MIA: History: USA: Publications: The Liberator & The Workers Monthly
The Liberator
Workers Monthly
First Published: 1918 - 1924
Source: Original copies of The Liberator and the The Workers Monthly
Transcription/Markup: Brian Baggins 2006. Main page redone by Tim Davenport and David Walters in 2009
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The Liberator, arguably the greatest radical magazine ever produced in America, began in the spring of 1918 as a successor to the New York left wing political, artistic, and literary magazine The Masses, which had been effectively terminated by postal censorship and Justice Department prosecution during World War I. Masses editor Max Eastman and his sister Crystal, a fine journalist and leading feminist of the day, determined to carry forward the Masses project in new clothes. The pair hoped to escape the political controversy which had handicapped and sunk its predecessor by launching a revised, smaller-format magazine with a new name.
The change of name did not mean a change of political orientation, however. As with The Masses, The Liberator continued to support various tendencies of the socialist movement, gradualist to revolutionary. The publication supported the labor movement in all its forms, remaining partial to the syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World, but still providing coverage to all radical elements in the labor movement, including those guiding independent unions such as the Amalgamated Garment Workers and those working to radicalize the American Federation of Labor.
The Liberator’s international news coverage was first-rate. Legendary war correspondent and Communist Labor Party founder John Reed reported the ongoing situation in Soviet Russia; major reports were filed from across tumultuous post-war Europe by Robert Minor, Hiram K. Moderwell, Frederick Kuh, and Crystal Eastman. Pivotal conventions of political parties and labor unions were covered in depth by intelligent participants. The great political trials of the day were reported in detail with perception. Speeches and articles by the great revolutionary leaders of the world found space on its pages. Nearly a century after the fact, The Liberator remains an essential primary source for the political history of its era.
As with The Masses, The Liberator relied heavily upon political art, including contributions from some of the finest talents of the day. Among the artistic worthies who graced the publication’s pages were Art Young, Robert Minor, Lydia Gibson, Boardman Robinson, William Gropper, Maurice Becker, J.J. Lankes, and Fred Ellis. Each color cardstock cover of The Liberator was unique and distinctive, a miniature work of art, again echoing its illustrious predecessor. Poetry and fiction fleshed out its pages, including work by Carl Sandburg, Claude McKay, Arturo Giovannitti, and others. The magazine was, in short, a monthly intellectual banquet for the American radical intelligentsia, available on newsstands for just two thin dimes.
Maintaining a low cost of the elaborate publication for its readers came at a huge price, however. To economize, ultra-thin newsprint was used for the magazine’s pages — cheap and terrible, high in acid content. The result was predictable, a publication as fragile and ephemeral as a spring wildflower. Nine decades after the fact, the few surviving copies of The Liberator, (particularly from the years 1918-1922) are inevitably browning and brittle, whisked by worried librarians from the general stacks of research libraries into the far less accessible special collections departments. Thus a great irony: the most important of American radical magazines of the early 1920s, The Liberator, is at the same time among the least readily available.
The Liberator ran into trouble in 1922 — both financial and motivational, as editor Max Eastman’s interests shifted from the mundane work of editing to book writing. Eastman ceded his editorial blue pencil around the first of January 1922, with literary critic Floyd Dell taking over the job.Throughout 1922 political matters were somewhat deemphasized in favor of art and culture under Dell’s watch. When finances became tight that year, the underground Communist Party of America moved to fill the void, working with Eastman, Dell, and the core of writers behind the magazine towards a friendly takeover of the publication effective in October of that same year. After the fall of 1922, The Liberator emerged as the de facto official organ of the CPA and its “Legal Political Party” sibling, the Workers Party of America — maintaining a similar graphic style and orientation toward fiction, albeit with a noticeable ideological narrowing of political content. Long articles began to be published by prominent Communist leaders, including C.E. Ruthenberg, John Pepper, William Z. Foster, Jay Lovestone, and Max Bedacht. Former anarchist turned Communist true believer Robert Minor served as editor during this period, assisted by Joseph Freeman as an associate editor in charge of literary material.
In 1924 The Liberator was merged with the Workers Party’s “Trade Union Educational League” magazine, The Labor Herald, and its “Friends of Soviet Russia” monthly, Soviet Russia Pictorial, to form a new publication. This new magazine, The Workers Monthly, was fundamentally similar to the 1923-24 vintage Liberator and continued as the Workers Party’s de facto theoretical journal until 1927, at which time it was given a new form and title as, The Communist. This magazine continues today, known since 1946 as Political Affairs.
Simultaneously, a new large format artistic-political monthly reminiscent of the original Masses (known as, appropriately enough, The New Masses) was launched by the Communist Party in May 1926. This publication carried The Liberator’s torch forward for another decade before gradually morphing into a plain paper newsweekly akin to The Nation or The New Republic. The New Masses was merged with the party general interest monthly Mainstream in January of 1948 to form Masses and Mainstream, a publication vaguely similar in format to Reader’s Digest, albeit with Communist political content.
The MIA Liberator/Workers Monthly Project
In an attempt to make this valuable resource available on the net, Marxists Internet Archive has embarked on a project to obtain and digitize the entire run of The Liberator. Issues were collected by MIA volunteers Tim Davenport and Mitch Abidor over a period of several years. Issues were painstakingly cut and sleeved in archival sheet preservers to prevent further chipping and tearing of the paper and to make them ready for scanning.
The first round of scanning and conversion to pdf format took place in 2006 and was performed by MIA volunteer Brian Baggins. Brian also worked at converting materials to html format, generating files which provided the raw material used to generate many of the revised files here.
After a hiatus of about two years, The Liberator project again began to move forward in 2009, starting with work on a new index by Davenport and David Walters. Additional scanning and conversion to html format of selected articles is expected to take place in 2009.
There are currently 11 issues of The Liberator run which remain to be acquired, all of which are noted in the index. If you happen to hold one or more of these issues and would be willing to loan them or sell them for use in this project, please get in touch: MutantPop@aol.com
Researchers needing immediate access to issues not available here are advised that a run of the publication exists on microfilm, available through the New York Public Library.
Tim Davenport
Corvallis, Oregon
March 2009
The Liberator
1918 - 1924
1918
- “In Behalf of the IWW” — Helen Keller — pg. 13.
- “Red Russia” [part 1] — John Reed — pp. 14-21.
- “The Peril of Tom Mooney” — Robert Minor — pp. 29-31.
- Review of Trotsky’s The Bolsheviki and World Peace — Floyd Dell — pp. 33-34.
- “Tulsa, November 9th” — by a victim — pp. 15-17.
- “Red Russia” [part 2] — John Reed — pp. 18-23.
- “On the Inside” — William D. Haywood — pp. 15-16.
- “Wilson and the World’s Future” — Max Eastman — pp. 19-24.
- “Red Russia” [part 3] — John Reed — pp. 28-34.
- “The Masses Case” — Max Eastman — pp. 5-6.
- “The Story of the Trial” — Floyd Dell — pp. 7-18.
- “Speeches of Max Eastman and Morris Hillquit at the Masses Dinner, May 9” — pp. 19-21..
- “The Masses Jury” — Max Eastman — pp. 22-23.
- “A Message to Our Readers from John Reed Who Has Just Returned from Petrograd” — pp. 25-26.
- “Foreign Affairs” — John Reed — pp. 27-29.
- “What the Negro is Doing for Himself” — James Weldon Johnson — pp. 29-31.
- “Selecting a Perfect Jury” — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 8-10.
- “Spring Comes Again” — Vera Buch — pp. 10-11.
- “Recognize Russia” — John Reed — pp. 18-20.
- “Labor and the War” — Morris Hillquit — pp. 21-22.
- “Kerensky is Coming!” — John Reed — pp. 23-27.
- “Norman Hapgood and Socialist Journalism” — Max Eastman — pg. 28.
Letter to Norman Hapgood from John Reed, June 4, 1918. — pp. 28-29.
Issue No. 6, August (PDF) ** NO ISSUE ON HAND **:
- “Were You Ever a Child?” [Part 1] — Floyd Dell — pp. 5-10.
- “Recognize the Soviets” — George V. Lomonossoff — pp. 11-13.
- “Socialists and Suppression” — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 13-14.
- “How the Russian Revolution Works” — John Reed — pp. 16-21.
- “Impressions of the AF of L Convention” — Symposium by “T.L.M.”, “H.M.”, Crystal Eastman — pp. 26-27.
- “Silence — And the Resurrection: A Letter from William Bross Lloyd” with “In Reply” by Max Eastman — pp. 30-32.
- “From Norman Hapgood” [letter of June 18, 1918] with “John Reed Explains” by John Reed — pp. 32-34.
- “With Gene Debs on the Fourth” — John Reed — pp. 7-9.
- “Lenin — A Statesman of the New Order” [part 1] — Max Eastman — pp. 10-13.
- “New York and I” [poem] — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 14-15.
- “Were You Ever a Child: A Discussion of Education” [part 2] — Floyd Dell — pp. 15-17.
- “The Social Revolution in Court” [IWW trial] — Art Young and John Reed — pp. 20-28.
- “The Farmers’ Crusade: Letters from George Cronyn, a Non-Partisan League Organizer” — pp. 5-12.
- “A Suffrage Trial in Washington” — Lucy Burns — pp. 19-20.
- “Brest-Litovsk: A Brigand’s Peace” — Nikolai Lenin — pp. 22-23.
- “Lenin — A Statesman of the New Order” [part 2] — Max Eastman — pp. 28-33.
- “Were You Ever a Child: A Discussion of Education” [part 3] — Floyd Dell — pp. 36-39.
- Socialist Party Congressional Platform — pp. 42-45.
- “The Trial of Eugene Debs” — Max Eastman — pp. 5-12.
