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 - 1993Submissions from 1934
A trip to cooperative Europe, Howard A. Cowden
The civil war in Austria; a first-hand account from eye-witnesses and participants, Julius Deutsch and David Paul (Translator) Berenberg
The great San Francisco general strike, William F. Dunne
Communists in the textile strike, an answer to Gorman, Green and Company, Clarence Albert Hathaway
One hundred years in ten : Soviets continue advance, Abraham Aaron Heller
Looking forward: discussion outlines, 1934, Mary W. Hillyer
Hinter Stacheldraht und Gitter; erlebnisse und erfahrungen in den Konzentrationslagern und Gefängnissen Hitlerdeutschlands, Werner Hirsch
Lenin in den ersten Tagen der Sowjetmacht : nach Erinnerungen von Teilnehmen jener Tage. Zusammengestellt nach ausgewähltem Material des Marx-Engels-Lenin-Instituts., Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED.
The Leeds housing policy, Charles Jenkinson and A. J. Dobbs
The Paris Commune, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
The proletarian revolution and renegade Kautsky, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
Revolutionäre krise, faschismus und krieg., Dmitrii Zakhar evich Manuil skii
Prohibiting poverty: suggestions for a method of obtaining economic security, Prestonia Mann Martin
Letters to Dr. Kugelmann, Karl Marx and Louis Kugelmann
Socialism's new beginning, pseud. Miles
Zur Abschaffung des Brotkartensystems Bericht auf d. Plenum d. Z K. d. K P (B) S U. am 25. Nov. 1934, Vjaceslav M. Molotov
Constitution and regulations of the National Unemployment Council of the U.S.A., National Unemployment Council of the United States
The eyes of the movie, Harry Alan Potamkin and Irving Lerner
The revolutionary movement in Spain, Helmut Rüdiger
August Lütgens; ein roter Frontkämpfer., Josef. Schneider
Papers Relating to the British War Debt, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
From young socialists to young communists, George Smerkin and Sol Larks
The Lenin heritage, Joseph Stalin
W.I. Lenin : Rede zum 10. Todestag Lenins am 21. Januar 1934 im grossen Staatstheater der UdSSR in Moskau, Aleksei Ivanovich. Stetskii
Dictatorship and democracy in the Soviet Union, Anna Louise Strong
Italian intellectuals under fascism : facts and documents, Student League for Industrial Democracy (U.S.)
NRA from within, William Ormonde Thompson and Mary Van Kleeck
Geschichte der wirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen und der wirtschaftspolitischen Systeme : ein Leitfaden, Horst. Wagenführ
What is consumer's co-operation: A brief answer to a question of timely interest, James Peter Warbasse
Hawaii, Samuel Weinman
The armaments racket; écrase l'infame: an appeal to the Christian conscience, Percy Elborough Tinling Widdrington
Gestapo : police secrète d'etat d'Allemagne, Emil Winkel
America Must Lose- By a "Planned Economy", the Stepping-stone to a Regimented State, William Wirt
Principles of co-operation (Gong hoo lun), Shih-chung Yang
Fighting fascism in the factories, Young Communist League of Germany
Submissions from 1933
Economic construction program of Manchukuo
Land of the pilgrim's pride, 1932-1933, American Civil Liberties Union
Die erfahrung der KPdSU (b) bei der regulierung des wachstums und der sozialen zusammensetzung der partei., G. Antonow
My plan for 2,000,000 workless, Ernest Bevin
Enemies of Communism, Reverend Michael C. Burke
The strange case of Herr Hitler, Everett R. Clinchy
An open letter to all members of the Communist Party, Communist Party of the United States of America
Roosevelt's new deal: what it means to the workers: how it is being applied in every mine, mill, factory and city: why every worker should participate in the local elections., Communist Party of the United States of America. District No. 5.
Election platform Communist Party: New York municipal elections, 1933, Communist Party of the United States of America (N.Y.)
Are you a worker? : where the middle-class stands, Richard Stafford, Sir Cripps
Soviet Russia: 1917-1933, Vera Micheles Dean
The fight against war, Albert Einstein and Alfred Lief
Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.S. Senate
United States No. 2, Foreign Office Great Britain
Youth confronts the blue eagle, Gil Green
Deutschlands kampf fur die abendlandische kultur: Das neue Deutschland und das Judentum, Otto Jamrowski
German youth in a changing world, Karl A. Kiesel
Meeting the farm crisis, John H. Kolb
The jobless Negro, Elizabeth Lawson
Looking forward, League for Industrial Democracy
Swastika over Germany, Alexander Siegfried Lipsett
Unemployment relief and public works, Leon C. Marshall
Japan's case in the Sino-Japanese dispute as presented before the Special session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Yosuke Matsuoka
Die Aufgaben des ersten Jahres des zweiten Fünfjahrplans, Vjaceslav M. Molotov
The present situation in Germany, O. Piatnitskii
The world economic crisis, O. Piatnitsky
Polish Pomerania (Pomorze), N.Y.) Polish Information Service (New York
Techniker und Ingenieure in der UdSSr, Vasilii Vasil'evich Prokof'ev
Kommunismus, die einzige Rettung., Hermann Remmele
Contra el terrorismo imperialista a todos los trabajadores manuales e intelectuales del mundo, Romain Rolland and Graciano. Lipiz
Toward a planned economy, Arthur Salter
Church and state in Germany., Frederick Franklin Schrader
British War Debt: United States No. I (1933), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
Control of industry in Japan, Seiji Keizai Kenkyujo
Deutschlands erwachen: Von einem auslander gesehen, Spectator
Unterredungen mit ausländischen Arbeiter-Delegationen., Joseph. Stalin
Some plain speaking with regard to the Chinese-Japanese situation, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze
Our children cry for bread, Sadie Van Veen
Des enfants-proscrits ont faim ! Secourez-Les!, Pref. du Charles Vildrac
Fix bayonets, against whom?, Young Communist League of the U.S.
The dying peace, K. Zilliacus and Harold Joseph Laski
Submissions from 1932
What the labour government has done
Speeding up the workers, James Barnett
Socialist fundamentals, David Paul Berenberg
Johann Liebhardt und Thomas Monger; zwei ausländische Helden des Fünfjahrplans, Sergei Konstantinovich Bezborodov
Recent science and materialism, William Montgomery Brown
War Debts and Reparations, G. D. H. Cole and Richard Seymour Postgate
The struggle against imperialist war and the tasks of the Communists, Communist International. Congress
Communist election platform : against imperialist war, for jobs and bread, Communist Party of the United States of America
Toward revolutionary mass work, Communist Party of the United States of America. Central Committee
CPLA program, policies, Conference for Progressive Labor Action
Spying on workers, Robert Dunn
Soviet China, Maurice James and Richard Doonping
The revolt on the armoured cruiser "Potemkin", S. Kanatchikov
Balance of payments and the foreign debt of the U.S.S.R, S. Konovalov and University of Birmingham. Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions
How America lives; a handbook of industrial facts, Harry Wellington Laidler
On the eve of October, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
State and revolution, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
The April conference, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin