuals.
The Communists, at first, were not enthusiastic both because the Progressive Party might be a competitor on the Left and because the international Communist line was shifting toward a more sectarian posture less welcoming of united fronts. But, as the Cold War heated up, the Progressives’ anti-Cold War posture caused the CP to shift toward enthusiastic support for the Progressive Party. However, the CP’s active engagement with the Progressive Party undermined much of its non-Communist support. Wallace’s disappointing 1948 popular vote--barely more than 2% after initial projections of perhaps 10 to 20%--further discouraged those non-Communists who had stuck with the organization. The Party faltered on through the 1952 campaign, but was justifiably viewed by most non-Communist observers as little more than a Communist front.
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"We Propose this Program of Peace and Abundance for the People of North Carolina" Pamphlet, 1948
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Draft Platform Progressive Party of North Carolina, April 25 1948 (
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Progressive Party Platform, 1952
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"Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 1, A Program For Jobs In N.Y. State", Issued By Council on Public Affairs, N.Y. State American Labor Party
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"Could Peace Cost So Much?" Flyer, 1952
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"The Other Evil", The Truth About the 1952 Elections, By Vito Marcantonio
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"He Thinks Right"
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Flyer Discussing Police Brutality in Detroit, 1948
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Tribune Record, April 17, 1953
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Flyer for The Progressive Party of Delaware
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"We Can Have Homes"
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"The Third Party and the 1948 Elections", By Eugene Dennis, March, 1948
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A Flyer from the Young Progressives of Ohio
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"The 3rd Party", By Adam Lapin
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Flyer Encouraging People to Vote for the Progressive Party
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"The Outlook for the N.Y. City Elections", By Simon W. Gerson
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"Speak up for Peace"
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Flyer to Vote for Henry Steinberg
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"YOU Can Stop the Korean War YOU Can Stop World War 3 With a VOTE" Flyer, 1952
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"Fed Up..." Flyer, ca. 1938
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Progressive Party of Philadelphia Letter, November 17, 1954
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"Knock on Any Door!", Progressive Party
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Pamphlet to Elect Progressive Party Candidate Mrs. Charlotta Bass
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"Your Vote Can Stop the War in Korea Now!" Pamphlet
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"Vote for Wallace" Flyer
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Series XVI. Socialist Labor Party (SLP)
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Scope and Content Notes: The Socialist Labor Party began in 1876 as the Workingmen’s Party of the United States, renamed the Socialistic Labor Party in 1877. A tiny remnant survives today.
Its only notable successes occurred in the years immediately after the 1877 railroad strike near the end of the bitter 1870s depression. The railroad strike had been as much a popular insurrection as a conventional strike. Fueled both by the anger that had provoked this insurrection and the sense of empowerment that it had kindled, significant numbers of U.S. workers turned to third party protest voting between 1877 and 1880. Most of those protest votes went to the Greenback-Labor Party, but the SLP drew substantial votes and elected local officials and state legislators in many Midwestern cities with substantial German immigrant populations.
The Party faded badly in the early 1880s because of a split between Marxists and anarchists, an upswing in the economy, and the rise of the Knights of Labor, a more credible organizational home for working-class activists than the SLP. In the early 1890s a charismatic intellectual, Daniel De Leon, took over leadership of what was left of the party. Although De Leon was an original thinker—Lenin praised him as the only American to make noteworthy contribution to Marxist theory—he was a terrible organizer, so irascible and dogmatic that he repeatedly drove people away from the organization.
Despite De Leon’s flaws the Party expanded in the 1890s benefitting from another Depression beginning in 1893, the surge of political energy accompanying the Populist movement, and publicity surrounding the announcement that railroad union leader Eugene Debs had converted to socialism. Inevitably, however, these new recruits came into conflict with the De Leonites. They joined with other socialist factions to found the Socialist Party of the United States (SPUSA) in 1901. The new party quickly eclipsed the SLP.
De Leon and his followers had one more story to tell. They played a key role on the founding of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in 1905. Inevitably De Leon had a falling out with others in the IWW leadership, and left the organization to form a rival IWW faction in 1908.
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"1940 Platform...No Peace Without Socialism!"
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"Karl Marx, The Man and His Work and the Constructive Elements of Socialism", Three Lectures and Two Essays By Karl Dannenberg, 1918
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"Socialist Reconstruction of Society", The Industrial Vote, By Daniel De Leon
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Grand March Festival Given By The Socialists of St. Paul, Minn. at Germania Turner Hall, 1894
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A Socialist Labor Party Envelope and Ticket
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Three Letters to Sections and Members of the S.L.P., February 23 and 27, 1918
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"Economic Basis of Education", By Aaron M. Orange, 1942
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"A Socialist Labor Party Statement, What Can Be Done About Unemployment?"
