US-RPRC-mss-0127 Guide to the Social and political pamphlet collectioncirca 1940-1998 Finding aid prepared by Jean Montas and Veronica L. Denison. Special Collections

James P. Adams Library Rhode Island College 600 Mount Pleasant Ave Providence, RI, 02908 Tel: 401-456-9653 email:digitalcollections@ric.edu

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Rhode Island College 600 Mount Pleasant Ave Providence, RI, 02908 Tel: 401-456-9653 email:digitalcollections@ric.edu

English 3.5 cubic feet circa 1940-1998 Rhode Island College. Adams Library. Special Collections. Singular publications relating to a variety of social and political issues. Collection information

The collection consists singular publications relating to a variety of social and political issues, primarily in the United States.

Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.

The collection is open for research.

Social and political pamphlet collection, MSS-0127, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

The collection is arranged in rough alphabetical order by serial title.

Administrative information

Items were added to this collection by Special Collections staff periodically overtime until 1998.

The collection was initially arranged by Special Collections staff prior to 2022. The collection inventory was created in 2023 by Jean Montas, Special Collections student worker, under the supervision of the Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison. The collection description was completed by Denison in 2024.

Additional information

Rhode Island College Special Collections also holds the Alternative and Underground Press collection, MSS-0037.

Materials in the collection have not been digitized by Special Collections.

