PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movement is a collaborative digitization project of the libraries and special collections departments of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the University of Central Florida (UCF). The materials for the digitization project are taken from the FAU Library's Socialist Series Pamphlets from the Special Collections pamphlet collection and the UCF Library's Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection.

The joint collection focuses on a wide range of political and rights issues and social movements. Spanning from the mid 19th century to the late 20th century, the pamphlets and monographs provide insight into the prevailing leftist and liberal views of the times from countries all around the world. In particular, the pamphlet collections offer a focused perspective on the thinking prevalent in the days leading up to World Wars I and II, the impact of the war efforts on general populations, the economic and social recovery after the wars, and perspectives on the turbulent times following.

The Socialist Series in the pamphlet collection of the Florida Atlantic University Library’s Special Collections includes over 1,000 late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pamphlets published by a wide variety of socialist and communist groups and their critics, both here and abroad. The pamphlets were among the book stock purchased as the library's opening day collection by Florida Atlantic University in the early 1960s from New York publisher and book dealer Burt Franklin. Publication dates run from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Topics discussed in the pamphlets include issues of workers' rights, race and gender, religion, world economics, capitalism, the demise of colonialism, and the emergence of trade unionism. The collection includes publications of the nascent labor union movement, as well as those of its detractors.

We invite you to explore the various writings to gain an understanding of historical economic, political, and social forces that have had an influence on today's societies. The other half of the PRISM collection is available through UCF's digital repository, STARS: Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900 - 1993

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Submissions from 1936

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Mexican Labor News - November 1, 1940 v. 8, no. 41, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 15, 1940 v. 8, no. 43, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 16, 1939 v. 7, no. 30, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 18, 1936 v. 1, no. 11, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 18, 1941 v. 8, no. 90, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 2, 1939 v. 7, no. 18, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 23, 1939 v. 7, no. 31, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 25, 1936 to December 25, 1936 v. 1, nos. 12 and 13, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 25, 1940 v. 8, no. 44, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 30, 1939 v. 7, no. 32, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 4, 1941 v. 8, no. 89, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - November 9, 1939 v. 7, no. 29, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 11, 1940 v. 8, no. 38, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 14, 1941 v. 8, no. 86, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 19, 1939 v. 7, no. 15, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 21, 1941 v. 8, no. 87, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 27, 1940 v. 8, no. 40, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 28, 1941 v. 8, no. 88, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 4, 1940 v. 8, no. 37, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 5, 1939 v. 7, no. 14, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - October 7, 1941 v. 8, no. 85, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 10, 1936 v. 1, no. 8, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 14, 1939 v. 7, no. 11, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 14, 1940 v. 8, no. 34, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 17, 1941 v. 8, no. 82, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 20, 1936 v. 1, no. 9, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 20, 1940 v. 8, no. 35, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 2, 1941 v. 8, no. 80, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 24, 1941 v. 8, no. 83, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 28, 1939 v. 7, no. 13, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 30, 1936 v. 1, no. 10, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 30, 1941 v. 8, no. 84, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 7, 1939 v. 7, no. 10, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News - September 9, 1941 v. 8, no. 81, Universidad Obrera de México

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Mexican Labor News -Special Edition - March 1941, Universidad Obrera de México

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Spain's democracy talks to America, Harry Frederick Ward and A. A. MacLeod

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American Legion and civil liberty, Walter Wilson

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Resolutions adopted by the First World Jewish Congress, World Jewish Congress

Submissions from 1935

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Hitler terror in 1935: with a chapter on Fascist terror in Austria

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School money in black and white

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Proceedings of the First Constitutional Convention of the United Automobile Workers, American Federation of Labor

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Working class unity or fascism?, I. b. Amter

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America's struggle for electric power, John Bauer

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The position of the middle-class worker in the transition to socialism, Lawrence A. Benjamin

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Forgotten men, what now?, Abe Bluestein

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New steps in the united front, Earl Browder

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Night riders in Gallup, Louis Colman

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Nieder mit dem krieg!, Communist International. Executive Committee.

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Day of solidarity and unity in struggle, Communist Party of the United States of America.