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"The Fetishism of Liberty", By Harry Waton, 1917
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"From Reform to Bayonets", By Arnold Petersen, May, 1947
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Multiple Socialist Labor Party Documents Addressed to Samuel Johnson
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"Anti-Semitism, Its Cause and Cure Daniel de Leon", 1921
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"Socialism: World Without Race Prejudice", By Eric Hass
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"Unionism: Fraudulent of Genuine?", By Nathan Karp, 1962
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"Democracy", Past, Present and Future, By Arnold Petersen, 1962
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1964 Platform or the Socialist Labor Party of America, 1964
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"Discussion Bulletin", February, 1986
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Flyer for a Musical and Lecture
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"Socialist Album", 1896
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Christmas Entertainment Newsletter, December 27 1896
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"Winter Evening Agitation Meetings" leaflet, 1894
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"Vote for the Socialist Labor Party" Flyer
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Series XVII. Socialist Party USA (SPUSA)
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Scope and Content Notes: Founded in 1901 by disgruntled members of the Socialist Labor Party and other Socialist factions, the party became the most electorally successful left-wing party in US history. It reached a peak membership of almost 120,000 in 1912 and again in 1919, and drew about 3% of the national popular vote in the elections of 1904, 1908, 1916, and 1920 and 6% in 1912. During these years the Party elected congressmen from New York City and Milwaukee, several dozen state legislators and perhaps as many as a thousand local officials including mayors of such major cities as Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
As a result of the 1919 split within their ranks between the Party’s Old Guard and those that wanted the Party to join the emerging Communist movement and the effects of government repression, the Socialist Party collapsed in the early 1920s. The Party endorsed Progressive Party candidate Robert La Follette in the 1924 presidential campaign and that endorsement masked the Party’s weakness. La Follette drew nearly 17% of the national popular vote. Moreover La Follette had failed to achieve Progressive Party ballot status in several large states and only appeared there as a Socialist. Socialists could thus claim enough of the La Follette vote as their own to argue that their 1924 totals compared favorably to the percentages they had received between 1904 and 1920. But in 1928 when Norman Thomas made the first of his six presidential runs the Socialist vote was down to 0.7%.
The depression appeared to revive the Socialist Party in the early 1930s. Thomas expanded his presidential vote percentage to 2.2% in 1932, and in 1934 the Party elected mayors in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Reading, Pennsylvania. Thereafter the Party found itself caught between a rapidly expanding Communist Party on one side and a Democratic Party that shifted to the Left after 1934. A substantial portion of the Party membership and leadership, including David Dubinsky and Sidney Hillman, leaders of International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union (ACWU), two of the Party’s bastions, argued that Socialists should endorse FDR in 1936. When the top Party leadership refused to consider this, they seceded forming a rival Social Democratic Federation that did endorse Roosevelt. Thomas’s vote fell to 0.4% in 1936. The Party continued to run candidates thereafter—up to the present—but rarely did much better than other tiny left-wing factions such as the Socialist Labor Party (SLP) or the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
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"Which Road for American Workers, Socialist or Communist?", January, 1936
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Assorted Socialist Party-Social Democratic Convention Papers
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"Public Ownership Here and Abroad", By Harry W. Laidler, 1931
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"An Appeal to the Young", By P. Kropotkin
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The Melting Pot, Home Again With the Melting Pot, June, 1918
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"The Germs of War", A Study in Preparedness, 1916
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"Letters to Judd", An American Workingman, By Upton Sinclair
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"Think or Surrender", By George R. Kirkpatrick
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Assorted Writings (5) By Upton Sinclair, Pasadena, California
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"Two Constitutions", By Oscar Ameringer
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Assorted Leftist Papers
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"Sit-Down", By Joel Seidman, and "A G.M. Stockholder Visits Flint", By Robert Morss Lovett, March, 1937
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"Realignment", One Year After the Party Convention
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"The Appeal Almanac and Arsenal of Facts for 1917", 1917
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"No!,Steps to Create Peace", By the Peace Work Group Socialist Party USA
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"America at the Crossroads", By David P. Berenberg, 1934
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"Leaflet No. 6", Testimony to the Charges Against Assemblyman Solomon
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"Tampa- Tar and Terror"
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"Wages in Mexican Money", By Mary E. Marcy
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"Socialist Campaign Songs"
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"Socialist Song Book"
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"Value, Price and Profit", By Karl Marx
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Intemperance and Poverty, by T. Twining
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Pocket Library of Socialism, No. 39, "Socialism and the Organized Labor Movement", By May Wood Simmons
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Pocket Library of Socialism, No. 48, "Useful Work Versus Useless Toil", By William Morris
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Pocket Library of Socialism, No. 50, "Marx on Cheapness"
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"Economic Evolution", By Paul Lafargue
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"Science and Socialism", By Robert Rives La Monte
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"Rational Prohibition", An Address to Temperance Workers, Delivered in Los Angeles, June 22, 1902, By Walter L. Young
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"What's So and What Isn't", By John M. Work, 1916
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"The Cold War and the Russian Bogeyman: A Socialist Analysis"
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"Why I am a Socialist", By Norman Thomas
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"Democracy and Revolution", By Friedrich Adler
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A Socialist Party of America Membership Card
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"Capitalism, Socialism, Communism?- A Debate"
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"Convict 9653, America's Vision Maker", Story of Eugene Victor Debs, the United States' Great Socialist Anti-Militarist, By Guy A. Aldred
