A callout to people with access to hard copies of non-digitized material that documents a number of radical social movements and groups to come forward.

For a couple years now, I've been making an effort at getting previously non-digital resources of past radical movements online. Living (at the time) in Iowa and becoming involved in antiwar and anarchist groups, I tried to look back at other people's efforts and found there was little available information. As I dug a little deeper, previously unknown groups, individuals and moments in Iowa's history started popping up. Some of it was locked away in the University of Iowa's archives. Some of it was in people's attics or their basements, forgotten to most but the participants and unknown to people involved in contemporary struggles. This is unacceptable.

A lot of what I've concentrated so far on is Iowa radical history or American anarcho-syndicalist/anarcho-communist groups and activities in the 70s-80s. But there is so much more out there. Sitting in people's homes or memories, waiting to be either forgotten or rediscovered. Let's make it the latter. My aim is to type up hard copies or copies of these hard copies and put them into libcom's very large library or find a place online where they would relevant and wanted.

Here is a list of stuff I'm interested in. If you have newsletters, newspapers, leaflets, accounts, interviews, stories, articles or even know someone who might have been involved with some of the lesser known things and might want to be interviewed about their experience, please email me at: juanconatz[at]gmail.com

Red Wing Workers Organization, a libertarian socialist group in Des Moines in 1970s

New World Collective, anarchist collective in Des Moines in 1970s

Des Moines Black Panther Party of early 1970s

Ames Anarchist Group/Central Iowa Anarchists from 1970s

The Left: A Quarterly Review of Radical and Experimental Art , a socialist magazine that published two issues out of Davenport, Iowa in 1931.

Tri-City Workers’ Magazine, a socialist publication possibly out of Davenport, Iowa and possibly put out by the Socialist Party in the 1900′s

Anything on IWW activity in Iowa

Stan Weir writings not on libcom or in the book Singlejack Solidarity

Accounts of strikes or worker struggle at 'The Pack' in Dubuque, Iowa

English language material about the CNT in the 1970s-1990s

English language material about any of the CNT splitoffs, including the CGT, in the 1980s-2000s

English language material about labor struggle or anarchist groups/individuals in Puerto Rico 1900s-2000s

Articles from the Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation that are not found in the AK Press book or the online archive (seemingly defunct now)

Material from the Midwest based Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (FRAC) from the early 2000s

Material from the now defunct platformist type groups that arose in the early 2000s, such as the Northwest Anarchist Federation

Any Aufheben articles that are not in the libcom library

English language stuff on SAC

Articles or copies from the Industrial Worker anytime pre-2000s