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What it is and what it stands for: with constitution as adopted by the Friars Hall Conference, June 29, 1935, Creator: Provisional executive committee of the home counties labour association

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Resolutions, Georgi Dimitrov

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Working class unity-bulwark against fascism, Georgi Dimitrov

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Arbeiterklasse gegen Faschismus, Georgi. Dimitrov

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The Supreme Court's challenge to labor : the N.I.R.A. decision a signal for intensified attacks on the workers, William F. Dunne

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Why Hearst lies about communism, William F. Dunne

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The fight for peace, M. Ercoli

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Morals and Moscow, Raymond T. Feely

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Just what is Communism, Raymond Thomas Feely

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War in Africa: Italian Fascism Prepares to Enslave Ethiopia, Jame W. Ford and Harry Gannes

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Conservatism, Charles R. Gay

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The Irish Republican Congress, George Gilmore

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Introduction to American trade unionism, Elsie Gluck

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Strikes under the new deal, Maurice Goldboom, John Herling, Joel Seidman, Elizabeth Yard, and Joseph (Introduction) Schlossberg

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Rich man, poor man; pictures of a paradox, Ryllis Alexander Goslin and Omar Pancoast Goslin

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Will America copy Germany's mistakes?, Gustav Hartz

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Will the demands of organized labor promote recovery?, Sidney Hillman and James A. Emery

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Public enemy no.1 : William Randolph Hearst, Nancy Hyman and Leonard Sparks

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Ernst Thaelmann, fighter against war and fascism, International Labor Defense

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League for Industrial Democracy : thirtieth anniversary report, 1905-1935, League for Industrial Democracy.

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The Paris commune, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin

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The worker and government, Lois MacDonald and Emanuel Stein

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The price of peace [being] the seventh Richard Cobden lecture given under the auspices of the Dunford House (Cobden memorial) association in London, on 8th May, 1935, Salvador de. Madariaga

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Professionals in a Soviet America, Edward Magnus

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The national labor relations act, David Aloysius McCabe

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Foreign trade and the worker's job, Helen Hill Miller

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The International Situation and the Soviet Union, V. M. Molotov

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Socialism for America, Jacob Panken

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Freedom, peace and bread! Report on the activities of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, Wilhelm Pieck

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Friends or enemies, Julius William Pratt

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Labour conditions in the men's clothing industry, Francis Reginald Scott and Harry Morris Cassidy

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Wie Lenins Programm erfüllt wird : Referat auf der Trauerversammlung zum II. Todestag W.I. Lenins am 21. Januar 1935., A. I. Stetzki

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Why Fascism Leads to War, John Strachey

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Germany under Hitler, Mildred S. Wertheimer

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Who's who in arms, W. H. Williams

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Declaration of principles and constitution of the Workers Party of the U.S., Workers Party of the United States

Submissions from 1934

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Koloman Wallisch, das Leben und Sterben eines Revolutionärs

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Pacific coast longshoremen's strike of 1934; arbitration before Natinal longshoremen's board

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The Socialist Party : its principles and policy

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The financing of unemployment relief: An address by Winthrop W. Aldrich, before the Commonwealth club of San Francisco, California on December 3, 1934, Winthrop W. Aldrich

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Toward an American revolutionary labor movement; statement of programmatic orientation, American Workers Party

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Some urgent problems of the labour movement in India, V. Basak

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Deutscher "Sozialismus" : Bemerkungen zu Sombarts Buch "Deutscher Sozialismus, Richard Fritz Behrendt

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Auf zum Kampf gegen die Kriegshetzer, Louis Bernar

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The fascist menace in the U.S.A., Richard Bransten

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Report of the Central Committee to the eighth Convention of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., Earl Browder

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Communism & religion, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas

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Who are the young pioneers, Martha Campion

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Official report of the Committee on the investigation of police tactics in Charleston on May 17, 1934., 1934.; Student Liberal Club of Harvard University.; Harvard Philosophy Club. Committee on the investigation of police tactics in Charleston on May 17

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Verbatim Report, Communist International

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The plan of plenty, Continental Committee