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 1939
Results of the second five-year plan and the project of the Third five-year plan, July, 1939, University of Birmingham. Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions
Fascism or freedom, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
The world of industry and labor 1939, John G. Winant
Submissions from 1938
Farm policies under the New Deal
The road to mass organization of proletarian children
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 10 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 12 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 1 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 2 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 3 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 4 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 6 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 7 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 8 of 12
Vigilance pamphlets. Number 9 of 12
Why and how to boycott goods "made in Japan": questions and answers, American League for Peace and Democracy
It's happening in New York; anti-semitism must be stopped, John Arnold and Leon Harris
Labor on new fronts, Robert Romano Ravi Brooks
A message to Catholics, Earl Browder
Social and national security, Earl Browder
Is Japan the champion of the colored races? The Negro's stake in democracy, Communist Party of the United States of America
What about the Dies Committee, Communist Party of the United States of America
Resolutions of the 10th convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A., Communist Party of the United States of America. Convention
War or peace, Charles Edward Coughlin
Shall we enter into a league with death, Reverend Chas E. Coughlin
Arbeitertum, Deutsche Arbeitsfront and Nationalsozialistische Gemeinschaft "Kraft durch Freude"
Arbeitertum, Deutsche Arbeitsfront and Nationalsozialistische Gemeinschaft "Kraft durch Freude"
Spain's struggle against anarchism and communism, Genadius Diez
The guarantee of victory, Georgi Dimitroff
Two years of heroic struggle of the Spanish people, Georgi Dimitrov
Thirty million jobs, Arthur Dunn
The truth about Soviet Russia, Gil Green
A short history of the unemployed, Wal Hannington
Collective security, the road to peace: [radio speech, delivered over CBS, Station WABC, Wednesday, December 22, 1937], Clarence Albert Hathaway
I.W.W. songs: Songs of the workers, Industrial Workers of the World
Czechoslovakia and the world crisis, Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov
We accuse!, Vito Marcantonio
We want to live, Leonard J. Mason
The lessing legend, Franz, 1846-1919 Mehring and A.S. Grogan
Partido de la revoluci ón mexicana: pacto constitutivo, declaracion de principios, programa y estatutos, Mexico. Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional
The good neighbor, Oscar Morineau
Democracy in the modern world, National municipal league
The plot against the Soviet union and world peace, facts and documents..., B. N. Ponomarev
Zu Martin Bubers 60. Geburtstag, Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland
The Histadrut (General federation of Jewish labor in Palestine) a labor commonwealth in the making, Abraham Revusky
The people's health, Harriet Silverman
The labor crisis in the United States, George Ephraim Sokolsky
Shadow over Europe, the challenge of Nazi Germany, Shepard Stone
Unemployment compensation: Some questions and answers, The Social Security Board
Catholics and communists, Maurice Thorez
El pacto de Munich y la Tercera Internacional :Una Conferencia y Cuatro Artículos, Rodrigo García Treviño
Submissions from 1937
The road to liberation for the negro people; an appeal by A.W. Berry and others
Your rights under the National Labor Relations Act
Handbook: American Labor party, American Labor Party
Break the economic and political sabotage of the monopolists, Alex Bittelman
A blueprint for fascism: what the industrial mobilization plan holds for America, Frank B. Blumenfield
Bureaucratic sabotage, Arnold Brecht
The truth about Barcelona, Fenner Brockway
The communists in the people's front, Earl Browder
Atheistic communism, Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)
Rich land, poor land, Stuart Chase and Marian Tyler Chase
We, the people, Joseph Clark
Capital, capitalism and communism, Daniel Cohalan
Helping to end economic discrimination: second report on Jewish non-employment, J. X. Cohen
The new economic revolution, Margaret Cole
La C.T.M. y la carestia de la vida, Confederaci ón de Trabajadores de México.
Dialectics, N.Y.) Critics Group (New York
Victory: Decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Angelo Herndon, April 1937, Anna Damon
Truth is on the march, John Dewey
Spain and the People's front, Georgi Dimitrov
To defend assassins is to help fascism, Georgi Dimitrov
Life and labor in the Soviet Union, Robert W. Dunn and George Wallace
Fascism, communism, the U.S.A., Raymond T. Feely
Murder at the Kemerovo mines: Trotskyite plotters at work, Ernst Fischer
Party building and political leadership, William Z. Foster
Railroad workers forward!, William Z. Foster
Second Inagural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.S. Senate
Un discurso del Dr. Goebbels, ministro de propaganda de Alemania, Joseph Goebbels
Changing governments amid new social problems, Ryllis Alexander Goslin
The first two Moscow trials : Why?, Francis Heisler
Labour's immediate programme, Labour Party (Great Britain). Executive Committee
Why the C.I.O., Alfred Baker Lewis
Industrial democracy, John L. Lewis
The C.I.O. crusade, John L. Lewis
What is involved in the North China situation, Minami Manshu Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha
Does Norwegian labor seek the middle way?, Finn Moe and Elsie (Editor) Gluck
Molotov on the new Soviet constitution, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
Proceedings of the fourth annual National Farm Institute, Des Moines National Farm Institute
The American system of broadcasting, William Samuel Paley
Tendre la main aux Catholiques? : réponse et réflexions d'un socialiste, Marceau Pivert
Milk for millions, Dave Richards
The Meaning of Marx, a symposium, Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Morris Raphael Cohen, Sidney Hooks, and Sherwood Eddy
Youth betrayed, Morris Bartel Schnapper
De Lenine a Staline, Victor Serge