VIRTUAL ZINE
LIBRARY
POLITICAL HISTORY
***PLEASE NOTE - Here you will find zines focusing on notable political events such as Strikes, Elections, Movements, etc.
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***ALSO NOTE - We are imperfect and there may be zines mis-categorized or links that do not work. Please email us if you feel like any of this is in error or not working properly - sherwoodzinelibrary@gmail.com
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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance(.PDF) - Colonization, Political History, Native History, Native Peoples, America, Kwakiuti, First Peoples, Genocide, Christopher Colombus, Land, European Settlements, United States, Manifest Destiny, Indian Wars, Canada, Civil War, Slavery
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1798 Rebellion in Ireland, The(.pdf) - Andrew Flood - 1998 - Religion, Ireland, England, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, The Troubles, History, Catholicism, Protestantism, Protest, Uprising, Peace, Britain, Europe, Nationalism, Dissent, Catholic Church, United Irishmen
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The A-Zone & A Decade of Anarchy in Chicago (.PDF) - Anarchist History​​
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Adios Catalonia! In the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War(.PDF) - History, Spain
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Afrikan Anarchism - The History of a Movement(.PDF) - Anarchism, Black History, Activism
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​​Against the God Emperor - The Anarchist Treason Trials in Japan(.PDF) - (Stefan Anarkowic) Court, Trials, Japan, Political History, Asia, Anarchism, Treason, High Crime
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Antisemitism - Its History and Causes(.PDF) - History, Jewish Culture, Anti-Semitism
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Atamansha - The Life of Maria Nikiforova(.PDF) - Russian Revolution, Anarchism, History, Feminism, Ukraine
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Bash the Fash (.PDF) - Antifa, Antifascism, ARA, Anti-Racist Action, Fascism, Racism, White Supremacy, Nazis, History
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Beating the Fascists - The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action(.pdf BOOK) (by Sean Birchall) Fascism, Racism, History, Antifa, ARA, Nationalism, White Supremacy, Nazis, Resistance, Activism
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A Brief History of the 23rd Precinct(.PDF) - Policing, Law Enforcement, New York City, NYPD, History, Police Brutality
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Chronology of the Chilean Workers Movement(.pdf) - (1983) Chile, South America, Latin America, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Capitalism, Anarchosyndicalism, IWW, Union, Organizing, Labor History
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The Civil War in Venezuela(.pdf) South America, Socialism, History, War, Capitalism, Anarchism, Resistance, Statism
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​Claim No Easy Victories: A History and Analysis of Anti-Racist Action(.PDF) - Racism, Resistance, History, Activism, Protest
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Class Struggle During the Gulf War(.PDF) Iraq, Class, Mid East, War, Religion, Political History, Kuwait, Labor, Strikes, Workers, 1991 Gulf Massacre, Communism, Capitalism, Islam, Anti-War Movement
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Class Struggle in Italy 1960s to 70s(.pdf) Italy, History, Europe, Capitalism, Work, Economy, Cities, Class Struggle, Factories, Unions, Unionism, Hot Autumn, Fiat, Labor Organizing, Strikes, Protest, Corso Traiano
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Cleaners! UK Struggles 1970's to Now(.pdf) Unions, Organizing, Workplace, Service Industry, UK, England, Britain, Cleaning, Work, Labor, Workers, Rights, Class Struggle, Capitalism
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Crossroad - A New Afrikan Captured Combatant Newsletter Vol. 4, #1(.PDF) - Black Cuture, Black History, Legal System, Crime, Policing, Law Enforcement, Cops, Prisons
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Digger Tracts 1649-50(.PDF) - Peasants, Diggers, Europe, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Resistance, Labor History
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Dispatches From Charlottesville(.PDF) - Riots, Racism, ANTIFA, Alt-Right, Activism, Protest, Resistance, History
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The Everett Massacre(.PDF) - (Scott Wilson) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, IWW, Wobblies, Organizing, Activism, Anarchism, Labor History, Massachusetts, Everett, Industrial Revolution, Logging, Timber, Resistance, Capitalism
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France - The General Strike of 1968(.PDF) - Labor History, Situationism, Anarchism, Strike, France, Europe, Labor Movement, Workers, Resistance, Organizing
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Handsome Testimonial, A - The Life & Times of James Scott (1829-1912)(.PDF) (Gill Chrenshaw - 2023) - Disability, Deafness, Hearing, Textiles, Workers, Yorkshire, England, Deaf, Victorian Era, Disabled Mill Workers, Unions, Labor
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The Hilltop Boys(.pdf) Gangs, Crips, Los Angeles, History, LA, California, Cops, Police, Law Enforcement
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A History of Anti-Black Racism on Long Island(.pdf) (by Iliana Luther) - Racism, Long Island, Black History, Culture, Race, Prejudice, Privilege, New York, White Supremacy, Bigotry
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In the Spirit of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark(.PDF) - Protest, Resistance, Black History, Liberation, Activism
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day(.PDF) - (Peter Linebaugh) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Labor History, Haymarket, Strike
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Jane - Documents from Chicago's Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973(.pdf) - Firestarter Press - 2004 - Reproductive Rights, Abortion, Pro-Choice, Roe v Wade, Health, Pregnancy, Right to Choose, Feminism, Illinois, Chicago, Clinics, Women, Politics
