Repository
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Title American Left Ephemera Collection Creator
Oestreicher, Richard Jules
Collection Number AIS.2007.11 Extent
22.75 Linear Feet
(37 boxes)
Date 1875-2015 Abstract Dr. Richard Oestreicher, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, amassed the American Left Ephemera Collection over a 35-year period to document the history of the American Left from the 1870s to the present. Digital reproductions of the collection are available online. Language While the bulk of the material in the collection is in English, there are a variety of foreign language items including Yiddish, Italian, Finnish, Spanish, Hungarian, French and others. Author Lindsay Bedford and Patrick Trembeth with assistance provided by Dr. Richard Oestreicher. Publisher ULS Archives & Special Collections Address University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives & Special Collections Website: library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections Business Number: 412-648-3232 (Thomas) | 412-648-8190 (Hillman) Contact Us: www.library.pitt.edu/ask-archivist URL: http://library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections
Accruals
Received a second donation of material in November 2014 and a third in December 2015.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Richard Oestreicher on October 2, 2008.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by subject into 28 series; the list is arranged by type.
Series I. African Americans and the Left
Series II. Anarchists
Series III. Anti-War Propaganda
Series IV. Christian Socialism
Series V. Citizens Party
Series VI. Communists and Civil Liberties
Series VII. Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
Series VIII. Ethnic Radicalism
Series IX. Feminism, Gay and Lesbian
Series X. Labor
Series XI. Leftist Organizations Thought in Relation to the Rest of the World and U.S. Economics/Imperialism
Series XII. New Left Organizations
Series XIII. Other Radical/Leftist Organizations
Series XIV. Popular Front Culture
Series XV. Progressive Party
Series XVI. Socialist Labor Party (SLP)
Series XVII. Socialist Party USA (SPUSA)
Series XVIII. Socialist Worker's Party (SWP)
Series XIX. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Series XX. Student Peace Union (SPU)
Series XXI. Utopian Socialism
Series XXII. Vietnam War
Series XXIII. Realia: Pins and Other Objects
Series XXIV. Twenty-First Century Radical Movements
Series XXV. Democratic Socialism
Series XXVI. Food Not Bombs
Series XXVII. Populists/Pre-Populists
Series XXVIII. Radical Academics
Copyright
The University of Pittsburgh holds the property rights to the material in this collection, but the copyright may still be held by the original creator/author. Researchers are therefore advised to follow the regulations set forth in the U.S. Copyright Code when publishing, quoting, or reproducing material from this collection without the consent of the creator/author or that go beyond what is allowed by fair use.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Ethan Steinfels in 2009 and Lindsay Bedford and Patrick Trembeth in 2011. The second gift of material was processed by Kyle Conway in January-March 2015. Dr. Richard Oestreicher wrote all of the scope and content notes within the collection as well as writing the History section.
Related Material
A.E. Forbes Communist Collection, 1921-1972, AIS.2000.07, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Custodial History
In Oestreicher's own words, "In graduate school I discovered that the world of antique ephemera and collectibles gave me access to historical raw materials and a source of supplementary income. Selling junk was more fun and more lucrative than other jobs that had carried me through summer breaks in graduate funding. For the last thirty-four years I've followed a sometimes schizophrenic path: radical historian by day, hippy-trippy, petty bourgeois capitalist on the side. Along the way I accumulated a vast hoard of ephemera relating to American working-class and radical history." Oestreicher donated his collection to the Archives Service Center in 2007.
Scope and Content Notes The collection includes items from the 1870s to the present including periodicals, photographs, letters, pamphlets, books, posters, flyers, labels, pins and other objects, but it emphasizes ephemeral items (e.g., items made for one time or brief usage and then likely to be discarded). While the majority of these items were produced by the Socialist Party USA (SPUSA), Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), or organizations linked to them, the collection also includes material from a wide variety of other organizations and movements as well as from unaffiliated activists and radical intellectuals.
Dr. Richard Oestreicher wrote all of the scope and content notes within the collection as well as writing the History section.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital reproductions of the collection are available online.
History
The Left
Left and Right as political designations date to the French Revolution when the Jacobins sat on the left in the National Assembly and the Girondins on the right. The Left has come to mean movements, organizations, and intellectual or cultural tendencies that emphasize an egalitarian ethos, a utopian vision of social reconstruction, and a commitment to agitation and action to advance that ethos and vision.
Major Left-Wing Organizations in the Twentieth-Century U.S.
Only three left-wing organizations have attained mass followings in the twentieth-century U.S.: the Socialist Party of the U.S. (SPUSA), the Communist Party of the U.S. (CPUSA), and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Founded 1901 with remnants still in existence today, SPUSA reached a peak membership of about 120,000 around the 1912 election when it polled 6% of the presidential vote. The party declined sharply after 1919 from a combination of government repression, a split between reformists and revolutionaries crystallized by the Bolshevik revolution, and the effects of social change on their core constituencies and on the credibility of their hopes for imminent change.
CPUSA, formed out of an amalgamation of revolutionary factions from the 1919 split in the Socialist Party, reached a membership of roughly 75,000 (with a pool of close sympathizers, "fellow travelers," perhaps five to ten times larger than the membership) at the end of the 1930s and again during WWII. CPUSA declined very rapidly after the war under the impact of the Cold War, disillusionment with the Soviet Union, postwar prosperity, and the Party's dogmatic and sectarian tendencies.
SDS began as the student wing of the League for Industrial Democracy (originally an organization of socialist college students that evolved into a social-democratic policy group of intellectuals and union functionaries). They parted company with the parent organization over Vietnam and anticommunism in the early 1960s, and expanded rapidly during the 1960s as the most visible American exponents of the New Left. In contrast to the old Left parties, SDS did not collect monthly dues or keep systematic membership records, so estimates of its membership vary widely, but at its peak in 1968-69 probably several hundred thousand people identified themselves at least loosely with SDS.
Role of the Left in Modern U.S. History
Although each of these organizations briefly functioned as a mass movement, none sustained substantial organization for much more than a decade. Nonetheless, they had decisive impact on modern American history. Left-wing activists played crucial roles in virtually every progressive social movement in twentieth-century America: labor organization, civil rights and black liberation, antiwar and peace movements, feminism, gay rights, environmentalism, and anti-globalism. They shaped terms of debate in American political culture and forced mainstream politicians to respond to their arguments. Understanding the history of the Left is thus critical to understanding key themes in American history.
Previous Citation
American Left Ephemera Collection, 1875-2015, AIS.2007.11, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Preferred Citation
American Left Ephemera Collection, 1875-2015, AIS.2007.11, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Subjects Corporate Names Student Peace Union (U.S.) -- History -- Sources Socialist Workers Party -- History -- Sources Socialist Labor Party -- History -- Sources Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) -- History -- Sources Communist Party of the United States of America -- History -- Sources Socialist Party (U.S.) -- History -- Sources Genres Posters Pamphlets Buttons (Information artifacts) Photographs Other Subjects Communism -- United States -- History -- Sources New Left -- United States -- History -- Sources Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Minorities -- Political activity -- United States -- Sources Utopian socialism -- United States -- History -- Sources Anarchism -- United States -- History -- Sources Labor -- United States -- History -- Sources Social action Politics Christian socialism -- United States -- History -- Sources Socialism -- United States -- History -- Sources
Container List Series I. African Americans and the Left 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.
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Flyer Containers box 1 , folder 1 Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement, We Shall Overcome! compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan for The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee , 1963 Containers box 1 , folder 2 The Truth About Columbia Tennessee Cases Containers box 1 , folder 3 Three Associated Press Photographs of African American Communist Angelo Herndon , Mid 1930's Containers box 1 , folder 4 Jim Crow "Justice" In Korea, The Case of Lieutenant Leon Gilbert Containers box 1 , folder 5 In Defense of Negro Rights , by Benjamin J. Davis , January 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 6 The Negro People in the struggle for Peace and Freedom , By Benjamin J. Davis , February 1951 Containers box 1 , folder 7 The Negro People on the March , Report to the National Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A., by Benjamin J. Davis , August 1956 Containers box 1 , folder 8 The Historic Fight to Abolish School Segregation in the United States , by Doxey A. WilkersonContainers box 1 , folder 9 "The Negro Question", Outline and Study-Guide for Five-Session Course , January 1949 Containers box 1 , folder 10 Negro History Week , 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 11 Negro History Week , 1951 Containers box 1 , folder 12 Negro History Week , 1952 Containers box 1 , folder 13 Negro History Week , February 1954 Containers box 1 , folder 14 Umbra , December, 1963 Containers box 1 , folder 15 Umbra Anthology , 1967-1968 Containers box 1 , folder 16 This Man Will Die Unless You Help Containers box 1 , folder 17 The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Henry Winston , by Mike NewberryContainers box 1 , folder 18 "Resolutions from the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa" , September 24-27, 1964 Containers box 1 , folder 19 The White Problem Containers box 1 , folder 20 Letter from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , April 1968 Containers box 1 , folder 21 Memo to contributors from the SCLC Staff , April 1968 Containers box 1 , folder 22 "Negroes Beaten in Grenada School Integration" New York Times article , Tuesday, September 13, 1966 Containers box 1 , folder 23 Michael Zinzun for the 55th Assembly District campaign pamphletContainers box 1 , folder 24 "Black Party Founding Convention" flyer , 1980 Containers box 1 , folder 25 "Hear the Communist Candidates" flyer Containers box 1 , folder 26 "Hot Thang---Bar-B-Q" Flyer , 1972 Containers box 1 , folder 27 The Road to Liberation for the Negro People , September 1937 Containers box 1 , folder 28 "Rally For Youth Rights" Flyer Containers box 1 , folder 29 Justice For All Humanity, Colored America Answers the Challenge of Pearl S. Buck Containers box 1 , folder 30 Africa Fights for Freedom , by Alphaeus Hunton , March 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 31 David P. Widamen For Congress 4th Congressional District Progressive Party Ticket Campaign PamphletContainers box 1 , folder 32 Vote for a Fighter against War and Racism, Jarvis Tyner, Communist Candidate for Vice-President Containers box 1 , folder 33 "Theoretical Aspects of the Negro Question in the United States" Containers box 1 , folder 34 The New Secession- And How To Smash It, Riding to Freedom , by Herbert Aptheker and James E. Jackson , June 1961 Containers box 1 , folder 35 Forces of Progress in the South, Workers, Farmers, and the Negro People , by Jim Jackson , 1955 Containers box 1 , folder 36 American Imperialism and White Chauvinism , by Herbert ApthekerContainers box 1 , folder 37 FEPC, How it was Betrayed, How it can be Saved , By Rob Fowler Hall , February 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 38 "The Time is Now! Mr. President Wipe Out Slums and Ghettos! Billions for Life-Not Death!" Open Letter Containers box 1 , folder 39 "Program to End Ghettos and Fight Poverty" Flyer Containers box 1 , folder 40 The Road to Negro Liberation, Report to the Eighth Convention of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. , by Harry Haywood , June 1934 Containers box 1 , folder 41 Some Aspects of the Negro Question in the United States , by James E. Jackson , July 1959 Containers box 1 , folder 42 Now is the Time , by M.E. TravisContainers box 1 , folder 43 Let Freedom Ride the Rails Containers box 1 , folder 44 Negro Freedom is in the Interest of Every American , by Gus Hall , July 1964 Containers box 1 , folder 45 The Party of Negro and White , By Pettis Perry , March, 1953 Containers box 1 , folder 46 Marxism and Negro Liberation , by Gus Hall , May 1951 Containers box 1 , folder 47 "Marxism and the Negro Question" Containers box 1 , folder 48 American Negro Problems Containers box 1 , folder 49 The Struggle for Afro-American Liberation Containers box 1 , folder 50 Negro Representation Now! , by Elaine RossContainers box 1 , folder 51 The Communist Position on the Negro Question Containers box 1 , folder 52 On Certain Aspects of Bourgeois Nationalism PamphletContainers box 1 , folder 53 Negro-White Unity , by Henry Winston , February 1967 Containers box 1 , folder 54 For These Things We Fight PamphletContainers box 1 , folder 55 The Jobless Negro , by Elizabeth LawsonContainers box 1 , folder 56 Black Coal Miners in the United States , by Paul NydenContainers box 1 , folder 57 The People Versus Segregated Schools , by Doxey A. Wilkerson , February 1955 Containers box 1 , folder 58 The Jerry Newson Story... , by Buddy Green and Steve Murdock , October 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 59 Behind the Florida Bombings, Who Killed NAACP Leader Harry T. Moore and his wife? , by Joseph North , February 1952 Containers box 1 , folder 60 Behind the Lynching of Emmet Louis Till , by Louis Burnham , December 1955 Containers box 1 , folder 61 The Killing of William Milton , by Art Shields , September 1948 Containers box 1 , folder 62 Lynching and Frame-Up in Tennessee , by Robert Minor , October 1946 Containers box 1 , folder 63 Stop Police Brutality , March 1952 Containers box 1 , folder 64 The Position of Negro Women , by Eugene Gordon and Cyril Briggs , February 1935 Containers box 1 , folder 65 The Communist Part and the Emancipation of the Negro People , by Earl BrowderContainers box 1 , folder 66 "Theoretical Aspects of the Negro Question in the United States" Containers box 1 , folder 67 "Henry Winston Meets Angela Davis", by Gene Tournour Containers box 1 , folder 68 The Negro Today , by Herbert Aptheker , 1962 Containers box 1 , folder 69 The Story of Discrimination in Government PamphletContainers box 1 , folder 70 The Shadow of the South is On Our Shops! PamphletContainers box 1 , folder 71 "Who are the Friends of the Negro People?", by C.A. Hathaway Containers box 1 , folder 72 Official Proceedings of the Second All-Southern Negro Youth Conference , May 1938 Containers box 1 , folder 73 Democracy vs. Force and Violence! Containers box 1 , folder 74 "Negro Workers! White Workers! Organize and Fight Against Lynching!" Flyer , 1930 Containers box 1 , folder 75 The Communist Position on the Negro Question , February 1947 Containers box 1 , folder 76 World Problems of the Negro People Containers box 1 , folder 77 Negro Representation- A Step Towards Negro Freedom , by Pettis Perry , March 1952 Containers box 1 , folder 78 The Government Takes a Hand in the Cotton-Patch , by George Anstrom , November 1933 Containers box 1 , folder 79 The Legacy of Slavery and the Roots of Black Nationalism , by Eugene D. GenoveseContainers box 1 , folder 80 On the Struggle for Peace and Freedom , by Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.Containers box 1 , folder 81 "Call for Truth! To Silence Racist Ravings" Containers box 1 , folder 82 "Make the March a Million Strong!" Containers box 1 , folder 83 "Bibliography on the Negro Question" , June 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 84 Black Workers in Revolt Pamphlet, by Robert DudnickContainers box 1 , folder 85 The General Policy Statement and Labor Program of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers Containers box 1 , folder 86 Eldon Ave. Revolutionary Union Movement Pamphlets (2)Containers box 1 , folder 87 El Rum Pamphlets (4)Containers box 1 , folder 88 Uni Rum PamphletContainers box 1 , folder 89 Me Rum PamphletContainers box 1 , folder 90 Frum PamphletContainers box 1 , folder 91 League of Revolutionary Black Workers on Repression Speech, by Kenneth CockrelContainers box 1 , folder 92 To the Point...Of Production, An Interview with John Watson Containers box 1 , folder 93 "Core Demands to Board of Education" , September 3, 1963 Containers box 1 , folder 94 Spear: Who is James Johnson Pamphlet , 1971 Containers box 1 , folder 95 Spear , V.1, N.1 , 1969 Containers box 1 , folder 96 Drum: Wildcat Strike , 1968 Containers box 1 , folder 97 Drum: Challenge , 1968 Containers box 1 , folder 98 Drum: Drum's Candidate , 1969 Containers box 1 , folder 99 Drum: Hoover Road , 1969 Containers box 1 , folder 100 Drum: Lily White--Super Right , 1969 Containers box 1 , folder 101 Drum: The Root of Racism , 1969 Containers box 1 , folder 102 Drum: What Has Drum Done? , 1969 Containers box 1 , folder 103 Drum: All Out in the Wash , 1970 Containers box 1 , folder 104 Drum Hail James Johnson , 1970 Containers box 1 , folder 105 Drum: Walter Reuther is Dead and So is the U.A.W. Contract , 1970 Containers box 1 , folder 106 Cooley High Black Student Voice , November 5, 1970 Containers box 1 , folder 107 Black Student Voice: "Black Voice of Revolution" , 1969 Containers box 1 , folder 108 "Elect Claude Lightfoot" Flyer , 1932 Containers box 1 , folder 109 The Spirit of George Jackson Pamphlet , September 1972 Containers box 1 , folder 110 box 1 , folder 110 , unknown_item 11 Why Negroes Should oppose the War Pamphlet , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 111 Printed Invitation to 23rd Testimonial Dinner of the Los Angeles Committee for the Defense of the Bill of Rights , 1973 Containers box 1 , folder 112 Invitation to 20th Annual Banquet of the Los Angeles Committee for the Defense of the Bill of Rights , October 20, 1970 Containers box 1 , folder 113 "Save Fletcher Mills" Flyer , June 13, 1952 Containers box 1 , folder 114 Dixie Comes to New York: Story of the Freeport GI Slayings Pamphlet , 1946 Containers box 1 , folder 115 The Monroe Kidnapping Newsletter , November 1961 Containers box 1 , folder 116 Vigilante Terror in Fontana: The Tragic Story of O'Day H. Short and His Family Pamphlet , February 1946 Containers box 1 , folder 117 "From Lynch Threat to Frame-Up" Flyer Containers box 1 , folder 118 "For Immediate Release" memo , October 15 1970 Containers box 1 , folder 119 Special Report, Lunch- Counter Desegregation in Corpus Christi, Galveston, and San Antonio, Texas , by Kenneth Moreland , May 10, 1960 Containers box 1 , folder 120 Unfinished Revolution , by Tom Kahn , 1960 Containers box 1 , folder 121 From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement , by Bayard Rustin , February 1965 Containers box 1 , folder 122 Flyer advertising a demonstration referred to as the "Mass Funeral" Containers box 13 , folder 1 "Vote Negroes Into Office" Flyer Containers box 13 , folder 2 "Parade and Demonstrate" Flyer Containers box 13 , folder 3 History of the American Negro People, 1619-1918 , 1941 Containers box 13 , folder 4 "International Black Workers Congress" Draft Proposal Containers box 13 , folder 5 "Young Negro Workers! Fight Against Bosses Wars!" Flyer for youth rally Containers box 13 , folder 6 "The Negro People in the United States, Facts for all Americans" , 1953 Containers box 13 , folder 7 Inner-City Voice , April 1, 1970 Containers box 13 , folder 8 Inner-City Voice , July 15, 1970 Containers box 13 , folder 9 Inner-City Voice , November-December, 1970 Containers box 13 , folder 10 Inner-City Voice , February, 1971 Containers box 13 , folder 11 Assorted Information Regarding the Various Protests of Black Workers (Detroit Automobile Factory Workers in Particular) Containers box 13 , folder 12 Assorted Information Regarding Black Revolutionary Activities Containers box 13 , folder 13 Assorted Information Regarding Black Revolutionary Activities Containers box 13 , folder 14 Take Howard Out of the National Student Federation Containers box 13 , folder 15 A Call for a Petition Campaign and Youth March Containers box 13 , folder 16 "Guilty of Being a Negro" Containers box 13 , folder 17 Ernestine L. Rose, "Her Address on the Anniversary of West Indian Emancipation" , 1949 Containers box 13 , folder 18 Coming! W.E.B. DuBois Containers box 13 , folder 19 Los Angeles Congress of Racial Equality Active membership Bulletin Containers box 13 , folder 20 Angela Davis Newsletter Containers box 13 , folder 21 All Night Vigil , October 24, 1963 Containers box 13 , folder 22 "Free Angela Davis" Flyer , ca. 1971 Containers box 13 , folder 23 "Calendar of a Frame-Up" Flyer , 1971 Containers box 13 , folder 24 "People Against Racism" Newsletter , 1968 Containers box 13 , folder 25 "My Friends" Native Son , 1940 Containers box 13 , folder 26 "Serve The People" Black Panther Flyer , 1970 Containers box 13 , folder 27 "Don't Buy At Thriftmart" , ca. 1964 Containers box 13 , folder 28 "The Worker's Council" , June 1921 Containers box 20 , folder 65 Paul Robeson AP Wire Photos (8) , 1949-1963 Containers box 20 , folder 66 "Paul Robeson Soviet-American Friendship Rally" 1 photo , 1956 Containers box 20 , folder 67 "Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen" Brochure , September 1999 Containers box 20 , folder 68 "Scottsboro Boys Press Photos" (2) , July 1937 Containers box 20 , folder 69 "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys" Photos (3) , 1976 Containers box 20 , folder 70 "The Committee of 100": 4 letters, 3 pamphlets , 1946-1948 Containers box 20 , folder 71 US ex rel. Winnifred Lynn v. Downer" Petition to Supreme Court , 1943 Containers box 20 , folder 72 "United Front for Panther Defense" Flyer , 1970 Containers box 20 , folder 73 William Kunster Speaking for the San Quentin Six- Poster with Photo , 1971 Containers box 20 , folder 74 "Denmark Vesey: A Modern Dramatic Oratorio" Program , February 1961 Containers box 20 , folder 75 NY Peace and Freedom Party Card Containers box 20 , folder 76 "Black Caucus Report: 'Treatment of Prisoners at California Training Facility at Soledad Central"- Mimeography , July 1970 Containers box 20 , folder 77 "A Monthly Summary of Events and Trends in Race Relations" , November 1944 Containers box 20 , folder 78 "The Ingrams Shall Not Die!" Pamphlet, Harry Redmond , March 1948 Containers box 20 , folder 79 "From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement" Pamphlet, Bayard Rustin , February 1965 Containers box 20 , folder 80 "This is My Husband: Fighter for His People Political Refugee" Esther Cooper Jackson , 1953 Containers box 20 , folder 81 Detroit: Birth of a Nation" Grace and James Boggs, National Guardian , October 1967 Containers box 29 , folder 4 "Stop the Railroad of Injustice" Black Panther Poster. Containers box 29 , folder 5 Angela Davis Poster , 1971 Containers box 35 , folder 1 "Dare to Struggle. Dare to Win. RAP" Poster , ca. 1970 Containers box 35 , folder 2 "Would You Smile?" , ca. 1950 Containers box 37 , folder 1 Abolitionist Election Ticket, Liberty Party of Massechussetts , 1840s Containers box 38 , folder 1 Promotional Photos for film Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (2 prints) , 1976 Containers box 38 , folder 2 Southern Exposure, Magazine , 1980 Containers box 38 , folder 3 A Call to the Western Pennsylvania Conference on the Negro People and the Defense Program , 1941 Containers box 38 , folder 4 Scottsboro Boys Contribution Stamp , 1931-34 Containers box 38 , folder 5 Pittsburgh Afrikan Liberation Committee , 1977 Containers box 38 , folder 27 Stanton Story Defense Committee (Pittsburgh) , 1976 Containers box 38 , folder 28 Series II. Anarchists 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.
Alternative , V1, N3 , June 1948 Containers box 1 , folder 123 Alternative , V1, N6 , November 1948 Containers box 1 , folder 124 Alternative , V1, N9 , February 1949 Containers box 1 , folder 125 Alternative , V2, N1 , May-June 1949 Containers box 1 , folder 126 Alternative , V2. N2 , October 1949 Containers box 1 , folder 127 Alternative , V2. N3 , November 1949 Containers box 1 , folder 128 Alternative , V2. N6 , February 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 129 Alternative , V2. N7 , March 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 130 Anarcho-Syndicalist Review , 2007 Containers box 1 , folder 131 IMPACT, The Religious Right: Corrupting the Cross and the Constitution , 2006 Containers box 1 , folder 132 IMPACT , 2006 Containers box 1 , folder 133 Sling Shot , 2008 Containers box 1 , folder 134 Profane Existence - Issue #6 , October-November 1990 Containers box 1 , folder 135 Workers Democracy - Vol. 2 No. 3 , September 2001 Containers box 1 , folder 136 Soapbox - Vol. 7 Issue 3 , June 2007 Containers box 1 , folder 137 Slug + Lettuce - Issue #88 , Summer 2006 Containers box 1 , folder 138 Radical Def - Issue #6 , Summer 2001 Containers box 1 , folder 139 Fifth Estate - Vol. 39 No. 1 , Spring 2004 Containers box 1 , folder 140 The Insurgent - Vol. 18 No. 2 , January 2007 Containers box 1 , folder 141 Econews - Vol. 37 No. 7 , August 2007 Containers box 1 , folder 142 Libertat , Butletti interior d'informancio de la Associacio Catalana d'ex-presos politics , May-June, 1978 Containers box 13 , folder 29 Mother Earth , Vol. XI No. 3 , June 1916 Containers box 13 , folder 30 Mother Earth , Vol. XI No. 4 , July 1916 Containers box 13 , folder 31 Black Star , Vol. 1 No. 1 , ca. 1975 Containers box 13 , folder 32 The Road to Freedom Newspaper , March, 1928 Containers box 13 , folder 33 "Socialism!" Pamphlet, A.J. Starkweather and S. Robert Wilson , 1883 Containers box 20 , folder 82 "Retort" Vol. 3 No. 4 , Spring 1947 Containers box 20 , folder 83 "Slingshot" Issues 104.1 and 115 , 2010-2014 Containers box 20 , folder 84 "Anarchy and Is it All a Dream?" Pamphlet, Enrico Malatesta and James F. Morton , June 1900 Containers box 20 , folder 85 "Decentralization and Liberation in the Workplace" Greg Guma , 1976 Containers box 20 , folder 86 "Emancipation" Vol. 6 Issue 2 No. 44 , February 1983 Containers box 20 , folder 87 "The Roman Catholic Church and the Modern Age", Reprint. F.A. Ridley , 1958 Containers box 20 , folder 88 "Does God Exist?: 12 Proofs on the Inexistence of God" Sebastien Faure Containers box 20 , folder 89 "The Bolsheviks and Workers Control"- Maurice Brinton , 1970 Containers box 20 , folder 90 "Moribund Society and Anarchy"- Jean Grave and Voltarine de Cleyre , September 1899 Containers box 20 , folder 91 False Patriots, Pamphlet on right wing extremists by Southern Poverty Law Center , 1996 Containers box 38 , folder 6 Open Road Newspaper (4 Issues) , 1976-78 Containers box 38 , folder 7 Rolling Thunder Magazine , 2010 Containers box 38 , folder 8 Series III. Anti-War Propaganda 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.
"Address of Dr. Harry F. Ward American Congress for Peace and Democracy" , January 7, 1939 Containers box 1 , folder 143 "Summary of Proceedings of American Congress for Peace and Democracy" , January 13, 1939 Containers box 1 , folder 144 "Proposed Draft of Revised Constitution of the American League for Peace and Democracy for Discussion at the Congress" Containers box 1 , folder 145 The World Congress Against War , August 27-29, 1932 Containers box 1 , folder 146 The American Struggle for Peace , 1952 Containers box 1 , folder 147 A Key to Survival , by Margret Hofmann , 1962 Containers box 1 , folder 148 The Dean of Canterbury To the People of America, "We Can Keep Peace" Containers box 1 , folder 149 "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 Containers box 1 , folder 150 Southern California Peace Crusade, "Peace with Jobs!" , 1953 Containers box 1 , folder 151 "Memo from a Veteran Who's Still Fighting" Containers box 1 , folder 152 National Defense , by John Franklin , April 1936 Containers box 1 , folder 153 Which Way for Young Americans?, by Gus Hall , October 1950 Containers box 1 , folder 154 "Meet Your Local Merchant of Death", compiled By Narmic , June 1977 Containers box 1 , folder 155 "Stop Iran Iraq War, Iran-Iraq Peace Movement..." Sticker Containers box 1 , folder 156 "The Cruise Missile", by Dan Smith , 1977 Containers box 1 , folder 158 "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 Containers box 1 , folder 157 $222 Billion Dollars Containers box 1 , folder 159 Assorted Holiday Cards for Peace Containers box 1 , folder 160 "American League for Peace and Democracy Report" by Russell Thayer, Acting Executive Secretary , 1938 Containers box 1 , folder 161 Assorted Flyers Petitioning Against the Fleet of 244 B-1 Bombers Containers box 1 , folder 162 Antiwar Speak out Flyer Containers box 1 , folder 163 From Korean Truce to World Peace , by Robert MannContainers box 1 , folder 164 The American People Want Peace , A Survey of Public Opinion, by Jessica Smith , 1955 Containers box 1 , folder 165 The Atomic Arming of the West German Federal Republic- An Imminent Danger To Peac e , 1964 Containers box 1 , folder 166 Guns are Ready , by Seymour Waldman , January 1935 Containers box 1 , folder 167 How to Keep America Out of War , by Kirby Page , 1939 Containers box 1 , folder 168 The Price of Peace , by E. Guy Talbott , 1935 Containers box 1 , folder 169 "Peace- The Present Imperative" Containers box 1 , folder 170 "Black Shirt Black Skin", by Boake Carter Containers box 1 , folder 171 Military "Glory" in the Colleges, by Paul Blanshard , February 18, 1925 Containers box 1 , folder 172 The Menace of a New World War , January, 1936 Containers box 1 , folder 173 "Hell in the Heavens" , June 1931 Containers box 1 , folder 174 Selections from War Without Violence , By Krishnalal Shridharani , 1939 Containers box 1 , folder 175 "Program for Governmental Action To Keep The United States Out of War and War Out of the World" , Mid 1930's Containers box 1 , folder 176 A Call To Peace Now, A Message to the Society of Friends , by Dorothy HutchinsonContainers box 1 , folder 177 Keep America Out of War Containers box 1 , folder 178 Report to FDR , Documentary Evidence on the Origins of the Cold War , 1955 Containers box 1 , folder 179 Is Disarmament Possible? Containers box 1 , folder 180 "The United States and Disarmament" , 1931 Containers box 1 , folder 181 Drive the Snakes Out of El Salvador; St. Patrick's Day Benefit Flyer , 1981 Containers box 13 , folder 34 Peace Pipe , 1962 Containers box 13 , folder 35 "Peace Walk to the World's Fair" , May 5, 1962 Containers box 13 , folder 36 "Friends! We Need Your Help!" Containers box 13 , folder 37 Stop The U.S. War in El Salvador , March 27, 1982 Containers box 13 , folder 38 "Protest Protest Protest Kirkpatrick Visit" Flyer , April 26, 1981 Containers box 13 , folder 39 This Administration Has Declared War On Americans , 1981 Containers box 13 , folder 40 An Evening of Solidarity With The People of El Salvador , March 23 1982 Containers box 13 , folder 41 "No More Three Mile Islands U.S. Out of El Salvador" Flyer , 1981 Containers box 13 , folder 42 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1955 Containers box 20 , folder 92 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1956 Containers box 20 , folder 93 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1958 Containers box 20 , folder 94 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1959 Containers box 20 , folder 95 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1960 Containers box 20 , folder 96 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1961 Containers box 20 , folder 97 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1962 Containers box 20 , folder 98 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1963 Containers box 20 , folder 99 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1964 Containers box 20 , folder 100 War Resister's League Peace Calendar , 1965 Containers box 20 , folder 101 "Desert and Hope" Songbook , 1981 Containers box 20 , folder 102 "Peace Action of the National Council for Prevention of War" , September 1945 Containers box 20 , folder 103 "I'm an Ill Adjusted Veteran" Pamphlet, Edgar L. Jones , 1945 Containers box 20 , folder 104 "Capitol and Labor" Rev. W.S. Harris , 1907 Containers box 20 , folder 105 "Words of Conscience: Religious Statements on Conscientious Objections" , 1980 Containers box 20 , folder 106 Delegates National Assembly for Peace , 1952 Containers box 37 , folder 2 Stop U.S. Wars , ca. 2003 Containers box 35 , folder 26 "War is not the Answer" sticker Friends Committee on National Legislation Containers box 38 , folder 9 Antinuclear Weapons small cloth banner Containers box 38 , folder 10 Cloth patch, black and white, hands with dove , 1960s Containers box 38 , folder 11 Pittsburgh Peace Institute, Schedule of Courses , 1989 Containers box 38 , folder 12 Series IV. Christian Socialism 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, Ca.
