The Guardian, April 16, 1975
New Left
The National Guardian was a radical, left newsweekly published out of New York City from 1948-1992. The paper was established by James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage, who were committed activists for the Progressive Party and Henry Wallace presidential campaign, as well as John McManus and Josiah Gitt, both liberal newspaper men, though Gitt quickly dropped out. In addition to the Progressive Party, the newspaper also held ties with American communists and the labor movement. The Cold War took a toll on the newspaper, with the decline of the Progressive Party and the rise of McCarthyism in the U.S. During the post-WWII era, the newspaper focused coverage on opposition to the Cold War and militarism, support for emerging anti-colonial struggles around the world, defense of those targeted by McCarthyism, advocacy for the black freedom movement. The newspaper continued to hold a cozy relationship with the Communist Party U.S.A., though it did break with the group over some issues, particularly support for independent political action beyond party control. The 1960s-era brought a new period of political rancor within the editorial ranks of the newspaper. In the end, the periodical changed leadership and renamed itself The Guardian. The Guardian took an increasingly Maoist line, supporting armed struggles against colonialism. During this period, the newspaper attempted to forge ties with SDS and SNCC, writing that "The duty of a radical newspaper is to build a radical movement.” "We are movement people acting as journalists," the Guardian′s staff now proudly declared. In 1970, further ideological fracture lead to the creation of a short-lived rival publication, The Liberated Guardian. In the later-1970s, a more hard-line Marxist-Leninist ideology eroded the newspaper’s reputation for investigative journalism. Readership and support for the newspaper declined through the 1980s and the paper ceased publication in 1992.
In this issue, articles cover the orphan airlift from Vietnam; the end of the U.S. war in Vietnam; Attica; Dominican protests in New York; United Farm Workers organizing in San Francisco; Joan Little; CIA red-squads; auto workers; unemployment; aerospace workers strike; San Francisco “Zebra trial”; government repression against the left; Milwaukee VA protest; the San Quinten Six; housing foreclosures; the Socialist Workers Party; economic recession; the October League; sectarian conflict on the left; Third World liberation struggles; Thieu regime in Vietnam; Soviet socialism; marketplace and letters.
Weekly Guardian Associates, Inc.
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
April 16, 1975
newspaper
Osawatomie, Autumn 1975, no. 3
Weather Underground
Newsletter of the Weather Underground summarizing the latest happenings in the underground, including articles about the Weather Underground’s class analysis; the Prisoner’s Rights Movement; book reviews on radical women; the power of film; the Weather Underground bombing of Kennecott Corporation; Portuguese Revolution; toolbox on socialism; Boston busing crisis; Korea; fiction; country music.
Weather Underground
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Autumn 1975, no. 3
underground press
Venceremos Brigade: Cuba, 1969-1970
Cuban Revolution
This pamphlet briefly chronicles the history of the Cuban Revolution and diplomatic relations with the United States during the 1960s. Specifically, this pamphlet details the 10 Million Ton sugar harvest in Cuba with approximately six hundred Americans joining Cubans in an attempt to resist American imperialism in the nation and abroad and Cold War policies of the 1960s and 1970s. Creating a bond based on collective work, the Venceremos Bridge, comprised of U.S. revolutionaries and students, functioned as a way to combat U.S. economic constraints in Cuba.
The Venceremos Brigade
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1971
pamphlet
"The Blacks and the Unions," by Bayard Rustin
The Black Freedom Movement and Labor Movement
Bayard Rustin was a legendary black gay pacifist, socialist and civil rights activist. Rustin was a close friend of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the primary organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. In this pamphlet, Rustin details the complex and problematic history of African Americans and labor unions, but argues for black participation in the union movement, rather than allow business interests to use them as strike-breakers.
published by A. Philip Randolph Education Fund
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1972
pamphlet
Burlington Snow
Counterculture
Roz Payne was long-time friends with Allen Ginsberg. During a visit to Burlington for a reading at the Maverick Bookstore in 1986, he composed this poem about the city and its recently elected socialist mayor, Bernie Sanders. Ginsberg left the poem with Payne.
Allen Ginsberg
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
February 21, 1986
handwritten
poem
Check to the Mayor’s Youth Office
Counterculture - Yippies
This is a satirical check that Abbie Hoffman made out for $1M to the Mayor of Burlington, Bernie Sanders. Hoffman and Sanders were both good friends of Roz Payne and this is the sort of hijinx, or prank, Hoffman and the Yippies were known for.
Abbie Hoffman
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
April 1, 1982
check
Sanders for Mayor
Electoral Politics
In 1981, Bernie Sanders successfully ran for mayor of Burlington, Vermont, as an Independent, self-described "socialist," defeating Democratic Party candidate, Gordon Paquette.
Sanders served as Burlington mayor throughout the 1980s before being elected to the House of Representatives for Vermont in 1990, again as an "Independent" socialist. Sanders held Vermont's lone House seat until 2006, when he successfully won election to the Senate, where he still serves. In 2016, after joining the Democratic Party, Sanders mounted a surprisingly potent challenge to Democratic Party establishment favorite, Hillary Clinton, for the party's presidential nomination.
