Stuart Gedal Columbia University 1968 Strike Collection, 1957-2003 [Bulk Dates: 1966-1975]

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Series II: Movement Pamphlet Collection, 1960s-1970s

This series contains copies of published pamphlets, journal, and magazine articles on various topics of interest to Stuart Gedal in his work with SDS and as a militant activist. The series is divided into four subject specific sub-series as follows: sub-series II.1: anti-war movement, student movement and International pamphlets; sub-series II.2: African-American liberation educational and outreach materials; sub-series II.3: Women's Liberation educational and outreach materials; sub-series II.4: May 2nd Movement, American Liberation League, Progressive Labor Party, and National Caucus of Labor Committees. This last sub-series also includes proposals to SDS, outreach and educational materials. Many writings by CLR James, Fidel Castro, and Mao Zedong.

Pamphlets were kept in the original order provided by Gedal but re-housed from individual sleeves in binders into acid-free folders and archival boxes.


Sub-Series II.1:Anti-War Movement, Student Movement, and International Pamphlets, 1960s-1970s



Box 5 Folder 1 "Our Invisible Poor" by Dwight MacDonald, 1963


Box 5 Folder 2 "Life in the Factory" by Paul Romano, 1960s

this article is one of two comprising a pamphlet entitled The American Worker published in the late 1940s by Facing Reality


Box 5 Folder 3 "The Rise and Fall of the Union" by James Boggs, 1963


Box 5 Folder 4 "ILGWU: Fighting for Lower Wages" by Michael Myerson, ca. 1960s


Box 5 Folder 5 "A Guide to Working Class History", 1960s


Box 5 Folder 6 "The New England Working Class: A Bibliographic History," by Paul Faler, Tom Dublin and Jim O'Brien, 1972 November


Box 5 Folder 7 "Economic Aspects of U.S. Imperialism" by Harry Magdoff, 1966


Box 5 Folder 8 The American Worker, 1972


Box 5 Folder 9 "Facing Reality" by C.L.R. James, 1960s

with a new introduction by Kmathi Mohammed


Box 5 Folder 10 "Be His Payment High or Low: The American Working Class of the Sixties" by Martin Glaberman, 1966 June


Box 5 Folder 11 "State Capitalism and World Revolution", by C.L.R. James, 1969


Box 5 Folder 12 "Modern Politics" by C.L.R. James, 1960


Box 5 Folder 13 "The Invading Socialist Society" by C.L.R. James, F. Forest and Ria Stone, 1972


Box 5 Folder 14 A Workers' Inquiry by Karl Marx, 1973

reprint by Ken Lawrence


Box 5 Folder 15 "No Class Today, No Ruling Class Tomorrow: Lessons of the Student Strike", 1970


Box 5 Folder 16 The Seattle General Strike, 1972

An account of what happened in Seattle and especially in the Seattle Labor Movement during the General Strike of February 6-11, 1919. Reprint.


Box 5 Folder 17 The Sitdown Strikes of the 1930s: from Baseball to the Bureacracy, 1972


Box 5 Folder 18 "Productivity: The Employers' Attack and How to Fight it" by Lori Larkin, 1970s


Box 5 Folder 19 "The American Working Class in Transtion" by Kim Moody, ca. 1970


Box 5 Folder 20 Studies on the Left (Vol. I, No. 3), 1960

Issue re: Cuba


Box 5 Folder 21 "A Grande Tarefa da Revolucao Consiste em Formar O Homem Novo" by Fidel Castro, 1968


Box 5 Folder 22 Our Party Reflects Our Country's Recent History, 1965 October 3

Report by Commandant Fidel Castro, closing the ceremony of presentation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.


Box 5 Folder 23 Chile Versus the Corporations: A Call for Canadian Support, 1973


Box 5 Folder 24 Viva Puerto Rico Libre. Puerto Rico: A Colony of the United States, 1969


Box 5 Folder 25 Chile Si! The Continuing Class War: A Big Flame Pamphlet, 1974


Box 5 Folder 26 "The Tupamaros: Urban Guerillas of Uruguay" by Carlos Nunez, 1970



Box 6 Folder 1 "Those Who Are Not Revolutionary Fighters Cannot be Called Communists" by Fidel Castro, 1968 May

March 13, 1967 speech by Fidel Castro.