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.
The Christian Socialist Newspaper Containers box 1 , folder 182 The Kingdom of God and Socialism , by Rev. Robert M. Webster , June 1903 Containers box 1 , folder 183 A Christian View of Socialism , by G.H. StrobellContainers box 1 , folder 184 The Melish Case , Challenge to the Church , 1949 Containers box 1 , folder 185 The Profits of Religion Containers box 1 , folder 186 "Peace on Earth..." , by Rev. Clarence E. Duffy, Priest of the Catholic Church , 1952 Containers box 1 , folder 187 I Saw the Morning Break, The Church of the People Containers box 1 , folder 188 A Worker Looks at Jesus , by David GrantContainers box 1 , folder 189 "Christian Pacifist Faith"- An Affirmation Containers box 1 , folder 190 A Christian Approach to Nuclear War Containers box 1 , folder 191 The Relation of Religion to Social Ethics , 1901 Containers box 1 , folder 192 Constitution of the United People's Church Containers box 1 , folder 193 United People's Church of Pittsburgh Containers box 1 , folder 194 Pamphlets by Rev. Thomas McGrady (4) , 1900-1901 Containers box 21 , folder 1 "The Industrial Evolution" Rev. Charles H. Vail , May 1899 Containers box 21 , folder 2 "The Creed of Constantine, OR the World Needs a New Religion" Henry M. Tichenor , 1916 Containers box 21 , folder 3 The Christian Socialist, vol. 5 no. 5 , March 1908 Containers box 29 , folder 6a The Christian Socialist, vol. 9 no. 36 , September 1912 Containers box 29 , folder 6b Revolutionary Essays by Peter E. Burrowes , 1903 Containers box 37 , folder 3 Series V. Citizens Party 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.
Platform of the Citizens/Consumer Party as adopted at Party Convention , April 1980 Containers box 1 , folder 195 Vote Consumer for a Change , 1980 Containers box 1 , folder 196 "Vote for a Real Alternative in 1980!" Flyer , 1980 Containers box 1 , folder 197 "John Zingaro ...a Consumer voice on City Council" Flyer , 1980 Containers box 1 , folder 198 The Citizens Party News Bulletin , June 17, 1981 Containers box 1 , folder 199 Flyer for the Consumer-Citizens Party Presidential Candidate Barry Commoner Containers box 1 , folder 200 Flyer for a Free Concert in Support of John Zingaro, the Consumer Party Candidate for Pittsburgh City Council Containers box 1 , folder 201 Flyer for Pittsburgh Consumer Party's Bastille Day Celebration Containers box 1 , folder 202 Flyer for Consumer/Citizens Party , 1978 Containers box 1 , folder 203 Consumer Party 1980 Campaign Flyer Containers box 1 , folder 204 Pittsburgh Consumer Party Candidate Pamphlet and Membership Application , 1980 Containers box 21 , folder 4 Sticker for Commoner-Harris ticket , 1980 Containers box 38 , folder 13 Consumer Party Flyer , 1980s Containers box 38 , folder 14 Series VI. Communists and Civil Liberties 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.
Treason in Congress , The Record of the Un-American Activities Committee, by Albert E. KahnContainers box 1 , folder 205 The Schneiderman Case , United States Supreme Court Opinion with an Introduction by Carol King , August 1943 Containers box 1 , folder 206 Documents Regarding Harry F. Ward from the Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities Containers box 2 , folder 1 Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities , House of Representatives, Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session , 1957 Containers box 2 , folder 2 Democracy, Civil Rights and Liberty in Connecticut , by Daniel Howard , 1958 Containers box 2 , folder 3 The Mine Mill Conspiracy Case , by Sidney LensContainers box 2 , folder 4 "Democracy Should Begin At Home" Containers box 2 , folder 5 America's Thought Police , October 1947 Containers box 2 , folder 6 "Happy Birthday" Postcard Issued by the National Conference to Win Amnesty for Smith Act Victims Containers box 2 , folder 7 Freedoms and Foreign Policy , by Owen LattimoreContainers box 2 , folder 8 Amnesty! , by Marion Bachrach , December 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 9 What Everyone Should Know About the "Bill of Rights" and other Constitutional Guarantees of Individual Freedom , A Scriptographic Study Unit , 1969 Containers box 2 , folder 10 Censored News Of Your America , Will America Become a Land of Whispers? , September 1950 Containers box 2 , folder 11 Citizens Without Rights Containers box 2 , folder 12 What Kind of Teachers for your Child , The Facts Behind the Suspension of 8 Excellent Teachers , May 1950 Containers box 2 , folder 13 The Right to Travel , by Corliss Lamont , 1957 Containers box 2 , folder 14 The Case of the Stubborn Editor Containers box 2 , folder 15 Note of Resignation to the Belamy Club from Edith Rickard Containers box 2 , folder 16 "A Dangerous Woman", Stella Petrosky Held for Deportation , by Sprad , June 1936 Containers box 2 , folder 17 What Political Prisoners Do We Defend? PamphletContainers box 2 , folder 18 The Bill of Rights in Danger! , by Robert W. Dunn , January 1940 Containers box 2 , folder 19 Civil Liberties in the U.S.A. , A Short History of the Origin and Defense of the Bill of Rights, by S. SmallContainers box 2 , folder 20 The Big Plot , Proof of the Justice Department's Plan to Jail 21, 105 AmericansContainers box 2 , folder 21 Fellow Citizens: Our husbands are in prison!... Containers box 2 , folder 22 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 Containers box 2 , folder 23 The Twelve and You , What Happens to Democracy is your business, too!, by Elizabeth Gurley FlynnContainers box 2 , folder 24 "Is This What Truman Means By Civil Rights!" Containers box 2 , folder 25 Due Process in a Political Trial , The Record vs. The PressContainers box 2 , folder 26 The Reign of Witches , The Struggle Against the Alien and Sedition Laws, by Elizabeth Lawson , 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 27 Red Tape and Barbed Wire , by Sender Garlin , 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 28 In Danger , The Right to Speak for Peace, by Harold SpencerContainers box 2 , folder 29 "The Persecution of Oleta O'Connor Yates" Containers box 2 , folder 30 Patriotism against McCarthyism Containers box 2 , folder 31 "Turn Informer or Go to Jail! Which Choice Would You Make?, Oleata O'Connor Yates Made Hers!" Containers box 2 , folder 32 Books on Trial , The Case of Alexander Trachtenberg , 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 33 Greet the New Year with the L.A. Committee for Protection of Foreign Born Containers box 2 , folder 34 "Summary and Analysis of Important Features of the Alien Registration Act of 1940, Smith Act" , November 3, 1951 Containers box 2 , folder 35 "Supreme Court of the United States" Pamphlet Containers box 2 , folder 36 The Case of Carl Marzani Containers box 2 , folder 37 "It Can Happen to You" Flyer Containers box 2 , folder 38 "Jailed for Fighting Franco, Free Them!" Containers box 2 , folder 39 "In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1948, No. ........" Containers box 2 , folder 40 "The 13th Juror, The Inside Story of My Trial, A Dramatic Revelation", by Steve Nelson Containers box 2 , folder 41 "S.F. No. 16,935 In the Supreme Court of the State of California" Containers box 2 , folder 42 600 Prominent Americans Ask President to Rescind Biddle Decision , 1942 Containers box 2 , folder 43 The Walter- McCarran Law , Extracts From Testimony Before President's Commission on Immigration & NaturalizationContainers box 2 , folder 44 Man Bites Dog , Report of an Unusual Hearing before the McCarran CommitteeContainers box 2 , folder 45 The People Vs. McCarthyism , The Case Against the McCarran Act, by John AbtContainers box 2 , folder 46 Mandel Vs. McCarthyism Containers box 2 , folder 47 Only the People Can Decide Containers box 2 , folder 48 Rights , Un-American Activities Committee Acts Unconstitutionally , October 1959 Containers box 2 , folder 49 Report of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on Judiciary Pertaining to Loyalty Oaths , March 1959 Containers box 2 , folder 50 Hate Groups and the Un-American Activities Committee , by David Wesley , 1962 Containers box 2 , folder 51 For Abolition of the Inquisitorial Committees of Congress Containers box 2 , folder 52 "When Conscience Speaks" Containers box 2 , folder 53 "The Bill of Rights and The Mundt-Ferguson Bills", An Analysis of the Provisions and Opinion on their Constitutionality Containers box 2 , folder 54 Vengeance of the Young , The Story of the Smith Act Children, by Albert E. Kahn , June 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 55 The People's Case , The Story of the IWO, by Albert E. Kahn , 1951 Containers box 2 , folder 56 Creeping McCarthyism: Its Threat to Church, School and Press , 1953 Containers box 2 , folder 57 The Crime Against Jean Field , by Albert E. Kahn , February, 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 58 Is a Fair Trial Possible at the Hands of Federal Juries Containers box 2 , folder 59 Scholar and School- New Targets for Bigotry Containers box 2 , folder 60 Shall Freedom of Speech Apply to all Americans? Containers box 2 , folder 61 Not Guilty! , The Case of Claude Lightfoot , June 1955 Containers box 2 , folder 62 The Strange Trial of Stanley Nowak , by Conrad Komorowski , December 1954 Containers box 2 , folder 63 McCarthy on Trial , 1954 Containers box 2 , folder 64 "Remove the Dagger! From the Heart of the Bill of Rights" Containers box 2 , folder 65 Elizabeth Bentley and Her Role in the Attack on the New Deal Containers box 2 , folder 66 "Defend the Bill of Rights Rally" Flyer Containers box 2 , folder 67 An Open Letter to the American People Containers box 2 , folder 68 Morton Sorbell, Prisoner on Our Conscience , A Newspaper to Secure Justice in the Case of Morton Sorbell , November 1956 Containers box 2 , folder 69 Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1952, No. 687, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg vs. United States of America Containers box 2 , folder 70 Flyer Instructing Communists to Take Action Against Los Angeles City Councilman Davenport Containers box 2 , folder 71 Exile , The Story of David HyunContainers box 2 , folder 72 Scholar and School- New Targets for Bigotry Containers box 2 , folder 73 Why Did They Fire My Teacher? Containers box 2 , folder 74 In the Shadow of Liberty , The Inhumanity of the Walter- McCarran Law, by Abner Green , September 1954 Containers box 2 , folder 75 Can Americans Tolerate Prison for Ideas? Pamphlet with Accompanying Letter , April 1954 Containers box 2 , folder 76 "Journal for 1956, Published for the 6th Annual Conference to Repeal the Walter-McCarran Law and Defend its Victims" , April 7, 1956 Containers box 2 , folder 77 End Exile Containers box 2 , folder 78 "An Open Letter to the American People" Containers box 2 , folder 79 The Rape of the First Amendment , by Alexander L. CrosbyContainers box 2 , folder 80 Free American's from the McCarran Act Danger! , by Gus HallContainers box 2 , folder 81 End McCarrasnism on this we Stand Together Containers box 2 , folder 82 The McCarran Act, Fact and Fancy , by Elizabeth Gurley FlynnContainers box 2 , folder 83 "...And What Can We Say to Gus Polites?, We Need a Statute of Limitation!" Containers box 2 , folder 84 "Facts and Opinions McCarran Internal Security Act" Pamphlet Containers box 2 , folder 85 "Rules and Procedures for the Walk for the Bill of Rights" Flyer Containers box 2 , folder 86 "Defend Academic Freedom: Stop McCarthyism Now!", A Statement on Academic Freedom Week by the Labor Youth League Containers box 2 , folder 87 Burlington Dynamite Plot , by Walt PickardContainers box 2 , folder 88 Letters from the Tombs , by Morris U. Schappes , 1941 Containers box 2 , folder 89 The Case of Claude Lightfoot Containers box 2 , folder 90 We Accuse McCarthyism , February 1954 Containers box 2 , folder 91 The Heat is On! Containers box 2 , folder 92 Loyalty Oath, If We Remain Silent... Containers box 2 , folder 93 Smear and Run...An Un-American Activity Containers box 2 , folder 94 Who's Unamerican! , July 1947 Containers box 2 , folder 95 "CRC Monthly News Letter Exclusively for CRC Member" , November 1950 Containers box 2 , folder 96 "Let Freedom Ring for Earl Browder", by Carl Ross , February 1942 Containers box 2 , folder 97 "Earl Browder Takes His Case to the People" , January 1940 Containers box 2 , folder 98 "An Open Letter to J. Howard McGrath", Attorney General of the United States , 1951 Containers box 2 , folder 99 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 Containers box 2 , folder 100 "The Smith Act", New Conspiracy Against American Labor Containers box 2 , folder 101 Report on the Denial of Labor and Civil Rights in Hudson County, New Jersey , February 1937 Containers box 2 , folder 102 A Letter to Congress: Defeat the Anti-Labor Smith Bill!, by William Z. Foster , June 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 103 The Smith ...McCarran...Taft-Hartley Conspiracy to Strangle Labor , by George Morris , October 1951 Containers box 2 , folder 104 The Smith Act- A Threat to Labor Containers box 2 , folder 105 "It is Later Than You Think..." A Solemn Warning and Appeal to the People of Los Angeles County! Containers box 2 , folder 106 13 Communists Speak to the Court , March 1953 Containers box 2 , folder 107 McCarthyism and the Big Lie , by Milton Howard , November 1953 Containers box 2 , folder 108 Courage is Contagious , The Bill of Rights versus The Un-American Activities Committee , 1953 Containers box 2 , folder 109 Either the Constitution or the Mundt Bill, America Can't Have Both! , by Simon W. Gerson , June 1950 Containers box 2 , folder 110 In Defense of the Communist Party and the Indicted Leaders , by William Z. Foster , July 1949 Containers box 2 , folder 111 "Don't Let it Happen Here", A Call to the American People Containers box 2 , folder 112 "Communists Trial Defendants Join Picket Line" Photograph , June 7 1949 Containers box 2 , folder 113 The Twelve and You, What Happens to Democracy is Your Business, too !, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , September 1948 Containers box 2 , folder 114 "To Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case" Pamphlet , 1951 Containers box 2 , folder 115 "An Appeal for Clemency" Pamphlet , 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 116 Mercy for the Rosenbergs Flyer , 1952 Containers box 2 , folder 117 "Fact Sheet in the Rosenberg Case" Pamphlet , 1953 Containers box 2 , folder 118 "The Nelson Case: State Sedition Laws are Weapons of Anti-Labor, Anti-Negro, Anti-Semitic Repression" Leaflet , May 1955 Containers box 2 , folder 119 "Defend Academic Freedom! A Statement on Academic Freedom Week by the Labor Youth League" Pamphlet , 1955 Containers box 2 , folder 120 Rights , V.1 N.10 , June 1954 Containers box 2 , folder 121 McCarthyism in the Courts: the story of the Steve Nelson Frame-up Pamphlet , 1951 Containers box 2 , folder 122 "Constitution of the International Labor Defense" Containers box 2 , folder 123 Ten Years of Labor Defense , by Sasha Small , 1953 Containers box 2 , folder 124 Labor Research Association's Monthly Labor Notes , August 1938 Containers box 2 , folder 125 Night Riders in Gallup , by Louis Colman , May 1935 Containers box 2 , folder 126 Friedel Rosenthal, U.S. Hostage in Germany , by James C. Bilotta with Accompanying Letter from the AuthorContainers box 2 , folder 127 We Want Drastic Revision or Outright Repeal of the Racist & Discriminatory Walter-McCarran Law By the 85th Congress! , April 6, 1957 Containers box 2 , folder 128 "Fight the Blacklist!" Flyer Containers box 2 , folder 129 "Conference of Inquiry", Source Material for Panel Discussion Containers box 13 , folder 43 "Happy 50th Birthday George Black Charney" Postcard Containers box 21 , folder 5 "An Open Letter To and About Alger Hiss" , 1966 Containers box 21 , folder 6 "Special International Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rights of Political Prisoners of War in United States Prison and Jails" , 1990 Containers box 21 , folder 7 "On Dec. 26, 1948 Carl Winter Spoke and Jimmy Zarichny Listened" Containers box 21 , folder 8 "They Gave Their Freedom!" Rose Baron , 1935 Containers box 21 , folder 9 "The Individual and the State: The Problem as Presented by the Sentencing of Roger N. Baldwin" , November 1918 Containers box 21 , folder 10 "American Deportation and Exclusion Laws" Report , January 1919 Containers box 21 , folder 11 "The Frightened Giant" Cedric Belfrage , 1957 Containers box 21 , folder 12 "The Right of Asylum" Charles Recht , 1935 Containers box 21 , folder 13 "The Communist Trial: An American Crossroads" George Marion , 1949 Containers box 21 , folder 14 "Smith Act Trial Reports" 26 Issues , April 1952- January 1953 Containers box 21 , folder 15 "Letters From Prison" Eugene Dennis , 1956 Containers box 21 , folder 16 "If You Have Nothing to Hide..." Kentuckians Against KUAC , 1968 Containers box 37 , folder 4 Important Actions of UE's 13th International Convention , 1948 Containers box 37 , folder 5 Union Book Club Flyer , ca. 1940s-1950s Containers box 37 , folder 6 "Their Offense: Fighting For The People!" Flyer , 1951 Containers box 37 , folder 7 "One Step Leads to Another..." Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 8 "What's a Mugwump?" Flyer Containers box 37 , folder 9 "A Law to Gag and Control the American People" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 10 UE Flyers Containers box 37 , folder 11 "Here's How it Works - From Official United States Government Documents" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 12 "Why Politicians Red-Bait" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 13 "What Are They Really After?" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 14 Flyer protesting proposed anti-communist LA ordinance , 1950 Containers box 38 , folder 15 Series VII. Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 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.
"Labor Committee Report" Containers box 2 , folder 130 What is the New Deal? , by Earl BrowderContainers box 2 , folder 131 Dimensions Volume 1 Number 1, Discussion Journal of the W.E.B. Dubois ClubsContainers box 2 , folder 132 United We Stand for Peace and Socialism , by Gil Green , 1935 Containers box 2 , folder 133 Puerto Rico- 'Island Paradise' of U.S. Imperialism , by Patricia Bell , February 1967 Containers box 2 , folder 134 The Crime of El Fanguito An Open Letter to President Truman on Puerto Rico, by William Z. Foster , April 1948 Containers box 2 , folder 135 Report of the Fifth National Convention of the Young Communist League of U.S.A. Containers box 2 , folder 136 No Jobs Today, A Story of a Young Worker in Pictures , by Phil BardContainers box 2 , folder 137 Peace or War, The People against the Warmakers! , by Eugene Dennis , May 1946 Containers box 2 , folder 138 New Program of the CPUSA , 1966 Containers box 2 , folder 139 Reconversion , by George Morris , September 1945 Containers box 2 , folder 140 The Menace of American Imperialism , by William Z. Foster , October 1945 Containers box 2 , folder 141 The Crisis of U.S. Capitalism and the Fight-Back , Gus HallContainers box 2 , folder 142 The Meaning of the 9-Party Communist Conference , by William Z. Foster , November 1947 Containers box 2 , folder 143 Horizons of the Future, For a Socialist America , by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , December 1959 Containers box 2 , folder 144 The American Way to Jobs, Peace, Equal Rights and Democracy , September 1954 Containers box 2 , folder 145 The Communist Party & How it Works, A Hand Book on its Organization & Functioning , March 1976 Containers box 2 , folder 146 "Forge Fighting Unity Against the Wall Street Warmakers and the Exploiters of the Southern Masses", by Jim Jackson , 1950 Containers box 2 , folder 147 The Constitution and By-Laws of the Communist Party of the United States of America , August 1938 Containers box 2 , folder 148 "History Will be Made at the Stadium Sun., Sept. 24th" Containers box 2 , folder 149 "On Certain Aspects of Bourgeois Nationalism" Pamphlet Containers box 2 , folder 150 "An American People's Program to End Poverty and Unemployment in the U.S.", Economic Program of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Containers box 2 , folder 151 Economic Crises Containers box 2 , folder 152 Proceedings (Abridged) of the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A. , May 1957 Containers box 2 , folder 153 What is Socialism? , by Ernst FischerContainers box 2 , folder 154 Thesis and Resolutions for the Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party of U.S.A. , by Central Committee PlenumContainers box 2 , folder 155 "Congressional Election Platform of the Communist Party" Containers box 2 , folder 156 Acceptance Speeches Containers box 2 , folder 157 "Vote Straight Communist" Containers box 2 , folder 158 "Smash the Bosses Hunger Program", Fight for Unemployment Insurance, Cleveland Communist Election Platform, I.O. Ford for Mayor Containers box 2 , folder 159 How to Make Your Vote Count , The Communist Position on the Issues and Candidates in the 1948 Elections, by George Morris , October 1948 Containers box 2 , folder 160 "Southside Election Rally" Containers box 2 , folder 161 "Workers of Hamtrack Vote Communist- Against Hunger and Fascism" Containers box 2 , folder 162 "The Platform of the Class Struggle", National Platform of the Workers (Communist) Party , 1928 Containers box 3 , folder 1 "Vote for John Makowski", Communist Candidate for Council- Ward 21 Containers box 3 , folder 2 Vote Communist Workers of the World United, "Congressional Platform of the Communist Party , 1934 Containers box 3 , folder 3 "Support the People's Cause..." Containers box 3 , folder 4 "McCarthyism and the New Jersey Elections" Containers box 3 , folder 5 "1948 Election Platform of the Communist Party" , 1948 Containers box 3 , folder 6 "1952 Election Platform of the Communist Party" , 1952 Containers box 3 , folder 7 "The Communist Election Platform 1936" , 1936 Containers box 3 , folder 8 "What the People of Texas Need", The Communist Program for the Lone Star State Containers box 3 , folder 9 "The 1940 Elections, How the People Can Win", By Earl Browder , May, 1939 Containers box 3 , folder 10 "America Needs Earl Browder", By A.B. Magil Containers box 3 , folder 11 "Milestones in the History of the Communist Party", By Alex Bittelman , August, 1937 Containers box 3 , folder 12 "How Can We Share the Wealth?", The Communist Way Versus Huey Long, By Alex Bittelman , April, 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 13 "An Open Letter to all the Members of the Communist Party" Containers box 3 , folder 14 "Labor and Anti- Semitism", By George Morris , May, 1953 Containers box 3 , folder 15 "A Brief History of U.S. Asian Labor", By Karl Yoneda Containers box 3 , folder 16 "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 Containers box 3 , folder 17 "Delegate, Special Convention Communist Party, U.S.A., July 4-7, 1968" Containers box 3 , folder 18 "Religion and Communism", By Earl Browder , June, 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 19 "Talks to America", By Earl Browder , February, 1937 Containers box 3 , folder 20 "Social and National Security", By Earl Browder , December, 1938 Containers box 3 , folder 21 "An American People's Program to End Poverty and Unemployment in the U.S.", Economic Program of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Containers box 3 , folder 22 "Passage to Progress", The '64 Election Mandate and the Road Ahead , December, 1964 Containers box 3 , folder 23 "A Communist Talks to Students" , March, 1964 Containers box 3 , folder 24 "Youth Demands Peace", By James Lerner Containers box 3 , folder 25 "The Philosophy of Communism", By James E. Jackson , 1963 Containers box 3 , folder 26 "Invitation to Join the Communist Party", By Robert Minor , February, 1943 Containers box 3 , folder 27 "In Defense of the Communist Party", Guide for Study and Discussion of William Z. Foster's Pamphlet , August, 1949 Containers box 3 , folder 28 "The Truth About Father Coughlin", By A.B. Magil , 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 29 "Policy for Victory", By Earl Browder , May, 1943 Containers box 3 , folder 30 "Coal Miners and the War", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , August, 1942 Containers box 3 , folder 31 "Life in the U.S. Army", By Walter Trumbull Containers box 3 , folder 32 "Youth Serves the Nation", By Max Weiss , February, 1942 Containers box 3 , folder 33 "Youth for Victory in 1943", By Max Weiss , February, 1943 Containers box 3 , folder 34 "Fight for Your Future Now!", By Max Weiss , November, 1942 Containers box 3 , folder 35 "Peace or War, The People against the Warmakers!", By Eugene Dennis , May, 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 36 "The Year of Great Decision, 1942", By Robert Minor , May, 1942 Containers box 3 , folder 37 "The MacArthur Ouster", By Eugene Dennis Containers box 3 , folder 38 "Intellectuals and the War", By V.J. Jerome , "Intellectuals and the War", By V.J. Jerome Containers box 3 , folder 39 "Two Questions on Winning the War", By Roy Hudson , May, 1942 Containers box 3 , folder 40 "The Trade Unions and the War", By William Z. Foster , June, 1912 Containers box 3 , folder 41 "What's What About the War", Questions and Answers, By William Z. Foster , July, 1940 Containers box 3 , folder 42 "Quarantine the War Mongers", By William Z. Foster , November, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 43 "May Day Anti-War Rally" Flyer , 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 44 "Make the Democrats Keep Their Promises" , June, 1933 Containers box 3 , folder 45 "Youth Confronts the Blue Eagle", By Gil Green Containers box 3 , folder 46 Complete Schedule of Classes at the California Labor School Containers box 3 , folder 47 "How to Win Jobs!", By Leonard Sparks Containers box 3 , folder 48 "Labor and the Menace of Goldwaterism", By George Morris , September, 1964 Containers box 3 , folder 49 "Industrial Slavery- Roosevelt's 'New Deal'", By I. Amter , July, 1933 Containers box 3 , folder 50 "The Trotskyite Fifth Column in the Labor Movement", By George Morris , January, 1945 Containers box 3 , folder 51 "Company Unions Today", By Robert W. Dunn , 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 52 "Labor and the Marshall Plan", By William Z. Foster , March, 1948 Containers box 3 , folder 53 "Reaction Beats Its War Drums", By William Z. Foster , May, 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 54 "Smash Hitler's Spring Offensive Now!", By William Z. Foster , March, 1942 Containers box 3 , folder 55 "Why Work for Nothing?", By Herman Schendel , 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 56 "The People and the Congress", William Z. Foster , February, 1943 Containers box 3 , folder 57 "Should Americans Back the Marshall Plan?", Joseph Starobin , February, 1948 Containers box 3 , folder 58 "The Farmer's Way Out", Life Under a Worker's and Farmer's Government, By John Barnett , June, 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 59 "Work for all or Unemployment" Containers box 3 , folder 60 "Illinois Needs a Farmer- Labor Party", By Morris H. Childs Containers box 3 , folder 61 "Industrial Insurance: A Snare for Workers", By Mort and E.A. Gilbert , 1936 Containers box 3 , folder 62 "How to Fight High Prices", By Louise Mitchell , November, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 63 "Where to Begin?", How to Build a Mass Young Communist League, By F. Fuerenberg Containers box 3 , folder 64 "Americans of Foreign Birth in the War Program for Victory", By Hon. Earl G. Harrison Containers box 3 , folder 65 "Reconversion", Security or Crisis, By Allan Ross Containers box 3 , folder 66 "World-Wide Unemployment", 20,000,000 Unemployed Containers box 3 , folder 67 San Francisco Conference Pamphlet Containers box 3 , folder 68 Clarity , Notes on the National Question , September, 1944 Containers box 3 , folder 69 "Schools and the Crisis", By Rex David , 1934 Containers box 3 , folder 70 "Poverty 'Midst Riches, Why We Demand Unemployment Insurance" Containers box 3 , folder 71 "The History of May Day", By Alexander Trachtenberg (3) , 1935, 1937, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 72 "May Day", 1886: 8 Hour Work Day, 1959:6 Hour Work Day , 1959 Containers box 3 , folder 73 "Appalachia U.S.A.", A Study in Poverty, By George Meyers Containers box 3 , folder 74 "How's Your Health?", The Fight for a National Health Program, By Robert Friedman , February, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 75 "Broaden the Fight for Peace and Democracy!", By Joseph Rockman , September, 1952 Containers box 3 , folder 76 "Fight! Don't Starve!", Demands for Unemployment Insurance Made Upon the United States Congress Containers box 3 , folder 77 "On the Struggle Against Revisionism" , January, 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 78 "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Solider-for Wall Street", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , February, 1940 Containers box 3 , folder 79 "Unemployment Insurance", The Burning Issue of the Day, By Earl Browder , April, 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 80 "20th Century Methods!" Pamphlet Containers box 3 , folder 81 "A Democratic Way Out of the Crisis in Education", A Program for Resolving the Crisis in the New York City Public School System Containers box 3 , folder 82 Educational Bulletin , March, 1956 Containers box 3 , folder 83 "Your Questions Answered", On Politics, Peace, Economics, Fascism, Anti-Semitism, Race Prejudice, Religion, Trade Unionism, Americanism, Democracy, Socialism, Communism, By William Z. Foster , 1939 Containers box 3 , folder 84 "Your Questions Answered", On Politics, Peace, Economics, Fascism, Anti-Semitism, Race Prejudice, Religion, Trade Unionism, Americanism, Democracy, Socialism, Communism, By William Z. Foster: 1939 "Heroines", By Sasha Small Containers box 3 , folder 85 "Everybody Can Be Rich- and Still Be Honest!", The Bread-And-Butter Facts of Life, By Jim West Containers box 3 , folder 86 "What Price Profits?", By Max Weiss , April, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 87 "March for Peace May 1st 1952", United Labor and People's Committee for May Day , 1952 Containers box 3 , folder 88 "The Real Father Coughlin", By A.B. Magil , May, 1939 Containers box 3 , folder 89 "More Agitation, More Propaganda!, By E. Fisher Containers box 3 , folder 90 "Smash Michigan's Fifth Column!" , August, 1942 Containers box 3 , folder 91 "White Guard Terrorists in the U.S.A.", By Leon Dennen Containers box 3 , folder 92 "The Black Legion Rides", By George Morris , August, 1936 Containers box 3 , folder 93 "Texas Survey" Pamphlet Containers box 3 , folder 94 "Here's to Health!" , 1938-1939 Containers box 3 , folder 95 "Hold That Rent Ceiling", By Louise Mitchell , January, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 96 "America's Housing Crisis", By Louise Mitchell , May, 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 97 "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 Containers box 3 , folder 98 "How Mellon Got Rich", By Harvey O'Connor , 1933 Containers box 3 , folder 99 "The Truth About the MTA", By Daniel B. Schirmer Containers box 3 , folder 100 Sales, Tax is Robbery!, Mass Action Will Force Its Repeal Containers box 3 , folder 101 "The Elections and the Outlook for National Unity", By Eugene Dennis , December, 1944 Containers box 3 , folder 102 "Where Do We Go From Here?", By "Americus" , November 6, 1948 