This collection features subscriptions, back files, and sample issues of a wide range of alternative magazines and newspapers. Approximately 1,200 titles are represented. Publications of the Political parties of the left and racist and neo-Nazi organizations of the right are included, along with advocacy and social change publications which address topics ranging from women's rights, the environment, gay and lesbian issues, and alternative living, to United States foreign and domestic policy. There are also strong holdings of underground newspapers from the 1960's and 1970's including the Berkeley Barb, the Los Angeles Free Press, and Great Speckled Bird, and The Paper, East Lansing's alternative paper of the 1960's.

Many of the titles in this collection are indexed in the Alternative Press Index(1969-), in specialized subject indexes prepared in Special Collections,as well as other indexes and abstracts in the library.

A collection of approximately 3,700 titles incorporating materials not only from the Communist Party of the U.S.A. but also from a number of Trotskylist groups including the American Workers Party, the Communist League of America, the Revolutionary Workers League and the various youth branches and front organizations of the Left for the years between 1919 and the 1950's. There are anti-communist materials from governmental agencies and commercial publishers as well. Included are several hundred books, significant holdings on internal party affairs (discussion papers on theoretical issues, policy questions and intrapartydisputes, minutes of meetings, etc.), and over 3,000 pamphlets covering politics, labor, women and minorities, the economy, foreign policy and other issues. In addition, there are groupings of curricular material from the Jefferson School, the Workers School, and the Lenin School in Moscow.

Featured among the serials are the Call Magazine(1917-18), issued on the eve of the formation of the CPUSA; ClassStruggle (1917-19), a theoretical Marxist periodical; Coastwise Unity(1935- 46), issued by the Communist Party dock unit; International Press Correspondence(1929-38), one of the most important single sources for the study of the communist international; and the Hearst Worker, 1936, published by the ACommunist Party Nucleus in the Hearst plant.@

A large and growing collection of pamphlets, leaflets, clippings, and other material on a wide range of over 2,300 subjects. The ARVF is especially strong in the New Left (primarily Students