Box 6 Folder 2 Tricontinental 60 (Year VI), 1971 March


Box 6 Folder 3 Continental (no. 24), 1971 May-June


Box 6 Folder 4 Carlos Marighella, 1970 January


Box 6 Folder 5 The Tupamaros: Urban Guerrilla Warfare in Uruguay, 1968-1970


Box 6 Folder 6 The Way He Lived: The Story fo Nguyen Van Troi, 1965 October


Box 6 Folder 7 Vietnamese Studies - Vietnamese Women (no. 10), 1966


Box 6 Folder 8 North VietNam Against U.S. Airforce, 1967


Box 6 Folder 9 We Will Win, 1966

Statements by the Central Committee of the South Vietnam National Front for Liberation. Statements by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee.


Box 6 Folder 10 The Indochinese Peoples Will Win, 1970


Box 6 Folder 11 MaoTse-Tung on Contradiction, 1965


Box 6 Folder 12 Mao Tse-Tung on the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, 1966


Box 6 Folder 13 Statement by Comrade Mao Tse-Tung in Support of the Afro-American Stuggle Against Violent Repression, 1968


Box 6 Folder 14 Mao Tse-Tung - Get Organized!, 1965


Box 6 Folder 15 Long Live the Victory of the People's War! By Lin Piao, 1967

In commeration of the 20th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japan.


Box 6 Folder 16 Mao Tse-Tung - The Orientalism of the Youth Movement, 1967


Box 6 Folder 17 "Laos: The Forgotten War" by Jacques Decornoy, 1968


Box 6 Folder 18 The Opium Trail: Heroin and Imperialism, 1970s


Box 6 Folder 19 Indonesia: The Making of a Neo-Colony, ca. 1969-1970


Sub-Series II.2: African-American Liberation Educational and Outreach Materials, 1957-1979


Box 6 Folder 20 "The White Negro" by Norman Mailer, 1957


Box 6 Folder 21 Letter: City-Wide Committee for Integrated Schools, 1964


Box 6 Folder 22 American Civilization on Trial: The Negro as Touchstone of History, 1963 May


Box 6 Folder 23 "Back Toward Slavery: Excerpts from Black Reconstruction in America" by W.E.B. DuBois, 1962


Box 6 Folder 24 "Toward Black Liberation" by Stokely Carmichael, 1966


Box 6 Folder 25 Black Power: SNCC Speaks for Itself: A Collection of Interviews and Statements, 1966



Box 7 Folder 1 African-American Teachers Letter re: Strike, 1967 August 8

From Leslie Campbell, Mobilization Chairman


Box 7 Folder 2 "United States 1967: High Tide of Black Resistance" by James Forman, 1969

SDS publication


Box 7 Folder 3 Black Mask (no. 10), April-May ca. 1960s


Box 7 Folder 4 Clipping: "Black Panther in High Court Plea", 1968 July 17

NY Post Article


Box 7 Folder 5 "White Blindspot" by J.H. Kagin, ca. 1967-1968


Box 7 Folder 6 "U.S. History in Perspective" by Noel Ignatin, 1960s


Box 7 Folder 7 Guardian: Independent radical newsweekly, 1969 April 19


Box 7 Folder 8 The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, 1969

Two issues: April 20 and May 25


Box 7 Folder 9 Flier: Harassment of Panthers Continues, 1960s


Box 7 Folder 10 "Our Thing is Drum!", ca. 1970

"The Midwest and the League" by Jim Jacobs. An Interview with Ken Cockrel and Mike Hamlin of the League for Revolutionary Workers by Jim Jacobs and David Wellman.