Bernie 1981
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1981
Button
Physical Object
As Goes Burlington So Goes France
Electoral Politics
Drawing from a Doonesbury comic by Gary Trudeau, this button includes the phrase, “As goes Burlington, so goes France” as a parody of the U.S political saying dating from the nineteenth-century, “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.” As a member of the Liberty Union Party, Bernie Sanders’ successful 1981 mayoral election in Burlington, Vermont, represented the state’s liberal-left position, in contrast with the emergence of the New Right at the same time.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1981
Button
Physical Object
Bernie ’86
Electoral Politics
Bernie Sanders, an Independent from the state of Vermont, ran as the third party candidate in the state's 1986 gubernatorial race between Democratic candidate Madeleine Kunin and Republican candidate Lieutenant Governor Peter Smith. Sanders lost the race; however, he remained as the Mayor of Burlington until 1989 when he was elected in 1990 to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2006, Sanders won election to the U.S. Senate from Vermont, where he still serves. In 2016, Sanders shook up the Democratic presidential nominating process by giving the heavy favorite, Hillary Clinton, a strong challenge before ultimately losing the contest.
Bernie 1986
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1986
Button
Physical Object
Bernie for Burlington
In 1981, Bernie Sander successfully ran for mayor of Burlington, Vermont, as an Independent, self-described "socialist," defeating Democratic Party candidate, Gordon Paquette.
Sanders served as Burlington mayor throughout the 1980s before being elected to the House of Representatives for Vermont in 1990, again as an "Independent" socialist. Sanders held Vermont's lone House seat until 2006, when he successfully won election to the Senate, where he still serves. In 2016, after joining the Democratic Party, Sanders mounted a surprisingly potent challenge to Democratic Party establishment favorite, Hillary Clinton, for the party's presidential nomination.
Bernie 1981
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1981
Button
en-US
Physical Object
Bernie ’88
Electoral Politics
In 1988, Independent Burlington, Vermont, Mayor, Bernie Sanders, ran against Republican, Peter Smith, and Democrat, Paul Poirier, for the state's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sanders lost to Smith by four percentage points in 1988, but came back to defeat Smith by sixteen points in 1990. Sanders held the House seat until 2006, when he moved on to the U.S. Senate.
Bernie 1988
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1988
Button
Physical Object
Bernie ’94
Electoral Politics
A campaign button from Bernie Sanders' successful 1994 re-election campaign to the House of Representatives as an Independent from Vermont.
Bernie 1994
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1994
Button
Physical Object
Sanders for Mayor
Electoral Politics
In 1981, Bernie Sander successfully ran for mayor of Burlington, Vermont, as an Independent, self-described "socialist," defeating Democratic Party candidate, Gordon Paquette.
Sanders served as Burlington mayor throughout the 1980s before being elected to the House of Representatives for Vermont in 1990, again as an "Independent" socialist. Sanders held Vermont's lone House seat until 2006, when he successfully won election to the Senate, where he still serves. In 2016, after joining the Democratic Party, Sanders mounted a surprisingly potent challenge to Democratic Party establishment favorite, Hillary Clinton, for the party's presidential nomination.
Bernie 1981
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1981
Button
Physical Object
Stop the War Against Vietnam
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
The militant youth wing of the Workers World Party, the Youth Against War and Fascism opposed American military interventionism as early as 1962, when the group set up a picket line in mid-town Manhattan to alert the public to the danger of sending U.S. military advisers to Southeast Asia. Later in the 1960s and beyond, the socialist YAWF continued its anti-war activism and also supported the black liberation struggle in America and Africa.
Youth Against War & Fascism
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Button
en-US
Physical Object
ca. 1970s
Bernie Sanders for Mayor
Electoral Politics
In 1983, Bernie Sanders ran for re-election as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Sanders, running as an Independent, narrowly won the mayor's office in 1981 by a margin of ten votes over his Democratic opponent, but won the 1983 election by a more comfortable margin, earning 52% of the vote, compared to 30% for his closest competitor. Sanders served three terms as Mayor of Burlington before moving on to the U.S. House of Representatives for sixteen years (1990-2005) and then the U.S. Senate in 2006, where he continues to serve. Bernie Sanders is the longest-serving Independent in U.S. congressional history. In 2016, Sanders mounted an insurgent campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination, narrowly losing to Hillary Clinton, who went on to lose in the general election to Donald Trump.
Bernie Sanders for Mayor
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1983
Poster
en-US
Physical Object
Grand Slam for Burlington
electoral politics
Bernie Sanders was first elected Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981, by ten votes. He subsequently won re-election in 1983, 1985 and 1987 before moving on to the House of Representatives and then the U.S. Senate. This poster was created for his 1987 re-election campaign, which he won 56% to 44% over Paul Lafayette.
Sanders for Mayor Committee
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1987
Burlington is Not for Sale
Electoral Politics
In 1981, Bernie Sanders successfully ran for mayor of Burlington, Vermont, as an Independent, self-described "socialist," defeating Democratic Party candidate, Gordon Paquette.
Sanders served as Burlington mayor throughout the 1980s before being elected to the House of Representatives for Vermont in 1990, again as an "Independent" socialist. Sanders held Vermont's lone House seat until 2006, when he successfully won election to the Senate, where he still serves. In 2016, after joining the Democratic Party, Sanders mounted a surprisingly potent challenge to Democratic Party establishment favorite, Hillary Clinton, for the party's presidential nomination.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1981
poster