Subjects Anti-communist movements in literature Communism and religion Civil rights Labor Types of Materials Serials (publications) “About Anarchism: What Anarchists Believe, How Anarchists Differ, What Anarchists Wants, What Anarchists Do” by Nicolas Walter 111969 “Afghanistan Grasping The Nettle of Peace” by Roger Trask 121987 “Africa Communists Speak”131978 “Africa’s Struggle for Freedom, The USA and the USSR” 141972 “Against Apartheid and Colonialism in Africa” 151974 “Agostinho Neto Speaks” 161976 “America Betrayed - The Tragic Consequences of Reds on the Government Payroll” by Joseph P. Kamp 171950 “An American Looks at Russia” by Claude Lightfoot 181951 “America’s Racist Laws” by Herbert Aptheker 191962 “Amnesty” by Marion Bachrach 1101952 “Africa Calling: Isolate the racists” 1111973 “Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker 1121973 “Apartheid: A Crime Against Humanity” by Edwin Ogebe 1131973 “The April Theses” 1141970 “Are we Being Talked into War” by Corliss Lamont 1151952 “Beat the Steel Crisis!” by Gus Hall 1161977 “Beware of the Beginnings Neo-Nazis" 1171989 “Beware of the War Danger” by William Z. Foster 1181948 “Big Stakes of Détente" by Gus Hall 1191974 “Billionaire Corporations” 1201954 “Bishop Sheil on McCarthy” 1211954 “Black and White-One Class, One Fight” 1221972 “The Black Family – Ties That Bind” by Angela Davis and Fania Davis 123circa 1987 “Black Liberation Journal” 1241983 "Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves” 1251971 “Block Reaganism” by Gus Hall 1261986 “A Book, a Cloak and Jester’s Bells” by Harold Smith 127 1970 “Books on Trial” 1281952 “Build the Communist Party” by Henry Winston 1291969 “Bulge in the Color line” by James N. Rhea 1301953 “Bush gate – The Inside Story” by Tim Wheeler 1311988 “Capitalism, Materialism and Idealism: A study” 1321983 “Capitalist Crisis and Global Slump” 1331998 “The Colonial Plunder of Puerto Rico” by Gus Hall 1341972 “Cartoons For Peace” by Alfons Gossens 1351986 “The Case Against the Death Penalty” by Hugo A. Bedau 1361973 “The Case of United States of America” 137undated “The Challenge of the ‘56 Elections” by Claude Lightfoot 1381956 “CHILE: State of war” 139undated “China’s Hostility to Vietnam” 140undated “Civil Disobedience Action Training Handbook” 1411980 “Civil Rights History-Writing and Anti-Communism: A Critique” by Hugh T. Murray, Jr. 1421975 “The Class Nature of Israel” 1431971 “The Communist Party” by Pettis Perry 1441953 “The Communist Party & How it Works” 1451976 “Communists Are Working-Class Activists” by Arnold Becchetti 1461984 “Communism and Religion in the United States” by William C. Sullivan 1471961 “Communists are Working Class Activists” by Arnold Becchetti 1481984 “Communists Urge: Halt Nixon’s Bloody War” 149undated “Conference of Communist and Worker’s Parties 1501969 “Consensus or Socialism” by Bert Ramelson 1511986 “Constitution of the USSR” 1521977 “Cooperatives: Work and Initiative” 1531989 “Crimes of the Pol Pot Regime” 1541984 “The Crisis of Everyday Living” by Gus Hall 1551978 “Cuban Revolution, National Liberation and the Soviet Union” 1561974 “Daily World Tribute for John Pittman and Carl Winter” 1571981 “Danger Signals for Organized Labor” 1581953 “Danielle- The Wonderful Story of Danielle Casanova” by Simone Tery 1591953 “Deadly Persuasion Teaching the Cold War” 1601985 “The Decline and Fall of Reaganism” 1611987 “Decline of Reaganism” by Gus Hall 162undated “Depression” by Joseph Morton 163undated “Détente: the Soviet Viewpoint” 1641978 “Don’t Look the Other Way” 165undated “The Dream of Debs and the Double Dealing of President Woodrow Wilson” 1661981 “Due Process in a Political Trial” 167undated “The Eleventh Hour” by Gus Hall 1681964 “Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Speaks to the Court” 1691952 “End Fascist Terror and U.S Imperialism in Chile” by Victor Perlo 1701974 “An Enemy of the People” 171undated “Equality it’s time has come” by Charlene Mitchell 172undated “The Erosion of U.S Capitalism in the 70s” by Gus Hall 1731971 “FEPC” by Rob Fowler Hall 1741950 “Falsifications of History an historical note” 1751948 “Fight Racism for Unity and Progress” 1761971 “The Fight to Free Angela Davis “ 1771972 “Fighting For Our Lives” 178undated “The First Amendment or the Last Liberty” 179undated “Five