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Certain Misconceptions, A Few Current Objections to Socialism Answered, by John M. Work, 1931
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Are There Classes in America?, by Ralph Korkngold
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Little Blue Book, No. 1703,
Organizing the World for Socialism, Clarence Senior, 1931
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ASQ, American Socialist Quarterly Reprints, No. 1, "Towards Socialist Reorientation", By Haim Kantorovitch
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"Problems of Revolutionary Socialism", By Haim Kantorovitch
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The Essence of Socialism, by William H. Watts, 1910
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"Wage-Labor and Capital", By Karl Marx
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The Socialist Appeal, August-September, 1935
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Socialist Party Leaflet, No. 4, "How Socialists Organized the Unions in Germany", By Robert Hunter
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Socialism, What it is, and How to Get it, by Oscar Ameringer, 1930
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"Scientific Principles of History, Political Economy and Sociology Wrapped in One Bundle
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National Constitution of the Socialist Party
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The Socialist Party of Ohio Poll Inspector Certificates (2), 1912
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"Socialist Party Platform"
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"National Constitution of the Socialist Party", 1912
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"A Political Guide for the Workers", Socialist Party Campaign Book, 1920
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"An Open Letter to Progressives", By Norman Thomas, 1928
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"For Socialist America", National Platform, Socialist Party, 1936
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"The ABC of Socialism", By Fred Henderson
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Technocracy and Socialism, by Paul Blanshard, 1933
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A Worker's World, by David P. Berenberg, 1931
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"A Plan for America", Official Campaign Handbook of the Socialist Party, 1932
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"Inflation, Who Wins and Who Loses?", By Maynard C. Krueger, March 23, 1934
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"The Case for Socialism", By Fred Henderson
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"Democracy and Revolution", By Friedrich Adler
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"Socialist Handbook", 1937
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Numerous Issues of
Labor and Socialist Press Service, 1936
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"Constitution of the Socialist Party", 1983
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Young Socialist, An Amateur Monthly Socialist Magazine (2), March and April, 1902
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"Platform and Program of the Socialist Party of Turtle Creek Borough. General Election", November 8, 1921
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The International Socialist Review, April, 1910
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Flyer to Attend The Socialist Party's Monthly Meetings
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Essentials of Socialism, 1932
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Twenty Years of Social Pioneering, 1926
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A Coverless League for Industrial Democracy Booklet
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Now It Must Be Done, by Irwin St. John Tucker, 1920
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"To-Day's Problems and Their Solutions", By 150 Able Writers
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"The Land of the Free Socialist America"
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"The New Capitalism and the Socialist", By Harry W. Laidler, 1931
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"Socialist Songs With Music", Compiled By Charles H. Kerr, 1906
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"The New Deal, A Socialist Analysis", By Norman Thomas, December 15, 1933
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Membership Card for the Socialist Party of the State of Ohio
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Socialist Party Cards (3)
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"Soldiers, Sailors and Socialism"
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Ohio Socialist Bulletin, May 1911
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The Emporia Convincer Newspaper, May 18, 1912
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Land and Labor Newspaper, March 7, 1914
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The Findlay Call, July 1 1911
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The American Guardian - Vol. 14 No. 35-Vol. 22 No. 41, May 12, 1933-July 14, 1939
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Issues of
The Pioneer, 1938
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A Letter from the Socialist Party National Campaign Committee in Regard to its Negro Work Sub-Committee, September 12, 1936
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The Comrade: An Illustrated Socialist Monthly (4), July, November and December, 1902, and February, 1903
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Issues of The Journal of the Socialist Party of Illinois (7), 1984-1986
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Appeal to Reason Promotional Letter
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Criminology, Crimes and Criminals
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Wayland's Monthly, May, 1905
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Shop Talks on Economics
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Reception and Dance Given in Honor of the Delegates to the State Convention, March 20, 1909
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Price List, ca. 1910
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Your Unions Your Future, 1928
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A.B.C. of Socialism, 1924
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"The Young People's Socialist League" Flyer, ca. 1971
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"Studies in Socialism: What is Yours and How to Get it" H.L. Riggs, October 1910
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To-Night Captain C.C. Ross Flyer, 1912
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"Packingtown" Pamphlet, 1907
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"The Roman Catholic Church Answered: Attack of Roman Catholic Church on Socialism" Pamphlet, 1911
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"Studies in Socialism" Pamphlet, 1906-1907
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"Monkeys and Monkeyettes: A Reply to ex-President Roosevelt" W.F. Ries 1909
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Newsletter to Members of SLP and SDP
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Series XVIII. Socialist Worker's Party (SWP)
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Scope and Content Notes: In 1928 the CPUSA expelled American Communists sympathetic to Leon Trotsky and his faction battling Joseph Stalin for control of the international Communist movement. They reconstituted themselves as the Communist League of America. Although a tiny group, estimated at perhaps 100 members, it included several prominent founders of American Communism (e.g. James Cannon) and some talented and energetic organizers. The group made contact with Trotsky sympathizers in other countries, established a journal,
The Militant, and pursued an energetic propaganda campaign that led to modest expansion.
In 1934, the group entered the Socialist Party en masse, establishing a caucus within the SP. This strategy facilitated recruitment to the Trotskyist group but inevitably aggravated factionalism within the Socialist Party. In the summer of 1937, the SP began expelling Trotskyists. Those remaining left the SP and established the Socialist Workers Party in December 1937. While still a small group, they had expanded to more than 1000 members between 1928 and 1937, included a number of prominent intellectuals, and had somewhat more political prominence than might be expected from their numbers.
However the movement’s growth was repeatedly compromised by factional splits in which ideological disputes among the leadership promoted splits and formation of tiny rival organizations. In the most serious of these episodes, perhaps 40% of the SWP’s membership seceded to found the Worker’s Party lead by Max Shachtman.
By the 1960s, although the SWP still had not grown much larger than its peak membership before the Shachtmanite split it looked somewhat more significant. The collapse of the CPUSA after 1956 left the SWP as the most energetic and visible of the Old Left parties. Their endorsement of Malcolm X garnered some sympathy among Black radicals, and their support for the Cuban Revolution, such as their participation in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, also earned support among the emerging New Left generation. They likewise played a prominent role in the anti-Vietnam War movement helping to organize some of the largest demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and other major cities.
In the long run, however, none of this activity resulted in permanent expansion of the organization beyond the modest levels that had characterized it throughout its history.
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"Vote for Socialism in 1956" Pamphlet, 1956
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"Let the People Vote on War!" Pamphlet, ca. 1938
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"A Public Forum for the Discussion of the Socialist Workers Party Program" Leaflet, October 15 1960
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"The Voice of Socialism: Radio Speeches by the Socialist Workers Party Candidates in the 1948 Election" Pamphlet, August 1948
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"Manifesto of the Fourth International on The Imperialist War and the Proletarian Revolution" Pamphlet, 1940
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How to Fight War, By James Burnham, March, 1938
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Union-Smashing in Sacramento, The Truth About the Criminal Syndicalism Trial, By Herbert Solow, August, 1935
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The Stalinists on the Waterfront, By Art Preis April, 1947
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"What Makes Latin America Explosive" Flyer
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"A Worker for President, Vote Socialist Workers" Flyer
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Desegregation! Labor's Stake in the Fight for Negro Equality, By Jean Simon, October, 1955
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The United States and the Second World War, The European Revolution and Tasks of The Revolutionary Party, Resolutions of Eleventh Convention of the American Trotskyist Movement, March 1945
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"The Truth About Jerry Brown" Pamphlet
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War and the 4th International, July, 1934
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Stop McCarthyism!, April 1954
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"Build a Labor Party Now", By George Clarke, August, 1946
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"Fight the Slave Labor Law!", July, 1947
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Four Pamphlets from
The Case for Socialism as Presented at the Famous Minneapolis Labor Trial Collection. Pamphlets Entitled "Socialism on Trial", "Why We are in Prison", "In Defense of Socialism" and "Who are the 18 Prisoners", March, 1944
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The Case of the Legless Veteran, By James Kutcher
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The Coming American Revolution, By James P. Cannon, April, 1947
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The People's Front, The New Betrayal, by James Burnham, 1937
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"Vote Socialist, Steve Bresler for A.S. President, Young Socialist Alliance" Flyer
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Why We Defend the Soviet Union, by Albert Goldman
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"For a Workers & Farmers Government Vote for Dobb for President, Carlson for Vice-President" Pamphlet
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"For a Real Alternative Vote Socialist, Dobbs for President, Weiss for Vice-President, Students for Dobbs and Weiss" Sticker
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American Workers Need a Labor Party, By Joseph Hansen, November, 1944
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Flyer Advertising a "United Protest Memorial Meeting for Three Wayne State University Students"
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Discussion Bulletin No. 1, "The Kremlin's Satellite States in Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Marxist Theory, and our Perspectives", By E.R. Frank, April, 1950
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Discussion Bulletin No. 3, "The Class Nature of the Buffer Countries in Eastern Europe", By M. Stein, June, 1950
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"Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms..." -Che
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Ten Years: History and Principles of the Left Opposition, November 1933
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"A Fighting Program For Labor: Jobs for All" Pamphlet, 1945
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Section: Other Trotskyists
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Scope and Content Notes: Despite its small numbers—a peak combined membership of no more than 3,000 in all of its tendencies--the American Trotskyist movement suffered from factionalism and splits throughout its history. That was probably a function of the movement’s ideological heritage and structure. While Socialist and Social Democratic Parties in the US and elsewhere also experienced factional conflict, except in the years immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution, these did not generally produce organizational splits because the parties conceived of themselves as big tent electoral coalition parties, not unlike their bourgeois counterparts. The Trotskyists, in contrast, took from their Communist heritage Leninist notions of centralized and ideologically coherent parties that enforced correct line discipline on all members. But while the Communists had an institutional apparatus—the Comintern and its successors—to establish the terms and limits of orthodoxy, the Trotskyists had no such institutional counterpart. People who believed that establishing and adhering to a correct line was the sine qua non of worthwhile political activity thus had no alternative to splits when they decided that their parent organization had erred grievously in its ideological and strategic judgments.