- “On Intervention in Russia” — John Reed — pp. 14-17.
- “To Nicolai Lenin” [poem] — Max Eastman — pg. 17.
- “Were You Ever a Child: A Discussion of Education” [part 4] — Floyd Dell — pp. 20-24.
- “Pro-German” [letter to The New Republic] — William Bross Lloyd — pg. 25.
A Symposium on the Creel Documents — pp. 28-29.- “The Structure of the Soviet State” — John Reed — pp. 32-38.
- “The Seventh Tier Soviet” — Roger N. Baldwin — pp. 10-11.
- “The War Labor Board” — “H.M.” — pp. 12-15.
- “The Italian Workers and the War” — Carlo Tresca — pp. 19-21.
- “November Seventh, 1918: A Speech in Commemoration of the Founding of the Soviet Republic in Russia” — Max Eastman — pp. 22-23.
- “Recent Impressions of Russia: Verbatim Report of a Conversation with Albert Rhys Williams” — Rose Pastor Stokes and Graham Stokes — pp. 24-33.
- “Russia’s Answer to the Charge of Terrorism” — Chicherin — pp. 34-35.
- “About the Second Masses Trial” — John Reed — pp. 36-38.
- “The Election Gains of the Nonpartisan League” — Olive S. Morris — pp. 38-40.
1918 Liberator Pamphlets:
- 1. Max Eastman’s Address to the Jury in the Second Masses Trial. 48 pp.
- 2. The Sisson Documents, by John Reed. 20 pp. [25 copies on WorldCat]
- 3. The Trial of Eugene V. Debs, by Max Eastman. 31 pp.
1919
- “A Letter to American Workingmen” [edited] — Nikolai Lenin — pp. 8-12.
- “What Are You Doing Out There?” — Floyd Dell — pp. 14-15.
- “How Soviet Russia Conquered Imperial Germany” — John Reed — pp. 16-23.
- “Demobilizing the Trade Unions” — “H.M.” — pp. 28-32.
- “Note from the Russian Government to President Wilson” — Chicherin — pp. 38-41.
- “The Socialist Party on Trial” — William Bross Lloyd — pp. 10-13.
- “The Silent Defense in Sacramento” [IWW Trial] — Jean Sterling — pp. 15-17.
- “Who’s Who in the German Revolution?” — German newspaper reporter — pp. 18-21.
- “Making the World Safe for a Sick Idea” — Charles W. Wood — pp. 22-24.
- “The Latest from Russia” — John Reed — pp. 24-25.
- “Great Bolshevik Conspiracy!” — John Reed — pg. 32.
- “Our Own Black Hundred” — John Reed — pg. 32.
- “The Hour of the People Has Come” — Klara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Franz Mehring — pg. 3.
- “Bob Minor and the Bolsheviki” — Max Eastman — pp. 5-6.
- “Lenin and Wilson” [fiction] — Max Eastman — pg. 8-11.
- “The Senate of the Dead” [poem] — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 12-14.
- “Liebknecht Dead” — John Reed — pp. 16-18.
- “The Mooney Congress” — Crystal Eastman — pp. 19-24.
- “The Peace that Passeth Away” [fiction] — John Reed — pp. 25-31.
- “Ireland and the British Elections” — Hannah Sheehy Skeffington — pp. 32-34.
- “The Truth About Breshkovsky” — “X.” — pp. 36-37.
- “The Why, Wherefore and Whenas of Prohibition” — Charles W. Wood — pp. 40-42.
- “Darkness Before Dawn” [Review of The Labor Movement in Japan by Sen Katayama] — John Reed — pp. 44-45.
Issue No. 14, April
- “A Message from Debs” [March 11, 1919 letter] — Eugene V. Debs — pg. 3.
- “Scott Nearing Reprieves Democracy” — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 5-7.
- “Beating Prohibition to It” — Floyd Dell — pp. 15-18.
- “Are Russian Women ‘Nationalized’?” — Louise Bryant — pp. 20-21.
- “Prinkipo and After” — John Reed — pp. 21-22.
- “When is a Revolution Not a Revolution: Reflections on the Seattle General Strike by a Woman Who Was There” — pp. 23-25.
- “Ten Days that Shook the League of Nations” — Floyd Dell — pp. 29-31.
- “The Soviet of the Far East: Verbatim Report of a Conversation with Gertrude M. Tobinson, Wife of Krasnochokov, President of the Far Eastern Soviet in Siberia” — pp. 32-36.
- “Can the Workers Run the World” — James Peter Warbasse — pg. 37.
- “Follow Us” — Maxim Gorky — pg. 3.
- “May Day in Ft. Leavenworth” —
- “A Socialist C.O.” — pg. 20.
- “Art Under the Bolsheviks: From Documentary Reports, Decrees, and Plans of the Soviet State” — Floyd Dell — pp. 11-18.
- “Is Mexico in Danger?” — John Kenneth Turner — pp. 19-21.
- “The Tide Flows East” — John Reed — pp. 27-29.
- “His Majesty’s Government Writes History” — “X” — pp. 33-44.
- “Austria Waits for the Harvest” — Hiram K. Moderwell — pp. 45-47.
- “Personalities at Berne” — Hiram K. Moderwell — pg. 47.
Issue No. 17, July: IWW Convention (PDF)
- “A Message from Hungary to the American Workingmen” — Bela Kun — pg. 9.
- “The IWW Convention” — Mary Marcy — pp. 10-12.
- “Count Karolyi Tells Why” — Hiram K. Moderwell — pg. 13-16.
- “Revolutionary Socialism in France” — Fredeick R. Kuh — pp. 18-19.
- “Sonnets and Songs” [poetry] — Claude McKay — pp. 20-21.
- “Religion Under the Bolsheviks” — “X.” — pp. 21-24.
- “The New International” — Max Eastman — pp. 28-35.
- “The Winnipeg Strike” — Frances Fenwick Williams — pp. 39-44.
Issue No. 18, August ** NO ISSUE ON HAND **
- “In Communist Hungary” — Crystal Eastman — pp. 5-10.
- “The Convention of the Dead” [AF of L] — John Reed — pp. 12-20.
- “The Sparticide Insurrection” [part 1] — Robert Minor — pp. 22-25.
- “Conversations with Lenin” — Arthur Ransome — pp. 31-35.
- “May Day in Paris” — “An American” — pp. 41-46.
- “Negro Poems” [poetry] — Claude McKay — pg. 46.
Issue No. 19, September: Revolutionary Action in England (PDF):
- “To Our American Comrades of the Railroads from the President of the British Railroad Workers” — C.T. Cramp — pg. 8.
- “To the American Workers, the General Transport Workers of All Grades and Sections in Particular, from the Secretary of the British Transport Workers” — Robert Williams — pg. 9.
- “The Blood of Munich” — Hiram K. Moderwell — pp. 10-19.
- “All About It: Art Young in Washington” — Art Young — pp. 20-23.
- “Blocking the General Strike” [Paris] — Lewis Gannett — pg. 24.
- “British Labor is Moving” — Crystal Eastman — pp. 28-30.
- “The Sparticide Insurrection” [part 2] — Robert Minor — pp. 31-39.
- “The U.S. Revolutionary Training Institute” [Leavenworth] — H. Austin Simmons — pp. 42-44.
- “A Statement and a Challenge” — Nicolai Lenin — pg. 3.
- “The Chicago Conventions” — Max Eastman, drawings by Art Young — pp. 5-19.
- “Class War in Italy” — Hiram K. Moderwell — pp. 20-23.
- “S-s-s-s-h!” [Lusk Committee] — Max Eastman — pg. 24.
- “The Workers of the Clyde” — Crystal Eastman — pp. 28-33.
- “The Lesson of the Actors’ Strike” — Max Eastman — pp. 35-40.
- “A Message from Bulgaria” — Ivan Vassilev Vodenitcharov — pp. 41-42.
Issue No. 20, November: ** THERE WAS NO ISSUE FOR NOVEMBER 1919 **
Issue No. 21, December: ** NO ISSUE ON HAND **
- “A Middle Aged Professor in Moscow” — W.T. Goode — pg. 3.
- “Pittsburgh or Petrograd?” — Floyd Dell — pp. 5-10.
- “Leftward Ho!” [Account of Congress of British TUC] — Walter G. Fuller — pp. 11-14.
- “A Message from Smillie” — Robert Smillie — pp. 16-17.
- “Back from Siberia” — Frances Fenwick Williams — pp. 18-20.
- “G.B.S. at Home” [George Bernard Shaw] — Robert L. Wolf — pp. 22-23.
- “A Declaration of Intellectual Independence” — Romain Rolland — pg. 23.
- “A Letter to Romain Rolland” — Max Eastman — pp. 24-25.
- “I Got Arrested a Little” — Robert Minor — pp. 28-38.
1919 Liberator Pamphlet:
- 1. “Liberator Russian Pamphlet” including
- “The Structure of the Soviet State” (Reed),
- “Letter to American Workingmen” (Lenin),
- “Lenin and Wilson” (Eastman),
- “Message from the Soviet Government to President Wilson.” 64 pp.
1920
Issue 22: January 1920 ** NO ISSUE AVAILABLE, MICROFILM IMAGE DAMAGED — please contact us if you have a copy! **
- “Russia Victorious: Verbatim Report of a Conversation with Isaac McBride” — pp. 3-14.
- “The Steel Strike” — Mary Heaton Vorse — pp. 16-19.
- “The New Wild West” [Centralia] — pp. 21-23.
- “Well, What About Mexico?” — Irwin Granich [Mike Gold] — pp. 24-38.
- “Inquisition” — M.A. Stolar — pp. 29-30.
- “Bogalusa” — Mary White Ovington — pp. 31-33.
- “Hope Revives in Hungary” — Frederick Kuh — pp. 37-39.