Lessons of a Great Victory” 1801967 “For a Party of Mass Action” 1811972 “For a Radical Change – the Communist View” 1821966 “For National Independence, Sovereignty and Development in Latin America” 1831974 “For Unity Against Reaganism and Apartheid” 184undated “For World Peace! Jobs For All” 1851953 “The Frame-up of Benjamin Lowell Careathers” 1861953 “France Faces Her Destiny” 1871946 “The Fraud of Soviet Anti-Semitism" by Herbert Aptheker 1881962 “Free Americans from the McCarran Act Danger” by Gus Hall 189undated “The Freedom Charter of South Africa” 1901955 “The Freedom to Read” 191undated “From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution 192undated “GDR ‘86” 1931986 “The GDR Today” 1941985 “Genocide Against the Indians” 1951972 “The Great Berrigan Debate” 1961974 “Great Construction Works of Communism and the Remaking of Nature” 1971953 “The Head-Fixing Industry” 1981955 “Health Care in Cuba” 199undated “Heavenly Days in Dixie or The Time of Their Lives” 11001974 “Henry Winston Discusses Cuba Today” 11011979 “Here’s How we See It Mr. Perkins” 1102undated “The Heritage of Sen Katayama” 11031975 “The High Crimes and Misdemeanors of Monopoly Capitalism” 11041974 “High Prices and High Profits” 11051973 “A Higher Quality of Life” 1106undated “Higher Education in the Soviet Union” 11071956 “History’s Biggest Rip-off" 11081980 “Hostages of War” 1109undated “The House of Imperialism is Crumbling” 11101971 “Housing in the GDR” 11111987 “How Much Say do the Trade Unions Have” 1112undated “How to be a Good Communist” by Liu-Shao-Chi 11131952 “How to get an Honest Union Election” 1114undated “The Ideological Struggle in the American Left” 11151963 “The Ideology and Tactics of Anti-Communism” 211969 “Imperialist Military Collaboration with South Africa” 221975 “In the Hands of Chile’s Hangmen” by Volodia Teitelboim 231975 “The Income Revolution” by Victor Perlo 241954 “The Indian Ocean: Military Outpost if Imperialist Powers 251974 “The Individual in Soviet Law” by Leon Josephson 261957 “International Conference Against Fascism” 271975 “The International Revolutionary Solidarity Movement: 1st of May Group” 28undated “An Introduction to Capitalism: Four Lectures” by Gayle Southworth 291971 “An Invitation from the Communist Party” 210undated “An Invitation to Afro-Americans from the Communist Party” 211undated “Is Communism Un-American" by Eugene Dennis 2121947 “Israel: Image and Reality 2131973 “It won’t Be Built” 2141980 “It’s a Family Affair: The Real Lives of Black Single Mothers” 2151986 “Jews in America History 1654-1865 ” by Phillip S. Foner 2161945 “John Swinton: American Radical (1829-1901)” by Sender Garlin 2171976 “Jungle Law or Human Reason” by Jessica Smith 2181949 “Kekkonen and Peace” by Johannes Pakaslahti 2191986 “Korea” 220undated “Labor Key Force” by Gus Hall 2211966 “Lebanon: Terrorism Israel Style” 222undated “A Lecture on Eurythmy” 223undated “Lectures on Liberation” 224undated “Letters From Afar” 2251971 “The Lie of the Lenin Testament” 2261997 “Life without Landlords” 2271973 “The Lives and Writings of Notorious Victorial Woodhull” 228undated “Look Homeward, Jimmy Carter: The State of Human Rights, U.S.A” 2291977 “McCarthyism in the Courts” 2301953 “McCarthy the Man and the Ism” by Joseph Morton 231undated “Mainstream” 2321958 “Manifesto of the Communist Party” 233undated “Make this Election Count” 2341972 “Making Your Voice Heard” 235undated “Malcom’s Legacy” 236undated "The Marshall Plan” 237undated “Marx As an Economist” by Maurice Dobb 238undated “Marxian Science and the Colleges” 239undated "Marxist – Leninist Critique of Roy Innis on Community Self-Determination and Martin Kilson on Education” by Henry Winston 2401973 “The Materialist Conception of History” 2411940 “May Day and the Marx Sisters” 2421986 “Money and Money Reforms” 243undated “Montgomery, Alabama, Money, Mississippi and other places 244undated “Moral Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr” 2451980 “More pages From a Worker’s Life” by William Z. Foster 2461979 “The Moynihan-Kissinger Doctrine and the “Third World” 2471975 “The Munich Drama” 2481978 “NAACP: Report For 1960” 2491960 “The National Question and Leninism” 250undated “The Nation’s Biggest Racket” 2511952 “The Negro People and the Soviet Union” 2521950 “Negro Representation” 253undated “Neutron Bomb- No!” 2541977 “A New Depression” by Bernard Burton 2551949 “The New National People’s Daily World” 256undated “New Opportunities in the Flight for Peace and Democracy” by Andrew Stevens 2571953 “The New York Herald Tribune’s 23 Questions About the Communist Party” 258undated “1984: Stand up and Fight for Peace, Jobs and Equality” 2591984 "1983 Captive Nations Week Forum on Defeat of Marxism-Leninism" 2601983 “No Class Today No Ruling Class Tomorrow” 261undated “No! To Reagan Terrorism in Central America” 2621984 “Non-Alignment: Peace and Independence” 263undated “The North Atlantic Pact: For Peace or War?” 2641949 “Not 12 Men on Trial...but Everybody!” 265undated “Notes of a Delegate, & Class and Party” 266undated “Notes on the Foreign Situation Based on a Trip Abroad” 2671953 “On Bourgeois – Democratic Revolution” 2681975 “On Certain Aspects of Bourgeois Nationalism” 269undated “On Inner – Party Struggle” 2701952 “On Soviet Socialist Democracy” 2711970 “John Abt: On the Defense of Angela Davis” 2721970 “On the Threshold of Communism” 2731952 “The Only Choice Peaceful Coexistence” 2741963 “Organizing the Party for Victory Over Reaction” 2751963 “Our Nation’s Crisis and How to Solve It” 2761972 “Out of Indochina! Freedom For Angela Davis” 2771971 “Outlook For a New-Labor Advance” by George Morris 278undated “Pacem in Terris Peace on Earth” 2791963 “Panama: Sovereignty for a Land Divided” 2801976 “The Party of Negro and White” by Pettis Perry 2811953 “Party Vigilance Against Enemy Infiltration” by Elmer Larson 2821953 “La Patrona Del Anticomunismo"" 283undated “Peace and Price Cuts Too!” 2841951 “Peace: Utopia, Reality or Challenge” 285undated “The People Protest the Mess in Reagan’s Backyard” 286undated “People’s Capitalism” 287undated “The People’s Case: The Story of the IWO” by Albert E. Kahn 311951 “The People’s Daily World” 321986 “The People’s Victory in Czechoslovakia” 331948 “Perestroika: the Revolution Continues” 34undated “Pettis Perry Speaks to the Court” 351952 “Pettis Perry: the Story of a Working Class Leader” by Richard O. Boyer 361952 “Poems From an Israel Prison” 371968-1970 “Poland Answers” by Florence Fox 381984 “Political Terms a Short Guide” 391982 “Population and Development” 310undated “Por La Paz Mundial! Empleos Para Todos!” 311undated “Portugal’s Untold Story” 312undated “Post-War Jobs” 3131944 “The Preobrazhensky Monastery” 3141972 “Prisons Under the Capitalist System” 3151972 “Programme of Action” 3161979 “Programme of the German Green Party” 317undated “Programme of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany” 3181976 “Promoting Democratic Movement on Mainland China” 319undated “Provocateurs Against the People” 3201972 “Questions 1976on Disarmament and Your Job” 321undated “Racism: The Nation’s Most Dangerous Pollutant” 3221971 “Report of the Central Committee Party of the Soviet Union to the 20th Party Congress” 3231956 “Report of the CPSU Central Committee and The Immediate Tasks” 3241976 “Reasons to Vote Against Ronald Regan” 3251984 “Red Baiting and Civil Liberties” 3261953 “Red Tape and Barbed Wire” 3271952 “Release Us from Bondage” 3281974 “Rent --An Injustice” by I.R. Ybarra 3291984 “Resistance” 3301953 “Resolution on the Path to Native American Indian Liberation” 3311979 “The Right to a Job” 332undated “The Right to Work” 3331986 “The Right to Organize” by Carl Braden 3341972 “The Rights of Foreign-Born Americans” 335undated “The Road to Peace in the Middle East” 3361982 “Robbing the Poor to Fatten the Rich” 3371972 “The Role of Theory in the Struggle for World Communist Unity” 3381977 “Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy” 3391967 “Russia With Our Own Eyes” 3401951 “Samos = We Are: Five Contemporary Cuban Poets” 3411970 “Science and Religion” by Marcel Cachin 3421946 “Security and Cooperation for Europe” 3431973 “Sense and Nonsense about Race” 3441957 “Setting the Record: Straight: The Big Lie and the Jewish-American Community” 345undated “750 Years of Berlin” 346undated “Shake-Out in Steel” 347undated “The Simple Art of Murder” 3481972 “Socialist Cuba: As Seen by a U.S. Communist Delegation” 3491971 “Socialism What’s in it for you” 3501946 “Solidarity Strategy for Victory Against Apartheid” 351undated “Solidarity with Unions of Chile” 352undated “South Africa and the Reagan