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​Joe Hill IWW Songwriter(.PDF) - Joe Hill, Biography, Music, Songs, IWW, Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Wobblies
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Learning From Ferguson(.PDF) - Riots, Mike Brown, Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, Activism
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Making History: Documenting and Preserving Drag King Culture(.pdf) - LGTBQA+, Drag Performances, Queer, History, Lesbianism, Scrapbooking, Journaling, Archiving, Queer Experience, DIY Guide, Blogging, Drag Shows, Stars, Interviewing
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Malcolm X - The Man and His Ideas(.PDF) - Black History, Liberation, Biography, Resistance
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Marsha(.pdf) Minizine, Marsha B. Thompson, Stonewall, Riots, LGBTQA+, Queer, History, Pride, Transgender
Militant Flamboyance(.pdf) Resistance, Timeline, Stonewall, Riots, LGBTQA+, Queer, History, Pride
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Night(.PDF) - Collage, Art, History, Jews, Holocaust, Budapest, Fascism, Concentration Camps, Nazis, Violence, Story, Prose, WWII, Resistance, War
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No Justice, No Peace(.PDF) - LA Riots, Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, History
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One Four Seven(.PDF) - Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, History, Durham
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​Out of the Closets and Into the Libraries(.pdf) - Radical Queer, LGBTQA+, Vanguard, Lavender Panthers, Queer History, Lesbian Avengers, Queer Liberation Army, Pink Panthers, Prisoner Correspondence, Bash Back!, Stonewall, Gay Shame, Homocore, ACT UP, Comptom Cafeteria Riot, George Jackson Brigade
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A Plea For Captain John Brown(.PDF) - History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism, DIY Guide
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Puerto Rico: US Colony in the Caribbean(.PDF) (José G. Pérez - 1987) - Colonialism, Imperialism, United States, Independence, Oppression, Unemployment, Socialism, Political History​
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Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline, A(.PDF) (Charlotte Cooper - 2011) - Zines, Feminism, Body Positivity, Fat Activism, LGBTQA+, Queer, Culture, Archives, Political Theory
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Raider Nation #1(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, Oakland, History
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The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America(.PDF) - History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism
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The Seattle General Strike of 1919(.PDF) - Strike, Work Stoppage, Industrial Revolution, Unions, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Seattle, Washington
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Slavery is Alive, Well and Thriving in the U.S.A.(.PDF) (Scott Smith - 2022) Abolition, Prison, Jail, Prison Labor, Prisoners, Japanese, Authority
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Song of the United Front(.PDF)(by C. Fish) - Minizine, Spanish Civil War, WWII, Song, Lyrics, Bertolt Brecht, Anti-Fascism, Antifa, Leftism, Workers' Movement, Music
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Spanish Civil War - Anarchism in Action(.pdf) (Eddie Conlon - June 2001) Spain, History, Anarchism, CNT-FAI, Antifascism, Resistance, Europe, Workers, Class Struggle, Strikes
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Speech to the IWW in 1905(.PDF) - (Lucy Parsons) Unions, IWW, Wobblies, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Women
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A Stockade Stood Burning - Rebellion and the Convict Lease in Tennessee's Coalfields 181-1895(.PDF) - Coal miners, Prison Labor, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Sabotage, Organizing, Resistance, Tennessee
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Stolen Land(.pdf) (Bertita Martinez) - Chicano History, California, Education, Schooling, Manifest Destiny, Indigenous, Mexico, Fascism, America, Latin Culture, Eurocentrism, Whites, US History, Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, Gold Rush, Texas
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Straight Outta Kansas City - True Stories of Police Violence in MO//KS(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, Kansas, History, Missouri
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​Trans Artists and Activists Throughout History(.PDF) - (London Watterson) Trans, LGBTQA+, History, Marsha P. Johnson, Artists, Activism, Stonewall, Resistance, Trans Visibility, Trans Joy
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Trans Folks Fight Back!(.pdf) (Skip Teauxmelou, Alyx Trouble) -Queer, LGBTQA+, Resistance, Stonewall, Activism, Queer History, Cooper's Donuts, Dewey's, Comptom's Cafeteria, Vanguard, Rioting, Riots, S.T.A.R., Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, Marsha P. Johnson, Storme Delaverie, Houston, Texas
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Total Domination(.PDF) - Collage, Art, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Political Ideology, History, Nazis, Europe, Concentration Camps
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A Tribute to John Brown(.PDF) - Biography, History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism
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"We're Trying to Destroy the World" - Anti-Blackness and Police Violence After Ferguson(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, Ferguson, History, Mike Brown, Racism
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Whitewashing Black History(.PDF) - Black History, Education, Information, Whiteness, Racism, Privilege, Identity, Schooling
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You Can't Shoot Us All!(.PDF) - Oscar Grant, California, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, History, Racism
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Your Goose is Cooked, Sucka(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, New Orleans, NOLA, History, Riots, Racism
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