Major Topics
The collection contains a significant group of materials on each of the following topics. Search the individual topic by subject in ANTPAC to locate these materials.
- Abortion
- African American …
- Agricultural laborers
- Anarchism
- Anti-communist movements
- California – Politics and government
- Campaign literature
- Catholic Church
- China
- Civil rights -- United States
- Communism
- Communist Party of the United States
- Cuba
- Disarmament
- Engels, Friedrich
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Fascism
- Feminism
- Germany
- Gorbachev, Mikhail S.
- Hearst, William Randolph
- Homosexuality
- Human rights
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Jews
- Korea
- Ku Klux Klan
- Labor movement
- Labor unions
- Lenin, Vladimir I.
- Marx, Karl
- McCarthy, Joseph
- Nuclear disarmament
- Pacifism
- Peace
- Perestroika
- Pro-choice movement
- Pro-life movement
- Reconstruction (1939-1951)
- Sex discrimination
- Sexism
- Sex role
- Socialism
- Soviet Union
- Spain
- Stalin, Joseph
- Strikes and lockouts
- Trotsky, Leon
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
- United States -- Foreign relations
- United States -- Politics and government
- United States -- Race relations
- Vietnam
- Vietnam War
- Women – Rights
- Women – Suffrage
- Working class
- World politics
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
Major Authors
Each of the following individuals is the author of a body of
materials in the collection. Those preceded by an asterisk (*) were
American communists or socialists. Search ANTPAC by the individual author to find these publications.
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-
- * Bittelman, Alex, 1890-1982
- * Browder, Earl 1891-1973
- Castro, Fidel, 1926-
- * Davis, Benjamin J. 1903-1964
- * De Leon, Daniel, 1852-1914
- * Dennis, Eugene, 1905-
- Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895
- * Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
- * Foster, William Z., 1881-1961
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
- Kim, Il-song, 1912- (Korean)
- Lenin, Vladimir Il, 1870-1924
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
- Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 1890-
- * Nearing, Scott, 1883-
- * Petersen, Arnold, 1885-1976
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
- * Strong, Anna Louise, 1885-1970
Major Publishers
A publisher's ideological slant is a central characteristic in
evaluating polemical literature. Publishers are indexed as "authors" of
their publications when no personal author is named. Search the
individual organization in ANTPAC by author to locate these materials.
Archival and Manuscript Materials
Archival and manuscript collections are described in detail in searchable, online finding aids in the Online Archive of California.
Follow the links below to view the complete finding aids. Numerous
archival collections documenting political issues in Orange County,
California, are also found in the Orange County collection, described separately on this site.
- The courage to remember: the Holocaust, 1933-1945: posters
A set of forty published posters based on a Simon Wiesenthal Center traveling exhibition about the Holocaust.
- New York Workers School materials, 1926-1935
Materials documenting courses offered by the New York Workers School of the Communist Party USA.
- Orange County Holocaust Oral History Project interviews
Videorecorded interviews with residents of Orange County,
California, who are survivors of the Holocaust. This collection is not
yet organized; please contact us for more information.
- OSPAAAL poster collection
Posters published between 1967 and 1997 by the Organization in
Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia, and Latin America
(OSPAAAL).
- Paris revolt
Documents the protests and general strike that took place in
France in 1968 when Parisian students and workers protested against
American involvement in Vietnam, as well as for a better educational
system and working class rights. This collection is not yet organized;
please contact us for more information.
- Times Change Press political posters, 1970-1974.
Collection consists of seven posters published by Times Change
Press (New York City) on a variety of national political issues,
including political activism, voting, demonstrating against the Vietnam
War, Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. This collection is not yet organized;
please contact us for more information.
- United Farm Workers Information Fair collection
Fliers, newsletters, photographs, and ephemera used at a
United Farm Workers (UFW) fair held in 1969. Documents the UFW and its
formation, the Delano Grape Strike (1965-1966), migrant agricultural
workers’ living and working conditions, and other topics.