- “The Presumption of Innocence — in Kansas” — Winthrop D. Lane — pg. 39.
- “Practical Feminism” [Labor Party Convention] — Crystal Eastman — pg. 40.
Issue 23: February 1920. (not scanned yet)
- “Examples of ‘Americanism’” — Max Eastman — pp. 13-16.
- “Murder in Centralia” — J.T. Doran — pp. 16-18.
- “Counter Revolution in Advance: A Summary of Recent German History” — “A historian who was present during the events” — pp. 22-25.
- “‘Solidarity! Serenity! Audacity!’: An Account of the Italian Situation” — Hiram K. Moderwell — pp. 28-37.
Issue 24: March 1920. (not scanned yet)
- “Communism on Trial” — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 5-8.
- “An Interview with Bela Kun” — Frederick Kuh — pp. 16-21.
- “The Communist Ambassador” [L.C.A.K. Martens] — Robert L. Wolf — pp. 28-32.
- “Dissolving the Duma at Albany” — Robert Minor — pp. 34-39.
- “Mexico Again” [letter of John Kenneth Turner] and reply by Irwin Granich [Michael Gold] — pp. 40-41.
- “Robert Lansing Explains Bolshevism” — Max Eastman — pp. 42-46.
Issue No. 25, April: A Yankee Convention (PDF)
- “The Log of the Transport Buford” — Alexander Berkman — pp. 9-12.
- “Fear in the Jury Box” [Centralia] — John Nicholas Beffel — pg. 13.
- “A Psycho-Analytical Confession” [Soviet Russia] — Floyd Dell — pp. 15-19.
- “Malatesta in Italy” — Carlo Tresca — pp. 22-24.
- “In Portugal” — John Dos Passos — pg. 25.
- “A Yankee Convention” [Cooperative Congress] — Robert Minor — pp. 28-34.
- “The Clarté Movement” — Max Eastman — pp. 40-42.
Issue 26: May 1920 (not scanned yet)
- “Democracy and Revolution” [part 1] — Bertrand Russell — pp. 10-14.
- “On Lenin’s Birthday” [poem] — Arturo Giovannitti — pg. 15.
- “Guilty by Inference” [Winitsky Trial] — Floyd Dell — pp. 17-19.
- “The Great Flop” [IWW-related] — Robert Minor — pp. 20-22.
Issue 27: June 1920 (not scanned yet)
- “Palmer and the Outlaws” — Robert Minor — pp. 5-12.
- “Jim Larkin Goes to Jail” — Louise Bryant — pp. 13-16.
- “Why Copper is Red” — William F. Dunne — pg. 17-20.
- “Self-Determination of Nations: A Speech” — Nikolai Lenin — pp. 21-22.
- “Democracy and Revolution” [part 2] — Bertrand Russell — pp. 23-25.
Issue 28: July 1920 (not scanned yet)
- “The Mexican Revolution” — Carleton Beals and Robert Haberman — pp. 5-11.
- “Caesar and Spartacus” [Germany] — Hiram K. Moderwell — pp. 14-21.
- “The Socialist Party Convention” — Crystal Eastman — pp. 24-29.
- “In the Shell of the Old” [ACW Convention] — Michael Gold, drawings by Robert Minor — pp. 30-34.
- “Fellow Criminals!” — Floyd Dell — pp. 35-41.
- “England and the White Terror” — Frederick Kuh — pp. 43-44.
- “Our Debs” [review of Debs: His Authorized Life and Letters by David Karsner] — Floyd Dell — pp. 45-50.
Issue 29: August 1920 (not scanned yet)
- “The Wars of West Virginia” — Robert Minor — pp. 7-13.
- “Robert Williams Sees Russia” — Robert Williams — pp. 14-15.
- “Italy Tests Her Strength” — Paul DeMott — pp. 15-16.
- “Anarchists and Others in Russia” — Griffin Barry — pp. 17-21.
- “Putting Theories Into Practice” [Italy] — Hiram K. Moderwell — pp. 24-25.
Issue 30: September 1930 (not scanned yet)
- “Nietzsche, Plato and Bertrand Russell” — Max Eastman — pp. 5-10.
- “Guilty: The General Strike” [CLP Trial] — H. Austin Simons — pp. 12-15.
- “The Democratic Convention” — Charles Erskine Scott Wood — pp. 25-26.
- “‘Communism But’” [Bertrand Russell] — Floyd Dell — pp. 27-29.
Issue 31: October 1920 (not scanned yet)
- “I Change My Mind a Little” — Robert Minor — pp. 5-13.
- “Rosa Luxemburg to Sonia Liebknecht” [prison letter of Dec. 1917] — pp. 12-13. “‘Now That You’ve Got the Vote’” — Floyd Dell — pp. 14-16.
- “Under Two Flags” [Italian radicals in New York] — Michael Gold — pp. 17-19.
- “Mexican Labor and the Mexican Government” — Carleton Beals and Robert Haberman — pp. 20-23.
- “New Soviets for Old” — Floyd Dell — pp. 25-27.
- “Farmer Strikers in Spain” — John Dos Passos — pp. 28-30.
Issue 32: November 1920 (not scanned yet)
- “In Praise of Lenin” — Maxim Gorky — pp. 5-7.
- “About Dogmatism” — Max Eastman — pg. 8.
- “Answer to My Critics” — Robert Minor — pp. 8-11 (microfilm defective)
- “Communist Factories in Italy” — unsigned — pp. 12-14.
- “Back Home in Russia” — unsigned — pp. 15-21.
- “Hillquit Excommunicates the Soviet” — Max Eastman — pp. 22-25.
Issue 33: December 1920 (not scanned yet)
- “John Reed” — Max Eastman — pp. 5-6.
- “Soviet Russia Now” — John Reed — pp. 9-12.
- “The Outlaws At It Again” [Pennsylvania coal] — Robert Minor — pp. 12-17.
- “Science on Trial” [Ruthenberg-Ferguson Trial] — Max Eastman — pp. 20-21.
- “Now We Can Begin” [Women’s Suffrage] — Crystal Eastman — pp. 23-24.
- “Palmer’s Last Crime” — Art Shields — pp. 24-26.
1921
Issue 34: January 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “Twenty Years” [IWW] — Mary Heaton Vorse — pp. 10-12.
- “Soviet Russia Now” — John Reed — pp. 14-17.
- “Hillquit Repeats His Error” — Max Eastman — pp. 20-24.
- “Announcement” [of resignation as co-editor] — Max Eastman — pg. 24.
Issue 35: February 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “Locked Out” [ACW] — Mary Heaton Vorse — pp. 5-8.
- “Last Days With John Reed: A Letter From Louise Bryant” — pp. 11-14.
- “On Duty in Russia: A Letter from Boris Reinstein” — pp. 16-17.
- “Toward Proletarian Art” — Irwin Granich [Mike Gold] — pp. 20-22.
Issue 36: March 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “One Dead — Two in Danger” [Sacco-Vanzetti] — Robert Minor — pp. 9-10.
- “A Little Bit of Millenium” [Stelton, NJ commune] — Michael Gold — pp. 12-15.
- “The Split in Italy” — Norman Matson — pp. 16-21.
- “Wilson’s Style” — Max Eastman — pp. 24-27.
Issue 37: April 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “Foster” [editorial] — Max Eastman — pp. 5-6.
- “Alice Paul’s Convention” [Woman’s Party] — Crystal Eastman — pp. 9-10.
- “Bill Haywood, Communist” — Max Eastman — pp. 13-14.
- “The Class Duel in Spain” — Carleton Beals — pp. 16-21.
- “The Story of Alex Howat” — James P. Cannon — pp. 25-28.
Issue 38: May 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “Dogmatism Again” [polemic with Robert Dell on Soviet Russia] — Max Eastman — pp. 5-8.
- “The International of Patience” [Vienna] — Frederick Kuh, with drawings by Gergel — pp. 12-15.
- “The Beleaguered Amalgamated” — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 16-20.
- “The Red Army in the Near East” — “Our Special Correspondent” — pp. 21-24.
- “Georgia Saves Her Reputation: An Eyewitnesses’ Impression of the Peonage Murder Trial” — Esau Jones — pg. 24.
Issue 39: June 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “Clarifying the Light” [Clarté group] — Max Eastman — pp. 5-7.
- “The Triple Alliance Backs Down” — Charles T. Hallihan — pp. 9-12.
- “Communist Jail-Keepers” — Louise Bryant — pp. 12-14.
- “The Seamen’s Strike” — Winthrop D. Lane — pp. 15-16.
- “How Black Sees Green and Red” [Sinn Fein] — Claude McKay — pp. 17-21.
- “The Children of White Hungary” — unsigned — pg. 21.
- “We Who Stay” [poem] — Rose Pastor Stokes — pp. 22-23.
- “The Muscovite Steam-Roller” — “Our Special Correspondent” — pp. 24-26.
- “Preliminary Skirmishes in Italy” — Norman Matson — pp. 28-29.
Issue 40: July 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “Personal Testimony” [IWW] — John L. Murphy — pg. 7.
- “Marriage and Freedom” [part 1] — Floyd Dell — pp. 16-21.
- “‘Guns, Bombs and Benzine’” [Italy] — Normat Matson — pp. 22-24.
- “In Memory” [poem] — Louise Bryant — pg. 24.
- “Tulsa — Oklahoma”— Harry Salpeter — pp. 25-26.
- “The Siege is Lifted” [ACW] — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 27-29.
Issue 41: August 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “Poems” — Claude McKay — pp. 10-11.
- “Booze and Gompers Über Alles!” [AF of L] — Luigi Antonini — pp. 13-15.
- “Marriage and Freedom” [part 2] — Floyd Dell — pp. 16-21.
- “The Socialist Pin-Wheel” [convention] — “Our Special Correspondent” — pp. 22-24.