Containers box 3 , folder 103 "The Watson-Parker Law", The Latest Scheme to Hamstring Railroad Unionism, By William Z. Foster , 1927 Containers box 3 , folder 104 "This is Treason!", By Sol Vail Containers box 3 , folder 105 "Housecleaning by Labor, Not Housewrecking by Congress" Containers box 3 , folder 106 "The American Way to Jobs, Peace, Democracy" , May, 1954 Containers box 3 , folder 107 "Democracy in Danger", By Mary Collins , September, 1938 Containers box 3 , folder 108 "The Case Against David Dubinsky", By William Weinstone , June, 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 109 "Freedom Begins at Home", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , July, 1961 Containers box 3 , folder 110 "The Menace of Opportunism", By Max Bedacht Containers box 3 , folder 111 "The Rankin Witch Hunt", By William Z. Foster , December, 1945 Containers box 3 , folder 112 "Science and Life", By J.G. Crowther , 1938 Containers box 3 , folder 113 "Is Anybody Pushing You Around?" Containers box 3 , folder 114 "The American Holiday, May Day 1939", By Jane Filley , April, 1939 Containers box 3 , folder 115 "William Z. Foster, An Appreciation", By Joseph North , 1955 Containers box 3 , folder 116 "I Challenge the Un-Americans", By Eugene Dennis , May, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 117 "My Side of the Story", The Statement the Newspapers Refused to Print, By Gerhart Eisler , March, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 118 "DEBS and DENNIS, Fighters for Peace", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , October, 1950 Containers box 3 , folder 119 "Stool-Pigeon", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , July, 1949 Containers box 3 , folder 120 "Food Prices and Rationing", By Louise Mitchell , January, 1943 Containers box 3 , folder 121 "Jews and the National Question", By Hyman Levy , 1958 Containers box 3 , folder 122 "Jews in Action" Containers box 3 , folder 123 "The Jewish People and the War", By Earl Browder , May, 1940 Containers box 3 , folder 124 "The C.I.O. Today", By George Morris , March, 1950 Containers box 3 , folder 125 "World Capitalism and World Socialism", By William Z. Foster , March, 1941 Containers box 3 , folder 126 "The 'Foreign Agent' Hoax Exposed" , April 4, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 127 "Hamtrack Municipal Election of 1934" Pamphlet , 1934 Containers box 3 , folder 128 "In the Dungeons of Mussolini", By Carlo Rossi , March, 1936 Containers box 3 , folder 129 Peoples Educational Center Directory (Spring) , 1945 Containers box 3 , folder 130 "Facts About Gerald L. K. Smith" , June 26, 1944 Containers box 3 , folder 131 "Resolution on the Path to Native American Indian Liberation , December, 1979 Containers box 3 , folder 132 "The Working Class and the Nation" and "Changes in Bourgeois Nationalism", By Peter Weiden , 1938, 1939 Containers box 3 , folder 133 "It's You They're After!" Containers box 3 , folder 134 "The Foreign Born in the United States", By Dwight C. Morgan , 1936 Containers box 3 , folder 135 YCL Pacesetter , August, 1939 Containers box 3 , folder 136 "In Flanders Field...", By Mac Weiss , May, 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 137 "Nazis Preferred", The Renazification of Western Germany, By Moses Miller , June, 1950 Containers box 3 , folder 138 "Pattern for American Fascism", By John L. Spivak , September, 1947 Containers box 3 , folder 139 "Post-War Jobs for Veterans, Negroes, and Women", By Roy Hudson , November, 1944 Containers box 3 , folder 140 Pamphlet About Reuben W. Borough Containers box 3 , folder 141 "The U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., War Allies and Friends", By William Z. Foster , October, 1942 Containers box 3 , folder 142 "The Fight Against Hitlerism", By William Z. Foster and Robert Minor , July, 1941 Containers box 3 , folder 143 "The Menace of a New World War", By William Z. Foster , March, 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 144 "The 'Free' Press", Portrait of a Monopoly, By George Marion , June, 1946 Containers box 3 , folder 145 "New Program of the Communist Party USA", The People versus Corporate Power , January, 1982 Containers box 3 , folder 146 A Pamphlet for the Communist Party Presidential Candidate Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner for Vice President Containers box 3 , folder 147 A Flyer for the American Youth Congress Citizenship Institute in Washington, D.C. Containers box 3 , folder 148 "Programme of the Young Communist International" Containers box 3 , folder 149 "Program of the Communist International" , December, 1929 Containers box 3 , folder 150 The Communist , June 12, 1920 Containers box 3 , folder 151 "The Truth About the American Youth Congress", By Arthur Clifford , 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 152 "15th National Student Congress, August 19- August 30, 1962" Containers box 3 , folder 153 "Our Generation Will Not Be Silent!" , September, 1953 Containers box 3 , folder 154 "You've Got a Right", Defending Democracy, By Sasha Small , 1938 Containers box 3 , folder 155 "American Youth Acts", The Story of the American Youth Congress, By William W. Hinckley Containers box 3 , folder 156 "How Fare Youth?", By Tom Dennison Containers box 3 , folder 157 "Towards An American Student Union" "Students Take A Stand", An Account of Student Conferences in Washington During Christmas Week, 1933 Containers box 4 , folder 1 "Building a Militant Student Movement", Program of the National Student League Containers box 4 , folder 2 "The American Youth Congress", What It Is, How It Works Containers box 4 , folder 3 "For a New Youth Organization Dedicated to Education in the Spirit of Socialism!", by Leon Wofsy Containers box 4 , folder 4 "Our Generation is in Danger" Containers box 4 , folder 5 "Youth Fights for Peace, Jobs, Civil Rights" Containers box 4 , folder 6 "Youth Demands a Peaceful World", Report of the Second World Youth Congress Containers box 4 , folder 7 "Children Under Capitalism", By Grace Hutchins , 1933 Containers box 4 , folder 8 "Dust Off Your Dreams", The Story of American Youth for Democracy Containers box 4 , folder 9 "Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States of America" , July, 1975 Containers box 4 , folder 10 "Class Unity, All-People's Unity- The Only Way", By Gus Hall , August, 1987 Containers box 4 , folder 11 "Program For Victory" NY State Communist Party Election Platform , 1942 Containers box 4 , folder 12 Sedition! To Protest and Organize against War Hunger and Unemployment , By J. Louis Engdahl , 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 13 The Kodak Worker , V.1, N. 6 , July 1928 Containers box 4 , folder 14 The Kodak Worker , V.1, N. 8 , September 1928 Containers box 4 , folder 15 The Kodak Worker , V.1, N.11 , January-February 1929 Containers box 4 , folder 16 "The Crisis in the Socialist Party", By William Z. Foster , November, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 17 "The Path to Peace, Progress and Prosperity" Containers box 4 , folder 18 "Take a Stand for Peace, Jobs & Equality" , June, 1982 Containers box 4 , folder 19 "The Reds in Dixie", Who Are the Communists and What Do They Fight For in the South?, By Tom Johnson , March, 1935 Containers box 4 , folder 20 "The Challenge to Labor" , March, 1960 Containers box 4 , folder 21 "New Program of the Communist Party U.S.A." , Ma, 1970 Containers box 4 , folder 22 "Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States of America" , April, 1957 Containers box 4 , folder 23 "On the Road to Bolshevization" , 1929 Containers box 4 , folder 24 "AFL Upsurge Challenges Policies of Old Guard", By Leon Kaplan , April 18-19, 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 25 "Security with FDR", By Vito Marcantonio , September, 1944 Containers box 4 , folder 26 "The Real Huey P. Long", By Sender Garlin , May, 1935 Containers box 4 , folder 27 "The Big Tax Swindle and How to Stop It", An Analysis and Program for Action , May, 1969 Containers box 4 , folder 28 "Who are the Americans?", By Earl Browder , July, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 29 "Unite for Peace, Negro Freedom, Labor's Advance, Socialism", Resolutions of the 18th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A. , 1967 Containers box 4 , folder 30 "Shall the Communist Party Change Its Name?" , February, 1944 Containers box 4 , folder 31 "Teheran and America", By Earl Browder , January, 1944 Containers box 4 , folder 32 "Teheran, Our Path in War and Peace", By Earl Browder , 1944 Containers box 4 , folder 33 "Draft Resolution for the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A.", Adopted Sept. 13, 1956 , September, 1956 Containers box 4 , folder 34 "The United States in Crisis- The Communist Solution" , September, 1969 Containers box 4 , folder 35 "Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States of America" , October, 1948 Containers box 4 , folder 36 "Constitution of the Communist Political Association" Containers box 4 , folder 37 "Draft Main Political Resolution", An Assessment and a Production , January, 1969 Containers box 4 , folder 38 "What New York State Needs", By The Communist Political Association of New York State Containers box 4 , folder 39 "Let's Pull Together for Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace", By Carl Ross , September, 1938 Containers box 4 , folder 40 "The American Way to Jobs, Peace, and Democracy", Draft Program of the Communist Party , March, 1954 Containers box 4 , folder 41 "What America Faces", The New War Danger and the Struggle for Peace, Democracy and Economic Security, By Eugene Dennis , March, 1946 Containers box 4 , folder 42 "America at the Crossroads: Postwar Problems and Communist Policy", By Eugene Dennis , December, 1945 Containers box 4 , folder 43 "The Struggle for Detente", By Gus Hall Containers box 4 , folder 44 "What America Needs", A Communist View , By Eugene Dennis and John Gates , March, 1956 Containers box 4 , folder 45 "1977 The Year of the Press", By Mike Zagarell , January, 1977 Containers box 4 , folder 46 "Make Your Dreams Come True", By Gil Green , June, 1937 Containers box 4 , folder 47 "The Youth and the Russian Revolution" Containers box 4 , folder 48 "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 Containers box 4 , folder 49 The Communist International , Vol. XIV, No. 12 , December, 1937 Containers box 4 , folder 50 "World Voices on the Moscow Trials", A Compilation from the Labor and Liberal Press of the World , October 22, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 51 "Regional Autonomy for the Southwest" , 1974 Containers box 4 , folder 52 The Party Review Containers box 4 , folder 53 "The Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States of America" Containers box 4 , folder 54 "Main Political Resolution adopted by the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A.", February 9-12, 1957 , April, 1957 Containers box 4 , folder 55 "Fundamentals of Communism" Containers box 4 , folder 56 "Call to 16th National Convention Communist Party, U.S.A.", February 9-12, 1957 Containers box 4 , folder 57 "The Communists Take a New Look", Report to the National Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A., By Eugene Dennis , May, 1956 Containers box 4 , folder 58 "The Heritage of the Communist Political Association", By Robert Minor , August, 1944 Containers box 4 , folder 59 "The Carter Administration's African Policy", By Henry Winston Containers box 4 , folder 60 "The Communist Party- 'The mind, the will and the honor of the working class!'", By James E. Jackson Containers box 4 , folder 61 "21 Questions About War and Peace", By Eugene Dennis , August, 1950 Containers box 4 , folder 62 A Letter from the Communist Party of Los Angeles County , May, 1954 Containers box 4 , folder 63 "The Communist Party", Vanguard Fighter for Peace, Democracy, Security, and Socialism, By Pettis Perry , April, 1953 Containers box 4 , folder 64 "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 Containers box 4 , folder 65 "Pattern for American Fascism", By John L. Spivak , September, 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 66 "The Fascist Danger and How to Combat it", By Eugene Dennis , August, 1948 Containers box 4 , folder 67 "Theory and Practice of the Communist Party" , November, 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 68 "The Red Baiting Racket and How it Works", By George Morris , October, 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 69 "Is Communism Un-American?", 9 Questions About the Communist Party Answered, By Eugene Dennis , March, 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 70 "Let the People Know", The Truth About the Communists Which the Un-American Committee Tried to Suppress, By Eugene Dennis , April, 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 71 "The Red-Baiters Menace America", By Eugene Dennis , October, 1946 Containers box 4 , folder 72 "Meet the Communists", By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , March, 1946 Containers box 4 , folder 73 "Communists and the Trade Unions", By Roy Hudson , October, 1943 Containers box 4 , folder 74 "Communism Versus Fascism", By William Z. Foster , June, 1941 Containers box 4 , folder 75 Young Communist Review , November, 1938 Containers box 4 , folder 76 "Party Organizer" (5) , October 1937, April-June, 1938 and August, 1938 Containers box 4 , folder 77 "Hague over Jersey" Containers box 4 , folder 78 "Who are the Reds?", By Roy Hudson , June, 1937 Containers box 4 , folder 79 "Beat the Steel Crisis! Save Every Job!", By Gus Hall Containers box 4 , folder 80 "The Trotsky Opposition", Its Significance for American Workers, By Bertram D. Wolfe , 1928 Containers box 4 , folder 81 Socialism , What's In It For You, By A.B. Magil , April, 1946 Containers box 4 , folder 82 "The Little Red Diary" No.1, Trade Unions in America, By W.Z. Foster, J.P. Cannon, and E.R. Browder , 1925 Containers box 4 , folder 83 "The Russian Constitution", Adopted July 10, 1918 , January 4, 1919 Containers box 4 , folder 84 "Why Communism?", Plain Talks on Vital Problems, By M.J. Olgin , 1935 Containers box 4 , folder 85 "The Truth About Communism!" , 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 86 Frontiers , October 1931 Containers box 4 , folder 87 Frontiers , January 1932 Containers box 4 , folder 88 Frontiers , April 1932 Containers box 4 , folder 89 Frontiers , June 1932 Containers box 4 , folder 90 Frontiers , November 1932 Containers box 4 , folder 91 "Who Are the Young Pioneers" Martha Campion , October 1943 Containers box 4 , folder 92 "Meet the Communists" , 1943 Containers box 4 , folder 93 "The People's Demands" Pamphlet Containers box 4 , folder 94 "A Guide to the Club, Its Role in Building the United Front in 1950", A Handbook for Community Club Officers, Prepared By Carl Dorfman Containers box 4 , folder 95 "Unity or Else..." Containers box 4 , folder 96 The Student Advocate , February 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 97 The Student Advocate , March 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 98 The Student Advocate , May 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 99 The Student Advocate , October-November 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 100 Student Review , December 1933 Containers box 4 , folder 101 Student Review , 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 102 Student Review , April 1935 Containers box 4 , folder 103 Student Review , October 1935 Containers box 4 , folder 104 General View of the 1st Annual National Communist Veterans Encampment at Turner's Arena , May 8, 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 105 "Motion Picture Workers: Keep Your Eye on the Ball The Eight Ball You Are Behind It!" Pamphlet , 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 106 New Foundations , V. VI, N. 4 , June 1953 Containers box 4 , folder 107 Equal Justice , Fall 1941 Containers box 4 , folder 108 "Economic Questions, Commentary" , 1952 Containers box 4 , folder 109 "The Soviet Union", Your Questions Answered, By Margaret Cowl , 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 110 "Agents of Peace" Pamphlet , 1951 Containers box 4 , folder 111 The Gil Green League Building Bulletin Containers box 4 , folder 112 California's Brown Book , 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 113 "The Mexican People of the Southwest" , August 3 1948 Containers box 4 , folder 114 "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" Containers box 4 , folder 115 15 Years of the Communist Party , By Alex Bittelman , August, 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 116 City College and War, Why were Twenty-one Students Expelled? , October, 1933 Containers box 4 , folder 117 Beware of the War Danger! , Stop, Look, and Listen!, By William Z. Foster , April, 1948 Containers box 4 , folder 118 "Everything for Unity and Victory", By William Schneiderman Containers box 4 , folder 119 The Kefauver Committee and the Pete Panto Murder , By Michael Singer , May, 1951 Containers box 4 , folder 120 Youth Unity for Peace Against Militarization Containers box 4 , folder 121 A Statement to the President, the Congress, and the People of the United States from the American Congress for Peace and Democracy , 1939 Containers box 4 , folder 122 "They Shall Not Pass!" Containers box 4 , folder 123 The Workers Monthly , January, 1925 Containers box 4 , folder 124 "How Wall Street Picks Your Pocket", By George Morris , October, 1946 Containers box 4 , folder 125 "Defend Dissent! Defeat the Racists and Warmakers! Support Dubois! Stop SACB Hearings!" Containers box 4 , folder 126 Photograph of Communists and Unemployed, Carrying Huge Placards Calling for Work or Wages Containers box 4 , folder 127 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 Containers box 4 , folder 128 Photograph of the entrance of the Communist office headquarters in America , August 25, 1938 Containers box 4 , folder 129 Photograph of an Exhibit of Soviet Literature Shown Before the DIES Committee , August 19, 1938 Containers box 4 , folder 130 A Photograph of Communists Picketing in front of the Japanese Consulate , July 31, 1937 Containers box 4 , folder 131 A Photograph of Communists , March 20, 1937 Containers box 4 , folder 132 Photograph of a Page from the July Issue of the Communist International , September 25, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 133 Photograph of a Vehicle Emblazoned with Communist Pledges , April 26, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 134 A Photograph of a Mass Police Demonstration in Union Square to Celebrate the Anniversary of the Founding of the Soviet Union , August 5, 1929 Containers box 4 , folder 135 A Photograph of Police Dispersing Communist Agitators in Front of New Bedford Mill , January 22, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 136 A Photograph of the New York Police Dispersing Several Hundred Communists Who Gathered in the City Hall Park , January 28, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 137 A Photograph of Los Angeles Communist Riots , February 28, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 138 A Photograph of A Female Communist Demonstrator , March 4, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 139 A Photograph of a Communist Demonstrator Being Arrested , March 7, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 140 A Photograph of Communists , March 7, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 141 A Photograph of Police Arresting a Communist Parader , March 7, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 142 A Photograph of One of the Sacco-Vanzetti Demonstrations on "Red Thursday" , March 8, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 143 A Photograph of a Demonstration at Union Square on "Red Thursday" Being Broken Up , March 10, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 144 A Photograph of Communist Rioters in Cleveland, Ohio , October 3, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 145 A Photograph of a Communist Cheering for Released Prisoners at Madison Square Garden , October 25, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 146 A Photograph of a Communist Demonstration in Front of the Capital Building , December 8, 1930 Containers box 4 , folder 147 A Photograph of a Communist Dropped Over a Car's Fender , February 11, 1931 Containers box 4 , folder 148 A Photograph of a Communist Rioter Getting Chased by a Police Officer , February 11, 1931 Containers box 4 , folder 149 A Photograph of Radical Communists Rioting in Chicago , May 7, 1932 Containers box 4 , folder 150 A Photograph of Radical Communists Rioting in Chicago , May 7, 1932 Containers box 4 , folder 151 A Photograph of an Anti-Hitler Demonstration Before the Consulate , December 19, 1933 Containers box 4 , folder 152 A Photograph of Police Dispersing Communist Demonstrators in Sacramento, CA. , April 24, 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 153 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 Containers box 4 , folder 154 A Photograph of a Inter-Protest Fighting in Front of City Hall , April 5, 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 155 A Photograph of a Communist Procession from Battery Park , May 1, 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 156 A Photograph of a Mass Picketing Demonstration Before the P.L. Bergoff Offices , July 19, 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 157 A Photograph of the East Bay Raid. In the Photograph, Civilians Demolish the Hall Used for Meetings By Communists , July 21, 1934 Containers box 4 , folder 158 Photograph of the Red May Day Parade , May 6, 1935 Containers box 4 , folder 159 Photograph of the Front Cover of the Magazine Communist International , September 25, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 160 Photograph of a Radical Communism Propaganda Center Located in Georgia , February 16, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 161 Photograph of a Radical Propaganda Center , February 23, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 162 Photograph of a "Comrade" During the Arizona Disorders , April 18, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 163 Photograph of a Scene in Phoenix When Naff was Leader of Movement , April 25, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 164 Three Men Pictures at the 1st Annual National Communist Veterans Encampment at Turner's Arena, Washington, D.C. , May 8, 1947 Containers box 4 , folder 165 Photograph of a Demonstration to "Free Tom Mooney" , May 1, 1936 Containers box 4 , folder 166 Photograph of a Man Observing a Guarded Wall of Leftist Leaflets Containers box 4 , folder 167 Photograph of Some of the Eleven Communists Who Surrendered at Old Bailey and Were on Trial for Conspiracy , December 1, 1925 Containers box 4 , folder 168 Photograph of a Protest Against Winston Churchill in front of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel N.Y.C and Additional Information , March 15, 1946 Containers box 4 , folder 169 Assorted Documents Which Discuss Leftist Movements in the U.S.A. and Overseas Containers box 13 , folder 44 The New Sport and Play , January and February, 1934 Containers box 13 , folder 45 "Second Southern California District Convention, By Dorothy Healey , January 29, 1960 Containers box 13 , folder 46 Letter/Flyer from the Young Communist League , July 24, 1939 Containers box 13 , folder 47 Assorted Newspapers (3) , 1932-1934 Containers box 13 , folder 48 People's World , October 24, 1939 Containers box 13 , folder 49 Review , July 21, 1941 Containers box 13 , folder 50 "Of the People for the People, Pictorial Highlights of Fifty Years of the Communist Party, USA, 1919-1969" , May, 1970 Containers box 13 , folder 51 The Communist International (2) , March, 1936 and February, 1937 Containers box 13 , folder 52 New World Review (3) , August-October, 1952 Containers box 13 , folder 53 Party Organizer (4) , July, 1937, November-December, 1937, March, 1938 Containers box 13 , folder 54 Numerous Copies of Soviet Russia , Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau Containers box 13 , folder 55 Leaflets for Student Strike at Franklin High School Containers box 13 , folder 56 The Struggle Against White Chauvinism , September 1949 Containers box 13 , folder 57 The American Foreign-Born Workers , ca. 1923 Containers box 13 , folder 58 May Day , 1938 Containers box 13 , folder 59 "The Program of Class Struggle Co-operation" Pamphlet , 1931 Containers box 13 , folder 60 "Join the Big Youth Parade May 30" Flyer , ca. May 30 1931 Containers box 13 , folder 61 Tenement Children Protest, New York City , February 26 1934 Containers box 13 , folder 62 "Resolution of the Free Tom Mooney Congress" Containers box 13 , folder 63 High Time , January, 1939 Containers box 13 , folder 64 High Time , March 1939 Containers box 13 , folder 65 High Time , May, 1939 Containers box 13 , folder 66 Red Pen , May, 1937 Containers box 13 , folder 67 The Class Mark , November, 1935 Containers box 13 , folder 68 Hunger March on Salem, OR , January 13 1933 Containers box 13 , folder 69 The Workers Monthly , December 1925 Containers box 13 , folder 70 The Communist - Vol. VI No. 4-Vol. XXIII No. 12 , June 1927-December 1944 Masses & Mainstream - Vol. 1 No.1-Vol. 16 No. 8 , March 1948-August 1963 New York Daily Worker - Vol. 22 No.1-Vol. 22 No. 52 , January 1945-February 1945 New York Daily Worker - Vol. 22 No. 104-Vol.22 No. 156 , May 1945-June 1945 Voice of Action - Volume 1 - Complete , 1933-1934 Workers Daily Press Association TLS , June 1921 Containers box 21 , folder 17 "The American Standard of Living" Elizabeth Lawson , 1948 Containers box 21 , folder 18 Herbert Aptheker Pamphlets 3 , 1949-1961 Containers box 21 , folder 19 "Soviet Space Research" , 1975 Containers box 21 , folder 20 "Soviet Russia and the Post-War World" Corliss Lamont Containers box 21 , folder 21 "The Case Against David Dubinsky" William Weinstone , 1946 Containers box 21 , folder 22 "The Toilers Against War" Clara Zetkin , 1934 Containers box 21 , folder 23 "The Little Citizen of a Big Country" M. Ilin , 1939 Containers box 21 , folder 24 "Science, Technology, and Economics under Capitalism and in the Soviet Union" M. Rubenstein , 1932 Containers box 21 , folder 25 "The Twilight of World Capitalism" William Z Foster , 1949 Containers box 21 , folder 26 "Women in the Soviet Union" F. Nurina , 1934 Containers box 21 , folder 27 "Vengeance on the Young: The Story of the Smith Act Children" Albert E. Kahn , 1952 Containers box 21 , folder 28 "Daughters of America: Ella Reeve Bloor and Anita Whitney" Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , 1942 Containers box 21 , folder 29 "The Anatomy of McCarthyism" Mark Logan and Sam Douglas , 1953 Containers box 21 , folder 30 "McCarthy: the Man and the Ism" Joseph Morton , 1953 Containers box 21 , folder 31 "Peace Versus War: the Communist Position" P. Long , 1936 Containers box 21 , folder 32 "What Price Free Speech?" California Emergency Defense Committee Containers box 21 , folder 33 Reports on Un-American Activities in California , 1948 Containers box 21 , folder 34 Reports on Un-American Activities in California , 1951 Containers box 21 , folder 35 Reports on Un-American Activities in California , 1961 Containers box 21 , folder 36 Reports on Un-American Activities in California , 1966 Containers box 21 , folder 37 Reports on Un-American Activities in California , 1967 Containers box 21 , folder 38 "What are we Doing in the Congo?" Dr. Hyman Lumer , 1965 Containers box 21 , folder 39 "Communists and National Unity" Earl Browder Interview pamphlet , 1944 Containers box 21 , folder 40 "The Fascist Danger and How to Combat it" Eugene Dennis , 1948 Containers box 21 , folder 41 "Democracy & Nazism" G. George Fox , 1934 Containers box 21 , folder 42 "Who Are the Aryans?" Margaret Schlauch , 1935 Containers box 21 , folder 43 "The People Against the Trusts" Eugene Dennis Pamphlet , 1946 Containers box 21 , folder 44 International Publishers (2) Vol. XXXV and XXVII , 2002-2005 Containers box 21 , folder 45 "The Treatment of Defeated Germany" VJ Jerome , May 1945 Containers box 21 , folder 46 "23 Questions about the Communist Party" , 1948 Containers box 21 , folder 47 "Marxism and Poetry" George Thompson , 1946 Containers box 21 , folder 48 "Contempt of Congress: the Trial of Earl Browder" , 1950 Containers box 21 , folder 49 "The American Way to Jobs, Peace, Democracy: Draft Program of the Communist Party , 1954 Containers box 21 , folder 50 "Veterans on the March" Jack Douglas , 1934 Containers box 22 , folder 1 "Des Moines May Day Flyers"-3 , 1934 Containers box 22 , folder 2 "Vote Communist Election Flyer" , 1936 Containers box 22 , folder 3 "What Rearming Germany Means" Pamphlet Jessica Smith , 1955 Containers box 22 , folder 4 "A Warning to the American People" Flyer , 1936 Containers box 22 , folder 5 "The Communist" Vol. 1 No.1 (2 Copies) , June 1920 Containers box 22 , folder 6 "American-Soviet Friendship Bulletin" , 1945 Containers box 22 , folder 7 "Investigate Martin Dies!" , August 1942 Containers box 22 , folder 8 "How Much Profit?" Philip Garden , August 1948 Containers box 22 , folder 9 "Peace Through Big Three Unity" Flyer , 1946 Containers box 22 , folder 10 "The Challenge of the '56 Elections" , 1956 Containers box 22 , folder 11 "Listening to Charges"- AP Wire Photo , 1951 Containers box 22 , folder 12 "TLS from Portland YCL Chapter" envelope and letter , August 1936 Containers box 22 , folder 13 "Demonstrate for Jobs, Security, Democracy. Peace May Day." Flyer , 1938 Containers box 22 , folder 14 "Men and Women Wanted" leaflet , ca. 1938 Containers box 22 , folder 15 "Earl Browder Talk to the Senators on the Real Meaning of the Voorhis 'Blacklist' Bill" , 1940 Containers box 22 , folder 16 "Eugene Dennis Communist Pamphlets"- 2 , 1945-1946 Containers box 22 , folder 17 "Support Dubois Stop SACB Hearings" Sticker , ca. 1960 Containers box 22 , folder 18 "The Meaning of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" Pamphlet , 1956 Containers box 22 , folder 19 International Pamphlets , 1932 Containers box 22 , folder 20 International Pamphlets , 1930 Containers box 22 , folder 21 U.S. Government anticommunist publications-3 , 1953-1959 Containers box 22 , folder 22 "If this be Treason" Richard O. Boyer , 1948 Containers box 22 , folder 23 "Russia's Fighting Forces" Capt. Sergei Kournakoff , 1942 Containers box 22 , folder 24 CPUSA Application for Membership , ca. 1920s Containers box 22 , folder 25 "Why Every Worker Should Join the Communist Party" , 1929 Containers box 22 , folder 26 "The Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies" , 1928 Containers box 22 , folder 27 "Japan: A War Base. Document of a Dangerous Situation" , 1961 Containers box 22 , folder 28 Los Angeles May Day Demonstration Photos- 3 , 1933 Containers box 22 , folder 29 Detroit Communist Demonstration Photos- 3 photos , 1930-1933 Containers box 22 , folder 30 "Vote Communist!" Newspaper , 1968 Containers box 29 , folder 7 "Every Party Member a Fighter for Peace" , 1949 Containers box 29 , folder 8 New Masses , August 1927 Containers box 29 , folder 9 "Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China" , 1971 Containers box 29 , folder 10 "Vote Communist" Candidate Poster , 1934 Containers box 34 , folder 1 Workers Songbook, Workers Music League , 1934 Containers box 38 , folder 16 Book, Albert E Kahn, High Treason , 1950 Containers box 38 , folder 18 box 38 , folder 17 Series VIII. Ethnic Radicalism 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.
