Mitch Miller Papers on Anarchism and Libertarianism
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Mitch Miller is a founding member of the Libertarian Workers Group, the Anarchist-Communist Federation of North America, and the Workers Solidarity Alliance. He is active in the Libertarian Book Club, among other libertarian and anarchist groups, and writes for numerous anarchist publications, sometimes under the pen name Mike Harris. The collection consists largely of flyers from anarchist and libertarian groups in the New York metropolitan area. It also includes material produced by foreign anarchist groups, correspondence, newsletters, and clippings.
Biographical Note
Mitch Miller is a founding member of the Libertarian Workers Group, The Anarchist-Communist Federation of North America and the Workers Solidarity Alliance, a political activist group that advocates anarcho-syndicalism and was formerly an affiliate of the International Workers Association. He is active in the Libertarian Book Club, an independent publisher and political organization founded in New York City in the 1940s. The LBC publishes original and translated texts written from various anarchist and syndicalist perspectives and also organizes lectures, panel discussions, and forum events on libertarian socialism. Miller has written for numerous anarchist publications, sometimes under the pen name Mike Harris.
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International Workers Association, "IWA-AIT Secretariat," http://www.iwa-ait.org/ (accessed July 16, 2008).Wikipedia contributors, "International Workers Association," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_Workers_Association&oldid=224835166 (accessed July 16, 2008).Wikipedia contributors, "Libertarian Workers' Group," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Libertarian_Workers%27_Group&oldid=205136731 (accessed July 16, 2008).Workers Solidarity Alliance, "From self-managed unionism to a self-managed society," April 2008, http://www.workersolidarity.org/ (accessed July 16, 2008).
Arrangement
Organized into one series: Series I: General Files, 1916-2009.
Folders are arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Contents
The materials in the collection consist largely of flyers from anarchist and libertarian groups in the New York metropolitan area, including the Libertarian Book Club, the Social-Revolutionary Anarchist Federation and the Jewish Anarchist Community. This collection also includes materials from international anarchist organizations such as the International Workers Association and the Syndicalist Workers Federation, from anarchist groups in a wide range of foreign countries, and from libertarian and labor organizations in the United States, such as the Redwing Workers Organization and International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 705, as well as some of Mitch Miller's writings and correspondence.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Materials in this collection, which were created in 1916-2010, are expected to enter the public domain in 2105.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Mitch Miller Papers on Anarchism and Libertarianism; TAM 453; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Mitch Miller in 2008. The accession number associated with this gift is 2008.038. Miller donated an accretion to this collection in December 2019; the accession number associated with this gift is 2021.021.
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Decisions regarding arrangement, description, and physical interventions for this collection prior to 2021 are unknown. In 2021 an accretion of ephemera produced by the Workers Solidarity Alliance was rehoused and intellectually incorporated into the collection's existing alphabetic arrangement structure.