pamphlets you got?
18 December, 2007 - 23:31
I just thought of this cuz of what some folk are reading in the reading history thread.
Got any pamphlets you particularly think are great? Either in terms of great ideas or just in terms of "ooh wow look at that!" kind of thing? I mean specifically hardcopy pamphlets, the old fashioned way, not online.
Off the top of my head, I've got some stuff I'm excited about about 70s Italy stuff. Like the English version of Lotta Continua's Take Over The City pamphlet, and the Radical America and Urgent Tasks and Ripening Of The Time issues about all that stuff. (Those are sort of like pamphlets.) I also have a bunch of Situationist Times. I think that's what they're called, the little bitty situ ones. I can't be bothered to go check just now. Some of it's kind of silly, but cool in the "ooh wow" way, at least to me. I also have some Stan Weir and Marty Glaberman pamphlets from back in the day that are pretty cool, found them in boxes at a lefty bookstore. Someone's trot parent had passed away, they donated all the person;s books to this store. The Weir and Glaberman pamphlets also had IWW union bugs in them, printed in IWW print shops.
19 December, 2007 - 00:57
#2
Dodge Wildcat, Black and Red
Text is good, production is top notch.
19 December, 2007 - 01:07
#3
I can and I do. Don't you oppress me. I think the NEA is a pretty good pamphlet, for instance. Well, every other one is anyway. 
You're just mad cuz I make fun of you being able to quote the volume, issue, and printing number of what appeared in Radical America.
19 December, 2007 - 03:12
#4
I really liked these three from the IDP
Quote:
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF MARX
by
Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber (2000),
together with
REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIST
by
Neil Fettes (2000),The first is a text he co-wrote about the centrality of the working class to revolutionary struggle and the usefulness of using a Marxian methodology, and the second is an interview with Martin Glaberman conducted by Neil Fettes. Glaberman worked in auto factories for 20 years and was involved with CLR James in groups that broke with Trotskyism--and the idea of a vanguard party—and developed a critique of its state capitalist nature of the USSR in the early 1940s. His group was also notorious for starting and participating in Capital study groups, particularly with young Detroit factory workers who went on to form the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in the ’60s. He was helpful and supportive to IDP starting our Capital study group. He died at the end of 2001 and will be sorely missed.
CLASS STRUGGLE BEYOND UNIONISM: BOSTON AREA PUBLIC WORKERS FERMENT 81-82,
by
Loren Goldner (1993).Interview with Scott McGuire about his involvement in attempts to fight against the budget cuts and layoffs in the public sector after the passage of Proposition 2 ½, a Massachusetts law passed in 1980 and modeled on California’s Proposition 13. The development of this struggle, and its cooption by union bureaucrats, also closely follows the pattern of the recent (February 2004) defeat of the 70,000 Southern California grocery workers. Lessons drawn from McGuire’s experience show the absolute necessity for class struggle to go outside and against the unions.
The ICC's pamphlet 'Nation or Class?' has some pretty outstanding examples of the awful results of national liberation including bits on countries for which there isn't a whole lot written in English (southeast Asia in particular).
Not sure if it counts as a pamphlet but the TC text 'Self-organisation is the first act of the revolution...' I found really interesting.
19 December, 2007 - 03:15
#5
The second (1973) print of Fredy Perlman's book The Incoherence Of The Intellectual: C. Wright Mills' Struggle to Unite Knowledge and Action. Amazing full color on every page.
This weekend I located a great-condition, first-edition copy of his hoax book as MichQael VeQlli, "ManQual for RevQolutionQary LeaQders," but the dude working in the store pretended it wasn't for sale. I pointed to it on the shelf and he was like "THAT'S NOTHING" and seemed really pissed off when I wanted to see it, and even angrier when I opened it and instantly recognized what it was. Dude was a total dick about it. My theory is that he's planning to buy it himself, and flip it for a profit. (edited - added Q's so he doesn't find this post via Google)
19 December, 2007 - 04:17
#6
The Continuing Appealing of Nationalism, by Fredy Pearlman.
