Presse Communiste, Presse Radicale 1919-2000

Une nouvelle publication du Centre d´histoire et de sociologie des Gauches (ULB):

Presse Communiste, Presse Radicale 1919-2000
Passé/Présent/Avenir?

Edité par José Gotovitch et Anne Morelli

Du XIXe siècle à nos jours, une presse écrite a scandé, à travers toutes les nuances de la gauche radicale, l´actualité et le combat politiques, s´érigeant en porte-parole, en agitatrice, en organisatrice et parfois même en raison d´être de multiples groupes ou organisations.

Alcatraz - Experiences of a Conscientious Objector

Alcatraz - Uncle Sam's Devil's Island: Experiences of a Conscientious Objector in America during the First World War by Philip Grosser

The Kate Sharpley Library has just published a new edition of Philip Grosser's account of his time imprisoned on the notorious prison island of Alcatraz. Philip Grosser was sent to Alcatraz because he didn't want to murder anyone, even on government orders. He was a Boston anarchist and anti-militarist who refused to be drafted into the slaughter of World War One.

Early American Marxism

The launch pad for free download of the files below is located at:[url]http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/07-09.html[/url]

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(1) "Problems of American Socialism," by Louis C. Fraina [Feb. 1919]

(2) "The National Convention," by Ludwig Lore [Aug. 1919]

(3) "To the Striking Longshoremen: Proclamation Issued by the Communist Party of America, Local Greater New York." [leaflet circa Oct. 20, 1919]

The History of the US Communist Party

Tamiment Library, Center for the United States and the Cold War

Symposium The History of the Communist Party, USA and Progressive Politics Today: Relating the Past to the Present

March 23 (Friday) 4 P.M. – 8 P.M.

The Tamiment Library recently acquired the Archives of the Communist Party, USA and the library of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies. This program will preview these vast collections that are among the most important in the United States documenting the history of American Left.