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 1932
Will the Bolsheviks retain state power?, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
Behind the scenes of the "Disarmament" Conference, Z. Lippai
Lohnarbeit und Kapital, Karl Marx
Kapitalistisches wirtschaftschaos oder sozialistische planwirtschaft, Kurt Mendelsohn
Socialist competition of the masses, Elena Mikulina
The one way out : an answer to hard times, Scott Nearing
Japan and the peace pact : with special reference to Japan's reaction to Mr. Stimson's note regarding the pact, Inazo Nitobe
Profits and wages, Anna Rochester
Science, technology and economics under capitalism and in the Soviet Union, Modest Rubinshtein
British War Debt: United States No. 2 (1932), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
United States No. 3, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
United States No. 4, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
United States No. 5, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
United States No. 6, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
United States No. 7, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
United States No. 8, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
The tasks of the working class in mastering the technique of production, Joseph Stalin
An interview with the German author Emil Ludwig, Joseph Stalin; Emil,; 1881-1948. Ludwig; and William,; 1898?-1985. Weinstone
War in China, Ray Stewart
Remarks on the Five Year Plan Memorandum No. 5, University of Birmingham. Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions
Wages of Industrial Workers in the U.S.S.R. Memorandum No. 6, University of Birmingham. Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions
Wages of Industrial Workers in the U.S.S.R. Memorandum No. 7, University of Birmingham. Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions
Wages of Industrial Workers in the U.S.S.R. Memorandum No. 8, University of Birmingham. Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions
Ivan Babushkin: a short biography, T.S. Zelikson-Bobrovskai and C. Bobrovskaya
Submissions from 1931
Labor leaders betray Tom Mooney: A member of the International Molders Union for 29 years
National sovereignty and continental defense
A workers' world, David Paul Berenberg
Social insurance, Grace M. Burnham
War on God in Russia, James A. Cleary and Catholic Truth Society of Ireland.
Unemployment relief and social insurance : the Communist Party program against the capitalist program of starvation, Communist Party of the United States of America
Study of the New England cotton textile industry made for the American Unitarian Association, Robert, C. Dexter
The World Crisis, etc., William Pascoe. GOARD
How America was forced into the World War: The Walter Hines legend, Hartley C. Grattan
The decisive year in the Soviet Union, Abraham Aaron Heller
The tomb of Lenin, John Haynes Holmes
Two years of Labour rule, Labour Party (Great Britain)
The revolution of 1905, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
Unemployed councils in St. Petersburg in 1906, Sergei Vasil'evich Malyshev
Another world war, Scott Nearing
Our new tasks: Speech at All Union Conference of the directors of the Soviet industry, Joseph Stalin
The church and the workers, Bennett Stevens
The Minnesota unemployment research project, Russell Alger Stevenson
Mexican labor in the United States - Bethlehem, Pennsylivania, Paul S. Taylor
The Foreign Trade of the U.S.S.R. Memorandum No. 2, University of Birmingham. Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions
The National Income of the U.S.S.R. Memorandum No. 3, University of Birmingham. Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions
Manchuria at Hangchow, Shuxi Xu
Submissions from 1930
Unemployment and work, Ernest J. P. (Ernest John Pickstone), Sir, 1875-1954 Benn
The greatest crime in history, Jovan Ciubranovitch
Struggles ahead!, Communist Party of the United States of America
Working class against capitalist class is the main election issue of the Communist Party : Election platform, Communist Party U.S.A., Communist Party of the United States of America
Give a party for the party, Communist Party of the United States of America. New York State Committee.
Statutes of the international union of peace societies, Creator: H. Golay and Creator: H. Lafontaine
A Marxist exposure of the fallacy of Technocracy, Sam Darcy and Lincoln [Introduction] Steffens
Report on conditions in the Southern textile industry to the Board of Directors of the American Unitarian Association, Robert Cloutman Dexter
Militarist wars and revolution in China, Richard Doonping
Peace or war, P. Lang
Lenin on the I.L.P., Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
Religion, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
The teachings of Karl Marx, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
The war and the Second International, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
Red renaissance: group of poems, H. H. Lewis
Steve Katovis: life and death of a worker, Joseph North and A. B. Magil
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 33, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 34, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 35, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 36, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 37, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
Burlington dynamite plot, Walt Pickard and Bill (Illustrator) Siegel
The frame-up system, Vern Ralph Smith
Spain: July 19, 1936 – July 19, 1937, Agustin Souchy
The struggle of the marine workers, N. Sparks
Submissions from 1929
Conference specifications for steel highway bridges, American Railway Engineering Association
On the road to bolshevization, Communist International
Socialist competition in the Soviet Union, Friends of the Soviet Union. United States Section.
David Lloyd George : the liberal leader, A. H. Henderson-Livesey
Can Lloyd George do it? : an examination of the Liberal pledge, John Maynard Keynes and Hubert Douglas Henderson
What is to be done?, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
Pages from party history, Jay Lovestone
Workers' education, un-American, atheistic and red, Abraham John, Muste
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 26, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 27, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 30-31, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
The Pan-Pacific Monthly No. 32, Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
Ende des Kapitalismus? Die Notwendigkeit freier Erwerbswirtschaft, Adolf Weber
Submissions from 1928
Voice of the Chinese people regarding Sino-Japanese questions
Pierre Chardon : sa vie, son action, sa pensée., Pierre. Chardon; E. Armand; Eugène. Bizeau; and L., ; (Illustrator) Moreau
America and Russia: When shall they be friends?, John Haynes Holmes
Labour and the nation, Labour Party (Great Britain)
Das lohnproblem in der grenznutzenschule (darstellung und kritik)., Karl Wilhelm Schneider
Submissions from 1927
Toward the permanent safeguarding of industrial peace
Russia after ten years : report of the American Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union, American Trade Union Delegation.
Labor in southern cotton mills, Paul Blanshard
The threat to the labor movement : the conspiracy against the trade unions, William F. Dunne
The situation in China, Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck
The manufacturers' child labor program, Dorothy Kenyon
Historische Aufsätze : Aloys Schulte zum 70. Geburtstag., Aloys Schulte
Submissions from 1926
Helden der sozialen Revolution., Max Adler
The challenge of youth, Sam Darcy and Young Workers' Communist League of America
American company unions; a study of employee representation plans, "works councils" and other substitutes for labor unions, Robert W. Dunn