The largest and most enduring American Trotskyist organization was the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Other Trotskyist groups represented in the American Left Ephemera Collection include the Workers Party (followers of Max Shachtman), the Spartacist League (an offshoot of the Shachtmanites), and the Workers World Party (followers of ex-CP and ex-SWP member Sam Marcy).
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The New International, A Symposium on The New Europe, July, 1949
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"The Communist Party at the Crossroads: Toward Democratic Socialism or Back to Stalinism", By H.W. Benson
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"No More Three Mile Islands! Jobs For All! Fight the Bosses and Their Government", March 28, 1981
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3 Worker's World Party Pamphlets Stating "People's Needs, Yes! Profits and War, No!"
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Next- A Labor Party!, By Jack Ranger, December, 1948
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What is Revolutionary Leadership?
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The Fight to Implement Busing for Labor/Black Defense to Stop Racist Attacks and to Smash Fascist Threats, 1974
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Fourth International, The American Empire, August, 1949
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The New International, A Monthly Organ of Revolutionary Marxism, December, 1934
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The New International, A Monthly Organ of Revolutionary Marxism, October, 1935
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Series XIX. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
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Scope and Content Notes: SDS began as the student affiliate of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), an organization of Fabian minded Socialist intellectuals and labor union officials that published detailed policy statements on public issues from a Social Democratic point of view. The LID sponsored a Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) that had substantial membership at several colleges and universities in the Debs era, but by the late 1950s both the parent organization and the student wing had declined to tiny remnants. However, the student wing had picked up energetic organizers influenced by the emerging New Left. In 1960 they rename the organization Students for a Democratic Society, suggesting how they had been influenced by such New Left oriented thinkers as C. Wright Mills. Mills criticized what he called the “labor metaphysic” of the Old Left and urged young activists to pursue new ideas and new strategies. This began a process of estrangement from the parent organization over such issues as anti-communism and the Vietnam War. The ILD was militantly anti-Communist and supported U.S. policy in Vietnam. Most SDS members had scorn for Communism (at least of the capital "C" variety; some of them could reasonably be called small "c" communists), but they were anti-anti-Communist because they considered American anti-Communism as a paranoid crusade stifling creative thinking in the United States. SDS vigorously opposed U.S. policy in Vietnam. SDS did not formally break with the LID until 1965, but the mutual antagonism between the LID and SDS was quite evident several years before.
In its early years SDS was a tiny organization with only a few hundred members on a couple of dozen campuses. It was far smaller than the Student Peace Union, and indeed smaller than the youth organizations of Old Left parties like the CP and the SWP. But the organization began to attract attention after the publication of its Port Huron Statement in 1962 in which it criticized both sides in the Cold War, discussed how both failed to satisfy unfulfilled utopian longings, and advocated as its alternative what it called participatory democracy. SDS also attracted new members through its early collaboration with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its early opposition against the War in Vietnam. It expanded rapidly after its sponsorship of the first large demonstration against the War in Vietnam in April 1965.
By its final years SDS was the largest, indeed the only substantial, organization of the American New Left. How large is impossible to say, in part because SDS, as part of its ideology eschewed the formal bureaucratic apparatus of Old Left organizations. In theory you became a member of SDS by filling out a membership application with a small application fee and mailing it off to the national office in Chicago. In return you received a membership card and a subscription to the national organization’s newspaper, New Left Notes. But most people who considered themselves members of SDS never bothered to do that. Local chapters of SDS operated as wholly autonomous units. In practice an individual was a member of the local chapter if they showed up for meetings and participated in group events. No one had to show a membership card to vote in meetings. De facto membership fluctuated wildly. But by the end of the 1960s certainly several hundred thousand people had participated in events organized by SDS.
In its final years SDS was sharply divided by internal factions. One faction, affiliated with the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), advocated a strategy of a worker-student alliance, and hoped to steer SDS in an Old Left direction. They captured the remnants of the organization after the 1969 convention in which the factions split apart. A second group, harboring romantic fantasies of domestic armed insurrection, conceived of itself as the Americong (in the words of a Jefferson Starship song). They became the Weathermen who attracted considerable press attention despite numbers that never exceeded two or three hundred. A third faction, essentially defined only by its opposition to the other two, had even less staying power. Within a year of the 1969 convention none of the factions amounted to anything. Most of the membership drifted away from all of them in bewilderment.