Factor” 3531986 “Soviet Democracy” 3541947 “Soviet Education” 355undated “Soviet Experience in Building a Federal State” 3561982 “Soviet Jews: Fact and Fiction” 357undated “Soviet Law on Teenage Labour” 358undated “The Soviet Union” 3591978 “Spain and Vietnam 3601968 “A Special Moment: The Democratic Upsurge Against Reaganism”3611988 “Speeches and Statements Made at the Moscow Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers”3621947 “Stand up For Freedom” by Lloyd L. Brown3631952 “State and Mind”3641980 “The Story of a Working Class Leader” by Richard O. Boyer3651952 “The Strategic Weapon of Reagan’s Nuclear Terrorism: Anti-Sovietism, Anti-Communism" by Henry Winston3661984 “Strategy For a Black Agenda” by Henry Winston3671972 “Strategy for a People’s Alternative” by Henry Winston3681975 “The Structure of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)3691951 “The Struggle Ahead: Time for a Radical Change”3701979 “The Struggle for Afro-American Liberation”3711979 "Survival” by Bonner Fellers3721958 “Synthesis of the Final Declaration of the Final Declaration of Non-Aligned Countries”373undated “Tachai: The Red Banner”3741977 “Take a Stand For Peace, Jobs, & Equality” by Gus Hall3751982 “The Taft Hartley Law is a Slave Labor Laws”3761949 “The Text of Address by V.M. Molotov on the 30th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution:3771947 “There is still Time to Save Our Country and the World From “The Day After”3781949 “To Be a Communist”3791985 “Toward Chicano Liberation: The Communist Party Position”3801972 “Trade Unions Health Resorts in the USSR”3811953 “Tricontinental Magazine”382undated “The Truth About the Prague Trial”3831953 “Twenty-Five Years of Struggle for Peace and National Independence”3841974 “Twenty Years Later ... King’s Vision Our Struggle”3851983 “Two Obstacles on the Path to the Summit”386undated “Union Up Front”387undated “Untie For Comprehensive: Mandatory Sanctions Against South Africa”388undated “USSR Exhibition”3891950 “USSR - Social Security”390undated “U.S. Bombing of Vietnamese Dikes Shocks the World”391undated “U.S. Peace Council Fourth National Conference”3921985 “The U.S. Space Offensive- Road to Nuclear Annihilation”3931985 “United, We Can Win: A People’s New Agenda Communist Party Election Platform”394undated “Up Against the Wall Street Journal”395undated “Urgent Tasks of the Peace Movement”3961977 “Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism”3971985 “Voices Against Oppression: A Collection of Poems”3981991 “The Volunteer”3991969 “The Way to Peace and Justice in the Middle East”31001977 “The Way We See It”31011970 “Washington and Tel Aviv Against the Arabs31021984 “We Hold These Truths...”: Freedom, Justice, Equality,31031953 “What Do Communists Really Want?”31041947 “What Everyone Should Know About the USSR”31051976 “What Happened in Guatemala” by Helen Simon Travis and A.B. Magil31061954 “What is McCarthyism”3107undated “What is the Komsomol?”31081978 “What's Next a Bad Word a Good Deal Freedom Too”411975 “What it Means To be a Communist”421951 “What Say Does the Individual have?”43undated “What They Won’t Tell you About Jobs & Prices”441980 “What We Have Seen and Heard in The Middle East”451991 “What You Should Know About the Communist”461947 "What’s Happening to Labor”47undated “Who Own’s America?”481946 “Who Are the Foreign Agents?” by Lawrence Mahan491948 “Why a Bigger Communist Party”410undated “Why a Left-Center Coalition”4111977 “Why I am a Communist”4121947 "Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Revolution413undated “Will There Ever Be Socialism in the U.S.A.?”4141985 “William Z. Foster An Appreciation”4151955 “A Woman’s Place Is in the World”416undated “Women on Guard”4171952 “Women on the Job: The Communist View"4181973 “Working-Class Answer to the Deepening Crisis”4191979 “Working Class Unity: The Role of Communist...”4201975 “World Peace Council and Latin America”4211972 “World Peace Council: Rules and Regulations”4221980 “World Peace Council Solidarity with Vietnam”4231978 “Young Workers Liberation League”4241974 “Your Constitutional Rights Are in Danger”4251954 “Youth Unite for the Right to Earn, Learn, and Live426undated “The Yugoslav People’s Fight to Live”4271944 “Zimbabwe: The Facts About Rhodesia”4281977 “Zionism: A Political Critique”429undated