GARY ZABEL LIBRARY ARCHIVES

The Gary Zabel Library Archives page features a link and the (reformatted) description of a curated selection of my body of work “The Gary Zabel Papers” that is archived at the Healy Library of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

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The Gary Zabel Papers – Link

  • The Gary Zabel Papers at the Healy Library of the University of Massachusetts at Boston includes materials from the history of the Left as I have known it in the United States and Europe from the mid-1960s to the present. The materials, all of them written, are from the
  • movement against the War in Vietnam in the United States and England;
    • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS);
    • the Black Panther Party,
    • the American Indian Movement,
    • and the Young Lords;
  • the underground press from dozens of universities and cities across the US, including the
    • Black Panther Party newspaper,
    • SDS’ New Left Notes,
    • and the Old Mole of Cambridge, Massachusetts (all from 1965-1975);
  • the Boston University Strike (1979);
  • the movement against US intervention in Central America (1980s);
  • the Left Green Network and anarchist movement (1980s);
  • Democratic Socialists of America, the Socialist Party, Solidarity, and the Socialist Scholars Conference (1986-2000);
  • the Rainbow Coalition and Jackson Presidential Campaign (1988);
  • the founding of COCAL (Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor) – vehicle of a labor movement of adjunct faculty in the US, Mexico and Canada (1997);
  • the successful campaigns led by Boston COCAL activists for higher pay and full health and pension benefits at UMass Boston, and victories in unionizing adjunct faculty at Emerson University and Suffolk University (1997-2005);
  • the larger contingent worker movement, including Campaign on Contingent Work (CCW) and the North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAFFE), 2000-2007 (I was on the Boards of both); the Pour un Autre Futur week of meetings and events in Paris of European anarcho-syndicalist trade unions (April 2000);
  • the Occupy Boston! movement (Fall 2011);
  • and he successful Faculty Forward unionization drives of adjunct faculty at Boston University, Tufts, Lesley University, Northeastern University, Bentley University, and Brandeis University (2013-15).
  • The collection also includes books, pamphlets, magazines, posters, photographs, membership cards, political buttons and other ephemera from the history of the American Left, circa 1890-1945, with special focus on artifacts from the
    • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW),
    • the radical Bohemia of Greenwich Village (Emma Goldman, Louise Bryant, John Reed, Max Eastwood),
    • the Socialist and Communist Parties;
    • the labor movement of the 1930s;
    • and the beginnings of American Trotskyism.
  • It also includes material from the history of the European Left, including that of the
    • Spanish Civil War (1936-39);
    • the Italian Communist Party (1921- 1989);
    • the French Resistance, Communist Party, and trade unions (1941-60);
    • the Greek Resistance against fascism (1941-45);
    • the May Uprising in France (1968);
    • the Carnation Revolution in Portugal (1974);
    • the Italian far Left – Lotta Continua, Potere Operaio, Autonomia – (1968-77);
    • the English Left (1980s); and
    • the anti-austerity movement in Greece, including the including the victory of Syria in the national elections of 2015.