This sad ending reflected a broader sense of strategic impasse among New Left activists. The antiwar movement staged many of the largest political demonstrations in American history, but the war raged on. Activists talked about participatory democracy and shouted “Power to the People!” but they were painfully aware that the larger public viewed student activists with hostility even as public opinion about the war was shifting. Factional conflict within radical movements was also stimulated by the penetration of the national security state into the movement. Political authorities were sufficiently worried by the revolutionary posturing of New Leftists and Black revolutionaries that they assigned thousands of agents to monitor and infiltrate activist groups. As part of the Federal government’s Cointelpro program, undercover agents were instructed to encourage internal conflict and factional division.
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"Don't Forget the Motor City"
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"Radical America", New York Rent Strike, Analysis and Comments by Activists, By James Weinstein, November-December, 1967
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Photograph of Students Protesting the Vietnam War April 18, 1965
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"The Berkeley Free Speech Controversy", By Eric Levine
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"Grape Strike Report Number 1", ca. 1965
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The Irregular N. 3, January 3, 1966
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The Irregular N. 5, February 14, 1966
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The Irregular N. 6, March 19, 1966
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The Irregular N. 8, June 3, 1966
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"Students for a Democratic Society" Letter, May 1, 1968
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SDS Press Statement
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U. of Washington SDS News
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Series XX. Student Peace Union (SPU)
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Scope and Content Notes: The Student Peace Union (SPU), founded in 1959, initially focused on nuclear disarmament but expanded to a broader range of peace issues including opposition to the war in Vietnam. Before the expansion of SDS in the mid-1960s the SPU was the largest organization of New left college students with a peak membership of perhaps 5,000. The organization was eclipsed by a combination of internal factional disputes and the rapid expansion of SDS after 1964. Most of the SPU material in the American Left Ephemera Collection came from the papers of a Philadelphia activist, Tom Barton.
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"Highlander Center: An Approach to Culture and Social Change" Pamphlet
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Washington Protest Newspaper Article, February 19 1962
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Letter Explaining the Political Climate of Chicago, July 29, 1963
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"Secondary Concerns and Role Structure: A Case Study of the Student Peace Union", December 20 1961
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Brooklyn SPU Protest Flyers (Nuclear, Jim Crow, Defense), April 1962
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Army Education Center Postcard, December 1963
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"What Are You Doing About Your Undeclared War?" Flyer and Event Details, June 3 1963
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"The Youth Peace Corps and the Cold War" Information Sheet
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SPU Program Statement
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"Nuclear Testing" Statement Released by SPU National Steering Committee, October 3 1961
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"Toward a Meaningful Peace Corps" Student Petition, April 1961
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"Civil Liberties" Information Sheet and Statement of Purpose
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"Adopt Arnoni's Vietnam Proposal!" Propaganda Sheet, 1965
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"For a Turn Toward Peace" Petition/Flyer, 1962
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"No Resumption of U.S. Nuclear Tests in the Atmosphere" Flyer
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"Policy Statement" from Washington D.C. Protest
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"Washington Action Project" Memo, January 11, 1961
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"Call to a Conference on Student Peace Action" Flyer, December 2-3 1961
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"A Christmas Day Protest Against Resumption of Atmospheric Testing" Flyer, December 25 1961
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"Washington Action" Flyer
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"Walk on Washington" Information Sheet, 1962
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"Call to Action for Letters to Kennedy" Flyer
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"Student Action For a Turn Toward Peace" Flyer, 1961
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"Turn Toward Peace" Pamphlet, 1961
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"A Proposal for the Student Peace Movement" Research Paper, 1962
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SYU Business-Educational Meeting "Washington Peace Project" Flyer, 1962
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"Washington Action Rally" Flyer, 1962
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"USA! USSR! NO!" Flyer, 1962
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"Student Action for a Turn Toward Peace: Washington Project" Pamphlet, February 16-17 1962
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"News From the Peace Front" Flyer, 1961
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"The Cuban Crisis and It's Aftermath" Flyer
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"Peace March" Newspaper Article, April 22 1962
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Student Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change Meeting Flyer
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"Problems of Peace" Flyer
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New York Regional Newsletter, February 14 1964
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"HEMP Marijuana Prohibition Protest" Flyer
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New York Regional Newsletter - Easter Edition, March 15, 1964
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"Bertrand Russell on the War in Vietnam" Pamphlet, 1963
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"No More Hiroshimas" Flyer
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"Struggle for Peace and Freedom" Leaflet, September 1962
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"No More Hiroshimas...Peace Is Our Only Defense", August 6 1963
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"Christian Decision and Nuclear War" Flyer