Tyomiehen Joulu , XX , 1922 Containers box 4 , folder 170 Tyomiehen Joulu , XXIContainers box 4 , folder 171 Tyomiehen Joulu XXII , 1924 Containers box 4 , folder 172 Tyomiehen Joulu , XXVII , 1929 Containers box 5 , folder 1 Magyarok Amerikaban , 1951 Containers box 5 , folder 2 "Foreign-Born Americans and the War" Containers box 5 , folder 3 "Our Badge of Infamy, A Petition to the United Nations on The Treatment of the Mexican Immigrant" , April, 1959 Containers box 5 , folder 4 "The Chicanos" , 1973 Containers box 5 , folder 5 "1944...Crucial Year, The Need of Dynamic Unity in the Immigrant Groups, Two Addresses by Louis Adamic" Containers box 5 , folder 6 "The Reapers, A Colorful Social Drama, By Siskind Liev" Containers box 5 , folder 7 Pamphlet Written in Yiddish , 1950 Containers box 5 , folder 8 "The Jewish Fraternalist, Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order Celebrates 20th Anniversary" , February-March, 1950 Containers box 5 , folder 9 Book Written in Yiddish , 1910 Containers box 5 , folder 10 Book Written in Yiddish , 1934 Containers box 5 , folder 11 Book Written in Yiddish , (25th Anniversary Publication)Containers box 5 , folder 12 "The Town Hall" Program , 1971 Containers box 5 , folder 13 Roots of Jewish Nonviolence Containers box 5 , folder 14 "Yiddish Short Stories" , 1923 Containers box 5 , folder 15 Ahjo (The Forge), Tieteellis-kaunokirjallinen Julkaisu , September, 1918 Containers box 5 , folder 16 Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order , January, 1939 Containers box 5 , folder 17 Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order , March, 1939 Containers box 5 , folder 17a Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order , May, 1939 Containers box 5 , folder 18 Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order , July, 1941 Containers box 5 , folder 19 Fraternal Outlook, Official Organ of the International Workers Order , November, 1941 Containers box 5 , folder 20 International Workers Order Membership Aid 1 Cent Stamps (6) Containers box 5 , folder 21 Vappu , 1924 Containers box 5 , folder 22 Vappu , 1926 Containers box 5 , folder 23 Vappu , 1927 Containers box 5 , folder 24 Vappu , 1928 Containers box 5 , folder 25 Jewish Currents , April, 1995 Containers box 5 , folder 26 Jewish Currents , May, 1995 Containers box 5 , folder 27 Jewish Currents , July-August, 1995 Containers box 5 , folder 28 Jewish Currents , October, 1995 Containers box 5 , folder 29 Jewish Currents , November, 1995 Containers box 5 , folder 30 Jewish Currents , December, 1995 Containers box 5 , folder 31 Jewish Currents , May, 1996 Containers box 5 , folder 32 Jewish Currents , December, 1996 Containers box 5 , folder 33 Jewish Currents , January, 1997 Containers box 5 , folder 34 Jewish Currents , February, 1997 Containers box 5 , folder 35 Jewish Currents , March, 1997 Containers box 5 , folder 36 Jewish Currents , April, 1997 Containers box 5 , folder 37 Jewish Currents , May, 1997 Containers box 5 , folder 38 Jewish Currents , July-August, 1997 Containers box 5 , folder 39 Jewish Currents , October, 1996 Containers box 5 , folder 40 Jewish Currents , November, 1997 Containers box 5 , folder 41 Jewish Currents , December, 1997 Containers box 5 , folder 42 Jewish Currents , January, 1998 Containers box 5 , folder 43 Jewish Currents , February, 1998 Containers box 5 , folder 44 Jewish Currents , June, 1999 Containers box 5 , folder 45 Jewish Currents , December, 1999 Containers box 5 , folder 46 Jewish Currents , February, 2000 Containers box 5 , folder 47 Jewish Currents , March, 2000 Containers box 5 , folder 48 Jewish Currents , April, 2000 Containers box 5 , folder 49 Jewish Currents , May, 2000 Containers box 5 , folder 50 Jewish Currents , June, 2000 Containers box 5 , folder 51 Jewish Currents , July-August, 2000 Containers box 5 , folder 52 Jewish Currents , November, 2000 Containers box 5 , folder 53 Jewish Currents , December, 2000 Containers box 5 , folder 54 Jewish Currents , January, 2001 Containers box 5 , folder 55 Jewish Currents , February, 2001 Containers box 5 , folder 56 Jewish Currents , March, 2001 Containers box 5 , folder 57 Jewish Currents , July-August, 2001 Containers box 5 , folder 58 Jewish Currents , May-June, 2002 Containers box 5 , folder 59 Jewish Currents , July-August, 2002 Containers box 5 , folder 60 Jewish Currents , November-December, 2002 Containers box 5 , folder 61 Jewish Currents , January-February, 2003 Containers box 5 , folder 62 Jewish Currents , March-April, 2003 Containers box 5 , folder 63 Jewish Currents , July-August, 2005 Containers box 5 , folder 64 Jewish Currents , November-December, 2005 Containers box 5 , folder 65 Jewish Currents , Janurary-February, 2007 Containers box 5 , folder 66 Jewish Currents , March-April, 2007 Containers box 5 , folder 67 Jewish Currents , September-October, 2007 Containers box 5 , folder 68 Jewish Currents , November-December, 2007 Containers box 5 , folder 69 Jewish Currents , January-February, 2008 Containers box 5 , folder 70 Jewish Currents , March-April, 2008 Containers box 5 , folder 71 Slavic Americans in the fight for Victory and Peace , By George Pirinsky , March, 1946 Containers box 5 , folder 72 Struggle , Louis Adamic , 1935 Containers box 5 , folder 73 Are We Aryans? , By Gino Bardi , May, 1939 Containers box 5 , folder 74 Program for Survival , The Communist Position on the Jewish Question , By Alexander BittelmanContainers box 5 , folder 75 Crisis in Palestine , By Moses Miller , September, 1946 Containers box 5 , folder 76 Should Jews Unite?, Jewish People's Unity As a Force for American National Unity , By Alexander BittelmanContainers box 5 , folder 77 "School Bulletin" Containers box 5 , folder 78 Viesti , March, 1933 Containers box 5 , folder 79 Viesti , April, 1933 Containers box 5 , folder 80 Viesti , May, 1933 Containers box 5 , folder 81 "A Youth Fraternal Order" Pamphlet , 1931 Containers box 5 , folder 82 "We saw Spain" IWO meeting flyer , 1936 Containers box 5 , folder 83 Laging Una, V.16, N. 1 , January 5 1965 Containers box 5 , folder 84 "Anti-Semitism and Reaction, 1795-1800, By Morris U. Schappes Containers box 5 , folder 85 "The Ashes of Six Million Jews", By Fred Blair , 1946 Containers box 5 , folder 86 "Nowhere to Lay Their Heads", The Jewish Tragedy in Europe and its Solution, By Victor Gollancz Containers box 5 , folder 87 Poster Printed in Yiddish Containers box 13 , folder 71 Ten Years Artef , March, 1937 Containers box 13 , folder 72 "Workmen's Circle 37th Convention Journal 17th Kinder Ring" , May, 1937 Containers box 13 , folder 73 Gewerkschaften , Fiftieth Anniversary EditionContainers box 13 , folder 74 Manila Envelope Addressed to Anna Luczecgko from the International Workers Order Containers box 13 , folder 75 Book Written in Yiddish , December 20, 1935 Containers box 13 , folder 76 Revolt of the Reapers , By Siskind LievContainers box 13 , folder 77 Resistance is the Lesson: the Meaning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Containers box 13 , folder 78 "The Strange World of Hannah Arendt", Maurice U. Schappes , 1963 Containers box 13 , folder 79 Torchlight, "A Glance at the Old - A Look Ahead at the New" Containers box 13 , folder 80 "Where Are We Now?" , 1956 Containers box 13 , folder 81 I.W.O. on Parade , 1938 Containers box 13 , folder 82 Letters to Anna Luczeczko, IWO member , 1939 Containers box 13 , folder 83 IWO Duplicate Membership Form , 1939 Containers box 13 , folder 84 Give Them Aid and Comfort - Solidarity Gifts Containers box 13 , folder 85 Tie Vapuaten- 10 issues , April 1925- May 1937 Containers box 22 , folder 32 "The Real Issue for the Furriers" Greek/English Leaflet , 1940 Containers box 22 , folder 33 Cartoons from the Delano Strike- Don Sotaco , 1966 Containers box 22 , folder 34 "Israel and Jews in the Soviet Mirror" , 1967 Containers box 22 , folder 35 "Fight for Democracy and Freedom!" Greek/English Flyer , November 1940 Containers box 22 , folder 36 "The Struggle for Peace and Democracy in the U.S.A." American Slav Congress , 1947 Containers box 22 , folder 37 Workmen's Circle Tickets, 2 , 1955-1956 Containers box 22 , folder 38 "40 Years Workmen's Circle: A History in Pictures"- Yiddish/English , 1940 Containers box 22 , folder 39 "History of the Workmen's Circle" Maximilion Hurwitz , 1936 Containers box 22 , folder 40 "Labor's Enemy: Anti-Semitism" , 1945 Containers box 22 , folder 41 "...Is it true what they say about Cohen?" Bill Levner , 1948 Containers box 22 , folder 42 "Steelyard Blues" NACLA Report , 1979 Containers box 22 , folder 43 Unser Vort, Jewish Magazine , January 1950 Containers box 22 , folder 44 Der Arbiter Ring- Yiddish Brochure , 1938 Containers box 22 , folder 45 Dos Neve Leben- Yiddish Socialist Periodical , 1909 Containers box 22 , folder 46 Finnish Socialist and Pro IWW Magazine Annuals: Industrialistin joulu and Punainen Soihtu , 1922-1925 Containers box 22 , folder 47 "Towards Fair Play for Jewish Workers" Jewish Congress , October 1938 Containers box 22 , folder 48 20th Year Commemoration of East Los Angeles Riots , January 1991 Containers box 22 , folder 49 Jewish Currents: 8 issues , April 1987- December 1988 Containers box 23 , folder 1 Jewish Currents: 10 issues , March 1989- June 1997 Containers box 23 , folder 2 Jewish Currents: 7 issues , May/June 2005- Summer 2010 Containers box 23 , folder 3 Cesar Chavez Poster Containers box 34 , folder 2 Pamphlet Fraternal Orders Speak for Unionization of the Steel Industry , 1936 Containers box 39 , folder 1 A Brief History of the American Turnerbund , 1924 Containers box 39 , folder 2 Louise Pettibone Smith, Torch of LIberty Containers box 39 , folder 3 Tikkun Conference Invitation , 1988 Containers box 39 , folder 4 Jewish Currents; 7 issues , June 1993-November 1994 Containers box 39 , folder 5 Jewish Currents; 7 issues , January 1995-November 1996 Containers box 39 , folder 6 Jewish Currents; 8 issues , April-November 1998 Containers box 39 , folder 7 Jewish Currents; 2 issues , January-February 1999 Containers box 39 , folder 8 Jewish Currents; 6 issues , November 2003-Autumn 2009 Containers box 39 , folder 9 Jewish Currents; 5 issues , Winter 2009-Spring 2012 Containers box 39 , folder 10 Jewish Currents; 4 issues , Winter 2013-Spring 2015 Containers box 39 , folder 11 Jewish Currents; 2 issues , Autumn 2015, Spring 2016 Containers box 39 , folder 12 Series IX. Feminism, Gay, Lesbian 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.
National News , Birth Control Pamphlet , November, 1936 Containers box 5 , folder 88 The Mothers Bill of Rights PamphletContainers box 5 , folder 89 Feminist Revolution , 1975 Containers box 5 , folder 90 The Rhythm Method of Natural Birth Control , By Joseph McCabe , 1934 Containers box 5 , folder 91 Sister , New Haven's Women's Liberation Newsletter , February 1, 1972 Containers box 5 , folder 92 Woman's Place-In the Fight for a Better World , By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , March, 1947 Containers box 5 , folder 93 Women & The Cuban Revolution , Speeches by Fidel Castro, Articles by Linda JennessContainers box 5 , folder 94 Sisterhood is Powerful , By Betsey Stone , December, 1970 Containers box 6 , folder 1 "Women of New York, WPA Cuts Threaten Your Standard of Living" Flyer Containers box 6 , folder 2 Women- Vote for Life! , By Ann RivingtonContainers box 6 , folder 3 Women in History, A Recreation of Our Past Containers box 6 , folder 4 Women and Equality , By Margaret Cowl , February, 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 5 Women, War and Fascism , By Dorothy McConnell , December, 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 6 Consider the Laundry Workers , By Jane Filley and Therese Mitchell , June, 1937 Containers box 6 , folder 7 Women on Guard , How the Women of the World Fight for Peace, By Betty Millard , February, 1952 Containers box 6 , folder 8 Women Who Work , By Grace Hutchins , 1952 Containers box 6 , folder 9 What Every Working Woman Wants , By Grace Hutchins , February, 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 10 Women in Action , By Sasha Small , February, 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 11 Women in the Struggle for Peace and Security , By Claudia Jones , April, 1950 Containers box 6 , folder 12 Win Magazine , January, 1970 Containers box 6 , folder 13 The Gay Question , A Marxist Appraisal, By Bob McCubbin , 1976 Containers box 6 , folder 14 Mattachine Review (8) , November-December, 1955-December, 1956 Containers box 6 , folder 15 Front Line of Freedom , 1981 Containers box 6 , folder 16 Women and the New World Containers box 6 , folder 17 Betty Millard, "Woman Against Myth" , 1948 Containers box 6 , folder 18 Spectre 3 , July-August 1971 Containers box 6 , folder 19 Spectre 4 , September-October 1971 Containers box 6 , folder 20 Specter-6 , January-February 1972 Containers box 6 , folder 21 Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement , 1972 Containers box 6 , folder 22 Sister: New Haven Women's Liberation Newsletter V.1, N.7 , 1971 Containers box 6 , folder 23 The Furies , Lesbian Feminist Monthly , January, 1972- May-June, 1973 Containers box 14 , folder 1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Socialism Containers box 14 , folder 2 Women of Yesterday and Today Containers box 14 , folder 3 Francis Willard on Socialism Containers box 14 , folder 4 Work Among Women Containers box 14 , folder 5 Lavender Woman Containers box 14 , folder 6 Lavender Vision Lavender Vision for the Lesbian Community Containers box 14 , folder 7 Liberation Containers box 14 , folder 8 "The Place of American Women" Pamphlet , 1968 Containers box 14 , folder 9 "The Way We See It" Pamphlet , August 26 1970 Containers box 14 , folder 10 "Let's Stand Together: The Story of Ella Mae Wiggins" , 1979 Containers box 23 , folder 4 "Women in the War" Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , 1942 Containers box 23 , folder 5 "The Place of American Women: Economic Exploitation of Women", Joan Jordan , 1968 Containers box 23 , folder 6 "The Working Woman" Periodical , November 1934 Containers box 23 , folder 7 "A Socialist/Feminist View of the Capitalist Organization of Production" Kathryn Johnson and Peggy Somers , 1972 Containers box 23 , folder 8 "Women" Vol. 6 no. 1 , 1978 Containers box 23 , folder 9 Series X. Labor 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.
Textile Strike Bulletin , July 22, 1931 Containers box 6 , folder 24 Automation and Labor , By William Kashtan , October, 1964 Containers box 6 , folder 25 Guaranteed Annual Wage , By Wyndham Mortimer , November 20, 1953 Containers box 6 , folder 26 U.S. Labor Looks at Europe , 1951 Containers box 6 , folder 27 The History of the Shorter Workday , 1942 Containers box 6 , folder 28 A Manual of Industrial Unionism, Organizational Structure and Policies , By William Z. Foster , August, 1937 Containers box 6 , folder 29 The Steel Workers and The Fight for Labor's Rights , By William Z. Foster , June, 1952 Containers box 6 , folder 30 Organized Labor and the Fascist Danger , By William Z. Foster , August, 1947 Containers box 6 , folder 31 Organized Labor Faces the New World, By William Z. Foster , May, 1945 Containers box 6 , folder 32 The Strike Situation and Organized Labor's Wage and Job Strategy , By William Z. Foster , November, 1945 Containers box 6 , folder 33 Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry , By William Z. Foster , October, 1936 Containers box 6 , folder 35 The Railroaders' Next Step- Amalgamation , By William Z. FosterContainers box 6 , folder 34 Halt the Railroad Wage Cut , By William Z. Foster , October, 1938 Containers box 6 , folder 36 What Means a Strike in Steel , By William Z. Foster , February, 1937 Containers box 6 , folder 37 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 Containers box 6 , folder 38 Organize the Unorganized , By William Z. FosterContainers box 6 , folder 39 The C.I.O. Convention and National Unity , By Roy Hudson , December, 1941 Containers box 6 , folder 40 Labor Unity, What AFL-CIO Merger Means for Workers , By George Morris , March, 1955 Containers box 6 , folder 41 Miners Unite!, For One Class Struggle Union , By B. FrankContainers box 6 , folder 42 Little Brothers of the Big Labor Fakers , By William Z. FosterContainers box 6 , folder 43 Wrecking the Labor Banks , By William Z. FosterContainers box 6 , folder 44 "Do You Know Your Neighbor" Containers box 6 , folder 45 The Trade Union Unity League Today, Its Structure, Policy, Program and Growth , By Nathaniel Honig , June, 1934 Containers box 6 , folder 46 The Trade Unions Since the N.R.A. , By Nathaniel Honig , April, 1934 Containers box 6 , folder 47 Kentucky Miners Fight , By Harry Gannes , 1932 Containers box 6 , folder 48 Company Unions , By Robert W. DunnContainers box 6 , folder 49 The White Collar Clarion , January, 1936 Containers box 6 , folder 50 The Trade Union Unity League, Its Program, Structure, Methods and History Containers box 6 , folder 51 "Program of The Trade Union Educational League" Containers box 6 , folder 52 Photograph of a scene at the New Bedford Strike Containers box 6 , folder 53 Strike Strategy , By William Z. Foster , 1926 Containers box 6 , folder 54 The Hearst Worker , January, 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 55 Gastonia Citadel of the Class Struggle in the New South , By William F. Dunne , 1929 Containers box 6 , folder 56 Solidarity , June, 1929 Containers box 6 , folder 57 Industrial Worker , September 30, 1944 Containers box 6 , folder 58 Industrial Worker , November 13, 1948 Containers box 6 , folder 59 "General Organization Bulletin" , May, 1936 Containers box 6 , folder 60 Agricultural Workers Industrial Union Financial Statements (4) , 1936 Containers box 6 , folder 61 Industrial Worker, Official Newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World , October, 2007 Containers box 6 , folder 62 Showdown in Coal: The Struggle for Rank-And-File Unionism , By Linda and Pual Nyden , January, 1978 Containers box 6 , folder 63 Issues of Labor Today (2) , 1980 Containers box 6 , folder 64 Workers' Education , A Quarterly Journal , February, 1924 Containers box 6 , folder 65 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , February 1979 Containers box 6 , folder 66 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , May 1979 Containers box 6 , folder 67 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , August-September 1979 Containers box 6 , folder 68 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , January-March 1980 Containers box 6 , folder 69 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , April-June 1980 Containers box 6 , folder 70 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , July-September 1980 Containers box 6 , folder 71 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , October-December 1980 Containers box 6 , folder 72 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Spring 1981 Containers box 6 , folder 73 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Fall 1981 Containers box 6 , folder 74 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Winter 1981-1982 Containers box 6 , folder 75 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Spring 1982 Containers box 6 , folder 76 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Fall 1982 Containers box 6 , folder 77 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Spring 1983 Containers box 6 , folder 78 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Winter 1983-1984 Containers box 6 , folder 79 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Fall 1984 Containers box 6 , folder 80 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Spring 1985 Containers box 6 , folder 81 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Winter 1985-1986 Containers box 6 , folder 82 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Fall 1986 Containers box 6 , folder 83 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Summer 1987 Containers box 6 , folder 84 Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald , Summer 1988 Containers box 6 , folder 85 "Community Council in Support of Labor Petitions" Containers box 14 , folder 11 "Tom Mooney" Files Containers box 14 , folder 12 "Smashing Chains, Labor Struggles in Pictures" Containers box 14 , folder 13 IWW -- Industrial Worker , November 6, 1920 Containers box 14 , folder 14 Build Labor Party , 1946 Containers box 14 , folder 15 LC News Letter Vol. 2, No. 3 , March 1940 Containers box 14 , folder 16 LC News Letter Vol. 2, No. 4 , April 1940 Containers box 14 , folder 17 LC News Letter Vol. 2, No. 5 , May 1940 Containers box 14 , folder 18 LC News Letter Vol. 2, No. 12 , December 1939 Containers box 14 , folder 19 LC News Letter Vol. 3, No. 1 , January 1940 Containers box 14 , folder 20 LC News Letter Vol. 3, No. 2 , February 1940 Containers box 14 , folder 21 LC News Letter Vol. 3, No. 6 Containers box 14 , folder 22 "The Microphone: The Voice of the Worker" Vol. 2 No. 2 , May 1935 Containers box 23 , folder 29a "The Microphone: The Voice of the Worker" Vol. 2 No. 3 , June 1935 Containers box 23 , folder 29b "The Microphone: The Voice of the Worker" Vol. 2 No. 8 , December 1935 Containers box 23 , folder 29c "Industry's Law Against the People" pamphlet , 1948 Containers box 23 , folder 30 "The Case for Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon- Now" pamphlet , November 1973 Containers box 23 , folder 31 Official Proceedings: First National Convention of United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America , July 1937 Containers box 23 , folder 32 "Report on Italy" George Baldanzi , April 1945 Containers box 23 , folder 33 "Our Jobs, Our Health, Our Lives, Our Fight" Report , 1980 Containers box 23 , folder 34 "Walter Reuther on First Things First" pamphlet , March 1964 Containers box 23 , folder 35 "... A burden on the conscience of the American People: The Harry Bridges Case" Philip Murray , 1944 Containers box 23 , folder 36 "Here is Your Union!" Henry Kraus, UE Pamphlet , ca. 1952 Containers box 23 , folder 37 "Walking Together: Religion and Labor" pamphlet , 1945 Containers box 23 , folder 38 "UE Fights for a Better America" , 1946 Containers box 23 , folder 39 Solidarity Day brochure , September 1981 Containers box 23 , folder 40 Haymarket Centennial brochures (2) , 1986 Containers box 23 , folder 41 "The Sigmon Brothers: Union Busting in Kentucky- Another Case" National Lawyer's Guild , October, 1979 Containers box 23 , folder 42 "An Analysis of Our AFL-CIO Role in Latin America or Under Covers with the CIA" Fred Hirsch , 1974 Containers box 23 , folder 43 Pitt Professional Union AFT."A Brief History" (2) & Constitution (3) , 1980-1982 Containers box 23 , folder 44 CIO Year Book, Directory, and Legislative Manual , 1942 Containers box 23 , folder 45 "How You Can Tell When They're Planning to Run Away" Mimeo. Containers box 23 , folder 46 "The Facts Behind the School Salary Crisis" pamphlet , 1951 Containers box 23 , folder 47 "Report on World Unity" pamphlet , 1945 Containers box 23 , folder 48 "The Auto Workers Tell the President- Plenty!" pamphlet , 1935 Containers box 23 , folder 49 403s Are Coming Flyer , January 1937 Containers box 23 , folder 50 CIO's 1940 Legislative Program for Jobs, Security, and Peace , 1940 Containers box 23 , folder 51 Industrial Unions and Taft-Harley , 1954 Containers box 23 , folder 52 "Labor Has Always Led" pamphlet , 1948 Containers box 23 , folder 53 "Homes For Workers in Planned Communities through Collective Action" , 1943 Containers box 23 , folder 54 "We Accuse: The Story of Tom Mooney" Vito Marcantonio , 1938 Containers box 23 , folder 55 "Lasting Peace the ILO Way" , 1953 Containers box 23 , folder 56 "an old foe with a new face" Harry Becker , June 1946 Containers box 23 , folder 57 The Dawn of Real Freedom no. 1 "Capitalism on Trial by A Knight of Labor" Containers box 23 , folder 58 "The Control of Wages" Walton Hamilton and Stacy May. Workers Education Bookshelf vol. II , 1923 Containers box 23 , folder 59 "The Living Constitution" Howard Lee McBain, The Workers Bookshelf vol. VIII , 1927 Containers box 23 , folder 60 Pitt Professional Union AFT. Collective Bargaining Items (6) , 1980-1982 Containers box 23 , folder 61 Pitt Professional Union AFT. "Dear Member" Letters (7) , 1980-1982 Containers box 23 , folder 62 Pitt Professional Union AFT. Formation Proposal (2) and Member Benefits Statement (2) , 1980-1982 Containers box 23 , folder 63 Pitt Professional Union AFT. Statement of Positions (2) , March, 1976 Containers box 23 , folder 64 "Coal Industry Research Guide", National Lawyer's Guild , January 1980 Containers box 23 , folder 65 "The CIO and the White Collar Worker" CIO , 1940 Containers box 23 , folder 66 "What's Ahead?", CIO Pamphlet , ca. 1947 Containers box 23 , folder 67 "Bretton Woods is no mystery" Joseph Gaer CIO pamphlets , ca. 1945 Containers box 23 , folder 68 "the answer is Full Employment" CIO pamphlet , ca. 1945 Containers box 23 , folder 69 "Vets Can't Eat Medals" UE Pamphlet , October 1946 Containers box 23 , folder 70 "The Road to Freedom" Joseph Gaer CIO Pamphlet , ca. 1945 Containers box 23 , folder 71 "There's No Place like Home... If you can get one" Joseph Gaer CIO Pamphlet , ca. 1946 Containers box 23 , folder 72 "When a Worker Needs a Friend" Joseph Gaer CIO Pamphlet , 1946 Containers box 23 , folder 73 "The People's Program for 1946" Joseph Gaer CIO Pamphlet , 1946 Containers box 23 , folder 74 "As We Win" CIO Pamphlet , 1944 Containers box 23 , folder 75 "Angels Could Do it Better" Joseph Gaer CIO Pamphlet , 1945 Containers box 23 , folder 76 "Labor and Education" CIO Pamphlet , ca. 1946 Containers box 23 , folder 77 Analysis of the Taft-Hartley Act, CIO pamphlet , ca. 1947 Containers box 23 , folder 78 "Steel Fights for the Nation" CIO Pamphlet , ca. 1944 Containers box 23 , folder 79 "Keep America at Work!" UE Pamphlet , ca. 1948 Containers box 23 , folder 80 "Production for Victory" IUMM & SW , ca. 1941 Containers box 23 , folder 81 "Cobro de Cuotas... Por el Check Off" CIO Pamphlet , 1944 Containers box 23 , folder 82 "Push Salaries UP!" UOPWA , ca. 1943 Containers box 23 , folder 83 "The People Can Win in 1944!" UE Pamphlet , 1944 Containers box 28 , folder 18 "We Took our Fight to the People" UE-CIO Pamphlet , April 1947 Containers box 28 , folder 19 "Resolutions Endorsed by Local Union 848" Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, & Paperhangers of America , September 1946 Containers box 28 , folder 20 "The Secret Ballot Tells the Story" CIO Pamphlet , ca. 1944 Containers box 28 , folder 21 "Farmer-Labor Teamwork" UE Pamphlet , ca. 1950s Containers box 28 , folder 22 "A Union Policy for Insurance Workers" Lewis Merrill , ca. 1938 Containers box 28 , folder 23 "The Inflation Racketeers" UE Pamphlet , ca. 1959 Containers box 28 , folder 24 "The Myth about the Money the Many are Supposed to Have" UE Pamphlet Containers box 28 , folder 25 UE Guide to Political Action: The People Can Win in 1944 , 1944 Containers box 28 , folder 26 "The Facts about High Living Costs" UE Pamphlet , June 1951 Containers box 28 , folder 27 Industrial Worker vol. 81 no. 7 , July 1984 Containers box 29 , folder 11 The Dispatcher vol. 3 no. 26-27 , November 1945 Containers box 29 , folder 12 "Support the Farmworkers, Boycott Grapes Lettuce Wine" , 1970 Containers box 29 , folder 13 Council Newsletter vo. 1 special edition , February 1952 Containers box 29 , folder 14 American Seaman vol. 2 no. 5 , April 1935 Containers box 29 , folder 15 UAW-CIO Region 6 PAC News vol. 1 no. 1 , May 1954 Containers box 29 , folder 16 Union Voice, Bound Volume. 