Alternative [Vol. 1, Nos. 1-3,5-8; Vol. 1, Nos. 5-6]

[New York: Committee for Non-Violent Revolution, 1950. About very good.. Nine issues, each a [4]pp. small bifolium. Addressed, stamped, and cancelled. Previously folded. Light toning and edge wear. A run of nine issues of this relatively short-lived civil rights and pacifist periodical, published by the Committee for Non-Violent Revolution, formed after World War II by a group of Civilian Public Service camp veterans and other imprisoned conscientious objectors. Their Statement of Purpose at the head of the first issue proclaims, "Today, humanity is warped and stunted, not only by the more obvious evils of war and insecurity, but also by a thousand little attitudes and customs which permeate our civilization. We will explore ideas and actions which free and strengthen the individual, and we will do so without respect for custom, law, or authority.... In an age of atom bombs and preparations for bacteriological warfare, we cannot be the slave of any nationalism." Articles include anti-draft screeds, condemnations of the American prison system, reports on the organization of civil disobedience for civil rights, and a strange, certainly (?) fictitious article concerning the death of a small-town Santa Claus. The publication was reprinted as part of a series on radical American pamphlets, but original issues are quite uncommon. The nine issues present here constitute on third of the total twenty-seven-issue run of the periodical.