The revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself
npl: npub, nd. Pamphlet. 16p., wraps secured by folding, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Anonymous photocopied reprint of a zine published in 1992 by See Sharp Press. "This essay was originally published in the United States in 1975 by The Spectacle under the title "Self-Theory: the pleasure of thinking for yourself." An extensively revised edition was published in London in 1985 by Spectacular Times under the title "Revolutionary self-help: a beginner's manual," and it has appeared twice since then... Read More
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Unite to Defeat the Briggs Initiative [handbill]
San Francisco: Bay Area Committee Against the Briggs Initiative, 1978. 8.5x14 inch flyer printed both sides, very good, announcing a rally and conference in San Francisco. The Briggs Initiative, on the ballot as Proposition 6, would have banned gay school teachers in the state of California.
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Check List on Universal Military Training
Washington DC: The National Council Against Conscription, 1952. Pamphlet. Eight-panel brochure, 3.75x5 inches, date penned on rear wrap else very good condition.
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A new era for the injured worker. The industrial injuries act. By the staff of the late W.H. Thompson
[London]: Twentieth Century Press, 1948. Pamphlet. 24p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps slightly worn, front wrap lightly foxed along top edge, staples rusted.
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¿Qué Hacer? Teoria y práctica de lbolchevismo
Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1977. 510p., paperback; covers slightly shelfworn, small ownership plate on the front endpaper, leaves evenly toned, else very good.
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What About State Fascism
London: Persons Unknown, 1978. Single sheet, printed one side only, 8.25x11.75 inches, lightly worn, poorly reproduced (some text is faded but still legible) else very good condition. Leaflet handed out at a march to publicize the case of six anarchists arrested for "conspiracy to charge explosion with persons unknown." The support group for the imprisoned anarchists was named "Persons Unknown" in reference to this charge.
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Shall the mailers' unions live or die? / Vote "yes" on Proposition Number 5!
npl: Executive Council of the Mailers' Trade District Union, 1938. 9x15 inch handbill; date pencilled on the front in two places, evenly toned, middle fold, else very good.
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Solidarity Pre-Convention Bulletin #10, June, 2006
Detroit, MI: Solidarity, 2006. Newsletter. 32p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled along spine, blue cover wraps with photo of Mexican police attacking striking teachers, back cover wrap somewhat faded else in very good condition. Collected articles and polemics internally circulated by members leading up to their 2006 Convention. Solidarity is a U.S. based Trotskyist organization that was founded in 1986 as the result of a fusion between three organizations: the International Socialists, Workers Power, and members and former supporters who... Read More
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Now What Do We Do? Tonight's Meeting Is A Good Start In Fighting the Initiative. Join BACABI!
San Francisco: Bay Area Committee Against the Briggs Initiative, 1978. Handbill. 5.5x8.5 inches, printed one side only, very good condition. The Briggs Initiative would have banned gay teachers in California.
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The Chain Store Bondage Catalogue [Summer 1995?]
Mountain View, CA: The Back Drop Club/The Chain Store, 1995. 26p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated throughout with line drawings of nude women in various restraints and devices, aimed at the straight male top, printed on 13 photocopied sheets, in clear sleeves and bound in a blue three ring binder with a Back Drop Club cover sheet. Page 1 states Summer 1995 but the rest of the pages state Summer 1992 and Summer 95. Likely reused the 1992 file and forgot... Read More
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Go for broke: an exhibit honoring the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team -- the "most decorated unit of World War II ...
n.p.: Presidio Army Museum, 1981. Pamphlet. 22p. staplebound booklet from the exhibition, 8.5x11 inches, with four related flyers laid in. Cover somewhat toned. Not to be confused with the pictorial history that was later published under a similar title.
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Soho Revue: kulturne, spolecensky, mesicnik; rocnik 4, #12, 1994
Prague: Tiskna CTK, 1994. Magazine. 32p., 8.25x11.75 inches, text in Czech, illustrated with photos, some nude and seminude of young men, very good homophile magazine in stapled color pictorial wraps.