Box 7 Folder 11 Right On! Revolutionary People's Communications Network (vol. 1, no. 5), 1971 September


Box 7 Folder 12 The Republic of New Africa, Now We Have a Nation!, undated


Box 7 Folder 13 The Objective Conditions Facity Black and Other Third World Workers Today and the History and Demand for Black Labor. By the Black Workers Congress, 1971 September 5


Box 7 Folder 14 "Political Lesson One: Get Acquainted", by James Forman, undated

Black Workers Congress


Box 7 Folder 15 "The Blast Furnace Brothers" by Vincent Copeland, 1973


Box 7 Folder 16 "Welfare: Why Workers Need It, How Billionaires Get it" by Elizabeth Ross, 1973

Center for United Labor Action


Box 7 Folder 17 "Workers and the American Economy: Data on the Labor Force" by Victoria Bonnell and Michael Reich, 1969


Box 7 Folder 18 The Black Scholar - The Black Soldier, 1970


Box 7 Folder 19 "Organization and Spontenaeity: The Theory of the Vanguard Party and Its Application to the Black Movement in the U.S. Today", by Kimathi Mohammed, 1974 April

published by the Marcus Garvey Institute


Sub-Series II.3: Women's Liberation Educational and Outreach Materials, 1960s-1970s


Box 7 Folder 20 "Women: The Longest Revolution" by Juliet Mitchell, 1966


Box 7 Folder 21 "Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers" by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, 1973


Box 7 Folder 22 "No More Fun and Games" by Roxanne Dunbar, 1971 August


Box 7 Folder 23 Off Our Backs: A Women's News Journal (Vol. III, no. 9), 1973 July-August


Box 7 Folder 24 "Toward a Female Liberation Movement" by Beverly Jones and Judith Brown, 1968


Box 7 Folder 25 A Journal of Anarcho-Feminism (Vol. 1, no. 1), 1970s


Box 7 Folder 26 "The Early Development of the Family" by Friedrich Engels, 1973

originally published in Germany in 1884. Republished by New England Press in 1973.


Box 7 Folder 27 "Liberating Young Children from Sex Roles - Experiences in Day Care Centers, Play Groups and Free Schools" by Phyllis Taube Greenleaf, 1972


Box 7 Folder 28 Organizing Working Class Women, ca. 1970s

published by Sojourner Truth organization


Box 7 Folder 29 "What Have Women Done? A Photo Essay on the History of Working Women in the United States" by the San Francisco Women's History Group, 1970s


Sub-Series II.4: May 2nd Movement, American Liberation League, Progressive Labor Party, and National Caucus of Labor Committee Proposls, Outreach and Educational Materials, 1960-1970



Box 8 Folder 1 Flier: M2M Speakers Bureau, 1964-1966

May 2nd Movement


Box 8 Folder 2 Free Student (nos. 4 and 6), 1965

Published by the May 2nd Movement


Box 8 Folder 3 Flier: Meeting American Liberation League, 1960s


Box 8 Folder 4 Unidentified Statement, 1960s

American Liberation League?


Box 8 Folder 5 On the Dissolution of the May 2nd Movement - a document of the American Liberation League, 1966


Box 8 Folder 6 Progressive Labor (Vol. 5, No. 5), 1966 October-November


Box 8 Folder 7 Progressive labor Party - Students and the Ghetto Rebellions, 1960s


Box 8 Folder 8 Sit Down: Progressive Labor Party Pamphlet, 1967


Box 8 Folder 9 CHALLENGE - The Revolutionary Newspaper, 1968 May

published by the Progressive Labor Party. This issue is about the Columbia Rebellion


Box 8 Folder 10 The Campaigner (Vol. 1, Nos.3 and 4), 1968 June and September

publication of the SDS Labor Committees of NY and Philadelphia


Box 8 Folder 11 Solidarity - Crisis in Garment Center! (No. 1), 1968 July 15

published by the NY SDS Labor Committee. Includes an explanation flier.


Box 8 Folder 12 The New York City Tenants Union: A Prospectus, 1967 Summer

prepared and distributed by West Side Tenants Union


Box 8 Folder 13 "Decent Housing for New York's People" by Leif Johnson, 1970 April

A unique and comprehensive proposal for curing the City's housing crisis.


Box 8 Folder 14 Proposal for a Labor Committee Maritime Program, by Tom Moore, ca. 1968


Box 8 Folder 15 Solidarity (nos. 2, 5, 6 and 9), 1968-1969

published by the Labor Committee of NY SDS


Box 8 Folder 16 Fliers and Statements by SDS Labor Committee, 1968-1969