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 1943
Make 1943 the decisive year, Earl Browder
Wage policy in war production, Earl Browder
Resettlement, an aid to durable peace, Abraham Joseph Bruman
A labor policy for victory, Tim Buck
What does freedom mean? : an address delivered at the Parrish Memorial Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, September 5, 1943, Nicholas Murray Butler
In guerrilla China, China defence league
A system to win this war and to win the peace to come; the World federation plan, Ely Culbertson
Tomorrow's horizon, Vartan Derad
The American relief administration in Russia 1921-1923, Harold H. Fisher
For speedy victory: The second front now, William Z. Foster
The people and the Congress, William Z. Foster
For a government of peace and freedom in Italy, Fronte nazionale italiano
Labour in New Zealand, Anthony Edward Christian Hare
Significance of Social Security, Gerhard Hirschfeld
Ammunition, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Education Dept.; International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Education Dept. International Union
Oppressed minority, Franz Koegler and Edward FitzGerald
Propaganda for peace; or, Education for life, Martin Kriesberg
Jewish migrations: past experiences and post-war prospects, Eugene M. Kulischer and Abraham G. Duker
State and revolution, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
The Nazi war against the Catholic church, National Catholic Welfare Conference
A family of nations ... the Soviet Union, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
Veblen on Japan, H.T. Oshima
Daniel De Leon: disciplinarian, Arnold Petersen
Employment after the war, John Herman Groesbeck Pierson
Program for people's Poland, New York Polish Labor Group
The U.S.S.R.: geography--peoples--origin and purpose of the Soviet state--how the Soviet state is governed--the Communist party--economic development--living conditions--the Red army, Royal Institute of International Affairs
Soviet war documents: addresses, notes, orders of the day, statements, Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) Posol'stvo. United States
British labor and the Beveridge plan, Frederick Joseph Scheu
The science of hatred, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov and William Gropper
Jobs and security for tomorrow, Maxwell Slutz Stewart
The core of a continent; problems of central and eastern Europe, Henryk Strasburger
The Tresca case, Ezio Taddei
Report of the National Executive Committee to the 42nd annual conference to be held in the central hall, Westminster S.W. June 14th to 18th, 1943, The Labour Party
Definici ón de la naci ón mexicana, Lombardo Vicente Toledano
Helping the people to help themselves; the story of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, United Nations Information Office
The midcontinent and the peace; the interests of western Canada and central northwest United States in the peace settlements, University of Manitoba.; University of Minnesota
Lest we forget : the massacre of the Warsaw ghetto : a compilation of reports received by the World Jewish congress and by the representation of Polish Jewry, World Jewish Congress.; Representation of Polish Jewry. American Division
Submissions from 1942
The Polish worker's day; a working day in the life of a Polish worker in occupied Warsaw
Labor parties of Latin America, Robert Alexander
The great Southwest strike, Ruth Alice Allen
An appeal of the German communists: destroy Hitler! free Germany!, Max Bedacht and Alfred Wagenknecht
Pearl Harbor and American Jewry, Sammuel M. Rabbi Blumenfield
Beyond war, an introduction to a series of leaflets on post-war problems, Florence Brewer Boeckel
Equal access to raw materials and related problems, Florence Brewer Boeckel
Race prejudice and world war, Florence Brewer Boeckel
Das Wannsee Protokoll: zur Endlosung der Judenfrage und einige Fragen an die, die es angeht, Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes
Slavery under Hitler's "new order", Walter Citrine
The Jews in the war, Israel Cohen
After the war-- full employment, Creator: Alvin Harvey Hansen
Negroes and the national war effort, Frederick Douglass and James [Forward] Ford
Russia : Nearly 3 Times the Size of the U.S.A. and the Best Prepared of Our Allies, East and West Association (U.S.)
The war and the Negro people, James W. Ford
Labor and the war, William Z. Foster
3 [i.e. Tres] tareas del pueblo Mexicano: creaci ón de una economía aut ónoma, apoyo al Presidente Avila Camacho, lucha por el abaratamiento de la vida., Celestino Gasca
Hitler's new order Kaiser's old order, Curt Geyer
Soviet Russia: An introduction, K. Gibberd
Eastern Europe and the United States, Josef, B. Hanc
Poverty and partition: Being a brief account of the economic implications of Pakistan, Indian National Congress
The cooperative community: a note on a potential new field of sociological research, Heinrich Infeld
How to conduct a union meeting, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agriculture Implement Workers of America. International Union
China : a radio discussion, Eliot Janeway, Harley MacNair, and Nathaniel Peffer
Know your enemy, Japan, Anthony Jenkinson
The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly, Dudley Kirk
Maximum production: warfare and welfare, Harry Wellington Laidler
Behind the dictators, Leo Herbert Lehmann
5th column in Mexico, Vicente Lombardo Toledano
The trade unions of our Soviet ally, Clifford Thomas McAvoy
The case of Dr. Bruening, Bernhard Menne; Heinrich Brüning; and Edward, FitzGerald
Our Ally The Soviet Union, Robert Minor
The year of great decision, 1942, Robert Minor
Note of the people's commissar of foreign affairs of the USSR : April 27, 1942, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
They can aid America; a survey of specialized personnel, National Refugee Service (U.S.)
Rerum novarum : encyclical letter on the condition of labor, Pope Leo XIII
The flaming border, Czeslaw Poznanski
Stalingrad fights on, Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov and D.L. Fromberg
Mr. President - free Earl Browder, Sasha Small
Japanese imperialism exposed, the secret Tanaka document, Giichi Tanaka
Technocracy : the new America : official magazine of Technocracy, Inc., Inc. Technocracy
Judios y mexicanos razas inferiores?, Lombardo Vicente Toledano
Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points. The Atlantic Charter's eight points., United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
The Hungarian problem, Rusztem Vambery and Oscar Jaszi
Después de la guerra debe comenzar el siglo del hombre del pueblo, Henry Agard Wallace
Africa in the war, Max Yergan
Submissions from 1941
Sedition, American Civil Liberties Union
Soviet women to the women of the world : the Moscow women's anti-Nazi meeting and American women's response, American Council on Soviet Relations
The International Labor Organization: discussions at meetings of the A.F. of L., American Federation of Labor
Australian home front : a wartime record 1939-41, Australian Institute of International Affairs. Research Section
Germany's economic conquest of Czechoslovakia, Antonín Basch
The war and the workers, Ernest Bevin
War and the individual; is pacifism the answer, Algernon David Black
Labor in the defense crisis, Thomas Reynolds Carskadon
The Browder case: a summary of facts : a brief for justice and fair play in America, Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder (New York)
Senator Coudert's star chamber : a report on the Rapp-Coudert Committee private hearings, January to March, 1941, N.Y.) Committee for Defense of Public Education (New York
The Right to strike : keystone of liberty, Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Community employment problems under defense, Council for Democracy. Committee of Correspondence