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The Woman's Building presents Natural History: Telling about the unknown animals. A performance by Liebe Gray [postcard]
Los Angeles: The Woman's Building, 1987. Pamphlet. Postcard advertising the performance, 8.25x5.25 inches landscape format, printed both sides, very good condition. A press release describes the performance as "a two part interpretation of the law of cause and effect" about animals and ecology in Tasmania and Samiland (Lapland).
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Amnesty for Portuguese democrats in prison or exile
Bruxelles: International Association of Democratic Lawyers, 1962. Pamphlet. 11p. pamphlet, creased from folding into quarters, 8x10.5 inches. On dissidents exiled by the right-wing Portuguese regime.
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Honor the Dead - Fight for the Living. Veterans Day [handbill]
Chicago: Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1987. 8.5x14 inch handbill, very good. Announces a rally calling for decent benefits for veterans, citing the medical toll of Agent Orange, and no more Vietnams.
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The Black Panther: Black Community News Service. Vol. 3, no. 13 (July 19, 1969)
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1969. 24p. illus. tabloid newspaper. Horizontal fold, evenly toned, otherwise very good. Front and back covers are Emory posters depicting a capitalist as a rat.
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Controversy, The Monthly Socialist Forum, Vol. 1, No. 9, June [1936]
London: Independent Labour Party, 1936. Magazine. pp. 42-60 pp., 7x9.5 inches, shelf wear and even toning of beige pages, cover very soiled with stains and blotches along and near spine, else in good condition. Controversy was an ‘official’ ILP discussion journal from the mid-1930s which carried a range of socialist opinion, debates and polemics including both Trotskyist and Stalinist views. This issue covers "August Thalheimer", "Which Way is Spain Going?", and much more.
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Évocations: revue mensuelle #46
Paris: [Cres & Fils], 1960. [32p] 5.25x8 inches, texts in French, illustrated with b&w photos of nude young women, good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. French "girly magazine" of the 1960s. Two holdings located in OCLC as of 5/2024.
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Comrade workers!!!
Montreal: Bolshevik Union, 1977. [8p.] pamphlet, paper toned, minor handling wear. Pen mark crosses out the word "today" in the line "one year ago today," otherwise very good. Argues that the Canadian proletariat needs "a Communist Party with a steel-like unity around a single correct line.
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The Spirit of the Thirties: Selection from the collection of the University of Maryland Art Gallery. February 24 - April 18, 1982
College Park, MD: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1982. 42p., stapled wraps, 9x8.5 inches, illus. (black & white, front wrap in color), wraps slightly shelf worn, previous owner's name penned on front blank end paper else very good condition.
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Know Your America Week: Sponsored by the All-American Conference to Combat Communism; October 26 - November 1, 1951, Buffalo, New York
npl: All-American Conference to Combat Communism, 1951. Six panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, vertically creased, lightly foxed, else good program for the week's activities.
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The International Book Review, nos. 1-2, November, 1938
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1938. 71p., stapled wraps, 6x9.75 inches, a few illus., wraps slightly browned else very good condition. International catalog with introductions of both the basics (Marx, Engels, Lenin & Stalin) and Communist literature from around the world.
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Marxist / De Leonist study course
St. Paul, MN: New Union Party, 2005. Paperback. 78, [iii]p., 8.5x11 inch sheets bound in a folder with with clear plastic front cover, folder slightly edge worn, pen note on first page: "Written & assembled by Connie Blomen" New Union Party was a split from the Socialist Labor Party.
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Spalding's Official Athletic Library. Base Ball Guide 1909
New York: American Sports Publishing Co, 1909. Paperback. 371p. plus unpaginated ads, paperback, covers creased and worn, some chipping at spine ends. Group 1, no. 1. March, 1909.
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Tejas. Vol. 3 no. 2 (May 1991)
Austin: University of Texas at Austin; Center for Mexican American Studies, 1991. Newspaper. 16p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned, else very good condition. Published by students in a Latino Community News course at the University of Texas.
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