Issue 42: September 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “Bill Haywood in Moscow” — Lewis Gannett — pp. 11-12.
- “The Anarchists of Italy” — Norman Matson — pp. 22-24.
- “Freedom in Mexico” — Frank Seaman — pg. 25.
- “The Inside of the Clothing Business” — Charles W. Wood — pp. 26-27.
Issue 43: October 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “An Opinion on Tactics” — Max Eastman — pp. 5-6.
- “French Labor and Moscow” — Norman Matson — pp. 8-10.
- “The Parliament of Man” [Moscow] — Agnes Smedley — pp. 13-15.
- “The Battle of Logan County” [West Virginia miners] — Art Shields — pp. 16-21.
- “Marriage and Freedom” [part 3] — Floyd Dell — pp. 22-26.
- “In Defense of Clarté” [letter] — Henri Barbusse — pg. 30.
Issue 44: November 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “The American Famine” — Michael Gold, drawings by Hugo Gellart — pp. 5-11.
- “The First Woman of Russia” [Krupskaia] — Louise Bryant — pp. 20-21.
- “Would You Like to Be a Child?” — Floyd Dell — pp. 22-24.
- “The History of Five Years” — William Gropper — pg. 25.
- “Wanted: A Religious Revival” — Charles W. Wood — pp. 26-28.
Issue 45: December 1921 (not scanned yet)
- “A Response” [to critics of “An Opinion on Tactics”] — Max Eastman — pp. 6-9.
- “Who Will Help the Liberator?” [emergency appeal of editors] — pg. 7.
- “Four Sonnets” [poetry] — Claude McKay — pg. 9.
- “Hope for America” [IWW] — Michael Gold — pg. 14-17.
- “The House of the Dead” — Albert Rhys Williams — pp. 20-22.
- “A Negro Extravaganza” — Claude McKay, drawings by Hugo Gellart — pp. 24-26.
1922
Issue 46: January 1922 (not scanned yet — NYPL MICROFILM COPY BADLY DAMAGED)
Note: First issue with editorials not written by Max Eastman; Eastman off masthead. Next group of issues seem to have been edited by Mike Gold and skew heavily literary.
- “What Is Social Equality?” — Walter F. White — pp. 6-7.
- “The American Type” — Claude McKay — pp. 8-9.
- “Sacco and Vanzetti in Paris” — Ida O’Neil — pp. 10-11.
- “On to Harding, Then Home Again” — Michael Gold, drawings by William Gropper — pp. 14-20.
- “Migratory Workers’ Convention” — “A Special Correspondent” — pg. 25.
- “The Russian Idea” — Floyd Dell — pp. 26-27.
Issue 47: February 1922 (not scanned yet — NYPL MICROFILM COPY BADLY DAMAGED)
- “A Christmas Party” [WPA Convention] — Max Eastman — pp. 5-7.
- “The Vindication of Mr. Thomas” — Charles T. Hallihan — pp. 10-12.
- “The Hero” — Edmund Wilson Jr. — pg. 12.
- “Relief for Vienna” — Frederick Kuh, drawings by Adolph Dohn — pp. 21-22.
- “The Uncaging of Debs” — Charles P. Sweeney — pg. 22.
- “Two Conversations” — Max Eastman — pp. 27-28.
- “John Reed’s Book” — Nikolai Lenin — pg. 28.
- “Humor and the Revolution” [review of The Sense of Humor by Max Eastman] — Floyd Dell — pp. 29-31.
Issue 48: March 1922 (not scanned yet — NYPL MICROFILM COPY BADLY DAMAGED)
- “Wanted: Pioneers for Siberia!” — Michael Gold — pp. 5-8.
- “Poems by Class War Prisoners” — Charles Ashleigh, Ben Gitlow, Ralph Chaplin — pg. 9.
- “One Day’s Work” [Yuma, AZ] — George Granich — pp. 12-13.
- “Americanizing Haiti” — Martha Foley — pp. 16-17.
- “What is Lacking in the Theatre” — Claude McKay, drawings by Hugo Gellert — pp. 20-21.
Issue 49: April 1922 (not scanned yet — NYPL MICROFILM COPY BADLY DAMAGED)
- “Garvey as a Negro Moses” — Claude McKay — pp. 8-9.
- “Theosophy on the High Seas: A Letter En Route from Max Eastman” — pp. 11-12.
- “A Letter from Mexico” — Maurice Becker — pp. 12-13.
- “Man , X His Mark: Comment on an Exhibit of Drawings by Boardman Robinson” — Robert Minor — pp. 20-21.
- “Thoughts of a Great Think” — Michael Gold — pp. 23-25.
Issue 50: May 1922 (not scanned yet)
- “Palm Sunday in the Coal Fields” — Michael Gold — pp. 5-9.
- “Let’s Get Them Out” [political prisoners] — Robert Minor — pp. 14-15.
- “Spring Sonnets” [poetry] — Claude McKay — pg. 16.
- “In a Southern Prison Camp” — Isaac H. Schwartz — pp. 25-27.
Issue 51: June 1922 (not scanned yet)
- “Down the Coast from Genoa” — Max Eastman, drawings by Sors and Crispi — pp. 5-8.
- “An Open Letter from Charles W. Wood to Hon Richard Enright and Hon. John F. Hylan” — pp. 9-11.
- “The Wobblies Raid on the Seamen’s Union” — Dick Orson — pp.12-14.
- “The Case of Nickolay Mansevich” — Stanley Boon — pp. 14-15.
- “Red Roses for Hillman” — Michael Gold — pp. 16-22.
- “Explanations and Apologies” — Floyd Dell — pp. 25-26.
- “Out of Texas” [lynching] — Lucy Maverick — pp. 28-30.
Issue 52: July 1922 (not scanned yet)
- “Class Struggle at Genoa” — Max Eastman — pp. 5-9.
- “The Descending Knife” [Centralia] — John Nicholas Beffel — pg. 10.
- “George Gorsz, Artist-Communist” — Hi Simons — pp. 28-29.
- “A Letter from Boardman Robinson” — pg. 29.
- “Onward, Christian Soldiers” — Lewis Gannett — pp. 30-32.
Issue 53: August 1922 (not scanned yet — NYPL MICROFILM COPY BADLY DAMAGED)
- “The Caucasus Under the Soviets” — John Dos Passos — pp. 5-9.
- “Two Critics of Russia” — Max Eastman — pp. 10-11.
- “Peace Reigns at Herrin” — Carl Haessler — pp. 13-14.
- “Birthright” — Claude McKay — pp. 15-16.
- “Why Wear Clothes?” [nudism] — Stuart Chase — pp. 24-25.
Issue 54: September: Engaged (PDF) 1922 (not scanned yet — NYPL MICROFILM COPY BADLY DAMAGED) Last issue with extremely heavy literary (as opposed to political) content.
- “The Jesus-Thinkers” — Michael Gold — pp. 11-12.
- “Dogs and Shadows in Japan” — Gertrude Haessler — pp. 14-21.
- “For the Silent Defenders” [IWW] — Art Shields — pp. 22-23.
Issue 55: October 1922 (not scanned yet — NYPL MICROFILM COPY BADLY DAMAGED) Last Issue Listing Floyd Dell as “Executive Editor” on masthead.
- “Labor Liquidates Revolution” — J.B. Salutsky [J.B.S. Hardman] — pp. 5-8.
- “Words from a Calaboose” [MacNamara Affair] — Pierre Loving — pg. 14.
- “The ‘Jesus-Thinkers’” — Upton Sinclair — pg. 15.
- “Modern History in Michigan” [Bridgman Raid] — Stanley Boone — pg. 16.
- “Art in Starving Germany” — William Schack — pp. 20-21.
- “A Knife in the Back” [PSR Trial] — Karl Radek — pp. 27-29.
Issue 56: Nov.-Dec. 1922 (not scanned yet — NYPL MICROFILM COPY BADLY DAMAGED) Lists Robert Minor and Joseph Freeman as “Executive Editors” on masthead. Clear CP content.
- “Russia’s Embattled Liberators” — Eugene V. Debs — pg. 10.
- “We Want a Labor Party” — Robert Minor — pp. 11-15.
- “A Look at the Elections” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 16-17.
- “Toward Amalgamation” — Stanley Boone — pp. 24-25.
- “Let’s Have Some Liberty” — Edward Pyle — pp. 26-28.
- “Jobbers in Justice” [West Virginia] — Karl Pretshold — pg. 29.
1923
Issue 57: January 1923: The Skirmish in Cleveland (PDF)
- “The Red Cock” [art in Soviet Russia] — Alexander Chramoff — pp. 7-8.
- “The Skirmish in Cleveland” [CPPA Convention] — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 9-11.
- “British Labor Advances” — R.W. Postgate — pp. 12-13.
- “The Throne of the United States” [American empire] — Robert Minor — pp. 19-27.
- “Litany of the Revolution” [poem] — Arturo Giovannitti — pp. 29-31.
- “Fascismo” [Italy] — G. Cannata — pp. 32-33.
Issue 58: February 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “Poems by Simon Felshin” [political poetry] — pg. 7.
- “The Throne of the World” [world capitalism] — Robert Minor — pp. 8-11.
- “Communism in the Open Again” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 12-14.
- “Moscow Art Theatre” — Alexander Chramoff — pp. 15-20.
- “At the Fourth Congress” [Comintern] — Rose Pastor Stokes — pp. 21-23.
- “B.V.D.’s” [ACW] — Ann Washington Craton — pp. 24-26.
- “Save Sacco and Vanzetti!” — Karl Pretshold — pg. 26.
- “Charlie in the Steel-Mills” [review of Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Charles Rumford Walker] — Floyd Dell — pp. 27-28.
