The Liberator
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The Liberator was a monthly magazine established by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman in 1918 to continue the work of The Masses, which was shut down by the wartime mailing regulations of the US Government. It was a journal which combined astute radical political coverage of events of the day, fine art, poetry, and some of the best left-wing political cartoons in the history of American journalism. Due to failing finances, the magazine was turned over to the Workers Party of America circa 1922 and continued its existence until 1924, when it was merged with two other publications to form The Workers Monthly.

About the online version: We have published two versions of each issue: the link to the title story is a regular html file, while we also included a PDF scan of the original magazine. The html versions (e.g. the digitized text) of these issues are extremely low quality: typograhical and formatting errors will be abundant.

Why has this been done? Due to the rarity of these magazines, simply having scanned images of it online (the PDFs) is a great resource to readers. Conversely, creating a finished, digital transcription in magazine format without error and in perfect format would take an extremely long time in the abscence of a team of volunteers. Thus, the focus of this project is to scan as many issues of the magazines we can attain, and perform basic digitization enabling these texts to be searched, material copied, etc. We hope that by having this material available online we will inspire volunteers to step forward and join this project, and take the lead in formating and correcting the text below. — Brian Basgen (July, 2006).

1918

March: John Reed's Story of the Bolsheviki Revolution (PDF)
April: John Reed's Stories from Petrograd (PDF)
May: Just Before the Drive (PDF)
June: Stories of The Masses Trial (PDF)
July: Labor and the War (PDF)
August: Issue needed
September: With Eugene Debs on the Fourth of July (PDF)
October: Women on Trial (PDF)
November: The Trial of Eugene Debs (PDF)
December: The Seventh Tier Soviet (PDF)

1919

January: Lenin's Letter to American Workingmen (PDF)
February: The Socialist Party on Trial (PDF)
March: Lenin and Wilson (PDF)
Issues needed
June: May Day in Ft. Leavenworth (PDF)
July: IWW Convention (PDF)
September: Revolutionary Action in England (PDF)
Issues needed
October: The Actor's Strike (PDF)
Issues needed

1920

April: A Yankee Convention (PDF)

1922

September: Engaged (PDF)

1923

January: The Skirmish in Cleveland (PDF)
September: The Third American Revolution (PDF)

First Published: 1918 - 1924
Source: Original copies of The Liberator
Transcription/Markup: Brian Basgen/(markup awaiting a volunteer)
Proofread: (awaiting a volunteer)
Public Domain: USA History Archive 2006. This work is completely free.

The Liberator [Beta]

The Liberator
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