Excellent IMO, read it about 3 times.
Prob the only good pamphlet i've got amongst heaps of shit ones I got from Freedom bookshop, London.
19 December, 2007 - 04:32
#7
I currently reading "The futility of Fosterism" by Ben Legere, published by the One Big Union in 1922. Pretty scathing critique of Wm. Z. foster and the CPUSA's Trade Union wing's efforts to bore into the AFL. I'll be scanning and posting someday soon.
19 December, 2007 - 06:28
#8
Here are a few interesting pamphlets I have:
The Reproduction of Daily Life, by Fredy Perlman (Black & Red)
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism, by Otto Ruhle (Elephant Editions--complete with Alfredo Bonanno introduction 
)
Beyond the Balaclavas of South East Mexico, by Charles Reeve and Sylvie Deneuve (Elephant Editions)
Open Letter to Comrade Lenin, by Herman Gorter (Antagonism--with introduction by Wildcat)
What is Situationism? [originally "Critique of the Situationist International"], by Gilles Dauve (Tarantula)
Class War Lessons: From Direct Action on the Job to the '46 Oakland General Strike, by Stan Weir (IDP)
I've also made some pamphlets on my own of texts that are largely unknown, but are available online (these are not all that professional-looking):
Soviets and Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution, by Peter Rachleff (1975-Root & Branch)
Old Left, New Left, What's Left?, by Paul Mattick, Jr. (1973-Root & Branch)
The Inevitability of Communism, by Paul Mattick (1936 pamphlet)
Bilan on the Spanish Civil War [two essays from 1936], by Bilan
Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, by the GIC (1930)
19 December, 2007 - 10:04
#9
'Paper boys', a pamphlet about the printers strike.
19 December, 2007 - 10:55
#10
fnbrill wrote:
I currently reading "The futility of Fosterism" by Ben Legere, published by the One Big Union in 1922. Pretty scathing critique of Wm. Z. foster and the CPUSA's Trade Union wing's efforts to bore into the AFL. I'll be scanning and posting someday soon.
Excellent please do!
Ditto anyone else. Me and gav have got loads of pamphlets a guy gave us... I'll have a think of some good ones.
Just read Unions Against Revolution with essays from G Munis and (early, sane) Zerzan in, which was good, albeit flawed in that Munis made some assertions that weren' backed up.
19 December, 2007 - 14:28
#11
Heroes or Villains by AFA and Bash The Fash. Have also got The State,It's Historic Role by Kropotkin which is really interesting, Saint Che by Larry Gambone and Unknown Heroes by Miguel Garcia.Ofcourse all AF pamphlets are astondingly interesting and brilliant.Would like to read Anarchy by Malatesta and Guerilla Warfare by Ernesto Che Guevarra
19 December, 2007 - 15:27
#12
France Goes off the Rails - also excellent, especially the reprinted leaflets by the Likely Lads / Lascars / LEP.
20 December, 2007 - 04:29
#13
I been meaning to type up a list of my pamphlets and mags and stuff. I should get around to that. Since this got moved off libcommunity can I request that MJ be censured for flaming me? I'm not actually offended, I just want him to get in trouble.
20 December, 2007 - 05:54
#14
been reading some interesting esperanto radical pamphlets from back in the day.
Also "The Revolutionary Union on Homosexuality: A maoist guide to love and sex" is good as its basically a reprint of thr RCP's position on homosexuality until 2001, complete with detourned images of characters quoting the position. I gave it to a maoist (who's since dropped the RCP).
20 December, 2007 - 11:52
#15
OliverTwister wrote:
Also "The Revolutionary Union on Homosexuality: A maoist guide to love and sex" is good as its basically a reprint of thr RCP's position on homosexuality until 2001, complete with detourned images of characters quoting the position. I gave it to a maoist (who's since dropped the RCP).
not only is it fun to read its also fun to bring up.
You can't count magazines as pamphlets, asshole.