32 issues total , September 1939- August 1942 Containers box 29 , folder 17 CIO News, vol. 8 no. 48 , November 1945 Containers box 29 , folder 18 State Labor News vol. 2 no. 40-41 , February- March 1948 Containers box 29 , folder 19 Mine Mill Union vol. 9 , 1951 Containers box 30 , folder 1 Mine Mill Union vol. XI , 1952 Containers box 30 , folder 2 Mine Mill Union vol. XII , 1953 Containers box 30 , folder 3 Mine Mill Union vol. XIII , 1954 Containers box 30 , folder 4 Mine Mill Union vol. XXIII , 1955 Containers box 30 , folder 5 Mine Mill Union vol. XVI , 1957 Containers box 30 , folder 6 Mine Mill Union vol. XVII , 1958 Containers box 30 , folder 7 Mine Mill Union vol. XVIII , 1959 Containers box 30 , folder 8 Mine Mill Union vol. XIX , 1960 Containers box 31 , folder 1 Mine Mill Union vol. XX , 1961 Containers box 31 , folder 2 Mine Mill Union vol. XXI , 1962 Containers box 31 , folder 3 Mine Mill Union vol. XXII , 1963 Containers box 31 , folder 4 Mine Mill Union vol. XXIII , 1964 Containers box 31 , folder 5 Mine Mill Union vol. XXIV , 1965 Containers box 31 , folder 6 Mine Mill Union vol. XXV , 1966 Containers box 31 , folder 7 Mine Mill Union vol. XXVI , 1967 Containers box 31 , folder 8 Labor (26 issues), Railway Union Weekly Newspaper , 1928-1944 Containers box 34 , folder 5 American Labor Citizen, Vol. IV No. 27 , August 1943 Containers box 34 , folder 6a American Labor Citizen, Vol. IV No. 31 (2 copies) , September 1943 Containers box 34 , folder 6b American Labor Citizen, Vol. IV No. 42 , December 1943 Containers box 34 , folder 6c The Lansing Sentinel, Vol. I No. 45 , September 1880 Containers box 35 , folder 3a The Lansing Sentinel, Vol. V No. 3 , November 1883 Containers box 35 , folder 3b "An Essay on Labor History and the Quality of Paper" Flyer , ca. 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 15 Association for Union Democracy Mailing Containers box 37 , folder 16 Association for Union Democracy Literature Order Form , 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 17 Brown Lung Association Letter , ca. 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 18 "The Brown Lung Association: Fighting For the Right to Breathe" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 19 CIO Political Action Committee "What is PAC?" Flyer , ca. 1948 Containers box 37 , folder 20 "What's Cooking Joe?" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 21 The CIO: What it is and what it does , 1949 Containers box 37 , folder 22 Coal Field Defender Vol. 3 No. 4 , August 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 23 Coal Field Defender Vol. 3 No. 5 , August 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 24 "Closed Plants: Diaster for Working People and Their Communities" Pamphlet , ca. 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 25 Summary of Major Plant Closing Legislation Now Pending Containers box 37 , folder 26 "Celebrating the Life of Fannie Sellins A Labor Heroine" Booklet , 1989 Containers box 37 , folder 27 Fannie Sellins Newspaper Clippings , September 1989 Containers box 37 , folder 28 "How the American Maritime Workers are Being Forced to Strike" , 1946 Containers box 37 , folder 29 Public Hearing Flyer , May 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 30 Labor Committee for Safe Energy and Full Employment Letter , June 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 31 Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition Natural Gas Price Decontrol Fact Sheet , March 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 32 Rally for Safe Jobs and Clean Air Pamphlets , May 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 33 Clean Air Flyers Containers box 37 , folder 34 White Collar No. 413 , April-May-June 1984 Containers box 37 , folder 35 AFL-CIO News Vol. 29 No. 47 , November 1984 Containers box 37 , folder 36 AFL-CIO News Vol. 30 No. 20 , May 1985 Containers box 37 , folder 37 Public Employee Press Vol. 14 No. 2 , March 1985 Containers box 37 , folder 38 Local 2599 Informer Vol. 5 No. 3 , March 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 39 Wayne State University Twenty-First Annual North American Labor History Conference Program , October 1999 Containers box 37 , folder 40 "Celebrate Labor Day!" Flyer , September 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 41 National Labor Law Center Mailing Containers box 37 , folder 42 Pennsylvania State University Department of Labor Studies Mailing , October 1986 Containers box 37 , folder 43 Western Pennsylvania Committee for Wroker Health and Safety Letter Containers box 37 , folder 44 "A Call to an Area-Wide Trade Union Conference on Shutdowns and Layoffs" , November 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 45 Conference on Shutdowns Flyer , November 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 46 Philco Company Boycott Flyer Containers box 37 , folder 47 "Eastern Machinists on Strike" Flyer Containers box 37 , folder 48 Rail Labor Rally March on Washington Flyer , April 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 49 AFL-CIO Organizing Institute Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 50 Americans for a Democratic Party Even Today Booklet , January 2001 Containers box 37 , folder 51 Michigan State University Faculty Associates (MSUFA) , ca. 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 52 "No Friend of Labor" by James Morton Freeman , 1948 Containers box 37 , folder 53 Pennsylvania Labor History Society Notes Vol. 5 No. 1 , October 1982 Containers box 37 , folder 54 Pennsylvania Labor History Society Notes Vol. 8 No. 1 Containers box 37 , folder 55 Pennsylvania Labor History Society Confernece Minutes , September 26, 1986 Containers box 37 , folder 56 Pennsylvania Labor History Society Supporter Letter , March 10, 1987 Containers box 37 , folder 57 "The Rights We Fight For" , 1944 Containers box 37 , folder 58 Tipple Talk: A Newsletter of the Coal Miners Research Association , December 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 59 Tri-State Conference on Steel Counter Annual Report , ca. 1980-1981 Containers box 37 , folder 60 Tri-State Conference on Steel Directions , June 15, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 61 Committee to Re-elect Paul Lewis Flyers , 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 62 "Demonstrate - U.S. Steel Stockholder's Meeting" Containers box 37 , folder 63 "Your Dues" United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) Booklet , 1968 Containers box 37 , folder 64 FE-UE Flyer Containers box 37 , folder 65 "The People Must Act to Heal America's Wounds" Pamphet , December 2, 1963 Containers box 37 , folder 66 "The People Voted for Action" Containers box 37 , folder 67 "Monday is Now the Night to Hear...UE on the Air With Arthur Gaeth" Containers box 37 , folder 68 "Vets Can't Eat Medals" UE Program of Veterans Containers box 37 , folder 69 "Let's Come Out Fighting" by Henry A. Wallace , September 22, 1947 Containers box 37 , folder 70 "Your Vote Decides" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 71 "What Do You Read?" , July 1948 Containers box 37 , folder 72 "Organizing for Security" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 73 "Barry Goldwater...How he Voted on Vital Issues During his Eleven Years in the Senate..." Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 74 "Mill Town by Bill Cahn: A Book You Will Never Forget!" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 75 UE Catalogue of Publications and Publicity Services Containers box 37 , folder 76 "Fighting Back with P.A.C." Containers box 37 , folder 77 UE Convention Proceedings , 1952 Containers box 37 , folder 78 "People in Action!" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 79 UE Roosevelt Memorial Broadcast Containers box 37 , folder 80 "UE-CIO Looks at FDR" Booklet , July 1944 Containers box 37 , folder 81 "UE Acts Against Raiding and Dictatorship in the CIO!" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 82 "Sing!" UE Seventh Convention Songbook Containers box 37 , folder 83 "He Had Enough! - Westinghouse IUE Leader Returns to UE" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 84 "Could you call THIS 'a great union'?" Containers box 37 , folder 85 "Chug-Chug: A Children's Story for the Whole Feamily" UE Booklet , September 1947 Containers box 37 , folder 86 "UE: The Union With a Difference You Can Feel!" Containers box 37 , folder 87 UE Constitution and By-Laws , December 1, 1949 Containers box 37 , folder 88 UE Shop Steward Guide Containers box 37 , folder 89 "Don't Buy!" Pamphet Containers box 37 , folder 90 "Keep America at Work!" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 91 "Defeat Anti-Labor Politicians in '54" Politcal Action Drive Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 92 "The Old Shell Game" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 93 "Workers Need a Wage Increase" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 94 "Speed-Up!" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 95 "Workers Prefer UE" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 96 "Side by Side..." Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 97 "Teamwork Among the Unions of the World" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 98 "What a Good Boy Am I" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 99 "Why Restore the Wagner Act?" Pamphlet , December 13, 1948 Containers box 37 , folder 100 "Farmer - Labor Teamwork" Booklet Containers box 37 , folder 101 "Profits Up, Prices Up" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 102 "How UE Can Help You Win a More Secure Future!" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 103 "You and Your New Job" Pamplet Containers box 37 , folder 104 "Your Stake in a UE Harvester Victory" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 105 UE Steward Vol. 5 No. 8 , August, 1952 Containers box 37 , folder 106 "Let's Look at the Record! Your Paid Holidays, Vacations and Overtime" Containers box 37 , folder 107 "UE - The Union for GE Lamp Workers!" Containers box 37 , folder 108 "UE - A Message From GE Workers in Conneaut to GE Workers in Providence" Containers box 37 , folder 109 "Frame-up! Weapon of Employers to Break Unions...." Containers box 37 , folder 110 "Sing Out! UE Songs for Union Folks..." Containers box 37 , folder 111 UE Policy Booklet , 1958-1959 Containers box 37 , folder 112 "FE-UE Exposes UAW's 'Share the Misery' Plan for Harvester Workers" Containers box 37 , folder 113 "A Message From UE Local 601. East Pittsburgh to All Westinghouse Workers...." Containers box 37 , folder 114 "UE - One Union, One Contrct" Flyer Containers box 37 , folder 115 "Men's Business Too-" Containers box 37 , folder 116 "'UE Has Really Delivered the Goods!' UE For Women Workers!" Containers box 37 , folder 117 "An Important Message to All Westinghouse Women Workers" Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 118 "UE 2nd National Conference on Problems of Working House" Pamphlet , May 15-16, 1954 Containers box 37 , folder 119 "Third National Conference on Problems of Working Women" Booklet , May 14-15, 1955 Containers box 37 , folder 120 "UE Fights for Women Workers" Booklet , June 1952 Containers box 37 , folder 121 "UE Women Speak Out!" Containers box 37 , folder 122 United Mine Workers Journal Vol. XXV, No. 16 , August 26, 1915 Containers box 37 , folder 123 United Mine Workers Journal 94th Year, No. 8 , October - November 1983 Containers box 37 , folder 124 United Mine Workers Journal 95th Year, No. 10 , October 1984 Containers box 37 , folder 125 United Mine Workers Journal 95th Year, No. 11 , November 1984 Containers box 37 , folder 126 United Mine Workers Journal 95th Year, No. 12 , December 1984, Containers box 37 , folder 127 United Mine Workers Journal 96th Year, No. 2 , February 1985 Containers box 37 , folder 128 United Mine Workers Journal 96th Year, No. 3 , March 1985 Containers box 37 , folder 129 United Mine Workers Journal 96th Year, No. 5 , June 1985 Containers box 37 , folder 130 United Mine Workers Journal 96th Year, No. 6 , July 1985 Containers box 37 , folder 131 United Mine Workers Journal 96th Year, No. 7 , August 1985 Containers box 37 , folder 132 United Mine Workers Journal 97th Year, No. 3 , March 1986 Containers box 37 , folder 133 United Mine Workers Journal 97th Year, No. 8 , August 1986, Containers box 37 , folder 134 United Mine Workers Journal 98th Year, No. 7 , July 1987 Containers box 37 , folder 135 United Mine Workers Journal 98th Year, No. 10 , October 1987 Containers box 37 , folder 136 United Mine Workers Journal 99th Year, No. 5 , May 1988 Containers box 37 , folder 137 United Mine Workers Journal 99th Year, No. 6 , June 1988 Containers box 37 , folder 138 "Join us!" Worker's Education Local 189 , ca. 1979 Containers box 37 , folder 139 Union Town: A Labor History Guide to Detroit Containers box 37 , folder 140 "United Steelworkers of America 1397 Rank and File, Local Issues" , 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 141 "Brothers and Sisters of Local #1397" Flyer Containers box 37 , folder 142 1397 Rank & Rile Labor Day Edition , September 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 143 1397 Rank & Rile Labor Day Edition , September 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 144 Harrisburg Anti-Nuclear Demonstration Letter , October 17, 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 145 "Maine Antinuke Activists Arrested" Article , October 15, 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 146 National Labor Conference for Safe Energy and Full Employment , October 16, 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 147 Labor Committee for Safe Energy & Full Employment , April 14, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 148 "Labor Groups Stress Energy Alternatives at Harrisburg Rally" Article , March 29, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 149 The New York Times Three Mile Island Articles , March 29, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 150 "Call to a National Labor Conference for Safe Energy & Full Employment" Flyer Containers box 37 , folder 151 First Labor Antinuclear March News Release , January 28, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 152 Greater Harrisburg Area Labor Committee for Safe Energy & Full Employment Letter , December 28, 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 153 Next Meeting Labor Committee for Safe Energy and Full Employment Letters , 1980-1981 Containers box 37 , folder 154 March on Harrisburg Flyer , March 28, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 155 Harrisburg March and Rally Letter , January 26, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 156 Coalition of Labor Union Women Resolutions Approved , October 10-12, 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 157 March on Harrisburg Booklet , March 28, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 158 Educational Conference on Safe Energy & Jobs Mailing , January 17, 1981 Containers box 37 , folder 159 Earl Robinson's 80h Birthday celebration program , 1990 Containers box 38 , folder 18 UAW Convention Proceedings (2 Pieces) , 1947, 1949 Containers box 38 , folder 19 UAW Convention Proceedings (2 pieces) , 1951, 1957 Containers box 38 , folder 20 UAW Convention Proceedings , 1959 Containers box 38 , folder 21 CIO Convention Proceedings (2 pieces) , 1948-49 Containers box 38 , folder 22 Group of flyers from Hillsboro, Florida Teacher's Union Containers box 38 , folder 24 Pamphlet, 50th anniversary United Steelworkers , 1986 Containers box 38 , folder 24 Tom Mooney Defense Envelope Containers box 38 , folder 25 Mine MIll Book by Solski and Smaller Containers box 38 , folder 26 Ten Hours or no Sawdust; 1969 Pamphet about 1884 lumber strike , 1969 Containers box 38 , folder 27 Union Ribbin Pittsburgh Association of Stationary Engineers , 1890 Containers box 38 , folder 28 Record from 1985 UMWA Strike , 1985 Containers box 38 , folder 29 Wages, Prices, Profits; UAW Pamphlet , 1947 Containers box 38 , folder 30 Plumb Plan League Pamphlet , 1920s Containers box 38 , folder 31 Photo, Milk Strikers , 1931 Containers box 38 , folder 32 Strike Photo for Mechanic Education Society of America, UAW Predecessor , 1933 Containers box 38 , folder 33 PGH Labor Day Parade , 1987 Containers box 38 , folder 34 Labor Notes Conference Schedule , 1981 Containers box 38 , folder 35 Stop Runaway Shops; Pamphlet , 1980 Containers box 38 , folder 36 AFT Campaign Kit Election '84 , 1984 Containers box 38 , folder 37 Unionization at Pitt (15 pieces) , 1980s-Present Containers box 38 , folder 38 Varous CIO Union Pamphlets (9 pieces) Containers box 38 , folder 39 Misc Pamphlets, Publications - Unions, Labor History, Plant Closings (14 pieces) , 1980s Containers box 38 , folder 40 Division 618: Streetcar Employees Fight for a Union in Rhode Island, Scott Molloy , 1987 Containers box 38 , folder 41 Postcard-like Advertisements for Fran Gialamas' Chronicles of American Workers II Gallery in NY (3 pieces) , 1997-2000 Containers box 38 , folder 42 UAW Solidarity: UAW Forty Years of Struggle , 1977 Containers box 38 , folder 43 UAW 50th Anniversary Flint Sit-Down Journal , 1987 Containers box 38 , folder 44 United Steelworkers Pamphlet, 3 Men but with One Goal , 1950s Containers box 38 , folder 45 Book; Capital and Communities: The Causes and Consequences of Private Disinvestment, Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison , 1980 Containers box 38 , folder 46 UMWA Journal , 1915 Containers box 40 , folder 1 United Paper Union Journal , 1961 Containers box 40 , folder 2 unspecified
Series XI. Leftist Organizations Thought in Relation to the Rest of the World and U.S. Economics/Imperialism 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.
What are we doing in the Congo? , By Dr. Hyman Lumer , February, 1965 Containers box 6 , folder 86 On Events in Czechoslovakia , Facts, Documents, Press Reports and Eye-Witness Accounts , 1968 Containers box 6 , folder 87 76 Questions and Answers on the Bolsheviks and the Soviets , By Albert Rhys WilliamsContainers box 6 , folder 88 Freedom, Peace and Bread! , The Activities of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, Report by Wilhelm Pieck , October, 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 89 Capitalist Stabilization Has Ended , Thesis and Resolutions of the Twelfth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International , September, 1932 Containers box 6 , folder 90 Medical Relief Bulletin, Published by The Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy Containers box 6 , folder 91 The Social and State Structure of the U.S.S.R. , By V. Karpinsky , 1952 Containers box 6 , folder 92 Toward a Land of Plenty , By A.I. Mikoyan , 1936 Containers box 6 , folder 93 The Camp of Socialism and the Camp of Capitalism , By A.I. Mikoyan , 1952 Containers box 6 , folder 94 Discurso Pronunciado En El XX Congreso Del P.C.U.S. , By A.I. Mikoian , 1956 Containers box 6 , folder 95 Soviet Economy, Twelve Questions Answered By P.S. Mstislavsky , November, 1962 Containers box 6 , folder 96 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 Containers box 6 , folder 97 Turning Point in China , By Mao Tse-Tung , April, 1948 Containers box 6 , folder 98 Whence the Differences? , A Reply to Thorez and Other Comrades , 1963 Containers box 6 , folder 99 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 Containers box 6 , folder 100 Indo-China and World Peace , By Richard Walker , June, 1954 Containers box 6 , folder 101 Report on the War in Indo-China , By Nicholas Read-CollinsContainers box 6 , folder 102 For World Peace and Freedom , A Survey of the Twenty-Five Years of Soviet International Policy, By Alexander A. TroyanovskyContainers box 6 , folder 103 Continuous Working Week in the Soviet Union Containers box 6 , folder 104 Marx, Engels and Lenin on Ireland , By Ralph Fox , 1940 Containers box 6 , folder 105 Japan's Drive for Conquest , By Grace Hutchins , 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 106 Terror in Kenya, The Facts Behind the Present Crisis , December, 1952 Containers box 6 , folder 107 Der Tag Begann..., Freiheit und Unabhangigkeit fur alle Volker Containers box 6 , folder 108 From the February Revolution to the October Revolution 1917 , By A.F. Ilyin-Genevsky , 1931 Containers box 6 , folder 109 The Next Step In Britain, America and Ireland , Speeches and Reports By Gusev, Pollitt, Troy and PringleContainers box 6 , folder 110 Professionals in a Soviet America , By Edward Magnus , November, 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 111 The Telephone and Telegraph Workers , By Hy Kravif , 1935 Containers box 6 , folder 112 This is America , By Derek Kartun , 1947 Containers box 7 , folder 1 "Burning Cards and Flaming Villages", By James E. Jackson Containers box 7 , folder 2 Soviet Impressions , After an Interval of Eighteen Years, 1932-1950, By Dr. John A. KingsburyContainers box 7 , folder 3 What Russia Did for Victory , By Sergei Kournakoff , October, 1945 Containers box 7 , folder 4 Anti-Soviet Sabotage Exposed , By G.M. KrzhyzhanovskyContainers box 7 , folder 5 The Twenty-One Conditions of Admission Into the Communist International , By O. Piatnitsky , February, 1934 Containers box 7 , folder 6 Communism in Latin America, A Report on Power Politics , By Stanley Ross , 1947 Containers box 7 , folder 7 The Communist Party of France Manifesto Containers box 7 , folder 8 Les Conditions de la Grandeur Francais , January, 1959 Containers box 7 , folder 9 L'Aggravation de la Situation Economique et Sociale et les Solutions Proposees par le Parti Communiste , January, 1959 Containers box 7 , folder 10 La Lutte Pour la Restauration et la Renovation de la Democratie , January, 1959 Containers box 7 , folder 11 Grasp the Weapon of Culture! , By V.J. Jerome , 1951 Containers box 7 , folder 12 Do You Know Thaelmann? , By Henri Barbusse , June, 1934 Containers box 7 , folder 13 The Revolutionary Crisis of 1918-1921 in Germany, England, Italy and France , By William FosterContainers box 7 , folder 14 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 Containers box 7 , folder 15 The Second International in Dissolution , By Bela KunContainers box 7 , folder 16 15 Years of the Communist International Containers box 7 , folder 17 Our Ally The Soviet Union , By Robert Minor , January, 1942 Containers box 7 , folder 18 Socialism Marches On in the Soviet Union , By James B. Turner , 1937 Containers box 7 , folder 19 One War To Defeat Hitler , By Robert Minor , November, 1941 Containers box 7 , folder 20 Japan Wars on the U.S.A. , By Grace Hutchins , December, 1941 Containers box 7 , folder 21 The Soviet Law On Marriage , 1933 Containers box 7 , folder 22 The Assassination of Kirov , Proletarian Justice Versus White-Guard Terror, By M. Katz , February, 1935 Containers box 7 , folder 23 Wyndham Mortimer Meets The Soviet Auto Workers Containers box 7 , folder 24 25 Years of Soviet Power , By Emelyan YaroslavskyContainers box 7 , folder 25 The National Question in the Soviet Union , By M. Chekalin , June, 1941 Containers box 7 , folder 26 The Red Army , June, 1934 Containers box 7 , folder 27 Russian Women in the Building of Socialism , By Anna RazumovaContainers box 7 , folder 28 The USSR Today , 50 Years of Socialism, By George Morris , January, 1967 Containers box 7 , folder 29 The USSR and Finland , Historical, Economic, Political Facts and Documents , 1939 Containers box 7 , folder 30 A History of Soviet Foreign Policy , By M. Ross , December, 1940 Containers box 7 , folder 31 The Revolt on the Armoured Cruiser "Potemkin" , By A. KanatchikovContainers box 7 , folder 32 The Communists and the Liberation of Europe , By Maxine Levi , March, 1945 Containers box 7 , folder 33 Book Publishing Under Tzarism , By M.S. Kedrov , 1932 Containers box 7 , folder 34 The Individual in Soviet Law , By Leon Josephson , 1957 Containers box 7 , folder 35 At the Moscow Trial , By D.N. Pritt, K.C., M.P. , 1937 Containers box 7 , folder 36 Russia and the United States in War & Peace , By Daniel Howard , 1943 Containers box 7 , folder 37 Espionage, Foreign Secret Service Recruiting Methods Against the Soviet Union , By S. Uranov , July, 1937 Containers box 7 , folder 38 What About Russia? , An Honest Reply to Honest Questions, By Anna Louise StrongContainers box 7 , folder 39 What I Saw In The Soviet Union Today , By George Morris , August, 1959 Containers box 7 , folder 40 A Tale of Two Workers , By David Englestein and Carl Hirsch , July, 1949 Containers box 7 , folder 41 The Road to Woman's Freedom , By K. Kirsanova , January, 1935 Containers box 7 , folder 42 Mita Sosialifascismi , Sen Historiallinen ja Teoreettinen Tausta, By Earl Browder , 1934 Containers box 7 , folder 43 Soviet Woman , A Citizen With Equal Rights, By N. K. Krupskaya , 1937 Containers box 7 , folder 44 Russia Our Ally , By A. KeesingContainers box 7 , folder 45 Protection of Motherhood and Childhood in the Soviet Union , 1933 Containers box 7 , folder 46 New Aspects of Imperialism (2), By Peter Wieden , April, 1941 Containers box 7 , folder 47 War in Africa , Italian Fascism Prepares to Enslave Ethiopia, By James W. Ford and Harry Gannes , June, 1935 Containers box 7 , folder 48 This Is Our Enemy , By Peter Wieden , March, 1943 Containers box 7 , folder 49 Spain Defends Democracy , August, 1936 Containers box 7 , folder 50 "Speech by Harold L. Ickes Secretary of the Interior To the 2nd American Slav Congress" , 1944 Containers box 7 , folder 51 Assorted American Congress/League for Peace and Democracy Documents Containers box 7 , folder 52 "Draft Program and Purpose for 1939 As Submitted by the Executive Board to the National Congress" , December 20, 1938 Containers box 7 , folder 53 "How Cuba Uprooted Race Discrimination", By Harry Ring , June, 1961 Containers box 7 , folder 54 "Italy Under Fascism", Its Economic, Political and Moral Aspects, Discussed By Professor Gaetano Salvemini and Professor Bruno Roselli , February, 1927 Containers box 7 , folder 55 "The Fate of Trade Unions Under Fascism", By Francis J. Gorman, Alfons Goldschmidt, and Gaetano Salvemini , April, 1937 Containers box 7 , folder 56 "Geography of Korea", By V.T. Zaichikov , 1952 Containers box 7 , folder 57 "300 Million Slaves and Serfs", Labor Under the Fascist New Economic Order, By Jurgen Kuczynski , 1943 Containers box 7 , folder 58 "American Economic Imperialism", A Survey of the Literature, By William Caspary Containers box 7 , folder 59 "The Austrian Civil War", By James O'Neal Containers box 7 , folder 60 "What is the Five Year Plan?", Building Up Socialism Containers box 7 , folder 61 "Primera Conferencia Sindical Mundial de la Juventud Trabajadora" , 1958 Containers box 7 , folder 62 "Tito's Plot Against Europe", The Story of the Rajk Conspiracy in Hungary, By Derek Kartun , 1950 Containers box 7 , folder 63 "The Counter-Revolutionary Forces in the October Events in Hungary" Containers box 7 , folder 64 "Who Fights for a Free Cuba?", By Martin Kaye and Louise Perry Containers box 7 , folder 65 "What Next in France?", By Maurice Thorez , November, 1948 Containers box 7 , folder 66 "The Epic of the Black Sea Revolt", By Andre Marty , March, 1941 Containers box 7 , folder 67 "The Unity of the French Nation", By Maurice Thorez , 1936 Containers box 7 , folder 68 "Le Front Populaire C'est la Guerre" , June, 1937 Containers box 7 , folder 69 "Cinq Ans de Dictature Hitlerienne", By N. Marceau , 1938 Containers box 7 , folder 70 "French Miners Say" , 1953 Containers box 7 , folder 71 "How France Was Betrayed", By Andre Marty , May, 1941 Containers box 7 , folder 72 "Where France Begins", What I Saw In Algiers, By Frank Pitcairn Containers box 7 , folder 73 "L'Heure de la France a Sonne", By Andre Marty , 1943 Containers box 7 , folder 74 Pour la Veritable Grandeur Francaise, "La Lutte Pour L'Union des Forces Democratiques et Nationales" , January, 1959 Containers box 7 , folder 75 "Juifs Russes", Le Bund et le Sionisme, Un Voyage D'Etudes Containers box 7 , folder 76 "Pour L'Ecole de Peuple", By G. Cogniot Containers box 7 , folder 77 "Les Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Francais", By Fernand Grenier , 1944 Containers box 7 , folder 78 "Des Jeunes Qui Servent L'Interet de la France" , January, 1959 Containers box 7 , folder 79 "The Truth About Korea" Containers box 7 , folder 80 "The Crisis in India", By James S. Allen , September, 1942 Containers box 7 , folder 81 "Hands-Off Guatemala!" Containers box 7 , folder 82 "The Struggle for Liberation in Brazil", By Luis Carlos Prestes , June, 1936 Containers box 7 , folder 83 "Brazil", By Bryan Green , 1937 Containers box 7 , folder 84 "Formosa", Fact and Fiction, By John W. Powell Containers box 7 , folder 85 "The Economics of Barbarism", Hitler's New Economic Order in Europe, By J. Kuczynski and M. Witt , 1942 Containers box 7 , folder 86 "Ernst Thaelmann", The Leader of the German Workers, By R. Groetz , July, 1934 Containers box 7 , folder 87 "El Salvador: Is There No Limit to U.S. Lies?" , February 27, 1981 Containers box 7 , folder 88 NACLA's Latin America & Empire Report, "Women's Labor, Also: Women in Chile" , September, 1975 Containers box 7 , folder 89 "El Salvador" Containers box 7 , folder 90 "Soviet Democracy and the War", By William Z. Foster , December, 1943 Containers box 7 , folder 91 "Haiti Faces Tomorrow's Peace", By Max L. Hudicourt Containers box 7 , folder 92 "Youth in the World War", By V. Motyleva Containers box 7 , folder 93 "Vietnamese Intellectuals Against U.S. Aggression" , 1966 Containers box 7 , folder 94 "The Truth About Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union", By Tom O'Connor Containers box 7 , folder 95 "Soviet 'Anti-Semitism' - The Big Lie!", By Moses Miller Containers box 7 , folder 96 "Religion Today in the U.S.S.R.", By Rev. William Howard Melish Containers box 7 , folder 97 Crisis in the Middle East, "Which Way Israel?", By A.B. Magil , February, 1956 Containers box 7 , folder 98 "A Churchman Examines American-Soviet Relations", By Rev. William Howard Melish Containers box 7 , folder 99 "We Were There", A Report on the World Jewish Conference Against German Rearmament, June 18-19, 1955, Paris, France , October, 1955 Containers box 7 , folder 100 Dissent, A Culture in Torment, "The Plight of the Jews in the Soviet Union", By David W. Weiss , July-August, 1966 Containers box 7 , folder 101 Assorted "Informacion Italiana" Publications , 1944-1945 Containers box 14 , folder 23 "Eight Hour Work Day" August Walquist , 1908 Containers box 24 , folder 1 "Some Basic Facts About China" Supplement , January 1974 Containers box 24 , folder 2 "For the Unity of the International Communist Movement" pamphlet , 1963 Containers box 24 , folder 3 IWW Songbook , 1984 Containers box 24 , folder 4 Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , 1961 Containers box 24 , folder 5 "A Quotation from Chairman Mao" Supplement to 1971 China Pictorial , 1971 Containers box 32 , folder 1 "Solidarity with the People of Corea" Cuban OSPAAL Poster Containers box 34 , folder 3 "La Guinee" OSPAAL Poster Containers box 34 , folder 4 Russia Analyzed, Austin Lewis , 1920 Containers box 39 , folder 13 Doctors Without Borders, Alert , Fall 2016 Containers box 39 , folder 14 Series XII. New Left Organizations 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
