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 1945
How shall lend-lease accounts be settled, American Historical Association. Historical Service Board.; United States Armed Forces Institute
Our Russian ally, American Historical Association. Historical Service Board.; United States Armed Forces Institute.
Um Deutschlands nächste Zukunft, Bewegung "Freies Deutschland" in der Schweiz.
First blows, Britain's fight against Japan, British Information Services.
America's decisive battle, Earl Browder
Report of the CIO delegation to the Soviet Union, James B. Carey
Balance de la Conferencia Interamericana de Chapultepec, Confederaci ón de Trabajadores de América Latina
Guaranteed wages the year round, Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Dept. of Education and Research
The War and the Working Class: 1, A. Danilov
The War and the Working Class: 10, A. Danilov
The War and the Working Class: 2, A. Danilov
The War and the Working Class: 4, A. Danilov
The War and the Working Class: 5, A. Danilov
The War and the Working Class: 7, A. Danilov
The War and the Working Class: 8, A. Danilov
The War and the Working Class: 9, A. Danilov
The truth about Gerald Smith: America's number 1 fascist, Hal Draper
China's greatest crisis, Fredrick Vanderbilt Field
Communists in the struggle for Negro rights, James W. Ford; Benjamin J., Jr. Davis; William L. Patterson; and Earl Browder
Organized labor faces the new world, William Z. Foster
Fourth Inagural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.S. Senate
Franklin Delano Roosevelt--in memoriam : address, Solomon Bennett Freehof
Lithuania's fight for freedom, Ernest John Harrison
Le Socialisme de l'abondance. Technique d'une économie distributive et d'une révolution constructive, Marc Iel
Our plan for plenty: il nostro piano per l'abbondanza, International Workers Order
Die Kommunistische Partei zur nationalen Frage Österreichs, 1937-1945., Kommunistische Partei Österreichs.
Die wahrheit über Sowjetrussland; was jedermann über Sowjetrussland wissen muss, Fr. Lang
The forward march of American labor, a brief history of the American labor movement written for union members, League for Industrial Democracy
Shall Europe starve, Dwight Macdonald
Unity in American Judaism -- how and when, Julian Rabbi Morgenstern
The Harry Bridges case, Philip Murray and William Healy
President Roosevelt and International Cooperation for War and Peace, National Archives of the United States and Elizabeth Edwards Hamer
Antonio Gramsci, Partito comunista italiano
British trade unions and the war, John Price
El Sermon de La Montana, Gabry Rivas
Strikes and the public interest, Sumner H. Slichter
Inside liberated Poland, Anna Louise Strong
American-Soviet Trade Relations: Past and Future Economic Background for the Post-War International Trade of the USSR., Valery J. Tereshtenko and Vladimir Prokopovich Timoshenko
Plight of Ukrainian Dps: a few typical letters of many being received daily from Europe describing the tragic plight of Ukrainian displaced persons whom the Soviets would forcibly repatriate and doom to enslavement, persecution or death., Ukrainian Congress of America
The Bretton Woods proposals., United States. Dept. of the Treasury
Naval Aviation Program : CAA War Training Service, University of Wisconsin., University of Wisconsin
Bodenreform: Junkerland in Bauernhand, Volkszeitung Dresden
Submissions from 1944
Testimonial to Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1943
Winning the Peace: A Series of 21 Articles on Post-War Planning
Our British Ally: War Department education manual EM -41 GI Roundtable Series, American Historical Association
Report on war and post-war adjustment policies : February 15, 1944, Bernard M. Baruch
Industrial property in Europe, Antonín Basch
Stresemann, the German liberals' foreign policy, Fritz K. Bieligk and Edward FitzGerald
Economic problems of the war and peace, Earl Browder
Communists and national unity: an interview of PM with Earl Browder, Earl Browder and Harold Lavine
The story of toad lane, Stuart Chase
Labor and education : our greatest resource. Don't sell them short, Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Labor & religion, Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Dept. of Education and Research
The people's program for 1944, Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Political Action Committee
Programme du conseil national de la resistance (C.N.R.), Conseil national de la Resistance
Proceedings of the Conference on Africa--new perspectives, Council on African Affairs.
The elections and the outlook for national unity, Eugene Dennis
We will not forget, Il'ia Erenburg, Dementii Alekseevich Shmarinov, and Kukryniksy
World government--shall Britain participate, A. E. Farncombe and Charles A. Dana
Who are the 18 prisoners in the Minneapolis Labor Case? : how the Smith "Gag" Act has endangered workers rights and free speech, James T. Farrell
Must allied indifference match Nazi crime: a plea for the rescue of Europe's remaining Jews, Gerold Frank, Lewis Gannett, and Freda Kirchwey
Is Dewey the man?, Sender Garlin and William (Illustrator) Gropper
Korea looks ahead, Andrew Jonah Grad
The British farmer's battle--and victory, Great Britain. Ministry of Information
What kind of economy after the war, Sidney Hertzberg
Black mail, Henry Reed Hoke
Jewish migration for the past hundred years, Jacob Lestschinsky
An appraisal of the fatalistic view of capitalism, Machinery and Allied Products Institute.
The Polish underground labor movement, Wladyslaw Roman Malinowski
Underground resistance in Poland, Wladyslaw Roman Malinowski
Palestine, the primary hope of the post-war era, James G. McDonald
The battle of the Warsaw ghetto, Shloyme Mendelson
Opportunity for private enterprise or, Benefits for business through cooperative group insurance, National Physicians' Committee for the Extension of Medical Service.
Schulungsbrief: Das Zentrale Monatsblatt der NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Reichsorganisationsleiter, and Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Hauptschulungsamt.
United Europe, Stephen de Ropp
The political theories of modern pacifism: An analysis and criticism, Mulford Quickert Sibley
German communists, pseudonym Spartakus and Edward FitzGerald
Basic principles for the peace table, Henry Powell Spring
The cooperative movement in Italy, Valery Tereshtenko
Half a million forgotten people: The story of the cotton textile workers, Textile Workers Union of America
The situation of the church and religious practices in occupied Lithuania, A. Trakiskis
Prague and Berlin, 1918-1938, Frantisek Uhlír
National war labor board, United Steelworkers of America
Our job in the Pacific, Henry A. Wallace
The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy, James P. Warburg
The role of organized labor in education for racial understanding, George Weaver
Swords and Plowshares: The Indian army as a social force, Geoffrey Wheeler
Business and government cooperation for postwar prosperity, Nathaniel Ruggles Whitney
Union security; closed shop, maintenance of membership, preferential shop,, union shop, Idele Louise Wilson
Submissions from 1943
Homes for workers in planned communities thru collective action
Polish-Soviet relations, 1918-1943
Il Traditore: The Traitor Benito Mussolini and his "Conquest" of Power, Vol. 1, no. 7., Anzelika Balabanova
The economic system today and tomorrow: Lessons of the war: A reply, William Benton and Eric Johnston
A new Italy arises, Giuseppe Berti
Enemy within; German minorities as a weapon of German policy, G Borsky
A talk about the Communist Party, Earl Browder