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 1941
What means this strike, Daniel De Leon
Die Juden in USA; über hundert Bilddokumente,, Hans Diebow
War against the middle classes, Peter Drucker and Maynard Krueger
The fight against Hitlerism, William Z. Foster and Robert Minor
Third Inagural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.S. Senate
Oklahoma witch hunt, Gordon Friessen
It is happening here, Simon W. Gerson
I.P.R. books: new and forthcoming publications of the National Councils and the International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, Institute of Pacific Relations
Economics of defense and reconstruction; symposium by a score of speakers at Lake Mahopac Summer Conference of the League for Industrial Democracy., League for Industrial Democracy
America needs Earl Browder, A. B. Magil
How France was betrayed, André Marty
The railways and labor: what price peace, Sidney Lincoln Miller
One war to defeat Hitler, Robert Minor
Underground Poland Speaks: Manifesto to the peoples of the world, Phillip Noel-Baker
Witch-hunt in Minnesota, George Edward Novack and Civil Rights Defense Committee
The intervention in Siberia, in 1918-1922, V. Parfenov
Underground radicalism an open letter to Eugene V. Debs and to all honest workers within the Socialist Party, John Pepper
What price telephones?, Norman Perelman
International solidarity against imperialist war, Wilhelm Pieck
The two fronts of freedom Memorial Day Address, Anson Phelps Stikes
The folklore of inflation, Rudolph L. Weissman
Destroy Hitlerism, Max. Weiss
Submissions from 1940
Showdown in the Orient, Thomas Arthur Bisson
The Sherman Act and labor disputes, Louis B. Boudin
Behind the Polish-Soviet break, Alter Brody and Corliss Lamont
Leon Trotsky: Memorial address “To the memory of the old manâ€, James Patrick Cannon
Life with a purpose : why you should join the Young Communist League, Joseph Clark
Immigration and national welfare, Felix S. Cohen
Europe in chains, Paul Einzig
Modern School of Stelton twenty-fifth anniversary, 1915-1940, Francisco Ferrer
Was ist Sozialismus?, Ernst Fischer
I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier--for Wall Street, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Capitalism, socialism, and the war, William Z. Foster
The United States and the Soviet union, William Z. Foster
What's what about the war; questions and answers, William Z. Foster
Why we defend the Soviet Union, Albert Goldman
Peace planning for Central and Eastern Europe, Feliks Gross
Unemployment must be abolished, Interfaith Conference
Intellectuals and the war, V. J. Jerome
Labor and international peace, an account of the International Labor Organization in war time, Ethel McLean Johnson
Nazi and Nazarene, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
The federal government and functional democracy, Harry Wellington Laidler
Jobs, peace, unity: John L. Lewis speaks to youth, John L. Lewis
Monopoly and big business, Irving Lipkowitz
The middle class and organized labor, Robert Morss Lovett
Over-production and unemployment: a plea for freedom, James Mill
The October days, 1917; the story of the establishment of soviet power, I. Mintz
Soviet foreign policy, the meaning of the war in Finland, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
Labor's good neighbor policy, Philip Murray and Vicente Lombardo Toledano
From capitalism to communism, Scott Nearing
No slave labor: exposing plans to regiment youth in forced labor battalions: proposing a real program for jobs and training for American youth, New York Youth Congress .; Jobs Commission
Lithuania under the sickle and hammer, Jonas Petruitis
The role of the individual in history, Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
Trade unionism today, Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S.
Deadlock in China, Lawrence Kaelter Rosinger
Wie studiert man den Marxismus-Leninismus?, Theodor. Schwarz
New Zealand's labor government at work, William Ball Sutch
Los derechos individuales no son incompatibles con un régimen socialista, Diego Vicente Dr. Tejera
How Hitler prepared, Otto David Tolischus
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Germany's eastern policy, John Wheeler, Sir, Wheeler-Bennett
Submissions from 1939
China after twenty-one months of war
Parties and the common good, Mortimer Jerome Adler
The Association of American Railroads: its organization and activities, Association of American Railroads
Sit-down: what's happened in the automobile industry since enactment of the National Labor Relations Act, Automobile Manufacturers Association
Folk Arts and Crafts, A. V. Bakushinsky
Anti-Semitism : a threat to democracy, Daniel Joseph Boorstin, George Mayberry, and John Rackliffe
The 1940 elections : how the people can win, Earl Browder
Unity for peace and democracy, Earl Browder
The Church under the swastika, James Carroll
Constitution and by-laws of the Communist Party U.S.A., Communist Party of the United States of America
The founding conference of the fourth international (world party of the socialist revolution) program and resolution, 1938 Fourth International Founding Conference
Rodef Shalom Pulpit - New Series: "Since Lincoln Was in Illinois", Solomon Bennett Freehof
German white book; documents concerning the last phase of the German-Polish crisis, N.Y.) German Library of Information (New York
Civil defence : some things you should know if war should come, Great Britain. Lord Privy Seal.
Work and wages in the Soviet Union, Ivan Ivanovich Gudov
The world of industry and labour, 1939, International Labour Conference
Why Negroes should oppose the war, J. R. Johnson
Why not labor courts, Louis Kirshbaum
The un-American Dies committee, Adam Lapin
The case against experience rating in unemployment compensation, Richard Allen Lester and Charles Vincent Kidd
Labor policy under democracy, Clay Packer Malick
Lenin und die internationale Arbeiterbewegung, D. Manuilski
The world communist movement: report of the Delegation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) in the Executive Committee of the Communist International to the eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U. (B.), Dmitrii Zakhar'evich Manuil'skii
The meaning of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
The Soviet Union in 1942. The third five-year plan for the national-economic development of the U.S.S.R., Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
Parachute jumping and gliding popular Soviet sports, Y. Major Moshkovsky
The true Republican record, 1929-1933, William Starr Myers
Machine and tractor stations, A. Oskin
Mexico in transition, Clarence Senior
The Christian front: Coughlin's storm troopers, Alson Jesse Smith
Report on the work of the central committee to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U. (B.), Joseph Stalin
For union now: a proposal for a federal union of the democracies, Clarence Kirshman Streit
Mexican Labor News. They're all online except for Mexican Labor News - December 14, 1939 v. 7, no. 34, Universidad Obrera de Mexico
Mexican Labor News - March 30, 1939 v. 6, no. 13, Universidad Obrera de México