Issue 59: March 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “Are the Communists Ready?” — Max Bedacht — pp. 8-10.
- “Courage” [Kansas miners] — Mary Heaton Vorse — pp. 11-13.
- “An Imperial Year” [England] — R.W. Postgate — pp.14-15.
- “An Open Challenge” [Bridgman trial] — C.E. Ruthenberg — pg. 16.
- “The Outline of Marriage” [part 1] — Floyd Dell — pp. 17-22.
- “Martin Anderson Nexo” — Ella Reeve Bloor — pg. 24.
Issue 60: April 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “The Trial of William Z. Foster” [Bridgman] — Robert Minor — pp. 8-11.
- “The Socialist Theatre in Soviet Russia” — Alexander Chramoff — pp. 14-16.
- “The Bishop and the Senator” [William Montgomery Brown & Sen. R.F. Pettigrew] — J. Louis Engdahl — pg. 17.
- “The Outline of Marriage” [part 2] — Floyd Dell — pp. 20-24.
- “Kicking the Seats of Learning” [review of The Goose Step by Upton Sinclair] — Joseph Freeman — pp. 27-28.
Issue 61: May 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “The Kaiser’s Mr. Burns” — Robert Minor — pp. 8-14.
- “Michigan in the Muck” [Bridgman trial] — Eugene V. Debs — pg. 16.
- “Supersalesman for the Supernatural” [Arthur Conan Doyle] — Gertrude Marvin — pp. 17-18.
- “Answering Uncle Sam” — Scott Nearing — 19-21.
- “Follies of 1924” [contemporary politics] — Jay Lovestone — pp. 22-25.
- “The SP — Two Wings Without a Body” — John Pepper — pp. 23-24.
- “The Revolution Comes to Gravel Hill” [Bridgman trial] — Ralph Goll — pg. 25.
- “Pioneers” [William Z. Foster/TUEL] — Don Brown — pp. 27-28.
- “Makers of America” [foreign-born workers] — C.S. Ware — pp. 29-30.
Issue 62: June 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “Hugo Gellert — A Happy Rebel” — Don Brown — pg. 8.
- “Bon Voyage, Hillquit!” [Unity Convention of 2nd and 2-and-1/2 Internationals] — John Pepper — pp. 9-10.
- “Ruthenberg Convicted” [Bridgman trial] — Jay Lovestone — pp. 11-13.
- “The White Terror in Pittsburg” [WPA trial] —Don Brown — pp. 24-27.
- “The Same in Ohio” [police repression] — H.M. Wicks — pp. 20-21.
- “Howatt the Coaldigger” — J. Louis Engdahl — pg. 22.
- “The Lap of Luxury” — Scott Nearing — pp. 23-25.
- “The Outline of Marriage” [part 3] — Floyd Dell — pp. 26-28.
Issue 63: July 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “The Declaration of Independence of the American Working Class” — John Pepper — pp. 8-10.
- “Role of the Workers Party” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 14-15.
- “We Get Arrested a Little” — Upton Sinclair — pp. 16-22.
- “Moscow’s Answer” [Curzon Note] — Max Eastman — pp. 23-24.
- “Introducing John Farmer” — Hal Ware — pp. 25-27.
- “The Outline of Marriage” [part 4] — Floyd Dell — pp. 28-30.
Issue 64: August 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “The Silver Bugle” [political prisoners] — Robert Minor — pg. 3.
- “President Harding Makes a Swing Around the Circle” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 8-9.
- “The Workers Party and the Federated Farmer-Labor Party” — John Pepper — pp. 10-14.
- “Petrograd: May Day, 1923” [poem] — Claude McKay — pg. 15.
- “Intellectual Life in Russia” — Victor Serge — pp. 20-21.
- “Ten Acres of Hell” [Leavenworth] — Harrison George — pp. 22-23.
- “On Joining the World Court” — Scott Nearing — pp. 24-26.
- “The Outline of Marriage” [part 5] — Floyd Dell — pp. 29-31.
- “Out of the Shadows” [review of the Soviet film The Fifth Year] — Nancy Markoff — pg. 32.
September 1923: The Third American Revolution (PDF)
- “At Last! A Workers’ Daily Paper” [Daily Worker] — editorial — pg. 7.
- “Facing the Third American Revolution” — John Pepper — pp. 9-12.
- “Treasure Islands” [Philippines] — Jay Lovestone — pp. 10-20.
- “The Northwest Comes of Age” [Washington FLP] — Joel Shoemaker — pg. 20.
- “The Yellow Streak in Coal” — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 23-25.
- “The Outline of Marriage” [part 6] — Floyd Dell — pp. 27-28.
- “The Last of the Great Parlor Socialists” [H.G. Wells] — James Fuchs — pp. 29-31.
Issue 66: October 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “Shall We Assume Leadership?” — John Pepper — pp. 9-11, 28.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 1] — Floyd Dell — pp. 12-15.
- “Romance in Journalism” [Chicago Daily Socialist] — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 16-17.
- “A Small Prison Within a Large Prison” [Leavenworth] — Harrison George — pp. 22-23.
- “The Machine Shop of the Revolution” [TUEL] — Earl R. Browder — pp. 27-28.
- “As the Anarchists Begin to See It” [Soviet Russia] — I.M. Heizmann et al. — pp. 30-31.
Issue 67: November 1923 ** NO ISSUE ON HAND — please contact us if you have a copy! **
- “The AF of L Convention” — William Z. Foster — pp. 7-9.
- “The New Wave of World Revolution” — John Pepper — pp. 10-13.
- “Mr. Hughes Surprises Himself” [Mexico] — J. Ramirez — pp. 20-22.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 2] — Floyd Dell — pp. 23-25.
- “How Goes the Labor Party?” — Joseph Manley — pp. 26-28.
- “Our Brother Bartolomeo” [review of The Story of a Proletarian Life by Bartolomeo Vanzetti] — Robert Minor — pp. 29-30.
Issue 68: December 1923 ** NO ISSUE ON HAND — please contact us if you have a copy! **
- “The Noise that Congress Makes” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 6-9.
- “A Permanent Revolution” [Soviet Russia] — Max Eastman — pp. 10-11.
- “Pro-Proletarian Art in Mexico” — Frederic W. Leighton — pp. 12-15.
- “A Dividend Out of Russia” [RAIC] — Jessica Smith — pp. 16-17.
- “The United-Front-in-Spite-of-Yourself” — Upton Sinclair — pg. 24.
- “Elmer Graham” [IWW fiction] — Miriam Allen de Ford — pp. 25-26.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 3] — Floyd Dell — pp. 27-29.
1924
Issue 69: January 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “The Second Wave of International Revolution” — G. Zinoviev — pp. 9-11.
- “The Counter-Revolution in Mexico” — J. Ramirez — pp. 12-13.
- “Liberty in Russia” — William M. Kruse — pp. 14-15.
- “The Can-Opener” [Leavenworth] — Harrison George — pp. 16-17.
- “From Sing Sing to Dublin” — Jack Carney — pp. 20-22.
- “A Bolshevik Library” — Louis Fischer — pp. 23-25.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 4] — Floyd Dell — pp. 27-29.
Issue 70: February 1923 (not scanned yet)
- “Lenin” — editorial — pg. 5.
- “The Black Ten Millions” [part 1] — Robert Minor — pp. 7-9.
- “French Nationalism in 1923” — Charles Rappoport — pg. 10.
- “France is Next” — Scott Nearing — pg. 11.
- “The Stability of Russian Finance” — Scott Nearing — pg. 11.
- “The Revolutionary Party” [WPA] — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 12-13.
- “Inferno 1924: The Pennsylvania Iron Region” — Hugo Gellert — pp. 14-15.
- “The Politico-Military Horizon” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 16-20.
- “A New Page in Mexico’s History” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 21-23.
- “Is It Possible to Fix a Definite Time for a Counter-Revolution or a Revolution?” — Leon Trotsky — pp. 24-26.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 5] — Floyd Dell — pp. 29-31.
Issue 71: March 1924 (not scanned yet)
- “Teapot Dome” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 5-8.
- “Imperial Hari-Kiri” [England] — Scott Nearing — pg. 9.
- “‘Third Party’ or Farmer Labor Party?” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 10-11.
- “Simon Legree on the Night Shift” [Oklahoma KKK] — Harrison George — pp. 12-13.
- “The Black Ten Millions” [part 2] — Robert Minor — pp. 15-17.
- “The Present Situation in the Communist Party of Germany” — A. Thalheimer — pp. 20-21.
- “Theses on the October Defeat and the Present Situation” — A. Thalheimer and H. Brandler — pp. 21-22.
- “Outline of Theses on the Political Situation and on the Situation of the Party” [Germany] — pp. 22-23.
- “Theses on the Tactics of the October Retreat and on the Next Tasks of the CP of Germany” — pp. 24-26.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 6] — Floyd Dell — pp. 27-29.
- “Third Degree” [poem] — Michael Gold — pg. 29.
Issue 72: April 1924 (not scanned yet)
- “Government in the Gutter” [Harding] — Robert Minor — pp. 5-10.
- “The Life and Work of Lenin” [part 1] — Karl Radek — pp. 12-16.
- “The Labor Government” [England] — R.W. Postgate — pp. 17-20.
- “‘Take the Road to the Left’” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 21-23.
- “Reparations” — John Noble — pp. 24-25.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 7] — Floyd Dell — pp. 26-29.
Issue 73: May 1924 (not scanned yet) Note: misnumbered as No. 74 in print.
- “The Story of May Day” — Robert Minor — pp. 5-8.
- “The Storm is Coming” — Max Bedacht — pp. 9-11.
- “‘Dear’ Government” — Scott Nearing — pg. 12.
- “Karl Marx: The Revolutionist” — Max Shachtman — pp. 13-14.