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"Whoever You Are...Wherever You Live" Flyer
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"Students and the Peace Movement: Problems and Perspectives" Research Essay
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"Student Peace Union" Flyer
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"Peace Marchers Are Back" Flyer
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"Hiroshima Resolution" Research, July 1962
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"1963 Easter Peace Walk Itinerary" Flyer, 1963
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"A Call to Easter 1963 Student Peace Walk" Flyer, 1963
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SPU Newsletter - Middle Atlantic Region, April 10 1963
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"High School Conference of Peace" Flyer
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"Two Scientists Look at Civil Defense" Flyer, February 6 1962
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Rustin, McReynolds, and Barton Lecture Flyer, October 1 1961
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"Walk For Peace 'Peace Saturday' Flyer
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Regional Event Notices and Invitations, 1960-1964
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SPU Event Research and Newspaper Clippings, 1960-1964
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SPU Internal Correspondence and Memos, 1960-1964
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SPU Meeting Minutes and Member Mailing Lists, 1960-1964
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SPU Meeting Minutes and Member Mailing Lists, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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SPU Financial and Member Correspondence, 1960-1964
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"Beyond Deterrence", A Series of Studies
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"I Accuse!", Dr. James G. Endicott Describes Germ Warfare, 1952
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Flyer for WSP's Annual Spring Meeting, 1964
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"The Cuban Crisis", Policy Statement of the National Committee for Nonviolent Action
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Student Peace Union Bulletin, January 1962
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Songs for Peace, Compiled and edited by The Student Peace Union, Introduction by Pete Seeger, 1966
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Student Peace Union Recruitment Brochure
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Assorted memorabilia
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Series XXI. Utopian Socialism
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Scope and Content Notes: Since the 1820s small groups of socialist and anarchist reformers and revolutionaries had established model communities as essentially arguments by example. They hoped that the success of such communities would inspire others and silence critics who argued that communal or collective modes of social organization were contrary to human nature. Most failed in five years of less, but this did not dissuade later enthusiasts from trying again. The Llano Colony included among its sponsors prominent California Socialists including Job Harriman, the 1900 Socialist vice presidential candidate and 1911 Socialist Los Angeles mayoral candidate. After several years in Southern California, the group sold its California property and relocated to Louisiana where it survived longer than most such efforts. The counterculture of the late 1960s spawned a new wave of rural communes but few lasted any longer than those of earlier generations.
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"Gateway to Freedom" Pamphlet, 1925
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Promotional Letter for the Llano Colonist, 1925
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Series XXII. Vietnam War
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Scope and Content Notes: Vietnamese Communists initiated armed struggle against the French colonialists in 1929. Although largely driven underground during the 1930s, they maintained armed militias that began to fight the Japanese military after the 1940 Japanese occupation. These became the seed for the army of the Viet Minh, The League for the Independence of Viet Nam, a Communist led organization that incorporated other nationalists. The Viet Minh did not attempt large scale engagements against the Japanese army but did have de facto control of parts of the countryside by 1945 when they staged an uprising in Hanoi a few weeks after the Japanese surrender in World War 2. They declared a provisional government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
When the French attempted to reassert control in 1946 war ensued until their defeat at Dien Ben Phu in 1954. By the later stage of this French-Vietnamese War, French troops had essentially become a mercenary army for the U.S. Motivated by Cold War concerns of Communist advance in SE Asia U.S. policy makers decided to pay for most of the cost of the French military effort.
Under an armistice agreement the Viet Minh troops withdrew north of the 17th parallel and an international conference in Geneva negotiated peace accords and proposed a 1956 election to determine the government for Vietnam. The election was never held in part because the U.S. feared a Communist victory. Thereafter a Communist government controlled North Vietnam and a regime allied with the U.S. controlled South Vietnam.
The South Vietnamese government was controlled by unpopular elites, many of them Catholic and French speaking and viewed by some of their population as former collaborators with the French colonialists. Fighting broke out in the late 1950s between peasant veterans of the Viet Minh in South Vietnam and troops of the South Vietnamese government. Initially the North Vietnamese were reluctant to support the guerilla movement in the South, in part because of pressure from Soviet leaders seeking détente with the U.S., but the guerilla war escalated into full scale war between the governments of North and South Vietnam by the early 1960s.
Since 1956 the U.S. had provided the South Vietnamese government with arms and financial aid and small contingents of U.S. military advisors. As the war went badly for the South Vietnamese government, these commitments ratcheted steadily upward with the number of U.S. “advisors” reaching 16,000 by 1963.
By the following year the South Vietnamese government approached military collapse, and the Johnson administration decided on a full scale military commitment to prevent Communist victory in Vietnam. U.S. troops strength peaked at more than 500,000, augmented by the most massive commitment of airpower in global military history. The U.S. dropped more tons of bombs on Vietnam than all combatants had dropped during World War 2.
The last U.S. troops withdrew in 1975. Over 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. Vietnamese casualty figures are subject to debate, but the Vietnamese government claims more than one million Vietnamese military casualties and more than two million additional civilian casualties.