"Patching Up the Movement", A First Aid Manual, By Linda Borenstein, John Johansson and Richard Winklestern Containers box 7 , folder 102 "The Meaning of Economic Imperialism", By James O'Connor Containers box 7 , folder 103 "Stock Ownership and the Control of Corporations", By Don Villarejo Containers box 7 , folder 104 "I'd Rather Vote for Something I Want...", A Brief Introduction to the Human Rights Party Pamphlet Containers box 7 , folder 105 "The Other Israel", A Critique of Zionist History and Policy, By the Israeli Socialist Organization (MATZPEN) Containers box 7 , folder 106 "Free Lee Thomas & the Lansing 7" Flyer Containers box 7 , folder 107 "The Chairman!", Classwar Comix Containers box 7 , folder 108 "The People's Party" Flyer Containers box 7 , folder 109 "Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth through Escalation to Nuclear Destruction", By Andre Gunder Frank Containers box 7 , folder 110 "The Human Rights Party, Ann Arbor City Council Record" Pamphlet Containers box 7 , folder 111 Assorted Letterheads (5) for Various Leftist Groups Containers box 7 , folder 112 Monthly Planet , October 3, 1969 Containers box 7 , folder 113 Assorted Papers (3) from the Peace and Freedom Club , 1968 Containers box 7 , folder 114 CNVA Bulletin , May 3, 1962 Containers box 7 , folder 115 Spring Movement , April 8, 1971 Containers box 7 , folder 116 "How to Research Your Own Hometown", By Robert K. Lamb Containers box 7 , folder 117 "The Decline of American Radicalism in the Twentieth Century", By Gabriel Kolko Containers box 7 , folder 118 Philadelphia Free Press (2) , September 15, 1969 and December 15, 1970 Containers box 7 , folder 119 "The Earth Belongs to the People", Ecology & Power , 1970 Containers box 7 , folder 120 "San Diego Convention Coalition" , 1972 Containers box 7 , folder 121 "Genetic Engineering", Science and Society Series , November, 1973 Containers box 7 , folder 122 Issue! , April 15, 1968 Containers box 7 , folder 123 34th Street , October 11, 1966 Containers box 7 , folder 124 "The Struggle Inside" Containers box 7 , folder 125 "Basis of Unity for the Campus Anti-Imperialist Coalition" Containers box 7 , folder 126 "New Left May Day Manifesto" , 1967 Containers box 7 , folder 127 "On University Neutrality" , May, 1970 Containers box 7 , folder 128 "Suggestions for RSU Structure and Committees for Fall Quarter" Containers box 7 , folder 129 "Where It's At", A Research Guide for Community Organizing, By Jill Hamberg , 1967 Containers box 7 , folder 130 Flyer for a Benefit Concert for Senator George McGovern Containers box 7 , folder 131 "Trashman the Avenger" Comic Containers box 7 , folder 132 "Call to Public Vigil and Witness" Flyer , November 1965 Containers box 7 , folder 133 "Davin City Council" Flyer Containers box 7 , folder 134 "Guess Who's Coming to Palo Alto?" Flyer , April 8 1972 Containers box 7 , folder 135 The Sewer, V.1, N.1 , May 3 1967 Containers box 7 , folder 136 The Sewer: The Van Nuys Underground V. IV, N, 5 , 1969 Containers box 7 , folder 137 Invitation letter to 23rd Testimonial Dinner of the Los Angeles Committee for the Defense of the Bill of Rights , November 8 1973 Containers box 7 , folder 138 "Yeah A Look at the White Problem" Pamphlet , December 1963 Containers box 7 , folder 139 "Who Makes the Violence? a forum on Police-Citizen Confrontation" Flyer , September 15 1968 Containers box 8 , folder 1 "Don't Shop at Hudsons Boycott Farrah Pants" Flyer , December 1973 Containers box 8 , folder 2 An Open Letter to President Kennedy , November 16 1961 Containers box 8 , folder 3 "The Youth Peace Corps and the Cold War" Memo , 1961 Containers box 8 , folder 4 "The Pacifist Ethic and Humanism" Pamphlet , ca. 1961 Containers box 8 , folder 5 The Spectacle - Vol. 1 No. 1-Vol. 3 No. 4 , March 1974-January 1976 Containers box 8 , folder 6-19 The New Liberator , March 16 1962 Containers box 14 , folder 24 The New Liberator , June 7 1962 Containers box 14 , folder 25 "No More Broken Treaties" Flyer Containers box 14 , folder 26 La Wisp (3) , May-June, 1969 and October, 1969 Containers box 14 , folder 27 Freedom is a Constant Struggle--Defend Victims of Racism and Repression Containers box 14 , folder 28 Outcry from Occupied Berkeley Containers box 14 , folder 29 Anti-Imperialist Peoples' Communique , June 19th, 1972 Containers box 14 , folder 30 "Balls The Ungarbled Word" , 1968 Containers box 14 , folder 31 "Resistance At Penn" Flyer , April 11 1967 Containers box 14 , folder 32 The Two Souls Of Socialism , by Hal Draper , 1966 Containers box 14 , folder 33 People Against Rizzo Newsletter , 1971 Containers box 14 , folder 34 General Meeting Campus Anti-Imperialist Coalition Flyer , March 1 1972 Containers box 14 , folder 35 Peace, Freedom, Jobs Flyer , March 28 1970 Containers box 14 , folder 36 California-Berkeley Bail Bucket Flyer Containers box 14 , folder 37 The Realist. 8 Issues: 23, 27, 30, 41,47,48,54,57 , 1961-1965 Containers box 24 , folder 6 The Realist. 8 issues: 58, 61-67 , 1965-1966 Containers box 24 , folder 7 "Mother Jones" , August 1977 Containers box 24 , folder 8 "New West Magazine" , November 1966 Containers box 24 , folder 9 "Wanted: Sam I. Hayakawa" Flyer , ca. 1968 Containers box 24 , folder 10 Redwood Bark: Underground Newspaper , October 1968 Containers box 24 , folder 11 Mill Hunk Herald. 6 Issues , 1981-1984 Containers box 24 , folder 12 "The Organizer's Manual" The O.M. Collective , 1971 Containers box 24 , folder 13 "Ramparts: A Muckraker's Guide to 1968 & other horrors" , 1968 Containers box 24 , folder 14 The Organizer vol. 1 no. 4 , 1974 Containers box 24 , folder 15 "Vote Today and Tomorrow for Creative Change" Flyer , December 1969 Containers box 24 , folder 16 Green Quarterly , 1971 Containers box 24 , folder 17 Evergreen Review no. 36 , June 1965 Containers box 24 , folder 18 Liberation , October 1969 Containers box 24 , folder 19 Ramparts , April 1969 Containers box 24 , folder 20 Monthly Review Press catalogue , Fall 1969 Containers box 24 , folder 21 Trip vol. II no. 2 underground newspaper , October 1969 Containers box 24 , folder 22 Fokal Points, Bill Wolff , 1962 Containers box 24 , folder 23 "You Can Do Better Than This" , 1967 Containers box 24 , folder 24 "On Poland" Ed Spira , October 1981 Containers box 24 , folder 25 "The Student as Nigger" Jerry Farber Containers box 24 , folder 26 Posters for Political Events at Yale University (5 items) , ca. 1970 Containers box 32 , folder 2 Yale University Event Posters , 1970-1976 Containers box 32 , folder 3 Other Yale University Events (32 items) , 1969-1979 Containers box 32 , folder 4 Call Citizen's Alert (2 Copies) , 1969 Containers box 32 , folder 5 From Out of Sherwood Forest vol 8 no. 23: Underground Newspaper , November 1969 Containers box 32 , folder 6 "Joints for Justice" , October 1967 Containers box 32 , folder 7 Peace & Freedom Party is What's Happening Containers box 32 , folder 8 "Holding Together" Berkeley Counter Culture Poster , ca. 1970 Containers box 34 , folder 7 "Action" Poster , 1968 Containers box 34 , folder 8 Synanon Street Fair Poster , 1969 Containers box 35 , folder 4 Anti-Lyndon B Johnson Poster Containers box 35 , folder 5 William Wegee Poster , 1967 Containers box 35 , folder 6 Anti-Gerald Ford Poster Containers box 35 , folder 7 Arrested Protestor Poster Containers box 35 , folder 8 "I'd Rather be Dead than Red" Poster , ca. 1970s Containers box 35 , folder 9 Anti-Agnew Bob Dara Posters Containers box 35 , folder 10 "Berkeley in the Sixties" Film Poster , 1990 Containers box 35 , folder 11 "Freedom for Political Prisoners" Wilfred Owen Brigade , September 1976 Containers box 35 , folder 12 Other William Wegee Poster , 1976 Containers box 35 , folder 13 "Yes Master, No Master" Poster Containers box 35 , folder 14 "Chicken Little was Right" , 1969 Containers box 35 , folder 15 Resist! Concert Poster , 1988 Containers box 35 , folder 16 "America $$$$" Day Glo Poster , 1970 Containers box 35 , folder 17 "Burned Bank" Poster , ca. 1970 Containers box 35 , folder 25 Anti-LBJ Posters , 1968 Containers box 35 , folder 27 Mao Poster , ca. 1960s Containers box 35 , folder 28 City Times Vol. 1, No. 6 , March 1982 Containers box 37 , folder 160 City Times Number 8 , Winter 1982 Containers box 37 , folder 161 Pittburgh Fair Witness Vol. 2, No. 10 , August-September 1971 Containers box 37 , folder 162 Science and Society , Summer 1987 Containers box 37 , folder 163 "The Movement and the Workers" , March 1969 Containers box 37 , folder 164 The Realist , April 1965 Containers box 39 , folder 15 Series XIII. Other Radical/Leftist Organizations 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.
"The Demands of Democracy", By Eugene J. McCarthy Containers box 8 , folder 20 "Four More Nixon Years?" Pamphlet Containers box 8 , folder 21 The Southern Patriot , November, 1958 Containers box 8 , folder 22 The Southern Patriot , December, 1976 Containers box 8 , folder 23 "Impeach Nixon No Deals, Force Congress to Impeach Nixon" Containers box 8 , folder 24 "The Whole World is Watching! Inauguration Day '69" Flyer , 1969 Containers box 8 , folder 25 Letter from George McGovern Containers box 8 , folder 26 "Exploring Nonviolent Action", A Guide to Research, By George Lakey , April, 1970 Containers box 8 , folder 27 "Monthly Review Press", Spring 1969 , 1969 Containers box 8 , folder 28 "Hugh Hardyman 1902-1960" Containers box 8 , folder 29 Flyer for the Peace and Freedom Party Nominee for Lieutenant Governor, Clyde Kuhn , 1986 Containers box 8 , folder 30 "Poverty Amidst Plenty", A Scientific Anachronism Containers box 8 , folder 31 "For a Labor Party in Connecticut" Containers box 8 , folder 32 The American Progress , November 9, 1933 Containers box 8 , folder 33 "The A.F.T. Strike Continues!!", Policy on the First Week of the Semester Containers box 8 , folder 34 "Building Economic Alternatives", A Quarterly Publication of Co-op America, Spring 1986 , 1986 Containers box 8 , folder 35 "March for Economic Survival, Saturday-September 28, 1974 , August 20, 1974 Containers box 8 , folder 36 Flyers (4)Calling People to March and Protest , 1974 Containers box 8 , folder 37 Southern Exposure , "Here Come a Wind", Labor on the Move , 1976 Containers box 8 , folder 38 Southern Exposure , "Growing Up Southern" , 1980 Containers box 8 , folder 39 Southern Exposure , "Festival", Celebrating Southern Literature , 1981 Containers box 8 , folder 40 Southern Exposure , "Stayed on Freedom" , 1981 Containers box 8 , folder 41 Fact Sheet, Details of the Community Control of the Police Proposition , January, 1971 Containers box 8 , folder 42 "Too Much Garbage from City Council" Containers box 8 , folder 43 "A Short Introduction to Consumers' Cooperation", By Ellis Cowling , 1935 Containers box 8 , folder 44 "Disarm the Corporations" Containers box 8 , folder 45 The Principal Principle , June, 1931 Containers box 8 , folder 46 "The Big Guns", By Matthew Josephson , January 14, 1956 Containers box 8 , folder 47 "Technocracy an Interpretation", By Stuart Chase , 1933 Containers box 8 , folder 48 "Smog over Los Angeles" , 1959 Containers box 8 , folder 49 "Rich Man Poor Man", By Ryllis Alexander Goslin & Omar Pancost Goslin , 1935 Containers box 8 , folder 50 Issues of World Events (14), By Scott Nearing , 1947-1948 Containers box 8 , folder 51 "In Memoriam of Victor Alter Henryk Erlich" , March 30, 1943 Containers box 8 , folder 52 "Our Maturing Fascism", By Hugh Hardyman , 1949 Containers box 8 , folder 53 "Synthesis is our Only Possibility", By Bob Dickens Containers box 8 , folder 54 Flyer from the National Organization for an American Revolution Containers box 8 , folder 55 "San Francisco and the Un-American Activities Committee" Containers box 8 , folder 56 IS Bulletin , May 15, 1971 Containers box 8 , folder 57 "Economics for Beginners", Elementary Economics in Simple Language, By John Keracher , 1935 Containers box 8 , folder 58 "Are Our Banks Betraying Us?", By Alfred Wayland , 1932 Containers box 8 , folder 59 Flyers for "Food Not Bombs" and The Conscious Alliance Containers box 8 , folder 60 "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 Containers box 8 , folder 61 "The Socialization of Money", By E.F. Mylius Containers box 8 , folder 62 "Inaugural Address" Containers box 8 , folder 63 "The World's Crisis Analyzed- Solution Offered", Open Letter to President Harding, By H.L.A. Holman Containers box 8 , folder 64 The Industrial Communist (2) , September, 1920 and May, 1921 Containers box 8 , folder 65 "Countdown to a Nuclear Moratorium", Environmental Action Foundation , April, 1976 Containers box 8 , folder 66 Progressive Student Union Rearguard , 1990 Containers box 8 , folder 67 "Somebody Had to Say 'the emperor wears no clothes'" Containers box 8 , folder 68 "Come Home, America", A Flyer for Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern Containers box 8 , folder 69 General Informational Sheet for a March in Harrisburg Containers box 8 , folder 70 "Use Nuclear Electric Power and Reduce Oil Dependency" Flyer Containers box 8 , folder 71 "Era Walk '80" Flyer , October 18, 1980 Containers box 8 , folder 72 Flyer for "Boycott GE Products Until General Electric Gets Out of the Nuclear Business" Containers box 8 , folder 73 "What's Wrong With Big Rock? Plenty!!" Flyer Containers box 8 , folder 74 Flyer Calling for Support of Haitian Refugees Containers box 8 , folder 75 "Let There be a World", By Felix Greene , 1963 Containers box 8 , folder 76 "Watts Uprising '65" Containers box 8 , folder 77 "The Making of a Pollution-Industrial Complex", By Martin Gellen , 1970 Containers box 8 , folder 78 "The Real Cuba as Three Candidates Saw it" , June, 1964 Containers box 8 , folder 79 "N.A.C.L.A. Research Methodology Guide" Containers box 8 , folder 80 "A New Look at Cuba", The Challenge to Kennedy, By Jesse Gordon and Gen. Hugh B. Hester Containers box 8 , folder 81 Flyer for a Rally for McCarthy Containers box 8 , folder 82 Pamphlet about the SLATE Organization Containers box 8 , folder 83 "Aid Victims of Southern Africa's Rule of Terror" Pamphlet Containers box 8 , folder 84 "Strike" Pamphlet Containers box 8 , folder 85 Program for "The Snow Fairy" , 1912 Containers box 8 , folder 86 "WorkForce Resource Guide: Organizing" Newspaper Containers box 8 , folder 87 Assorted Anti-Nixon Memorabilia Containers box 8 , folder 88 "I Support Consumers Education and Protective Association" card Containers box 8 , folder 89 "Boycott the Elections!" Marxist-Lenist Party Red Women's Detachment Containers box 8 , folder 90 The People's Tribune - Vol. 9 No. 8-Vol. 10 No. 10 , April 12, 1982-May 10, 1983 Containers box 8 , folder 91-118 Underground - Vol. 1 No. 2 , March 1971 Containers box 8 , folder 119 National Guardian , April 12, 1954- April 6, 1968 Containers box 8 , folder 120-164 Container Summary
National Guardian , April 13, 1968- October 17, 1970 Containers box 9 , folder 1-195 The Progressive , Hidden History of the United States Calendar , 1982 Containers box 14 , folder 38 Students Picket Churchill at Columbia Containers box 14 , folder 39 "Five Years of Hitler" Containers box 14 , folder 40 "America of the Rich, by the Rich, and for the Rich" Containers box 14 , folder 41 "A Blueprint for America", Peoples' Party of the United States Containers box 14 , folder 42 "Prospects of American Radicalism", American Socialist Publications Containers box 14 , folder 43 "Where Are We Going?", Hugh Hardyman Containers box 14 , folder 44 "Free Our Political Prisoners" Pamphlet , ca. 1919 Containers box 14 , folder 45 The $60 at 60 Pension Plan. Workers Allegiance of America , ca. 1930's Containers box 24 , folder 27 Beehive Collective: 6 items. Maine , ca. 2000s Containers box 24 , folder 28 JPL Universe , November 1989 Containers box 24 , folder 29 Revolution Newspaper Flyer, Chicago Containers box 24 , folder 30 New Day Films , 2010-2011 Containers box 24 , folder 31 "Earl Robinson's 80th Birthday Celebration Concert" Program , June 1990 Containers box 24 , folder 32 "Southwest Economy and Society: Strike for Liberty!" , Fall 1979 Containers box 24 , folder 33 "Southern Exposure" , Fall 1981 Containers box 24 , folder 34 "Dissent" , Summer 1993 Containers box 24 , folder 35 "A Quarter Century of Un-Americana" Marzani and Muzeil , 1963 Containers box 24 , folder 36 Bicentennial pamphlet and flyers on Robert Ingersoll , 1976 Containers box 24 , folder 37 "The Progressive" , July 1982 Containers box 24 , folder 38 Pittsburgh Peace Institute catalogue , Winter 1989 Containers box 24 , folder 39 CMA News vol. 2 no. 2 , March 1980 Containers box 24 , folder 40 Monthly Review Press Supplement: "Review 1" , 1965 Containers box 24 , folder 41 "The A B C of Socialism" Leo Huberman and Sybil H. May , 1958 Containers box 24 , folder 42 "Making Patients Pay More" Sam Baker , 1985 Containers box 24 , folder 43 "Resolution and Petition of the Impeachment of Richard Nixon" ACLU Michigan , October 1973 Containers box 24 , folder 44 "A United Front Against Fascism" , March 1933 Containers box 24 , folder 45 "People United for Environmental Justice Grassroots Convention Songbook" Citizens' Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste , 1989 Containers box 24 , folder 46 "Report on the Community Defense project on Organized Neo-fascists in Portland, Oregon" Coalition for Human Dignity , 1990 Containers box 24 , folder 47 "Your Career and Nuclear Weapons" Santa Barbara Peace Group , 1985 Containers box 24 , folder 48 Progressive World vol. 37 no. 3 , May- June 1980 Containers box 24 , folder 49 "Shutdown Strategies Citizen Efforts to Close Nuclear Powerplants" Joseph Kreisburg , 1986 Containers box 24 , folder 50 ACLU New Member's Kit , 1986 Containers box 32 , folder 9 The Roots and Prospects of McCarthyism Containers box 32 , folder 10 The Daily Compass vol. 1 no.1 , May 1949 Containers box 32 , folder 11 Free Economy vol. VIII no. 10 , November 1938 Containers box 32 , folder 12 The Nation vol. CXVIII no. 3073 , May 1924 Containers box 32 , folder 13 Free University Press, University of Pittsburgh (4 issues) , 1989 Containers box 32 , folder 14 "Thousands of Children are Hungry" (2 Copies) Illustrated Flyer , 1940 Containers box 32 , folder 15 La Follette's Magazine Vol. XVII No. 1 , January 1925 Containers box 32 , folder 16a La Follette's Magazine Vol. XVII No. 2 , February 1925 Containers box 32 , folder 16b The Forty Niner vol. XXI no. 49, California State College Student Newspaper , December 1969 Containers box 32 , folder 17 Epic News vol. 1 no. 45 , April 1935 Containers box 32 , folder 18 Rally No Nukes , 1979 Containers box 34 , folder 9 "March for Peace and Justice" Poster , 1982 Containers box 34 , folder 10 McGovern-Shriver Campaign Poster , 1972 Containers box 34 , folder 11 American Working Class History Project Pamphlet Containers box 37 , folder 165 Science & Society Mail Order , 2004 Containers box 37 , folder 166 "Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era" Mail Order Containers box 37 , folder 167 "Indroducing Color Adjusment" Mail Order , 1991-1992 Containers box 37 , folder 168 "Crisis Bargaining" Mail Order Containers box 37 , folder 169 "With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade" Mail Order , 1978 Containers box 37 , folder 170 Icarus Films Mailing , September 1980 Containers box 37 , folder 171 Bread and Roses Mail Order Containers box 37 , folder 172 Labor Film Library Flyer Containers box 37 , folder 173 Icarus Films Labor Film Library Papers Containers box 37 , folder 174 Bread and Roses Order Form Containers box 38 , folder 1 Monthly Review Press , Spring 1998 Containers box 38 , folder 2 Monthly Review Press , Winter 2000 Containers box 38 , folder 3 Lovestonites 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.
"Marx and America" by Bertram Wolfe , 1934 Containers box 10 , folder 1 "The Crisis in the Communist Party, U.S.A", Statement of the Principles of the Communist Party (Majority Group) , February, 1930 Containers box 10 , folder 2 "Pro-War Communism", By Veritas , 1937 Containers box 10 , folder 3 Series XIV. Popular Front Culture 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.
From These Honored Dead... , By David McKelvy White and James HawthorneContainers box 10 , folder 4 Photograph of Aiding State Trooper Michael Murray as He Lies on the Ground , September 4, 1949 Containers box 10 , folder 5 Wendell Phillips , By James J. Green , 1943 Containers box 10 , folder 6 Poems for Workers , An Anthology, Edited by Manuel GomezContainers box 10 , folder 7 "Ajut Infantil De Reraguarda" Flyer Containers box 10 , folder 8 "One Year of the Writers and Artists Committee for Medical Aid to Spain" Pamphlet , January-December, 1937 Containers box 10 , folder 9 "Marxism and Culture No. I", A Brief Bibliography of Marxism and the Arts, Edited by Louis Harp Containers box 10 , folder 10 Hear...Ludwig Renn, Chief of Staff of International Brigades , 1937 Containers box 10 , folder 11 Medical Bureau & North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy Flyers (2) Containers box 10 , folder 12 20 Years After , 1914-1934, By James LernerContainers box 10 , folder 13 "Critics Group Dialectics #1" Pamphlet , 1937 Containers box 10 , folder 14 Issues #2, #4 and #5 of Critics Group Dialectics Stories Containers box 10 , folder 15 The Brave and the Blind , A One-Act Drama, By Michael Blankfort , 1937 Containers box 10 , folder 16 Issues #3, #6 and #10 of Partisan Review , November-December, 1953,Summer, 1955, and October, 1948 Containers box 10 , folder 17 Washington and Lincoln , The American Tradition, By Joseph NorthContainers box 10 , folder 18 Photograph of Men from The New York State Young Communist League Boycotting Japanese Goods Containers box 10 , folder 19 "Big Barn Dance" flyer , September 1940 Containers box 24 , folder 51 "Front Populaire Revue" Flyer/playbill , 1936 Containers box 24 , folder 52 New Years Evening Dance Flyer Containers box 24 , folder 53 "Labor and Culture" , Fall 1941 Containers box 24 , folder 54 First Hand reports from the Writer's Congress flyer , May 1935 Containers box 24 , folder 55 Marching Feet flyer , 1934 Containers box 24 , folder 56 May First Celebration program , 1939 Containers box 24 , folder 57 Meet the Cast of "Awake and Sing" Clifford Odets flyer , May 1936 Containers box 24 , folder 58 Theatre Workshop , October- December 1936 Containers box 24 , folder 59 "We Gather Strength" , 1933 Containers box 24 , folder 60 "Poems" Kenneth Fearing , 1936 Containers box 24 , folder 61 Dialectics. 5 issues: 3, 4, 6-8 , 1937 Containers box 24 , folder 62 Sing Out! , September 1952 Containers box 24 , folder 63 People's Songs , December 1946 Containers box 24 , folder 64 People's Songs , February-March 1947 Containers box 24 , folder 65 Federal Theater Project small archive , 1936-1938 Containers box 24 , folder 66 Bay Region Symphony Orchestra Concert postcard , July 1938 Containers box 24 , folder 67 "Stop Barbaric Slaughter with a Human Boycott" press photo , January, 1939 Containers box 24 , folder 68 The New Anvil , April/May 1939 Containers box 24 , folder 69 Songs of Joe Hill , 1960 Containers box 24 , folder 70 New Masses , December 1944 Containers box 25 , folder 1 New Masses , May 1947 Containers box 25 , folder 2 New Masses. 6 issues , 1935-1946 Containers box 25 , folder 3 Partisan Review, Vol. 1 No. 2 , April/May 1934 Containers box 25 , folder 4 Partisan Review, Vol. 2 No. 7 , April/May 1935 Containers box 25 , folder 5 Partisan Review, Vol. 2 No. 8 , July/August 1935 Containers box 25 , folder 6 Partisan Review, Vol. 13 No. 3, Vol. 4 No. 1-2 , Summer 1946- March/April 1947 Containers box 25 , folder 7 Partisan Review, Vol. 14 No. 3-4, Vol. 15 No. 1 , May/June 1947- January 1948 Containers box 25 , folder 8 Partisan Review, Vol. 15 No. 2-4 , February 1948- April 1948 Containers box 25 , folder 9 Partisan Review, Vol. 15 No. 5-6, 8 , May 1948- August 1948 Containers box 25 , folder 10 Partisan Review, Vol. 15 No. 12, Vol. 16 No. 1, 4 , December 1948- April 1949 Containers box 25 , folder 11 Partisan Review, Vol. 16 No. 6, 10-11 , June 1949- November 1949 Containers box 25 , folder 12 Legal Briefs from suits by blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters, actor and directors against Hollywood Studios Containers box 25 , folder 13 Play Bureau , December 1936 Containers box 33 , folder 1 New Theatre , June 1935 Containers box 33 , folder 2A New Theatre , August 1935 Containers box 33 , folder 2B New Theatre , June 1936 Containers box 33 , folder 2C New Theatre , November 1936 Containers box 33 , folder 2D Series XV. Progressive Party 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.
