Detroit: News & Letters, 1969. First Edition. Includes the text of Raya Dunayevskaya's presentation at the conference, apparently the only one of its kind, organized for the black Detroit population. Dunayevskaya, formerly Trotsky's secretary, was the founder of the Marxist-Humanist organization News and Letters, the publisher of this report. Quarto..... More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1956. Edition and printing not stated. 12mo. Stape-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 40pp. Near Fine. Originally published in the Winter 1956 issue of Fourth International. More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1943. First Edition. Copy of Trotskyist labor organizer Carlos Hudson, with his printed bookplate to front pastedown. Hudson, editor of a CIO local weekly called The Industrial Organizer, was one of 18 Socialist Workers Party members imprisoned in 1943, along with James P. Cannon, for expressing..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. The second volume issued by the Dewey Commission, an independent tribunal of left-leaning intellectuals assembled to investigate the Comintern's accusations against Trotsky and his faction, the first volume being "The Case of Leon Trotsky" (1937). Wrapper issue. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's dark red..... More
New York: Communist Party of the USA, N.d. [ca 1936]. First Edition. Issued as a broadside against the Socialist Party of America on the eve of their annual convention. Includes excerpts of speeches and essays by Earl Browder, Israel Amter, M.J. Olgin and others, as well as two cartoons by..... More
Chicago: Socialist Party U.S.A., 1937. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 190pp. Light external soil, rubbing and wear; ownership signature; Very Good. Analysis of the Moscow show trials from a Socialist, strongly anti-Stalinist perspective. More
Detroit: Correspondence Publishing Co., 1962. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound printed paper wrappers; 31pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good or better. Uncommon early pamphlet by the British anthropologist; predicts a post-nucler world society free of state controls. Gough was a member of the Johnson-Forrest Tendency and an outspoken Marxist and..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First American Edition. A novel set "in the Peru of the near future, a country in the throes of an insurgency pitting a Cuban-Bolivian-backed revolutionary army against a failing Lima government and the U.S. Marines" (from the front flap). First published in Spainsh..... More
[Mexico City: La Internacional, n.d., ca 1970s]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 23pp. Pages trimmed and bound unevenly (as issued); mild age-toning; Very Good. Spanish-language translations of Mandel's "Revolutionary Marxism and the World Revolution" and Lowy's "Why the IV International?" Issued without date or imprint, but with an advertisement..... More
San Francisco: Internationalist Workers Party (Fourth International), 1990. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 86pp. Fine. Apparently the only issue produced. The IWP was an American Trotskyist group with a primarily Latino membership, closely affiliated with (but ideologically split from) the International Socialist League (Fourth International). More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, [1937]. First Edition. Translation of an article that first appeared in the March 1937 issue of Nouvelles d'U.R.S.S., an information bulletin published by the "Que Faire?" group of left Communists led by Andre Ferrat. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 31pp. A bit dust-soiled, spine slightly..... More
San Francisco: Proletarian Publishers, [n.d. ca 1970s]. Reprint. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 160pp. An undated (but mid-70s) reprint of the 1935 first edition. Brief closed tear at base of front wrapper, else Very Good. A standard anti-Trotsky tract by a long-time CPUSA apparatchik. More
New York: Red Star Press, 1933. Second Printing. Socialist romance, described by Rideout as the "...only radical novel published in the thirties which was deliberately written as a romance...even to its stilted prose, an unrepresentative anachronism." Spiro/Marlen, a one-time leader of the Trotskyist Communist League of America, was also the..... More
Paris: Lutte Ouvriere, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 17pp. Very Good, with mild external wear and a few minor corner-creases to text. More
London: Socialist Labour League, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 10pp; illus. Very Good. On the failed ENV West London strike of 1967. More
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1949. First Edition. Official organ of the Socialist Workers Party, the Trotskyist offshoot of the American Socialist Party. This issue reprints Political Resolutions of the Seventh Plenum of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth International (April 1949). Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Staple-bound, mimeographed sheets;..... More
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London: E. Grant, N.d. (ca 1938). 12mo (18.5cm). Printed card wrappers; 48pp. Minor wear and soil; Very Good. Publisher's imprint (Workers International News) on front cover pasted over with the imprint of the Revolutionary Communist Party, London. With "Printed in England" hand-stamp at lower right, suggesting that this copy was..... More
Mexico City: Instituto del Derecho de Asilo y Las Libertades Publicas, 1992. First Edition. First printing of 6000 copies. Small oblong quarto; original printed portfolio enclosing folding triptych and 8-pp text booklet. Mild crease at lower foredge, else Fine. Publication to accompany the exhibit of Vlady's monumental three-canvas work, in..... More
New York: Yong Workers Liberation League, N.d. [1970]. First Edition. 4to; staple-bound wrappers; 15pp. On newsprint. Slight toning to text, else Near Fine. Anti-Trotskyist, anti-YSA tract by a YWLL organizer. "Trotskyism, which has for some years now wormed its way into the peace movement, has become a major obstacle on..... More