American Communists and some non-Communist peace activists occasionally published accounts critical of the US supported French war in Vietnam and the US support of the South Vietnamese government after 1956, but these attracted little notice before the escalation of US military involvement. Small demonstrations against the war occurred in 1963 and 1964, but the first large scale protest against US involvement in Vietnam was an anti war march in Washington sponsored by SDS in April 1965. Thereafter the scale and intensity of antiwar protest paralleled the expansion of US military action. The movement peaked in 1970 shortly after the Nixon administration admitted expanding US military action into neighboring Cambodia (such incursions had occurred before but on a smaller scale and not publicly acknowledged). For the first time since the beginning of the US military effort, a majority in national opinion polls declared the war a mistake and said the US should withdraw.
The long war in Vietnam fueled the expansion of the New Left in the United States more than any other cause or event. The anti-Vietnam War items in the collection were produced by a diverse array of national organizations and local ad hoc action groups. As expected, a majority of the material is from the period between 1967 though 1973.
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"March on Washington April 24" Flyer
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"...Stop the War and Proceed to Deal With the Problems of America..." Pamphlet
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People's Coalition for Peace & Justice Pamphlet
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"SMC's Antiwar Guide to Penn" Flyer
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In The Teeth of War, Photographic Documentary of the March 26th, 1966 New York City Demonstration Against the War in Vietnam, Text by: Dave Dellinger, A.J. Muste, Donald Duncan, Norman Mailer and others, 1967
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Assorted Photographs of Vietnam Protestors and Soldiers in Berkeley, CA.
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"10,000 GIs Killed Since the Peace Talks Started May 1968" Flyer, April 1969
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"The War Is On!" Flyer, April 1972
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"Support the Vets" Flyer, February 2 1972
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"We Refuse to Serve" Flyer, ca. 1967
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"Black G.I. Framed on Frag Rap FREE BILLY SMITH" Flyer, 1971
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"Strike Against the War November 14th, March on Washington November 15th" Flyer October 1969
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"Return to Fort Dix May 16 -- Armed Forces Day" Flyer, May 1970
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"Statewide Action in Detroit! MARCH! OCTOBER 31" Flyer, October 1970
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"Join the Conspiracy" Flyer, September 23 1969
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"All Out April 15! Bring All the Troops Home!" Flyer
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"Statement: the Boston Eight" Newsletter, November 1969
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"Stop the Bombing" Protest Photograph
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Protester on Car, Photograph
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Anti-War Protests, Shattuck Pharmacy
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Anti-War Protestor
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Anti-War Protest, Police Cruiser
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Anti-War March Photograph
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"Peace in Vietnam" Protest Photo
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"Why?" Protest Photograph
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"Don't Fight. Go To Prison!" Protest Photograph
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"Don't Hurt Those Children in Vietnam" Protest Photograph
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Anti-War Silent Protest
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"Vietnam Day committee" Protest Photograph
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"Flower Hat" Protest Photograph
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"Spring Offensive To End The War" Flyer Washington D.C., April 24-May 5, 1971
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"Join the GI Rebellion!" Flyer
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From Our Own Backyard, Old Wars Never Fade Away Pamphlet
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Anti-War Paraphernalia
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Bring Them Home Now!
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Assorted Flyers
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Assorted March for Peace Flyers
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"Release Us From Bondage", Six Days in Vietnamese Prison, July, 1974
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"Treaty of Peace and Solidarity"
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Letter from the National Committee to Defend the Rights of South Vietnamese Students, June 8, 1972
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"South Vietnam in Struggle"
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Flyer for the McGovern-Shriver Campaign
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A Peoples Peace Treaty- Indochina Peace Campaign Flyer with Attached Letter
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"Saigon's Prisoners", An Indochina Peace Campaign Report
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"Don Duncan Speaks Out"
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"The United States' War in Vietnam", February 1965
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Free Student Newspaper
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"People's Peace Treaty" Flyer
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Free Billy Smith
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Demonstrate Against the War
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Stop the Mines, the Bombs, the War Now
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Some Facts About Vietnam
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Send Nixon a Message Block Traffic Friday Morning
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October 14 March and Rally Against the War
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Bring the Troops Home Now
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Women for Peace Letter, April 21, 1972
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The People Will Make the Peace
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A War Ship Can Be Stopped November 1971
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Support G.I. Resistance, May 22, 1972
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We Too Resist, May 20 1968
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...and now Laos, 1970
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"U.S. Bombing Of Vietnamese Dikes Shocks The World", 1972
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"They've Had Enough Haven't You?", April 24 1971
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Washington D.C. Protest Flyer, November 13-15 1969
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On to Miami! GOP National Convention Protest Flyer, August 20-23 1968
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Support G.I. Resistance! Flyer
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Up Against the Wall Street Journal, February 11, 1970
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"March Against the Pentagon" Flyer, March 27, 1981
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Series XXIII. Realia: Pins and Other Objects
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Bring Justice to America's Fields in '76 Pin, 1975-1976
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