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VIRTUAL ZINE

LIBRARY

POLITICAL HISTORY

***PLEASE NOTE - Here you will find zines focusing on notable political events such as Strikes, Elections, Movements, etc.

***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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PAGE UPDATED: 7.11.24

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

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

The A-Zone & A Decade of Anarchy in Chicago (.PDF) - Anarchist History

Adios Catalonia! In the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War(.PDF) - History, Spain

Afrikan Anarchism - The History of a Movement(.PDF) - Anarchism, Black History, Activism

Against the God Emperor - The Anarchist Treason Trials in Japan(.PDF) - (Stefan Anarkowic) Court, Trials, Japan, Political History, Asia, Anarchism, Treason, High Crime

Antisemitism - Its History and Causes(.PDF) - History, Jewish Culture, Anti-Semitism

Atamansha - The Life of Maria Nikiforova(.PDF) - Russian Revolution, Anarchism, History, Feminism, Ukraine

Bash the Fash (.PDF) -  Antifa, Antifascism, ARA, Anti-Racist Action, Fascism, Racism, White Supremacy, Nazis, History

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

A Brief History of the 23rd Precinct(.PDF) - Policing, Law Enforcement, New York City, NYPD, History, Police Brutality

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

The Civil War in Venezuela(.pdf) South America, Socialism, History, War, Capitalism, Anarchism, Resistance, Statism

​Claim No Easy Victories: A History and Analysis of Anti-Racist Action(.PDF) - Racism, Resistance, History, Activism, Protest

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

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

Cleaners! UK Struggles 1970's to Now(.pdf) Unions, Organizing, Workplace, Service Industry, UK, England, Britain, Cleaning, Work, Labor, Workers, Rights, Class Struggle, Capitalism

Crossroad - A New Afrikan Captured Combatant Newsletter Vol. 4, #1(.PDF) - Black Cuture, Black History, Legal System, Crime, Policing, Law Enforcement, Cops, Prisons

Digger Tracts 1649-50(.PDF) - Peasants, Diggers, Europe, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Resistance, Labor History

Dispatches From Charlottesville(.PDF) - Riots, Racism, ANTIFA, Alt-Right, Activism, Protest, Resistance, History

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

France - The General Strike of 1968(.PDF) - Labor History, Situationism, Anarchism, Strike, France, Europe, Labor Movement, Workers, Resistance, Organizing

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

The Hilltop Boys(.pdf)  Gangs, Crips, Los Angeles, History, LA, California, Cops, Police, Law Enforcement

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

In the Spirit of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark(.PDF) - Protest, Resistance, Black History, Liberation, Activism

The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day(.PDF) - (Peter Linebaugh) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Labor History, Haymarket, Strike

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

​Joe Hill IWW Songwriter(.PDF) - Joe Hill, Biography, Music, Songs, IWW, Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Wobblies

Learning From Ferguson(.PDF) - Riots, Mike Brown, Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, Activism

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

Malcolm X - The Man and His Ideas(.PDF) - Black History, Liberation, Biography, Resistance

Marsha(.pdf) Minizine, Marsha B. Thompson, Stonewall, Riots, LGBTQA+, Queer, History, Pride, Transgender

 

Militant Flamboyance(.pdf) Resistance, Timeline, Stonewall, Riots, LGBTQA+, Queer, History, Pride

Night(.PDF) -  Collage, Art, History, Jews, Holocaust, Budapest, Fascism, Concentration Camps, Nazis, Violence, Story, Prose, WWII, Resistance, War

No Justice, No Peace(.PDF) - LA Riots, Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, History

One Four Seven(.PDF) - Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, History, Durham

​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

A Plea For Captain John Brown(.PDF) - History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism, DIY Guide

Puerto Rico: US Colony in the Caribbean(.PDF) (José G. Pérez - 1987) - Colonialism, Imperialism, United States, Independence, Oppression, Unemployment, Socialism, Political History

Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline, A(.PDF) (Charlotte Cooper - 2011) - Zines, Feminism, Body Positivity, Fat Activism, LGBTQA+, Queer, Culture, Archives, Political Theory 

Raider Nation #1(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, Oakland, History

The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America(.PDF) - History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism

The Seattle General Strike of 1919(.PDF) - Strike, Work Stoppage, Industrial Revolution, Unions, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Seattle, Washington

Slavery is Alive, Well and Thriving in the U.S.A.(.PDF) (Scott Smith - 2022) Abolition, Prison, Jail, Prison Labor, Prisoners, Japanese, Authority

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

Spanish Civil War - Anarchism in Action(.pdf) (Eddie Conlon - June 2001) Spain, History, Anarchism, CNT-FAI, Antifascism, Resistance, Europe, Workers, Class Struggle, Strikes

Speech to the IWW in 1905(.PDF) - (Lucy Parsons) Unions, IWW, Wobblies, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Women

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

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

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

Trans Artists and Activists Throughout History(.PDF) - (London Watterson) Trans, LGBTQA+, History, Marsha P. Johnson, Artists, Activism, Stonewall, Resistance, Trans Visibility, Trans Joy

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

Total Domination(.PDF) -  Collage, Art, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Political Ideology, History, Nazis, Europe, Concentration Camps

A Tribute to John Brown(.PDF) - Biography, History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism

"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

Whitewashing Black History(.PDF) -  Black History, Education, Information, Whiteness, Racism, Privilege, Identity, Schooling

You Can't Shoot Us All!(.PDF) - Oscar Grant, California, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, History, Racism

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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