"We Propose this Program of Peace and Abundance for the People of North Carolina" Pamphlet , 1948 Containers box 10 , folder 20 IPP Record Containers box 10 , folder 21 Draft Platform Progressive Party of North Carolina , April 25 1948 Containers box 10 , folder 22 Container Summary 3
Progressive Party Platform , 1952 Containers box 10 , folder 23 "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 Containers box 10 , folder 24 "Could Peace Cost So Much?" Flyer , 1952 Containers box 10 , folder 25 "The Other Evil", The Truth About the 1952 Elections, By Vito Marcantonio Containers box 10 , folder 26 "He Thinks Right" Containers box 10 , folder 27 Flyer Discussing Police Brutality in Detroit , 1948 Containers box 10 , folder 28 Tribune Record , April 17, 1953 Containers box 10 , folder 29 Flyer for The Progressive Party of Delaware Containers box 10 , folder 30 "We Can Have Homes" Containers box 10 , folder 31 "The Third Party and the 1948 Elections", By Eugene Dennis , March, 1948 Containers box 10 , folder 32 A Flyer from the Young Progressives of Ohio Containers box 10 , folder 33 "The 3rd Party", By Adam Lapin Containers box 10 , folder 34 Flyer Encouraging People to Vote for the Progressive Party Containers box 10 , folder 35 "The Outlook for the N.Y. City Elections", By Simon W. Gerson Containers box 10 , folder 36 "Speak up for Peace" Containers box 10 , folder 37 Flyer to Vote for Henry Steinberg Containers box 10 , folder 38 "YOU Can Stop the Korean War YOU Can Stop World War 3 With a VOTE" Flyer , 1952 Containers box 10 , folder 39 "Fed Up..." Flyer , ca. 1938 Containers box 10 , folder 40 Progressive Party of Philadelphia Letter , November 17, 1954 Containers box 14 , folder 46 "Knock on Any Door!", Progressive Party Containers box 14 , folder 47 Pamphlet to Elect Progressive Party Candidate Mrs. Charlotta Bass Containers box 14 , folder 48 "Your Vote Can Stop the War in Korea Now!" Pamphlet Containers box 14 , folder 49 "Vote for Wallace" Flyer Containers box 14 , folder 50 "Red Herring" Flyer , 1948 Containers box 26 , folder 1 Progressive Party Campaign Items (5) , 1948 Containers box 26 , folder 2 "How Your Congressman Voted On:" Intro by Henry A Wallace , 1946 Containers box 26 , folder 3 Series XVI. Socialist Labor Party (SLP) 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.
"1940 Platform...No Peace Without Socialism!" Containers box 10 , folder 41 "Karl Marx, The Man and His Work and the Constructive Elements of Socialism", Three Lectures and Two Essays By Karl Dannenberg , 1918 Containers box 10 , folder 42 "Socialist Reconstruction of Society", The Industrial Vote, By Daniel De Leon Containers box 10 , folder 43 Grand March Festival Given By The Socialists of St. Paul, Minn. at Germania Turner Hall , 1894 Containers box 10 , folder 44 A Socialist Labor Party Envelope and Ticket Containers box 10 , folder 45 Three Letters to Sections and Members of the S.L.P. , February 23 and 27, 1918 Containers box 10 , folder 46 "Economic Basis of Education", By Aaron M. Orange , 1942 Containers box 10 , folder 47 "A Socialist Labor Party Statement, What Can Be Done About Unemployment?" Containers box 10 , folder 48 "The Fetishism of Liberty", By Harry Waton , 1917 Containers box 10 , folder 49 "From Reform to Bayonets", By Arnold Petersen , May, 1947 Containers box 10 , folder 50 Multiple Socialist Labor Party Documents Addressed to Samuel Johnson Containers box 10 , folder 51 "Anti-Semitism, Its Cause and Cure Daniel de Leon" , 1921 Containers box 10 , folder 52 "Socialism: World Without Race Prejudice", By Eric Hass Containers box 10 , folder 53 "Unionism: Fraudulent of Genuine?", By Nathan Karp , 1962 Containers box 10 , folder 54 "Democracy", Past, Present and Future, By Arnold Petersen , 1962 Containers box 10 , folder 55 1964 Platform or the Socialist Labor Party of America , 1964 Containers box 10 , folder 56 "Discussion Bulletin" , February, 1986 Containers box 10 , folder 57 Flyer for a Musical and Lecture Containers box 10 , folder 58 "Socialist Album" , 1896 Containers box 10 , folder 59 Christmas Entertainment Newsletter , December 27 1896 Containers box 10 , folder 60 "Winter Evening Agitation Meetings" leaflet , 1894 Containers box 10 , folder 61 "Vote for the Socialist Labor Party" Flyer Containers box 14 , folder 51 Socialist Labor Party Flyers , 1976-1978 Containers box 26 , folder 9 SLP Section St. Louis Grievance Committee Meeting , 1980 Containers box 26 , folder 10 The People's Library vol. 1 no. 2 , January 1899 Containers box 26 , folder 11 The People's Library vol. 1 no. 4 , July 1899 Containers box 26 , folder 12 Tragic Pages from the History of Strikes among the Miners , September 1900 Containers box 26 , folder 13 GEO E. Lawrence TLS (2) and Flyer , 1892 Containers box 26 , folder 14 Bound Group of Socialist Pamphlets, Socialist Labor Party Containers box 26 , folder 15 "A Philosophy of Happiness" Thomas Bersford , October 1899 Containers box 26 , folder 16 "The Gospel of Discontent" G.B. Benham , September 1897 Containers box 26 , folder 17 "Forging of the New: Studies in Socialism" Fanklin H. Wentworth , 1907 Containers box 26 , folder 18 "Civilization Civilized" Stephen Maybell , November 1895 Containers box 26 , folder 19 "Scientific Socialism" Thomas Bersford , July 1899 Containers box 26 , folder 20 "The Crimes of Capitalism" G.B. Benham , January 1898 Containers box 26 , folder 21 "Patriotism and Socialism" G.B. Benham , June 1899 Containers box 26 , folder 22 "The Story of the Red Flag" G. B. Benham , 1897 Containers box 26 , folder 23 "The Attitude of the Socialists Toward Trade Unions" , 1900 Containers box 26 , folder 24 "Gov. Altgeld's Pardon & The Modern Tragedy: Downfall of the Small Producer & The Crisis" , June 1894 Containers box 26 , folder 25 "Catechism of Socialism" G. B. Benham , March 1898 Containers box 26 , folder 26 Bulletin of the Social Labor Movement , 1994 Containers box 39 , folder 16 1904 Ticket for Ball (St. Paul, Minn.) , 1904 Containers box 39 , folder 17 Series XVII. Socialist Party USA (SPUSA) 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).
"Which Road for American Workers, Socialist or Communist?" , January, 1936 Containers box 10 , folder 62 Assorted Socialist Party-Social Democratic Convention Papers Containers box 10 , folder 63 "Public Ownership Here and Abroad", By Harry W. Laidler , 1931 Containers box 10 , folder 64 "An Appeal to the Young", By P. Kropotkin Containers box 10 , folder 65 The Melting Pot , Home Again With the Melting Pot , June, 1918 Containers box 10 , folder 66 "The Germs of War", A Study in Preparedness , 1916 Containers box 10 , folder 67 "Letters to Judd", An American Workingman, By Upton Sinclair Containers box 10 , folder 68 "Think or Surrender", By George R. Kirkpatrick Containers box 10 , folder 69 Assorted Writings (5) By Upton Sinclair, Pasadena, California Containers box 10 , folder 70 "Two Constitutions", By Oscar Ameringer Containers box 10 , folder 71 Assorted Leftist Papers Containers box 10 , folder 72 "Sit-Down", By Joel Seidman, and "A G.M. Stockholder Visits Flint", By Robert Morss Lovett , March, 1937 Containers box 10 , folder 73 "Realignment", One Year After the Party Convention Containers box 10 , folder 74 "The Appeal Almanac and Arsenal of Facts for 1917" , 1917 Containers box 10 , folder 75 "No!,Steps to Create Peace", By the Peace Work Group Socialist Party USA Containers box 10 , folder 76 "America at the Crossroads", By David P. Berenberg , 1934 Containers box 10 , folder 77 "Leaflet No. 6", Testimony to the Charges Against Assemblyman Solomon Containers box 10 , folder 78 "Tampa- Tar and Terror" Containers box 10 , folder 79 "Wages in Mexican Money", By Mary E. Marcy Containers box 10 , folder 80 "Socialist Campaign Songs" Containers box 10 , folder 81 "Socialist Song Book" Containers box 10 , folder 82 "Value, Price and Profit", By Karl Marx Containers box 10 , folder 83 Intemperance and Poverty , by T. TwiningContainers box 10 , folder 84 Pocket Library of Socialism , No. 39, "Socialism and the Organized Labor Movement", By May Wood SimmonsContainers box 10 , folder 85 Pocket Library of Socialism , No. 48, "Useful Work Versus Useless Toil", By William MorrisContainers box 10 , folder 86 Pocket Library of Socialism , No. 50, "Marx on Cheapness"Containers box 10 , folder 87 "Economic Evolution", By Paul Lafargue Containers box 10 , folder 88 "Science and Socialism", By Robert Rives La Monte Containers box 10 , folder 89 "Rational Prohibition", An Address to Temperance Workers, Delivered in Los Angeles, June 22, 1902, By Walter L. Young Containers box 10 , folder 90 "What's So and What Isn't", By John M. Work , 1916 Containers box 10 , folder 91 "The Cold War and the Russian Bogeyman: A Socialist Analysis" Containers box 10 , folder 92 "Why I am a Socialist", By Norman Thomas Containers box 10 , folder 93 "Democracy and Revolution", By Friedrich Adler Containers box 10 , folder 94 A Socialist Party of America Membership Card Containers box 10 , folder 95 "Capitalism, Socialism, Communism?- A Debate" Containers box 10 , folder 96 "Convict 9653, America's Vision Maker", Story of Eugene Victor Debs, the United States' Great Socialist Anti-Militarist, By Guy A. Aldred Containers box 10 , folder 97 Certain Misconceptions, A Few Current Objections to Socialism Answered , by John M. Work , 1931 Containers box 10 , folder 98 Are There Classes in America? , by Ralph KorkngoldContainers box 10 , folder 99 Little Blue Book, No. 1703, Organizing the World for Socialism , Clarence Senior , 1931 Containers box 10 , folder 100 ASQ, American Socialist Quarterly Reprints , No. 1, "Towards Socialist Reorientation", By Haim KantorovitchContainers box 10 , folder 101 "Problems of Revolutionary Socialism", By Haim Kantorovitch Containers box 10 , folder 102 The Essence of Socialism , by William H. Watts , 1910 Containers box 10 , folder 103 "Wage-Labor and Capital", By Karl Marx Containers box 10 , folder 104 The Socialist Appeal , August-September, 1935 Containers box 10 , folder 105 Socialist Party Leaflet , No. 4, "How Socialists Organized the Unions in Germany", By Robert HunterContainers box 10 , folder 106 Socialism, What it is, and How to Get it , by Oscar Ameringer , 1930 Containers box 10 , folder 107 "Scientific Principles of History, Political Economy and Sociology Wrapped in One Bundle Containers box 10 , folder 108 National Constitution of the Socialist Party Containers box 10 , folder 109 The Socialist Party of Ohio Poll Inspector Certificates (2) , 1912 Containers box 10 , folder 110 "Socialist Party Platform" Containers box 10 , folder 111 "National Constitution of the Socialist Party" , 1912 Containers box 10 , folder 112 "A Political Guide for the Workers", Socialist Party Campaign Book , 1920 Containers box 10 , folder 113 "An Open Letter to Progressives", By Norman Thomas , 1928 Containers box 10 , folder 114 "For Socialist America", National Platform, Socialist Party , 1936 Containers box 10 , folder 115 "The ABC of Socialism", By Fred Henderson Containers box 10 , folder 116 Technocracy and Socialism , by Paul Blanshard , 1933 Containers box 10 , folder 117 A Worker's World , by David P. Berenberg , 1931 Containers box 10 , folder 118 "A Plan for America", Official Campaign Handbook of the Socialist Party , 1932 Containers box 10 , folder 119 "Inflation, Who Wins and Who Loses?", By Maynard C. Krueger , March 23, 1934 Containers box 10 , folder 120 "The Case for Socialism", By Fred Henderson Containers box 10 , folder 121 "Democracy and Revolution", By Friedrich Adler Containers box 10 , folder 122 "Socialist Handbook" , 1937 Containers box 10 , folder 123 Numerous Issues of Labor and Socialist Press Service , 1936 Containers box 10 , folder 124 "Constitution of the Socialist Party" , 1983 Containers box 11 , folder 1 Young Socialist , An Amateur Monthly Socialist Magazine (2) , March and April, 1902 Containers box 11 , folder 2 "Platform and Program of the Socialist Party of Turtle Creek Borough. General Election" , November 8, 1921 Containers box 11 , folder 3 The International Socialist Review , April, 1910 Containers box 11 , folder 4 Flyer to Attend The Socialist Party's Monthly Meetings Containers box 11 , folder 5 Essentials of Socialism , 1932 Containers box 11 , folder 6 Twenty Years of Social Pioneering , 1926 Containers box 11 , folder 7 A Coverless League for Industrial Democracy Booklet Containers box 11 , folder 8 Now It Must Be Done , by Irwin St. John Tucker , 1920 Containers box 11 , folder 9 "To-Day's Problems and Their Solutions", By 150 Able Writers Containers box 11 , folder 10 "The Land of the Free Socialist America" Containers box 11 , folder 11 "The New Capitalism and the Socialist", By Harry W. Laidler , 1931 Containers box 11 , folder 12 "Socialist Songs With Music", Compiled By Charles H. Kerr , 1906 Containers box 11 , folder 13 "The New Deal, A Socialist Analysis", By Norman Thomas , December 15, 1933 Containers box 11 , folder 14 Membership Card for the Socialist Party of the State of Ohio Containers box 11 , folder 15 Socialist Party Cards (3) Containers box 11 , folder 16 "Soldiers, Sailors and Socialism" Containers box 11 , folder 17 Ohio Socialist Bulletin , May 1911 Containers box 11 , folder 18 The Emporia Convincer Newspaper , May 18, 1912 Containers box 11 , folder 19 Land and Labor Newspaper , March 7, 1914 Containers box 11 , folder 20 The Findlay Call , July 1 1911 Containers box 11 , folder 21 The American Guardian - Vol. 14 No. 35-Vol. 22 No. 41 , May 12, 1933-July 14, 1939 Containers box 11 , folder 22-86 Issues of The Pioneer , 1938 Containers box 14 , folder 52 A Letter from the Socialist Party National Campaign Committee in Regard to its Negro Work Sub-Committee , September 12, 1936 Containers box 14 , folder 53 The Comrade : An Illustrated Socialist Monthly (4) , July, November and December, 1902, and February, 1903 Containers box 14 , folder 54 Issues of The Journal of the Socialist Party of Illinois (7) , 1984-1986 Containers box 14 , folder 55 Appeal to Reason Promotional Letter Containers box 14 , folder 56 Criminology, Crimes and Criminals Containers box 14 , folder 57 Wayland's Monthly , May, 1905 Containers box 14 , folder 58 Shop Talks on Economics Containers box 14 , folder 59 Reception and Dance Given in Honor of the Delegates to the State Convention , March 20, 1909 Containers box 14 , folder 60 Price List , ca. 1910 Containers box 14 , folder 61 Your Unions Your Future , 1928 Containers box 14 , folder 62 A.B.C. of Socialism , 1924 Containers box 14 , folder 63 "The Young People's Socialist League" Flyer , ca. 1971 Containers box 14 , folder 64 "Studies in Socialism: What is Yours and How to Get it" H.L. Riggs , October 1910 Containers box 14 , folder 65 To-Night Captain C.C. Ross Flyer , 1912 Containers box 14 , folder 66 "Packingtown" Pamphlet , 1907 Containers box 14 , folder 67 "The Roman Catholic Church Answered: Attack of Roman Catholic Church on Socialism" Pamphlet , 1911 Containers box 14 , folder 68 "Studies in Socialism" Pamphlet , 1906-1907 Containers box 14 , folder 69 "Monkeys and Monkeyettes: A Reply to ex-President Roosevelt" W.F. Ries , 1909 Containers box 14 , folder 70 Newsletter to Members of SLP and SDP Containers box 14 , folder 71 Pearson's Magazine , December 1918 Containers box 26 , folder 27 "Life and Deeds of Uncle Sam" Oscar Ameringer pamphlet , 1912 Containers box 26 , folder 28 "The Worker in American History" James O'Neal, Socialist Party Library Reading PA , 1921 Containers box 26 , folder 29 "What Shall We Do for Food?" Flyer , 1910 Containers box 26 , folder 30 1956 National Platform of the Socialist Party of the United States , 1956 Containers box 26 , folder 31 Beware the Menace of Socialism , 1911 Containers box 26 , folder 32 The Socialist Party. Leaflet , 1908 Containers box 26 , folder 33 District of Columbia Socialist Party Local , March/April 1911 Containers box 26 , folder 34 Mayer Hoan Answers Critics pamphlet , 1933 Containers box 26 , folder 35 "Fight the Jingoes today or in the Trenches Tomorrow" , November 1915 Containers box 26 , folder 36 "Bebel's Reminiscences" Translated by Ernest Untermann , 1911 Containers box 26 , folder 37 "The Head-Fixing Industry" John Keracher pamphlet , 1955 Containers box 26 , folder 38 "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" Charkles Kerr , 1913 Containers box 26 , folder 39 "The Passing of Capitalism" Isador Ladoff , October 1901 Containers box 26 , folder 40 "In and Out of the Yoke" Charles Edward Russell , 1916 Containers box 26 , folder 41 "Railroading in the United States: also the James Boys; also As to Law and Order" Ben Hanford , December 1901 Containers box 26 , folder 42 "Is Competition the Life of Trade" Joseph Wanhope , 1908 Containers box 26 , folder 43 "No!: Steps to Create Peace" , 1987 Containers box 26 , folder 44 The American Circus, Leaflet , 1902 Containers box 26 , folder 45 Mouseland: Cartoon Flyer , ca. 1980s Containers box 26 , folder 46 A Socialist Program for New York , 1946 Containers box 26 , folder 47 The New Appeal Almanac for 1918 , 1918 Containers box 26 , folder 48 Red Falcons of America Manual , ca. 1930s Containers box 26 , folder 49 Minnesota Socialist Party Ballot , 1911 Containers box 26 , folder 50 "Europe in Revolution" Scott Nearing Rand School Pamphlet , 1920 Containers box 26 , folder 51 "The Fighting Editor OR Warren and the Appeal to Reason" George D. Brewer , 1910 Containers box 26 , folder 52 "The Trinity of Plunder" August Claessens , 1916 Containers box 26 , folder 53 "The Fighting for Freedom" George H. Shoat , ca. 1950s Containers box 26 , folder 54 "Poems for the People" W.F. Phelps , 1898 Containers box 26 , folder 55 Socialist Party Anti-War Flyers. 1 Ad, 3 Flyers , 1914-1916 Containers box 26 , folder 56 Free Catalogue of Little Blue Books , 1920 Containers box 26 , folder 57 "A Paradox Explained" George A. Eastman Containers box 26 , folder 58 Municipal Campaign Book Social-Democratic Party , 1912 Containers box 26 , folder 59 "The World's Revolutions" Ernest Untermann , 1906 Containers box 26 , folder 60 "Brau-Industrie und Braubeiter Bewegung in Amerika" Hermann Shulter , 1910 Containers box 27 , folder 1 "Albany: Crisis in Government" Louis Waldman , 1920 Containers box 27 , folder 2 "American Pauperism and the Abolition of Poverty" Isador Ladoff. Socialist Party Library, Reading PA , 1907 Containers box 27 , folder 3 "Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History" Karl Kautsky. Socialist Party Library, Reading PA , 1907 Containers box 27 , folder 4 "The Rebel at Large" May Beals , 1906 Containers box 27 , folder 5 "What's So and What Isn't" John M. Work. Socialist Party Library, Reading PA , 1909 Containers box 27 , folder 6 "The Changing Order" Oscar Lovell Triggs. Socialist Party Library, Reading PA , 1908 Containers box 27 , folder 7 "The American Farmer" A.M. Simmons , 1902 Containers box 27 , folder 8 "Puritanism" Clarence Meily. Socialist Party Library, Reading PA , 1911 Containers box 27 , folder 9 "A Benevolent Feudalism" W.J. Ghent , 1902 Containers box 27 , folder 10 "The Physical Basis of Mind and Morals" M.H. Fitch. Socialist Party Library, Reading PA , 1908 Containers box 27 , folder 11 "The Red Book for Education and Organization" Ira C. Tilton , 1912 Containers box 27 , folder 12 "The American Socialists and the War" Edited by Alexander Trachtenberg and Morris Hillquit , 1917 Containers box 27 , folder 13 "Communism and Christianism" Bishop William Montgomery , 1920 Containers box 27 , folder 14 "Marxism and Darwinism" Anton Pannekock , 1912 Containers box 27 , folder 15 "The Making of the World" Dr. Wilhelm Meyer , 1906 Containers box 27 , folder 16 Political Action. 68 Issues, Bound , July 1911- November 1912 Containers box 33 , folder 3 CC Edwards for Assembly, Campaign Poster , 1912 Containers box 33 , folder 4 Muscatine County Socialist vo. 5 no. 250 , November 1917 Containers box 33 , folder 5 The Leader vol. III no.1 , 1914 Containers box 33 , folder 6 The National Rip-Saw vol. VII no. 9 , November 1910 Containers box 33 , folder 7 The New Voice Vol. I no. 2 , June 1919 Containers box 34 , folder 12 The Pioneer Vol. VIII no. 15 , October 1937 Containers box 34 , folder 13 The American Freeman, No. 1891 , February 1932 Containers box 34 , folder 14a The American Freeman, No. 1940 , May 1934 Containers box 34 , folder 14b Series XVIII. Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) 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.
"Vote for Socialism in 1956" Pamphlet , 1956 Containers box 11 , folder 87 "Let the People Vote on War!" Pamphlet , ca. 1938 Containers box 11 , folder 88 "A Public Forum for the Discussion of the Socialist Workers Party Program" Leaflet , October 15 1960 Containers box 11 , folder 89 "The Voice of Socialism: Radio Speeches by the Socialist Workers Party Candidates in the 1948 Election" Pamphlet , August 1948 Containers box 11 , folder 90 "Manifesto of the Fourth International on The Imperialist War and the Proletarian Revolution" Pamphlet , 1940 Containers box 11 , folder 91 How to Fight War , By James Burnham , March, 1938 Containers box 11 , folder 92 Union-Smashing in Sacramento, The Truth About the Criminal Syndicalism Trial , By Herbert Solow , August, 1935 Containers box 11 , folder 93 The Stalinists on the Waterfront , By Art Preis , April, 1947 Containers box 11 , folder 94 "What Makes Latin America Explosive" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 95 "A Worker for President, Vote Socialist Workers" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 96 Desegregation! Labor's Stake in the Fight for Negro Equality , By Jean Simon , October, 1955 Containers box 11 , folder 97 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 Containers box 11 , folder 98 "The Truth About Jerry Brown" Pamphlet Containers box 11 , folder 99 War and the 4th International , July, 1934 Containers box 11 , folder 100 Stop McCarthyism! , April 1954 Containers box 11 , folder 101 "Build a Labor Party Now", By George Clarke , August, 1946 Containers box 11 , folder 102 "Fight the Slave Labor Law!" , July, 1947 Containers box 11 , folder 103 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 Containers box 11 , folder 104 The Case of the Legless Veteran , By James KutcherContainers box 11 , folder 105 The Coming American Revolution , By James P. Cannon , April, 1947 Containers box 11 , folder 106 The People's Front, The New Betrayal , by James Burnham , 1937 Containers box 11 , folder 107 "Vote Socialist, Steve Bresler for A.S. President, Young Socialist Alliance" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 108 Why We Defend the Soviet Union , by Albert GoldmanContainers box 11 , folder 109 "For a Workers & Farmers Government Vote for Dobb for President, Carlson for Vice-President" Pamphlet Containers box 11 , folder 110 "For a Real Alternative Vote Socialist, Dobbs for President, Weiss for Vice-President, Students for Dobbs and Weiss" Sticker Containers box 11 , folder 111 American Workers Need a Labor Party , By Joseph Hansen , November, 1944 Containers box 11 , folder 112 Flyer Advertising a "United Protest Memorial Meeting for Three Wayne State University Students" Containers box 11 , folder 113 Discussion Bulletin No. 1, "The Kremlin's Satellite States in Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Marxist Theory, and our Perspectives", By E.R. Frank , April, 1950 Containers box 11 , folder 114 Discussion Bulletin No. 3, "The Class Nature of the Buffer Countries in Eastern Europe", By M. Stein , June, 1950 Containers box 11 , folder 115 "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 Containers box 11 , folder 116 Ten Years: History and Principles of the Left Opposition , November 1933 Containers box 11 , folder 117 "A Fighting Program For Labor: Jobs for All" Pamphlet , 1945 Containers box 11 , folder 118 "Viva la Huelga! The Struggle of the Farmworkers" Jose G. Perez , 1973 Containers box 27 , folder 17 Worker's Democracy no. 34 , May/June 1990 Containers box 27 , folder 18 "Be His Payment High or Low: The American Working Class of the Sixties" Martin Glaberman , 1969 Containers box 27 , folder 19 Socialist Review no. 60 , November/December 1981 Containers box 27 , folder 20 Campaign Pamphlet, Why Working People... , 1980 Containers box 39 , folder 20 Other Trotskyists 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).
The New International, A Symposium on The New Europe , July, 1949 Containers box 11 , folder 119 "The Communist Party at the Crossroads: Toward Democratic Socialism or Back to Stalinism", By H.W. Benson Containers box 11 , folder 120 "No More Three Mile Islands! Jobs For All! Fight the Bosses and Their Government" , March 28, 1981 Containers box 11 , folder 121 3 Worker's World Party Pamphlets Stating "People's Needs, Yes! Profits and War, No!" Containers box 11 , folder 122 Next- A Labor Party! , By Jack Ranger , December, 1948 Containers box 11 , folder 123 What is Revolutionary Leadership? Containers box 11 , folder 124 The Fight to Implement Busing for Labor/Black Defense to Stop Racist Attacks and to Smash Fascist Threats , 1974 Containers box 11 , folder 125 Fourth International, The American Empire , August, 1949 Containers box 11 , folder 126 The New International, A Monthly Organ of Revolutionary Marxism , December, 1934 Containers box 14 , folder 72 The New International, A Monthly Organ of Revolutionary Marxism , October, 1935 Containers box 14 , folder 73 Dobbs-Weiss Campaign Flyer , 1960 Containers box 39 , folder 19 The American Freeman, No. 1941 , June 1934 Containers box 39 , folder 14c The Ohio Socialist no. 72 , June 1919 Containers box 39 , folder 15 "Jobs, Peace, Freedom. Vote Socialist" , 1980 Containers box 39 , folder 16 "Pyramid of the Capitalist System" Socialist Poster , 1911 Containers box 35 , folder 18 Science and Revolution by Ernest Untermann , 1905 Containers box 38 , folder 4 The Passing of Capitalism by Isador Ladoff , 1901 Containers box 38 , folder 5 Austin Lewis, Rise of the American Proletariat , 1907 Containers box 39 , folder 18 Series XIX. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) 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.
"Don't Forget the Motor City" Containers box 11 , folder 127 "Radical America", New York Rent Strike, Analysis and Comments by Activists, By James Weinstein , November-December, 1967 Containers box 11 , folder 128 Photograph of Students Protesting the Vietnam War , April 18, 1965 Containers box 11 , folder 129 "The Berkeley Free Speech Controversy", By Eric Levine Containers box 11 , folder 130 "Grape Strike Report Number 1" , ca. 1965 Containers box 11 , folder 131 The Irregular N. 3 , January 3, 1966 Containers box 11 , folder 132 The Irregular N. 5 , February 14, 1966 Containers box 11 , folder 133 The Irregular N. 6 , March 19, 1966 Containers box 11 , folder 134 The Irregular N. 8 , June 3, 1966 Containers box 11 , folder 135 "Students for a Democratic Society" Letter , May 1, 1968 Containers box 11 , folder 136 SDS Press Statement Containers box 11 , folder 137 U. of Washington SDS News Containers box 11 , folder 138 SDS Flyer "Nov. 3, Detroit" , ca. 1970 Containers box 28 , folder 1 Why SDS? Mimeo Containers box 28 , folder 2 REP Literature List , 1969 Containers box 28 , folder 3 "Why We Must Oppose General Electric" , 1970 Containers box 28 , folder 4 "General Electric and the War" Flyer , 1970 Containers box 28 , folder 5 "The Great Flint Sit-Down Against G.M. 1936-37" Walter Linder , 1967 Containers box 28 , folder 6 Michigan State University SDS Flyers (6 items) , November 1965-May 1968 Containers box 28 , folder 7 Revolutionary Youth Movement vol. 1 no. 2 , 1970 Containers box 33 , folder 8 "The Politcal Economy of Youth" by John and Margaret Rowntree , ca. 1968 Containers box 38 , folder 6 Series XX. Student Peace Union (SPU) 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.