- “What Are We Doing to Honduras?” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 15-16.
- “The Crusade Against the Foreign-Born” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 17-20.
- “The Life and Work of Lenin” [part 2] — Karl Radek — pp. 21-26.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 8] — Floyd Dell — pp. 27-28.
- “An Irrelevant Saint” [review essay on Gandhi] — C.E. Ruthenberg — pg. 30.
Issue 74: June 1924 (not scanned yet)
- “The Birth of the Working Class Soul” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 5-6.
- “The Dawes Plan” — Scott Nearing — pg. 7.
- “The Wisdom of Lenin” [part 1] — Max Eastman — pp. 8-12.
- “The Elections in Germany” — Max Bedacht — pp. 13-14.
- “The Lost Legion Found — by its Jailors” [Leavenworth] — “General Prisoner No. ___” — pp. 16-17.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 9] — Floyd Dell — pp. 25-28.
- “The Irish Lenin” [review of James Connolly: His Life Work and Writing by Desmond Ryan] — T.J. O’Flaherty — pg. 29.
Issue 75: July 1924 (not scanned yet)
- “How the Little Brown Brother Became the Little Yellow Devil” — Max Bedacht — pp. 5-7.
- “Sketches Made at the Republican Convention” — Robert Minor — pg. 8.
- “Prosperity Blows Up” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 9-12.
- “Leading the World Revolution” [Comintern] — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 13-15.
- “Workers and Farmers on the Mark” [FLP] — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 16-21.
- “The Wisdom of Lenin” [part 2] — Max Eastman — pp. 24-26.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 10] — Floyd Dell — pp. 27-29.
Issue 76: August 1924 (not scanned yet)
- “The Convention of the Conference for Progressive Political Action” — William Z. Foster — pp. 7-9.
- “Coming — The Bread Line” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 10-12.
- “The Economic Anatomy of Five Conventions” — Max Bedacht — pp. 13-15.
- “The Communist Campaign for Class Action” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pg. 16.
- “Let’s Make the Issue Clear-Cut” [FLP] — Duncan McDonald — pg. 17.
- “The Negro Finds His Place — and a Sword” — Robert Minor — pp. 20-25.
- “Will the IWW Fight Decadence?” — Harrison George — pp. 26-28.
- “Fascist Violence and Revolutionary Violence” — Charles Rappoport — pg. 29.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 11] — Floyd Dell — pp. 30-33.
Issue 77: September 1924 ** NO ISSUE ON HAND — please contact us if you have a copy! **
- “The Story of a Spark” [Daily Worker] — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 7-10.
- “What Don Quixote LaFollette is Fighting” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 11-13.
- “The Face of the Earth After the War” — Karl Radek — pp. 14-17.
- “The War of the Oil Giants” — Harris Wescott — pp. 18-23.
- “The Bishop and the Bolsheviks” [William Montgomery Brown] — P. Krasikoff — pp. 24-27.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 12] — Floyd Dell — pp. 28-30.
- “The Philosopher Faces the Facts” [Bertrand Russell] — Max Bedacht — pg. 32.
Issue 78: October 1924 (not scanned yet)
- “Announcing The Workers Monthly” — pg. 5.
- “Growth” [on The Liberator and The Workers Monthly] — Robert Minor — pp. 6-7.
- “The Dismantling of Democracy” — Max Bedacht — pp. 8-10.
- “The Death of the Socialist Party” — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 11-14.
- “The Cradle of the Giants” [YWL] — Max Shachtman — pp. 15-16.
- “The Handkerchief on Garvey’s Head” — Robert Minor — pp. 17-25.
- “Reorganization of the Workers Party” [with Comintern resolution] — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp, 26-27.
- “Literature and the Machine Age” [part 13] — Floyd Dell — pp. 28-29.
- “England, 1650 — Russia, 1924” — Max Bedacht — pg. 30.
The Workers Monthly
1924 – 1927
1924
Issue 1: November 1924 (v. 4 no. 1)
- “Let’s March With Them” [Soviet Russia] — Moissaye J. Olgin — pp. 3-8.
- “The Workers Party to the Fore” — William Z. Foster — pp. 9-11.
- “Paterson — Field of Battle” — Rebecca Grecht — pp. 12-16, 47.
- “Torchbearers” [Daily Worker ] — Moritz J. Loeb — pp. 19-20.
- “Progressive, But Not Labor” [LaFollette] — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 21-23, 31.
- “Exit Savinkov” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 24-28.
- “Shop Committees — a Revolutionary Weapon” — William F. Dunne — pp. 29-31.
- “In Which We Solve the Chinese Puzzle” — Harrison George — pp. 32-33.
- “The Bolshevization of the Party” — James P. Cannon — pp. 34-37.
- “Two Battles Against Reaction” — J.W. Johnstone — pp. 38-39.
- “In the Catacombs of Democracy” — Max Bedacht — pp. 39-41.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 1] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 41-44.
Issue 2: December 1924 (v. 4 no. 2)
- “The Significance of the Elections: Three Stages of Our Labor Party Policy” -— William Z. Foster — pp. 51-54.
- “A Visit With Sun Yat Sen” — Alfred Wagenknecht — pg. 55.
- “Latin America Prepares for Gompers” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 56-58.
- “Struggle for Unity in the World Labor Movement” — A. Losovsky — pp. 59-63.
- “Progress of the International Unity Movement” — A.A. Purcell and Mikhail Tomsky — pp. 63-64.
- “The Labor Party Conference: An Unreal Assembly” — Harry Pollitt — pp. 65-67.
- “Roots of the British Minority Movement” — Tom Mann — pp. 67-68.
- “The Wobblies Meet Again” — Harrison George — pp. 69-71.
- “The Rocky Mountain Miners” [part 1] — Jack Lee — pp. 74-76.
- “Is the Movement Towards Class Political Action Dead?” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 77-79.
- “The Big Stick Gets Bigger” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 79-81.
- “White Terror in Europe! Can America Be Far Behind?” — Rose Karsner — pg. 82.
- “The Trades Congress of Canada and Our Future Tasks” — Tim Buck — pp. 83-84.
- “In Retrospect: A Critical Review of our Past Labor Party Policy in the Light of the Present Situation” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 85-90.
1925
Issue 3: January 1925 (v. 4, no. 3)
- “Lenin: Leader and Comrade” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 99-101.
- “The American Federation of Labor Convention” — William Z. Foster — pp. 103-107.
- “At the ‘Red October’ Candy Factory” — Anna Louise Strong — pp. 108-110.
- “The Rocky Mountain Miners” [part 2] — Jack Lee — pp. 111-113.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 2] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 114-119, 122.
- “Notes on Shop Nuclei” — Martin Abern — pp. 123-124.
- “The Activities of American Agricultural Commune in Soviet Russia” — unsigned — pp. 125-126.
- “The AF of L and Trade Union Unity” — William F. Dunne and William Z. Foster — pp. 130-134.
- “Imperialism and National Movement in China” — G. Voitinsky — pp. 135-137.
Issue 4: February 1925 (v. 4, no. 4)
- “The Left Wing in Trade Union Elections” — William Z. Foster — pp. 147-150, 188-189.
- “The Sixth Trade Union Congress of the USSR” — Charles E. Johnson — pp. 151-155.
- “An Old Prison Speaks” — Robert Minor — pp. 155-158.
- “Teddy’s Correspondence: Confidential Letters of an Earlier LaFollette” — Thurber Lewis — pg. 159.
- “Latin-American Peasants Turn to Communism” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pg. 160.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 3] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 161-165; 184.
- “A Conference of Progressive Reactionaries” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 166-167.
- “A Pan-American Fig Leaf” — J.W. Johnstone — pp. 170-172.
- “The Fine Art of Grafting” — T.J. O’Flaherty — pg. 174-176.
- “Anthracite” — Joseph Manley — pp. 177-178.
- “From Anarchism to Communism” [Emma Goldman] — Jay Fox — pp. 179-181.
- “Employers Association in the United States” — Louis Zoobock — pp. 182-184.
Issue 5: March 1925 (v. 4, no. 5)
- “The British Conference on World Trade Union Unity” — William Z. Foster — pp. 195-197, 236.
- “Class and Klan in Herrin” — Thurber Lewis — pp. 198-200.
- “Kellogg in Paris — Johnson in the Senate” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 201-203.
- “Ten Years of the Amalgamated” — P. Yuditch — pg. 204-205.
- “Negroes in American Industry” — William F. Dunne — pg. 206-208, 237.
- “The Prison Story of the Wobblies” — Harrison George, drawings by Maurice Becker — pp. 209-213.
- “The Communists Take the Lead in Minnesota” — C.A. Hathaway — pp. 214-215, 236-237.
- “Industrial Depression or Prosperity?” — Earl R. Browder — pg. 218-220.
- “Lenin and the New Wave of Marxism” — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 221-225.
- “Canada and the British Empire” — Tim Buck — pg. 226-228.
- “The Carpenters Face Their Leaders” — J.W. Johnstone — pg. 228-229, 234.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party”[part 4] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 230-232.
Issue 6: April 1925 (v. 4, no. 6)
- “Rear Admirals and Russian Recognition” — Earl R. Browder — pg. 243-244, 284-286.
- “‘Let Your Superintendent Be Your Labor Leader’” — Robert Minor — pp. 245-247, 275-276.
- “The Evolution of Señor Calles” — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 249-252.
- “Amalgamation from Below” — William Z. Foster — pp. 253-254, 282-283.
- “Max Eastman on Leninism” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 255-256, 288.
- “Negroes in American Industry” — William F. Dunne — pp. 257-260.
- “What is Worker’s Education” — Max Bedacht — pp. 262-263.
- “Communist Policy and the Peasants: Speech Delivered at Moscow District Conference of the Russian Communist Party” — I. Stalin — pp. 266-267.
