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 1937
What is folksocialism? : a critical analysis, Paul Sering
Freedom and democracy : a study of their enemies, Fulton John Sheen
Los objetivos del movimiento obrero y las tendencias de la pequeña burguesia: Frente unico de obreros y de pequeños burgueses?, J. D. Sobrino Trejo
Socialism marches on in the Soviet union, James B. Turner
The great sit-down strike, William W. Weinstone
Industrial unionism in the American labor movement, Theresa Wolfson and Abraham Weiss
We take our stand: Declarations of principles and by-laws of the Young Communist League of the U.S.A., Young Communist League of the U.S
What has become of the Russian Revolution, M. Yvon
Letter of an old bolshevik; the key to the Moscow trials, Y. Z.
L is for labor: a glossary of labor terms, Leane Zugsmith
Submissions from 1936
The Mexican government in the presence of social and economic problems
How goes the Bill of Rights? : the story of the fight for civil liberty, 1935-36, American Civil Liberties Union
Steel and the public, American Iron and Steel Institute
A program against war and facism, American League Agasint War and Fascism
Capone, Karpis, Luciana convicted!, American League for Peace and Democracy
Vito Marcantonio, the man on the flying trapeze, and, two letters, Luigi Antonini
"We or they"; two worlds in conflict, Hamilton Fish Armstrong
Nailebn New Life, Association for Jewish Colonialization in the Soviet Union
How to win social justice : can Coughlin and Lemke do it, Alex Bittelman
The results of the elections and the people's front, Earl Browder
On the condition of the working classes (Rerum novarum): encyclical of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII).
Prehistoria del socialismo en México, Luis Chávez Orozco
The blue eagle is dead -- so what, August Claessens
Militarism in Japan, Kenneth Wallace Colegrove
Resolutions : ninth convention of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., Communist Party of the United States of America
Mexican Labor News - January 18, 1940 v. 8, no. 3, Creator: Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - November 26, 1941 v. 8, no. 91, Creator: Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - November 8, 1940 v. 8, no. 42, Creator: Universidad Obrera de México
Cananea; primer brote del sindicalismo en Mexico, Le ón. Díaz Cárdenas
La Nueva política del Partido Comunista de México : con todo el pueblo mexicano en un amplio Frente Popular, Ediciones Frente Cultural (Mexico)
A catechism of communism for Catholic high school students, Father Flynn Fabian
Für oder gegen die Einheitsfront, Ernst Fischer
The world gone mad, Robert Forsythe
Industrial unionism, William Z. Foster
Spain defends democracy, Harry Gannes
Industrial insurance: a snare for workers, Mort Gilbert and E. Albert Gilbert
Industry and the public, Eugene Gifford Grace
Walled in this tomb: questions left unanswered by the Lowell Committee in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and their pertinence in understanding the conflicts sweeping the world at this hour, Harvard Alumni Association
Freie Bahn der Einheitsfront Wir antworten d. Führg d. Gewerkschaftsbundes, Hrsg.: Zentralkomitee d. Kommunistischen Partei d. Schweiz
The truth about the Liberty League, Grace Hutchins
Peace versus war : the Communist position, P. Lang
The spirt of co-operation: Being the 1936 Hodgson Pratt memorial lecture, Harold Joseph Laski
Industrial democracy in steel, John L. Lewis
What Labor has done for London., London Labour Party.
Engels in the struggle for revolutionary Marxism, Dmitrii Zakhar'evich Manuil'skii
The work of the Seventh Congress of the Communist International, Dmitrii Zakhar'evich Manuil'skii
Henry George and Karl Marx, Frank McEachran
The black legion rides, George Morris
Memorandum concerning the case of Lawrence Simpson, National Committee for the defense of political prisoners
Catholics and the civil war in Spain, Ramos A. Oliveira
Prémisses de l'état de révolution naturarchiste en France, d'après la chevauchée makhnoviste et l'histoire. Lutte contre les fléaux sociaux., Louis Rimbault
America must act, Francis Bowes Sayre
A labor party for America, Joel Issac Seidman
Introduction to labor problems, Joel Issac Seidman
Behind the Moscow trial : [the greatest frame-up in history], Max Shachtman
Liberty under communism, Fulton John Sheen
A manual for voters: How, for whom, for what, do we vote, Bianca S. Simon
A labor party for the United States, Social Economic Foundation
Labor and the new deal, Louis Stark
Security or the dole, Maxwell Slutz Stewart
World economic development, Robert W. Tufts and Eugene Staley
Mexican labor Mexican Labor News - January 25, 1940 v. 8, no. 4news, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 10, 1941 v. 8, no. 61, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 11, 1940 v. 8, no. 15, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 14, 1937 v. 2, no. 32, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 18, 1940 v. 8, no. 16, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 18, 1941 v. 8, no. 62, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 21, 1937 v. 2, no. 33, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 24, 1941 v. 8, no. 63, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 25, 1940 v. 8, no. 17, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 27, 1939 v. 6, no. 17, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 28, 1937 v. 2, no. 34, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 4, 1940 v. 8, no. 14, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 4, 1941 v. 8, no. 60, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 6, 13, 20, 1939 v. 6, nos. 14, 15 and 16, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - April 7, 1937 v. 2, no. 31, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 10, 1936 v. 1, no. 5, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 10, 1939 v. 7, no. 6, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 12, 1940 v. 8, no. 29, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 16, 1940 v. 8, no. 30, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 17, 1939 v. 7, no. 7, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 19, 1941 v. 8, no. 78, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 20, 1936 v. 1, no. 6, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 23, 1940 v. 8, no. 30, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 24, 1939 v. 7, no. 8, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 26, 1941 v. 8, no. 79, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 30, 1940 v. 8, no. 31, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 31, 1939 v. 7, no. 9, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 3, 1939 v. 7, no. 5, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 3, 1940 v. 8, no. 28, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - August 5, 1941 v. 8, no. 76, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - December 16, 1936 v. 1, no. 15, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - December 16, 1941 v. 8, no. 33, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - December 20, 1940 v. 8, no. 48, Universidad Obrera de México
Mexican Labor News - December 21, 1939 v. 7, no. 35, Universidad Obrera de México