Political Pamphlets collected by Vincent Longo contains a variety of pamphlets,
serial underground magazines and publications distributed chiefly by the Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Action, Fourth International / Fourth
Internationalist Tendency and smaller groups with similar beliefs primarily in the United States and also internationally.
Collection Number
MS 593
Language:
Materials are in English,
Spanish,
French,
Italian, and
Chinese.
Repository
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains two series and consists of either serial or informational pamphlets published by socialist and communist organizations in both the
United States and internationally. Many of the pamphlets attempt to recruit new membership while making new audiences aware of an organization’s goals.
Groups also targeted different audiences, including youth members as well as working-class members, amongst others.
The first series consists of six sub-series of serial publications published by particular socialist or communist organizations, most of which were based in the
United States. These subseries include information from Fourth International, also sometimes known as the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, as well as the
Revolutionary Marxist Committee, Socialist Action, Socialist Workers Party, Young Socialist Alliance, and other various organizations. The bulk of the materials
were published between 1960-1980.
The second series contains non-serial, informational pamphlets that were published by various far-left organizations. The pamphlets are divided into two subseries
based on their marketing strategies. In subseries one, there are pamphlets that are specific to regions and/or countries. These pamphlets discuss issues that address
an entire area. Subseries two, however, is divided into social movements and are not necessarily specific to countries. Movements of note include the Black Civil Rights,
La Raza Civil Rights, Native American Civil Rights, and Gay Rights.
Housed separately are pamphlets from The Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) titled U.S. Imperialism by David Gilbert and David Loud, 1968; United States 1967
by James Forman, 1969; The new radicals in the multiversity by Carl Davidson, 1968.
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Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Browder, Earl, 1891-1973.
Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.
Lenin, Vladimir Il’ich, 1870-1924.
Longo, Vincent
Mandel, Ernest.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
Corporate Name(s)
Fourth International.
Socialist Action (Organization : U.S.).
Socialist Workers Party.
Geographic Name(s)
Chile.
Cuba.
Soviet Union.
United States.
Subject(s)
Communism -- Periodicals.
Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Communism.
Social movements -- Political aspects.
Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social movements.
Socialism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Series I contains materials published as serial in the United States, although there are a few international publications included in the collection.
A bulk of the materials are from the Fourth International / Fourth Internationalist Tendency, the Revolutionary Marxist Committee, Socialist Action, or the
Socialist Workers Party.
The first subseries contains materials from the Fourth International / Fourth Internationalist Tendency, a communist international organization consisting of
followers of Leon Trotsky, sometimes also called Trotskyists. The first subseries is organized alphabetically by title and also contains editions of the
“Bulletin in Defense of Marxism,” the internal discussion and information bulletins including international editions and incarnations of the group’s magazine
spanning several decades with titles including “International,” “New International,” “Fourth International,” and “International Socialist Review.”
The second subseries contain editions of the Revolutionary Marxist Committee’s internal bulletin and some of the Revolutionary Marxist Papers. There are also a few
miscellaneous articles surrounding Marxism. Subseries 3 contains editions of the Socialist Action’s discussions, education material and information, internal
information, and internal informative bulletins. There are also several miscellaneous flyers and articles from Socialist Action.
The fourth subseries contains editions of the Socialist Workers Party’s publications “Education for Socialists,” both national and some local district discussion
bulletins, internal information and international internal information bulletins, “Party Organizer” and miscellaneous flyers and articles. Subseries 5 includes editions of the Young Socialist Alliance’s discussion and information bulletins, including “The Organizer.” Lastly, subseries 6 includes various magazines, flyers, newspapers and other forms of mass correspondence from socialist and communist organizations in the United States.
Series II consists of informational pamphlets as well as non-serial pamphlets from
socialist and communist organizations. In many cases, these pamphlets have been organized by specific country, and sometimes by a region within a
country. The first subseries includes pamphlets from 1927-1993 that describe specific issues affecting a particular country or region. The second
subseries concerns itself with broad social movements within the United States. While several of these issues focus on communism, there are also larger
movements like the Black Civil Rights Movement, Native American Rights, Feminism, Gay Rights, and others.