- “The Fight for World Trade Union Unity” — Tom Bell — pp. 268-270.
- “What the Miners’ Union Needs” — George Voysey — pp. 271-272.
- “North Dakota’s Communist Legislator” [A.C. Miller] — unsigned — pp. 272-273.
- “The Bishop and the Famine” — T.J. O’Flaherty — pp. 273-274, 283.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 5] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 276-279.
Issue 7: May 1925 (v. 4, no. 7)
- “Gudok” — William Z. Foster — pp. 291-293.
- “A Negro Labor Organizer” [Ben Fletcher] — Earl R. Browder — pg. 294.
- “Revolution in Trade Union Terms” — William F. Dunne — pg. 295-298, 330.
- “Communism on the Streets of America” — Earl R. Browder — pp. 299-301.
- “May Day in America” — Harrison George — pp. 302-304.
- “Coke Miners in Revolt” — Arne Swabeck — pp. 305-307.
- “The Fight for Unity in Minnesota” — C.A. Hathaway — pp. 308-309.
- “The Pan-American Anti-Imperialist League” — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 310-311.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 6] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 314-316.
- “The Death of Sun Yat Sen,” — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 317, 331.
- “Communism in the Shops” — Martin Abern — pg. 319.
- “The Lenin School in Chicago” — Thurber Lewis — pp. 320-321.
- “The Slaughter of Workers in Halle: A Prelude to the Presidential Elections” — Peter Maslovsky — pp. 323-324.
Issue 8: June 1925 (v. 4, no. 8)
- “Bolshevism and the World Situation: From his Concluding Speech at the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Comintern” — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 339-342, 380-382.
- “The Martyrdom of the Coal Miners” — J.W. Johnstone — pp. 344-348.
- “The Central Labor Union of Moscow” — Anise [Anna Louise Strong] — pp. 349-350.
- “Party Industrial Methods and Structure” — William Z. Foster — pp. 351-352, 379-380.
- “The Bulgarian Conflagration” — Max Shachtman — pp. 353-355.
- “Our Own Little League of Nations” — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pg. 356-357.
- “Introduction to Becker’s Lithographs” — Roger N. Baldwin — pp. 360-362.
- “A Dress Rehearsal for War” — T.J. O’Flaherty — pg. 363-365.
- “What is Collaboration of Classes?” — Earl R. Browder — pp. 366-368.
- “Since Eastman Lied: A Review of Since Lenin Died” [book by Max Eastman] — C.M. Roebuck — pp. 369-372.
- “History of the Russian Communist” [part 7] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 377-378, 382.
Issue 9: July 1925 (v. 4, no. 9)
- “China and the Imperialist Struggle,” — Max Shachtman — pp. 387-389.
- “Why Not Burn Some Witches?” [Scopes Trial] — unsigned — pg. 390.
- “The New America: The American Empire” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 391-394.
- “The Negroes as an Oppressed People” — William F. Dunne — pp. 395-398.
- “Bayonets in War and Peace” — William F. Kruse — pp. 399-400, 426.
- “Contradictions of Imperialist Capitalism” — N. Bukharin — pp. 401-402.
- “Left-Wing Advances in the Needle Trades” — Earl R. Browder — pp. 402-406.
- “Native Sins of the Golden West” — Miriam Allen de Ford — pp. 410-412.
- “Immigration Talks for the DAR” — unsigned — pg. 413.
- “Party Trade Union Fractions” — William Z. Foster — pp. 414-416.
- “The Longest Procession in History” — Ruth Kennell — pp. 417-418.
- “Labor and Empire” — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 420-424, 430.
- “American Jobless Army” — Karl Reeve — pp. 429-430.
Issue 10: August 1925 (v. 4, no. 10)
- “LaFollettism Without LaFollette” — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 435-437.
- “The Consolidation of the Revolutionary Government in South China” — Tang Shin See — pp. 438-439.
- “Bryan, Evolution and the Bourgeoisie” — unsigned — pg. 439.
- “The Ladies Garment Workers Awaken” — William Z. Foster — pp. 440-442.
- “Factory Committee Chairman Comrade Shishkin: A Picture Drawn from Life” — Moissaye J. Olgin — pp. 443-445.
- “The War in Morocco” — unsigned — pg. 446.
- “Twenty Years After” [IWW] — Harrison George — pp. 447-448, 476-477.
- “The Organic Composition of Capital” — Karl Marx — pp. 449-450.
- “About Scott Nearing” — S. Porter and Earl R. Browder [correspondence] — pg. 450.
- “A Communist Milestone: The Fourth Convention of the Workers Party of America” — Max Shachtman — pp. 451-452.
- “Lewis Performs for the Anthracite Miners” — Alex Reid — pg. 453.
- “The Makers and Masters of Steel” — Arne Swabeck — pp. 455-459.
- “A Solid Line of Proletarian Defense” — Thurber Lewis — pp. 460-461, 474.
- “Financial Dictatorship in Canada” — Maurice Spector — pp. 462-463.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 8] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 464-467.
- “Opportunism Within the Trade-Union Left Wing” — Earl R. Browder — pp. 468-469. American Mineral Concessions in the Soviet Union” — unsigned — pp. 471-472.
Issue 11: September 1925 (v. 4, no. 11)
- “On the Road to a Bolshevik Party in America” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 482-484.
- “The International Battle Front in the Coal Industry” — Alex Reid — pp. 486-488.
- “The War in Morocco, The French Compromisers and the Communist Party: Speech Delivered in Moscow” — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 488-491.
- “Expropriation of American Farmers” — O. Preedin — pp. 491-493, 525.
- “Company Unions” — William Z. Foster — pp. 497-503, 525-526.
- “The Hell of History” [Bulgaria] — Thurber Lewis — pp. 506-507.
- “Deposing a Faker: The Fight Against Jonston in the Machinist’s Union” — pp. 508, 526.
- “Social Forces in Late American Literature” — V.F. Calverton — pp. 509-512.
- “Organizing to Fight the Steel Trust” — Arne Swabeck — pp. 512-515.
- “Lenin and Trotsky” — N. Krupskaya — pg. 516.
- “History of the Communist Party” [part 9] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 517-519.
- “Church and State in Mexico” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 519-520.
Issue 12: October 1925 (v. 4, no. 12)
- “From the Third Through the Fourth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 531-538.
- “The Left Wing Railroad Conference” — William Z. Foster — pp. 538-539.
- “More Communist Strongholds” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 540-542.
- “The AF of L Convenes Again” — Max Bedacht — pp. 543-546.
- “The Social-Democratic Eye” — Robert Minor — pp. 547-550.
- “Provocateurs in the Labor Movement” — B.K. Gebert — pp. 551, 554-555.
- “The Big Swing to the Left” — William Paul — pp. 555-556.
- “Fifty Years on the Messaba Range” — C.A. Hathaway — pp. 557-559.
- “The Thirtieth Anniversary of the Death of Frederick Engels” — Herman Duncker — pp. 560-561.
- “The Red Horizon in England: The British Trade Union Congress at Scarborough” — Harry Pollitt — pp. 562-563.
- “The War Against the Riffs and the Socialist Party of France” — André Marty — pp. 564-565.
- “Our Constitution is Saved!” — Max Bedacht — pg. 566.
- “Marx on the Vital Points of His ‘Capital,’” — Karl Marx — pg. 567.
- “The Counter-Revolutionary Role of Zionism” — Karolsky — pg. 568.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 10] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 569-570, 574.
Issue 13: November 1924 (v. 5, no. 1)
- “Eight Years of Proletarian Dictatorship” — P. Green [Sergei Gusev] — pp. 3-4.
- “Capitalism Mobilizes Against the Social Revolution” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 5-9.
- “Sam Gompers is Not Dead” — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 10-14.
- “Why the Anthracite Strike?” — Benjamin Gitlow — pp. 15-18.
- “Class Divisions in the United States” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 18-20.
- “The Marx-Engels Institute” — Alexander Trachtenberg — pp. 21-25.
- “The Left Wing in the Needle Trades” — William Z. Foster — pp. 25-28.
- “USSR, 1921-1925” [part 1] — A.A. Heller — pp. 29-31.
- “Marx and Engels on the Role of the Communists in America” [part 1] — Heinz Neumann —pp. 32-36. [book review of Whither England by Leon Trotsky] — Jay Lovestone — pp. 37-41.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 11] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 41-44.
Issue 14: December 1925 (v. 5, no. 2)
- “1905 — The Rehearsal for 1917” — Alexander Trachtenberg — pp. 51-60.
- “Wall Street’s Congress Convenes” — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 60-64.
- “The AF of L and World Trade Union Unity” — William F. Dunne — pp. 64-67.
- “The First Negro Workers’ Congress” — Robert Minor — pp. 68-73.
- “Towards a World Bolshevik Party” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 73-80.
- “Marx and Engels on the Role of the Communists in America” [part 2] — Heinz Neumann —pp. 86-90.
- “Class War or Class Collaboration?” — Max Bedacht — pp. 91-93.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 12] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 93-95.
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Issue 15: January 1926 (v. 5, no. 3)
- “Why a Labor Party?” — John Pepper — pp. 99-102.
- “Do Workers Pay Taxes?” — Max Bedacht — pp. 103-107.
- “USSR, 1921-1925” [part 2] — A.A. Heller — pp. 107-109.
- “Revolution in China and in Europe” — Karl Marx — pp. 110-113.
- “Karl Liebknecht — Leader of the Youth” — Herbert Zam — pp. 113-116.
- “Economics of Class Collaboration” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 117-120.
- “Red Stars” [Soviet cinema] — William F. Kruse — pp. 120-121.
- “The Democratic Party” [part 1] — H.M. Wicks — pp. 123-129.
