Box 1

Berlin

Collection of handbills, newsletters, statements and one poster related to 1970s Eritrean and Ethiopian activism in the United States, especially Washington, DC.

Rome: Research Centre on Eritrea (RICE), 1980. Three issues, all 12 pages. Numbers present are vol. 2 nos. 1, 2, 3. Sympathetic to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front.

Study, Publication and Information Centre of the Foreign Committee of the The Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Party, 1979. Describes the Moscow-backed Mengistu government's efforts to crush the EPRP.

Study, Publication and Information Centre of EPRP's Foreign Section, 1975. The EPRP was a Marxist-Leninist organization opposed to the Moscow-backed Mengistu government.

Eritreans for Liberation in North America, 1975. On the capture of two Americans from the US base in Asmara, Kagnew Station, by Eritrean separatist guerrillas. Demands withdrawal of US forces.

New York: Eritrean Students for Liberation in North America, 1976. Two issues of the eight-page newsletter. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 1 and 3. Updates on guerilla activities, international solidarity movements, and a piece on Ethiopian POWs.

Madison, WI: World Wide Federation of Ethiopian Students, 1976. Includes a brief history of the Ethiopian student movement.

"Unofficial translation from the Amharic original." Issued by supporters abroad.

Roma: EPLF, 1978.

Amsterdam: World Wide Federation of Ethiopian Students, 1974. 11 pages in English, 9 in Amharic.

New York: Eritreans for Liberation in North America, 1976. 5p. packet to which is stapled an 8.5x14 inch handbill containing the joint statement by the Eritrean and Ethiopian revolutionary organizations.

Washington DC: World Wide Federation of Ethiopian Students, 1975. On the killings of Melese Tekle, Rezene Hagos, and Gedey Gebrewold (here called Gebre-Wahed).

Washington DC: Ethiopian Student Union in North America. Reprint of the Guidelines for the separatist group in northeastern Ethiopia, distributed by ESUNA's DC Chapter.

Washington DC: Ethiopian Student Union in North America, 23rd Congress of ESUNA Organizing Committee - Washington DC Chapter, 1975. Argues that the formation of the new Party is "the most timely and earth-shaking occurence." Criticizes the Eritreans for Liberation in North America for issuing a "sectarian and unprincipled attack" on the new organization.

Washington DC: EWSGNA, 1976. The Study Group was affiliated with the World Wide Federation of Ethiopian Students. Here it gives a brief history of the movement that toppled Haile Selassie, criticizes the Derg coup, and chastises other revolutionary groups that sided with the Derg.

Washington DC: EWSGNA, 1976. Third page has a rubberstamp of the issuer's Central Committee dated Feb. 25, 1976. The Study Group was affiliated with the World Wide Federation of Ethiopian Students. Here it expresses support for the EFLNA (Eritreans For Liberation In North America).

Madison, WI: Ethiopian Women's Study Group in North America, 1976.