"Highlander Center: An Approach to Culture and Social Change" Pamphlet Containers box 11 , folder 139 Washington Protest Newspaper Article , February 19 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 140 Letter Explaining the Political Climate of Chicago , July 29, 1963 Containers box 11 , folder 141 "Secondary Concerns and Role Structure: A Case Study of the Student Peace Union" , December 20 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 142 Brooklyn SPU Protest Flyers (Nuclear, Jim Crow, Defense) , April 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 143 Army Education Center Postcard , December 1963 Containers box 11 , folder 144 "What Are You Doing About Your Undeclared War?" Flyer and Event Details , June 3 1963 Containers box 11 , folder 145 "The Youth Peace Corps and the Cold War" Information Sheet Containers box 11 , folder 146 SPU Program Statement Containers box 11 , folder 147 "Nuclear Testing" Statement Released by SPU National Steering Committee , October 3 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 148 "Toward a Meaningful Peace Corps" Student Petition , April 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 149 "Civil Liberties" Information Sheet and Statement of Purpose Containers box 11 , folder 150 "Adopt Arnoni's Vietnam Proposal!" Propaganda Sheet , 1965 Containers box 11 , folder 151 "For a Turn Toward Peace" Petition/Flyer , 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 152 "No Resumption of U.S. Nuclear Tests in the Atmosphere" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 153 "Policy Statement" from Washington D.C. Protest Containers box 11 , folder 154 "Washington Action Project" Memo , January 11, 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 155 "Call to a Conference on Student Peace Action" Flyer , December 2-3 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 156 "A Christmas Day Protest Against Resumption of Atmospheric Testing" Flyer , December 25 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 157 "Washington Action" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 158 "Walk on Washington" Information Sheet , 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 159 "Call to Action for Letters to Kennedy" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 160 "Student Action For a Turn Toward Peace" Flyer , 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 161 "Turn Toward Peace" Pamphlet , 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 162 "A Proposal for the Student Peace Movement" Research Paper , 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 163 SYU Business-Educational Meeting "Washington Peace Project" Flyer , 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 164 "Washington Action Rally" Flyer , 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 165 "USA! USSR! NO!" Flyer , 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 166 "Student Action for a Turn Toward Peace: Washington Project" Pamphlet , February 16-17 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 167 "News From the Peace Front" Flyer , 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 168 "The Cuban Crisis and It's Aftermath" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 169 "Peace March" Newspaper Article , April 22 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 170 Student Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change Meeting Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 171 "Problems of Peace" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 172 New York Regional Newsletter , February 14 1964 Containers box 11 , folder 173 "HEMP Marijuana Prohibition Protest" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 174 New York Regional Newsletter - Easter Edition , March 15, 1964 Containers box 11 , folder 175 "Bertrand Russell on the War in Vietnam" Pamphlet , 1963 Containers box 11 , folder 176 "No More Hiroshimas" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 177 "Struggle for Peace and Freedom" Leaflet , September 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 178 "No More Hiroshimas...Peace Is Our Only Defense" , August 6 1963 Containers box 11 , folder 179 "Christian Decision and Nuclear War" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 180 "Whoever You Are...Wherever You Live" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 181 "Students and the Peace Movement: Problems and Perspectives" Research Essay Containers box 11 , folder 182 "Student Peace Union" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 183 "Peace Marchers Are Back" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 184 "Hiroshima Resolution" Research , July 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 185 "1963 Easter Peace Walk Itinerary" Flyer , 1963 Containers box 11 , folder 186 "A Call to Easter 1963 Student Peace Walk" Flyer , 1963 Containers box 11 , folder 187 SPU Newsletter - Middle Atlantic Region , April 10 1963 Containers box 11 , folder 188 "High School Conference of Peace" Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 189 "Two Scientists Look at Civil Defense" Flyer , February 6 1962 Containers box 11 , folder 190 Rustin, McReynolds, and Barton Lecture Flyer , October 1 1961 Containers box 11 , folder 191 "Walk For Peace 'Peace Saturday' Flyer Containers box 11 , folder 192 Regional Event Notices and Invitations , 1960-1964 Containers box 11 , folder 193 SPU Event Research and Newspaper Clippings , 1960-1964 Containers box 11 , folder 194 SPU Steering Committee Minutes and Meeting Itineraries , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 1 SPU Internal Correspondence and Memos , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 2 SPU Meeting Minutes and Member Mailing Lists , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 3 SPU Meeting Minutes and Member Mailing Lists , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 4 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 5 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 6 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 7 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 8 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 9 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 10 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 11 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 12 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 13 SPU Financial and Member Correspondence , 1960-1964 Containers box 12 , folder 14 "Beyond Deterrence", A Series of Studies Containers box 12 , folder 15 "I Accuse!", Dr. James G. Endicott Describes Germ Warfare , 1952 Containers box 12 , folder 16 Flyer for WSP's Annual Spring Meeting , 1964 Containers box 12 , folder 17 "The Cuban Crisis", Policy Statement of the National Committee for Nonviolent Action Containers box 12 , folder 18 Student Peace Union Bulletin , January 1962 Containers box 12 , folder 19 Songs for Peace , Compiled and edited by The Student Peace Union, Introduction by Pete Seeger , 1966 Containers box 12 , folder 20 Student Peace Union Recruitment Brochure Containers box 12 , folder 21 Assorted memorabilia Containers box 12 , folder 22 Series XXI. Utopian Socialism 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.
"Gateway to Freedom" Pamphlet , 1925 Containers box 12 , folder 23 Promotional Letter for the Llano Colonist , 1925 Containers box 12 , folder 24 Series XXII. Vietnam War 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.
"March on Washington April 24" Flyer Containers box 12 , folder 25 "...Stop the War and Proceed to Deal With the Problems of America..." Pamphlet Containers box 12 , folder 26 People's Coalition for Peace & Justice Pamphlet Containers box 12 , folder 27 "SMC's Antiwar Guide to Penn" Flyer Containers box 12 , folder 28 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 Containers box 12 , folder 29 Assorted Photographs of Vietnam Protestors and Soldiers in Berkeley, CA. Containers box 12 , folder 30 "10,000 GIs Killed Since the Peace Talks Started May 1968" Flyer , April 1969 Containers box 12 , folder 31 "The War Is On!" Flyer , April 1972 Containers box 12 , folder 32 "Support the Vets" Flyer , February 2 1972 Containers box 12 , folder 33 "We Refuse to Serve" Flyer , ca. 1967 Containers box 12 , folder 34 "Black G.I. Framed on Frag Rap FREE BILLY SMITH" Flyer , 1971 Containers box 12 , folder 35 "Strike Against the War November 14th, March on Washington November 15th" Flyer , October 1969 Containers box 12 , folder 36 "Return to Fort Dix May 16 -- Armed Forces Day" Flyer , May 1970 Containers box 12 , folder 37 "Statewide Action in Detroit! MARCH! OCTOBER 31" Flyer , October 1970 Containers box 12 , folder 38 "Join the Conspiracy" Flyer , September 23 1969 Containers box 12 , folder 39 "All Out April 15! Bring All the Troops Home!" Flyer Containers box 12 , folder 40 "Statement: the Boston Eight" Newsletter , November 1969 Containers box 12 , folder 41 "Stop the Bombing" Protest Photograph Containers box 12 , folder 42 Protester on Car, Photograph Containers box 12 , folder 43 Anti-War Protests, Shattuck Pharmacy Containers box 12 , folder 44 Anti-War Protestor Containers box 12 , folder 45 Anti-War Protest, Police Cruiser Containers box 12 , folder 46 Anti-War March Photograph Containers box 12 , folder 47 "Peace in Vietnam" Protest Photo Containers box 12 , folder 48 "Why?" Protest Photograph Containers box 12 , folder 49 "Don't Fight. Go To Prison!" Protest Photograph Containers box 12 , folder 50 "Don't Hurt Those Children in Vietnam" Protest Photograph Containers box 12 , folder 51 Anti-War Silent Protest Containers box 12 , folder 52 "Vietnam Day committee" Protest Photograph Containers box 12 , folder 53 "Flower Hat" Protest Photograph Containers box 12 , folder 54 "Spring Offensive To End The War" Flyer Washington D.C. , April 24-May 5, 1971 Containers box 12 , folder 55 "Join the GI Rebellion!" Flyer Containers box 12 , folder 56 From Our Own Backyard , Old Wars Never Fade Away PamphletContainers box 12 , folder 57 Anti-War Paraphernalia Containers box 12 , folder 58 Bring Them Home Now! Containers box 12 , folder 59 Assorted Flyers Containers box 12 , folder 60 Assorted March for Peace Flyers Containers box 12 , folder 61 "Release Us From Bondage", Six Days in Vietnamese Prison , July, 1974 Containers box 12 , folder 62 "Treaty of Peace and Solidarity" Containers box 12 , folder 63 Letter from the National Committee to Defend the Rights of South Vietnamese Students , June 8, 1972 Containers box 12 , folder 64 "South Vietnam in Struggle" Containers box 12 , folder 65 Flyer for the McGovern-Shriver Campaign Containers box 12 , folder 66 A Peoples Peace Treaty- Indochina Peace Campaign Flyer with Attached Letter Containers box 12 , folder 67 "Saigon's Prisoners", An Indochina Peace Campaign Report Containers box 12 , folder 68 "Don Duncan Speaks Out" Containers box 12 , folder 69 Various loose memorabilia Containers box 12 , folder 70 "The United States' War in Vietnam" , February 1965 Containers box 14 , folder 74 Free Student NewspaperContainers box 14 , folder 75 "People's Peace Treaty" Flyer Containers box 14 , folder 76 Free Billy Smith Containers box 14 , folder 77 Demonstrate Against the War Containers box 14 , folder 78 Stop the Mines, the Bombs, the War Now Containers box 14 , folder 79 Some Facts About Vietnam Containers box 14 , folder 80 Send Nixon a Message Block Traffic Friday Morning Containers box 14 , folder 81 October 14 March and Rally Against the War Containers box 14 , folder 82 Bring the Troops Home Now Containers box 14 , folder 83 Women for Peace Letter , April 21, 1972 Containers box 14 , folder 84 Winter Soldier Containers box 14 , folder 85 The People Will Make the Peace Containers box 14 , folder 86 A War Ship Can Be Stopped , November 1971 Containers box 14 , folder 87 Support G.I. Resistance , May 22, 1972 Containers box 14 , folder 88 We Too Resist , May 20 1968 Containers box 14 , folder 89 ...and now Laos , 1970 Containers box 14 , folder 90 "U.S. Bombing Of Vietnamese Dikes Shocks The World" , 1972 Containers box 14 , folder 91 "They've Had Enough Haven't You?" , April 24 1971 Containers box 14 , folder 92 Strike! Flyer Containers box 14 , folder 93 Washington D.C. Protest Flyer , November 13-15 1969 Containers box 14 , folder 94 On to Miami! GOP National Convention Protest Flyer , August 20-23 1968 Containers box 14 , folder 95 Support G.I. Resistance! Flyer Containers box 14 , folder 96 Up Against the Wall Street Journal , February 11, 1970 Containers box 14 , folder 97 Assorted Flyers and other Anti-Vietnam War Documents Containers box 14 , folder 98 "March Against the Pentagon" Flyer , March 27, 1981 Containers box 14 , folder 99 Vietnam Notes Containers box 14 , folder 100 "Crimes Perpetrated by the US Imperialists and Henchmen against South Viet Nam Women and Children" , 1968 Containers box 28 , folder 8 "Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam" (10 Items) , 1969-1970 Containers box 28 , folder 9 GI Organizing Against the Vietnam War (3 items) , 1968-1971 Containers box 28 , folder 10 Vietnam Perspectives vol. 1 no. 2 , November 1965 Containers box 28 , folder 11 "Stop Nixon! Build the Spring Action! March on Washington April 24!" Detroit SMC Leaflet Containers box 28 , folder 12 Bring the Troops Home Now Newsletter vol. 1 no. 14 , September 1966 Containers box 28 , folder 13 National Vietnam Examination , ca. 1966 Containers box 28 , folder 14 Withdrawal Flyer, Yale. Containers box 28 , folder 15 A Joint Treaty of Peace, Yale , 1971 Containers box 28 , folder 16 Lowenstein for Congress , 1968 Containers box 28 , folder 17 "Mayday Gathering of the Tribes" Georgia Poster , ca. 1971 Containers box 33 , folder 9 Norman Mailer & Jerry Rubin NYC Peace Rally Photos (2) , 1966 Containers box 33 , folder 10 Veterans Stars and Stripes for Peace vol. 1 no. 7, vol. 2 no. 2-3, vol. 3 no. 2 , May 1968- April 1970 Containers box 33 , folder 11 Spring Mobilization Chamber Music Concert: "Elegy for Vietnam" Containers box 33 , folder 12 Christmas Candlelight Vigil, Silkscreen Poster , ca. 1968 Containers box 34 , folder 17 "Where Have All the Young Men Gone?" , October 1967 Containers box 34 , folder 18 Veterans Against the Vietnam War Poster , ca. 1970s Containers box 34 , folder 19 Peace Poster , 1968 Containers box 34 , folder 20 "I Can't See My Flag Anymore" Poster , 1969 Containers box 35 , folder 19 Peace Sign Poster by Lawrence Kurtz , 1970 Containers box 35 , folder 20 "One Word... Peace" Poster , 1970 Containers box 35 , folder 21 "Stop War" Poster , 1968 Containers box 35 , folder 22 "Give" Anti-Vietnam War Poster by Tom Ungerer Containers box 35 , folder 23 "I'm a Dove" Poster , 1970 Containers box 35 , folder 24 "1967" Peace Poster , 1967 Containers box 35 , folder 25 Sitcker, Veterans for Peace in Vietnam Containers box 39 , folder 21 Series XXIII. Realia: Pins and Other Objects Anti-War Cemetery Pin May Day, International Workers' Day Pin
Workers' Power Pin
CPUSA Pin
Bring Justice to America's Fields in '76 Pin , 1975-1976
"We're here for you, you're out there for us" Pin
"Register for Peace - Indianapolis, May 22" Pin
"Peace" Pin
"Vote Socialist Workers in '72 - Jennings and Pulley" Pin
"Vote Socialist Worker in '68" Pin
"Vote Communist - Mitchell and Zagarell" Pin
"No Nukes" Pin
"Vote Socialist Workers in '72 - Linda Jennings for Pres." Pin
"Vote Socialist Workers in '72 - Andrew Pulley for V.P." Pin
"Amter for Congress" Pin
"E.R.A. in '76! Vote Socialist Workers" Pin "Death to the Shah: U.S. Imperialism Get Your Bloody Hands Off Iran!" RCYB Pin "Work for a Non-Nuclear World" Pin "Stop! Nuclear power/Nuclear Weapons" (2) Pin "Neutralize the C.I.A." Pin "No Nukes Now!" Pin "YSA" Pin "Bring Yanks Home/ Yank the Cops from Harlem/Vote Socialist Workers" Pin "Don't Mourn- Organize" Pin "Solar Employs, Nuclear Destroys" Pin Containers box 36 , item 10 "Moratorium IV" Pin Containers box 36 , item 11 "Energy for People Not Profit" People's Power Coalition Pin Containers box 36 , item 12 "Bring Peace to Vietnam/ Support the National Liberation Front" Pin Containers box 36 , item 13 "Make Love Not War" Pin Containers box 36 , item 14 "Political Suspensions M.A.P.S." Pin Containers box 36 , item 15 "Pulley for Vice-President" Pin Containers box 36 , item 16 "Keep Biafra Alive" Pin Containers box 36 , item 17 "Peace on Earth Work for Peace" Pin Containers box 36 , item 18 "No Tuition Tax War Profits" Pin Containers box 36 , item 19 "Impeach Nixon" Pin Containers box 36 , item 20 "Kill for Peace/Kill for Freedom/ Kill Vietnamese/ Kill,Kill!" Pin Containers box 36 , item 21 "El Salvador is Spanish for Vietnam" Pin Containers box 36 , item 22 "We're in Here for You/ You're Out There for Us" Pin Containers box 36 , item 23 "Peace" Pin Containers box 36 , item 24 "Peace Now!" Containers box 36 , item 25 "Caution: Military Service May Be Hazardous to Your Health" Pin Containers box 36 , item 26 La Causa Pin , 1970 Containers box 36 , item 27 Series XXIV. Twenty-First Century Radical Movements Scope and Content Notes This series includes an eclectic mixture of flyers and occasional pamphlets mostly what Oestreicher picked up from events he attended or witnessed in Pittsburgh and Taos, New Mexico. Many of the Pittsburgh materials come from student groups at the University of Pittsburgh, from the Pittsburgh Occupy movement, the Battle of Homestead Foundation (a group of aging New Left labor activists and academics), and demonstrators at the G-20 meetings held in Pittsburgh in 2009.
Taos, New Mexico, where Oestreicher has a summer home, has long had a visible activist community. Since the early 1900s it attracted an artist's colony as well as other Avant-garde intellectuals like Mable Dodge Luhan and D.H. Lawrence. In the late 1960s a substantial cohort of hippie counterculturalists settled in the Taos area and many stayed after their communes fell apart. In recent years the activist community has also benefited from academic and professional retirees attracted by the area's culture and surroundings.
Subseries 1. New Mexico "In the Name of Sustainability" Taos Flyer , November 2013 Containers box 20 , folder 1 "Food Activists Cited" Flyer. Taos , June 2013 Containers box 20 , folder 2 "Night at the Puppetista", Taos Alehouse Containers box 20 , folder 3 Taos Vegan Meetup, Double-sided flyer Containers box 20 , folder 4 Pecha Kucha Night flyer. Taos (2 Copies) Containers box 20 , folder 5 Freedom in Music Project fundraiser leaflet. Taos (2 Copies) , August 2013 Containers box 20 , folder 6 Code Pink Flyers (2). Taos Containers box 20 , folder 7 "The Message of the Bulldozers". Taos , July 2008 Containers box 20 , folder 8 Taos World Peace Conference , May 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 9 Taos Peace House and Infoshop Volunteer Flyers (2) Containers box 20 , folder 10 Global Peace Walk Brochure. Taos , 2012 Containers box 20 , folder 11 "World Peace Week: Peace is Possible" Flyer. Taos Containers box 20 , folder 12 Habitat for Humanity Affiliate Brochure, Taos Containers box 20 , folder 13 Peaceful Skies Coalition Flyer Containers box 20 , folder 14 "Voices From the Land" Flyer for Sovereign Dineh Nation event (2 Copies) Containers box 20 , folder 15 "Stand Up!" Comment on the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement , 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 16 "Restore the Constitution" License Plate Civil Disobedience Flyer, (2 Copies) , September 2013 Containers box 20 , folder 17 "The Change We Knead Now" Bake Bread for World Peace , July 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 18 News Articles Relating to Environmental Issues (3 pieces) , 2013-2015 Containers box 39 , folder 23 Bernie Sanders New Mexico Flyers (3 pieces) , 2016 Containers box 39 , folder 24 Subseries 2. Pennsylvania "Who Decides- Corporations, or 'We The People'?" Gas Extraction Flyer , 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 19 Rally for a Responsible Budget Flyer Containers box 20 , folder 20 "In April We Take a Stand for Workers like Donnell Simmons" Clean Up Sodexo Flyer Containers box 20 , folder 21 Occupy: JP Morgan Flyer , 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 22 Occupy Chant Leaflet , 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 23 Fight Back America Flyer Containers box 20 , folder 24 Bring Them Home Now! Flyer , 2005 Containers box 20 , folder 25 Thank You Snowden Sticker Containers box 20 , folder 26 Rally For Single-Payer Healthcare, (3 items) , October 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 27 "Why U.S. Workers Need a Labor Party" Pamphlet Containers box 20 , folder 28 "Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists" , 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 29 Mumia Abu-Jamal items: 2 Pamphlets, 1 Petition , 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 30 Battle of Homestead Foundation Schedule of Pump House Events , April 2014 Containers box 20 , folder 31 Audit the Fed Flyer , February 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 32 $1,000,000 Bill: Biblical Outreach Containers box 20 , folder 33 No Bad Cops Leaflet Containers box 20 , folder 34 "Mobilization for Climate Justice" , December 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 35 "Something is Terribly Wrong..." Containers box 20 , folder 36A "Enough!!" Containers box 20 , folder 36B Jill Stein 2016 Green Party Election Poster and Flyer , 2016 Containers box 39 , folder 22 Subseries 3. Pittsburgh "1968: a Year in Revolt" University of Pittsburgh , April 2008 Containers box 20 , folder 37 "Pennsylvania is Going Green" Pamphlet Containers box 20 , folder 38 Celebration of the Lives of Dennis Brutus and Howard Zinn. University of Pittsburgh , April 2010 Containers box 20 , folder 39 "Marx in Soho" University of Pittsburgh, (2 Copies) , February 2010 Containers box 20 , folder 40 Stop McCarthyism at Pitt! Containers box 20 , folder 41 "After Chavez: Where is the Venezuelan Revolution Going?" Containers box 20 , folder 42 Budget Cuts Rally Flyer, University of Pittsburgh , October 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 43 "Your Major Might Not Be Here Next Year" University of Pittsburgh , April 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 44 Mark Rudd Today. University of Pittsburgh , March 2010 Containers box 20 , folder 45 Indonesian Garment Workers Speak Out. University of Pittsburgh , February 2013 Containers box 20 , folder 46 Pittsburgh Thomas Merton Center: Small Anti-Iraq War card and donation letter Containers box 20 , folder 47 "All Power to the General Assemblies of Workers, Students, and Unemployed." Occupy Containers box 20 , folder 48 "What Happened on Friday Night?" University of Pittsburgh , September 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 49 The Peoples' March to the G-20 , September 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 50 "Help Stop Coca-Cola's Worldwide Abuses!" Containers box 20 , folder 51 HELP: Stop Organ Harvesting in China Containers box 20 , folder 52 Pittsburgh Against Torture Postcard , September 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 53 ACLU: Know Your Rights , 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 54 Voice of Revolution. (2 Copies) , September 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 55 Spartacist , Spring 2009 Containers box 20 , folder 56 Why We March and Occupy! Flyer , 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 57 "We Are One: Respect Our Rights" Flyer (2 Copies) , April 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 58 Rally to Stop the Bus Cuts! Leaflet Containers box 20 , folder 59 "From Wall Street to Pittsburgh: We Need a Labor Party!" , October 2011 Containers box 20 , folder 60 An Introduction to Socialism- Flyer (2 Copies) Containers box 20 , folder 61 "What is Marxism?" University of Pittsburgh Containers box 20 , folder 62 ICH Presents: Creative Justice Containers box 20 , folder 63 Nordenberg Sweatshop Flyer, University of Pittsburgh Containers box 20 , folder 64 Occupy Pittsburgh Now no.7 (2 Copies) , September 2012 Containers box 29 , folder 1 Newspapers Collected from Pittsburgh G-20 Protests , 2009 Containers box 29 , folder 2 The New People Magazine: Pittsburgh Thomas Merton Center. 3 issues , 1990-2012 Containers box 29 , folder 3 "Rising Textbook Prices, Rising Capitalist Profits" Flyer , ca. 2012-2015 Containers box 38 , folder 7 "Capitalisn abd Climaate Change: Which Way Forward?" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 8 "Heni Sutisna + Aslam Hidayat: Indonesian Garment Workers Speak Out" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 9 "Marxism and the Emancipation of Women" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 10 "David Montgomery 1927-2011. A Pittsburgh Celebration of his Life" Program , February 11, 2012 Containers box 38 , folder 11 "The U.S. Working Class and the Crisis of World Capitalism" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 12 "Socialism: What is it? And how?" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 13 "Fight For $15! Fight For Socialism!" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 14 "Pittsburgh Socialist Alternative: The Struggle For $15/Hour" Flyer , April - May 2015 Containers box 38 , folder 15 "Fight For $15 and a Union" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 16 Homestead News BHF Schedule of Pump House Events , 2014 Containers box 38 , folder 17 Pittsburgh Students for Police Accountability Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 18 "Building Student Power" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 19 "Walk Away From Your Syllabus" Packet Containers box 38 , folder 20 AFL-CIO Organizing Institute Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 21 "Could America Go Socialist? Bernie Sanders and the 2016 Election" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 22 "The Promise of Anarchism: An International Panel Discussion" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 23 Rainbow Alliance "Identities: The Acronym and Beyond" Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 24 "Strike" Fight For 15 Flyer Containers box 38 , folder 25 PGH Area Flyers (mostly recent, 19 pieces) , 1980s-Present Containers box 39 , folder 25 Poster, Demo Against War in iraq Containers box 40 , folder 3 Poster, Working Class Images Containers box 40 , folder 4 Series XXV. Democratic Socialism Scope and Content Notes A faction within the Socialist Party USA, led by Michael Harrington, founded the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee in 1973. It began with a few hundred members growing to perhaps 6,000 in 1982 when it merged with the New American Movement (a New Left holdover) and renamed itself the Democratic Socialists of America. Despite its small numbers, the organization had some prominence owing to Harrington's public persona as well the affiliation of such nationally visible politicians as Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders, Detroit congressmen George Crockett and John Conyers, and California congressman Ron Dellums.
"What is Democratic Socialism" YDS , ca. 1990s Containers box 22 , folder 31 Steven Soifer, The socialist Mayor: Bernard Sanders in Burlington, Vermont , 1991 Containers box 39 , folder 26 Socialist Alternative Issues (2 issues) , March 2016, July/August 2016 Containers box 39 , folder 27 Series XXVI. Food Not Bombs Scope and Content Notes Founded by activists in Cambridge, Ma. In 1980, the organization claims more than 400 worldwide affiliates today. They feed vegetarian meals to the hungry and lobby and demonstrate peacefully against militarism and for changed government budget priorities. In recent years members have been harassed by local, state, and federal government authorities both because some local merchants and politicians fear that public visibility of the poor and homeless may drive away business and because elements in the national security state imagine that their antimilitarist agitation may constitute a national security threat. Food distributors have been arrested in several locales. Some activists have found their mail service interrupted and their bank accounts disrupted.
Military Spending Surge Flyer , ca. 2012 Containers box 23 , folder 10 Free Skool Welcome Day , 2013 Containers box 23 , folder 11 "Solidarity Not Charity", Flyer. Containers box 23 , folder 12 "Food Not Bombs founder lives his philosophy" Flyer , 2011 Containers box 23 , folder 13 Sample Agenda for your First Meeting Containers box 23 , folder 14 Free Skool Schedules Weeks 12-15 , 2013 Containers box 23 , folder 15 Autoonomous Playhouse Comic Anthology #1 Containers box 23 , folder 16 Food Not Bombs Calling Card Containers box 23 , folder 17 Free Meal Flyer Containers box 23 , folder 18 Food Not Bombs Anniversary Gathering , May 2009 Containers box 23 , folder 19 Food not Bombs Postcard Flyer, 2 Containers box 23 , folder 20 "Food is a Right, Not a Privilege" Containers box 23 , folder 21 "Cook For Peace" (2 Copies) Containers box 23 , folder 22 "A Dollar For Peace" Flyer Containers box 23 , folder 23 "What is Foreclosure?" Containers box 23 , folder 24 "Enjoy a Free Meal" Containers box 23 , folder 25 "Food Not Bombs: Ad Flyers, 2 Copies Containers box 23 , folder 26 Harvest Fest Flyer , September 2013 Containers box 23 , folder 27 "What's Wrong with McDonalds?" Flyer (2 Copies) Containers box 23 , folder 28 Series XXVII. Populists/Pre-Populists Scope and Content Notes The term populist entered American political discourse with the appearance of the People's or Populist Party in 1892. Their presidential candidate, James Weaver, got 8.5% of the national popular vote, and the Party expanded that percentage in the 1894 congressional elections. Much of the Party supported the Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and the Party declined thereafter. Populists carried several states electing governors, senators and congressmen. They campaigned against banks, monopolies and railroads and for railroad and banking regulation, expansionary monetary policies, and framers' cooperatives. Initially drawing support mainly from wheat and cotton belt farmers, they also supported labor reforms and drew significant working –class support in 1894. A variety of organizations with similar programs and rhetoric had preceded the People's Party in the previous two decades and are also included here.
"Sovereigns of Industry" Addendum. E.M. Chamberlain , 1875 Containers box 25 , folder 14 Sovereigns of Industry Membership Card , 1874 Containers box 25 , folder 15 "Up to Date: Coins Financial School Continued", WH Harvey , 1895 Containers box 25 , folder 16 "Coins Financial School" WH Harvey , 1894 Containers box 25 , folder 17 "Coin on Money, Trusts, and Imperialism" WH Harvey , 1899 Containers box 25 , folder 18 Coxey His Own Story , April 1914 Containers box 25 , folder 19 Series XXVIII. Radical Academics Scope and Content Notes The New Left was disproportionately a movement of University students. Many went on to graduate school and then became professors in various academic disciplines. In many of the academic professional organizations these New Leftists organized radical caucuses to lobby on issues like the Vietnam War or racism, sponsor sessions at national meetings, or issue their own publications. Left-wing economists, for example, organized the Union for Radical Political Economy (URPE) and published substantial newsletter. The Radical Historians Organization created a journal, the Radical History Review that is still published today.
Radical Historians Newsletter no. 76(2 Copies) , June 1997 Containers box 26 , folder 4 Radical Historians Newsletter no. 38 , November 1982 Containers box 26 , folder 5 Radical Teacher. 5 issues: 8-12 , 1978-1979 Containers box 26 , folder 6 Radical Teacher. 5 issues: 15-21 , ca. 1980s Containers box 26 , folder 7 Radical Teacher. 4 issues: 23, 30, 34-35 , ca. 1988 Containers box 26 , folder 8 Essays on the Social Relations of Work and Labor , A Special Issue of The Insurgent Sociologist , Fall 1978 Containers box 38 , folder 26 Pamphlet, Academic Freedom Be Damned , 1986 Containers box 39 , folder 28 URPE; The War and Its Impact on the Economy , 1970 Containers box 39 , folder 29 Yale Poster "Impeach the President!" , 1973 Containers box 40 , folder 5