Women’s Liberation: Vote Socialist Workers 1970

New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1970. Offset. 2 1/8 x 3 1/2 in. Very good. Item #7134

Handbill for the Socialist Workers Party women’s liberation electoral campaign in 1970 to elect party candidates into New York and California state legislative chambers. Notably, their campaign centered around women’s rights, such as the abolition of all anti-abortion laws, free and accessible birth control, equal pay for equal work, free 24 hour child care centers, and more.

The Socialist Workers Party was a Trotskyist party that split from the Socialist Party of America in 1937 due to the latter’s support for Stalin over and against Trotsky. Active throughout the Second World War and the Cold War, the party saw an influx in members and intensification in activity during the United States’s radical 1968–1972 era. They attempted multiple electoral campaigns at the state and federal level, with promotional materials circulating around the country, and formed coalitions with various other leftist and women’s groups throughout the United States. The party’s popularity, its outspoken support for Castro, and for Black liberation in roughly integrated South, provoked investigations from the FBI. A Church Committee report from 1976 revealed that the FBI initiated a COINTELPRO campaign against the party, making use of 1,300 informants between 1960 and 1976.

Price: $150.00