- “The Co-operative Movement in America” — George Halonen — pp. 129-130.
- “Company Unionism and Trade Unionism” — William Z. Foster — pp. 131-133.
- “Build for the Third Year” — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 134-137.
- “Worlds in the Making” [review of Literature and Revolution by Leon Trotsky] — Moissaye J. Olgin — pp 138-140.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 13] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 140-142.
Issue 16: February 1926 (v. 5, no. 4)
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- “A Letter to American Workingmen” — N. Lenin — pp. 147-150.
- “The Program of American Capitalism” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 151-153.
- “Lenin, the American Working Class and Its Party” — Bertram D. Wolfe and Jack Stachel — pp. 154-160.
- “Lenin and the February Revolution” — Robert Minor — pp. 160-166.
- “Lenin and the Youth” — Will Herberg — pp. 166-171.
- “The Left Wing at Two Conventions: I. The ILGWU Convention” — William F. Dunne — pp. 171-176.
- “The Left Wing at Two Conventions: II. The Furriers’ Convention” — William Weinstone — pp. 176-178.
- “The Great Negro Migration” — Jay Lovestone, drawings by Lydia Gibson — pp. 179-184.
- “The History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 14] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 184-187.
Issue 17: March 1926 (v. 5, no. 5)
- “Marx, Engels and Lenin on the Paris Commune” — Alexander Trachtenberg — pp. 195-202.
- “Imperialism and the American Working Class” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 203-205.
- “The ILD and Its Mission” — T.J. O’Flaherty — pp. 206-208.
- “Lenin — The Mountain Eagle” — I. Stalin — pp. 209-212.
- “The Raisins in the Filipino Cake” — Harry Gannes — pp. 213-214.
- “The Big Stick in Latin America — Its Size and Cost” — Sam Darcy — pp. 215-217.
- “The Agricultural Situation” — Alfred Knutson — pp. 218-223.
- “The Democratic Party” [part 2] — H.M. Wicks — pp. 223-227.
- “Economics of Class Collaboration” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 228-231.
- “The History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 15] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 232-234.
Issue 18: April 1926 (v. 5, no. 6)
- “New Phenomena in the International Labor Movement” [part 1] — John Pepper — pp. 243-248.
- “Forces and Currents in the Present Political Situation” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 249-255.
- “Lenin and the American Labor Movement” [part 1] — J. Fendel — pp. 256-258.
- “The Capitalist Offensive Against the Foreign-Born Workers” — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 259-263, 269.
- “The Youth Conference in East Ohio” — NEC of the Young Workers League — pp. 264-267.
- “Our Party’s Press and Literature” — V.I. Lenin — pp. 268-269.
- “Death or a Program!” [UNIA] — Robert Minor — pp. 270-273, 281.
- “What is Workers’ Education?” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 274-276.
- “Work of the Organization Conference of the Workers (Communist) Party” — Martin Abern — pp. 277-281.
Issue 19: May 1926 (v. 5, no. 7)
- “May Day!” [reprint of a leaflet issued in St. Petersburg on May 1, 1896] — League of Struggle for the Emancipation of Labor — pp. 291-292
- “The Fighting May Day” — Robert Minor — pp. 293-296, 332.
- “Locarno — Geneva — Moscow” — Moissaye J. Olgin — pp. 297-301.
- “New Phenomena in the International Labor Movement” [part 2] — John Pepper — pp. 302-305.
- “The Persistent ‘Mexican Question’” [part 1] — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 306-309.
- “The Challenge of the Company Union” — Robert W. Dunn — pp. 310-314.
- “Join the Army...” — Sam Darcy — pp. 315-318.
- “Lenin and the American Labor Movement” [part 2] — J. Fendel — pp. 319-322.
- “The Democratic Party” [part 3] — H.M. Wicks — pp. 323-328.
- “History of the Russian Communist Party” [part 16] — Gregory Zinoviev — pp. 329-332.
Issue 20: June 1926 (v. 5, no. 8)
- “The Session of Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist International” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 339-342, 373.
- “The Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Young Communist International” — Herbert Zam — pp. 343-346.
- “The Passaic Textile Workers Strike” — Ben Gitlow — pp. 347-351.
- “Trade Union Capitalism Undermines the Brotherhoods” — Jack Kennedy — pp. 352-355, 359.
- “What Price the British Empire?” — William F. Dunne — pp. 356-359.
- “After Garvey — What?” — Robert Minor — pp. 362-365.
- “The Soviet Union in 1926” — William Z. Foster — pp. 366-369.
- “It Still Moves...” [Socialist Party of America] — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 370-373.
- “Problems of Party Training” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 374-377.
- “The Trade Unions in the Theoretical System of Karl Marx” [part 1] — N. Auerbach — pp. 378-380.
Issue 21: July 1926 (v. 5, no. 9)
- “Whose Revolution is It?” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 387-392.
- “The British General Strike” — Robert Minor — pp. 393-396, 400.
- “Lessons of Moscow Uprising” [published August 29, 1906] — V.I. Lenin — pp. 397-400.
- “The Tasks of the Party in the Light of the Comintern” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 401-405.
- “The Furriers Strike — A Victory for the 40-Hour Week: The Left Wing from Opposition to Leadership” — Ben Gitlow — pp. 406-409.
- “China’s Period of Organization” — William F. Dunne — pp. 410-412.
- “Trade Union Insurance” — William Z. Foster — pp. 413-415, 430.
- “Agrarian Relations in America” [part 1] — N. Ossinsky — pp. 416-418.
- “1877 — The Bloody Year” — J. Sultan — pp. 419-423.
- “The Persistent ‘Mexican Question’” [part 2] — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 424-427.
- “The Trade Unions in the Theoretical System of Karl Marx” [part 2] — N. Auerbach — pp. 428-430.
Issue 22: August 1926 (v. 5, no. 10)
- “The Lessons of the British General Strike: Theses of the Executive Committee of the Communist International” — ECCI — pp. 435-444.
- “American Imperialism’s Black Mass” — William F. Dunne — pp. 445-446.
- “The Split in the English Liberal Party” — John Pepper — pp. 447-448.
- “The Railroad Employees’ Department Convention” — William Z. Foster — pp. 449-451, 474.
- “The Watson-Parker Act” — Jack Kennedy — pp. 452-455.
- “What’s Happening in Poland?” — B.K. Gebert — pp. 456-458.
- “The NAACP Takes a Step Backward” — William F. Dunne — pp. 459-461.
- “The Great People’s Referendum” [part 1] — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 462-465.
- “The Red Army — Fighter and Educator” — Jack Hebert — pp. 466-468.
- “The Youth of the Russian Trade Unions” — Gertrude Brown — pp. 469-471.
- “Agrarian Relations in America” [part 2] — N. Ossinsky — pp. 472-474.
Issue 23: September 1926 (v. 5, no. 11)
- “Seven Years of the Communist Party of America” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 483-485.
- “What Do the Elections Mean to Us?” — Max Bedacht — pp. 486-488.
- “The Catholic Rebellion in Mexico” — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 489-492.
- “A Dangerous Situation” [UMW] — William Z. Foster — pp. 493-495.
- “Two Tactics” [published Feb. 1, 1905] — V.I. Lenin — pp. 496-499
- “Youth and War: Early History of International Youth Day” — Sam Darcy — pg. 500.
- “The Rebellion of Canada” — Maurice Spector — pp. 501-504.
- “Employee Education in Economics” — Will Herberg — pp. 505-510.
- “Michael Alexandrovitch Bakunin” — Viatch Polonsky — pp. 511-513.
- “Homeless Artists” — Karl Radek — pp. 514-516.
- “The Great People’s Referendum” [part 2] — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 517-519.
Issue 24: October 1926 (v. 5, no. 12)
- “Uncle Shylock” [Dawes Plan] — Maurice Mendelsohn — pp. 531-535.
- “Is Russia Going Back to Capitalism?” — Max Bedacht — pp. 536-538.
- “The Crisis in Philippine Independence” — Manuel Gomez [Charles Phillips] — pp. 539-542.
- “Rubber and the Bacon Bill” — Ella G. Wolfe — pp. 542-543.
- “The Third Conference of the British Minority Movement” — Earl Browder and Hans Sturm — pp. 544-548.
- “The Rakosi Trial” — John Kiss — pp. 552-554.
- “The Prospects of Yugoslavia” — Charles Novak — pp. 559-562.
- “On the Principle of Authority” [1872 letter] — Frederich Engels — pp. 563-564.
- “On Political Indifference” [Jan. 1873 letter] — Karl Marx — pp. 565-567.
- “Felix Dzershinsky is Dead” — N. Bukharin — pp. 567-568.
- “Autobiographical Sketch of the Career of Comrade Dzershinsky”— Felix Dzerzhinsky — pp. 568-569.
Issue 25: November 1926 (v. 5, no. 13)
- “What is the Election About?” — C.E. Ruthenberg — pp. 579-581.
- “Nine Years of Revolution” — Max Bedacht — pp. 582-584.
- “American Don Quixotes and Their Windmills” [part 2] — Ellis Peterson — pp. 585-588.
- “The Rubber Industry — Infant Prodigy” — I. Amter — pp. 589-591.
- “Can They Ever Learn?” [IWW] — John M. Brown — pp. 592-593.
- “The Steel-Making Minerals and Imperialism” — Will Herberg — pp. 594-595, 600.
- “Twenty-Five Years of the International Trade Union Movement” — A. Lyss — pp. 596-600.
- “The Socialist Party and Its ‘Principles,’” — J. Mindel — pp. 601-604.
- “American Capitalism Prepares for Class War” — Alexander Bittelman — pp. 605-606.
- “The Present Condition of Agriculture in the Soviet Union” — Karl Reeve — pp. 607-609.
- “With Marx and Engels,” [part 2] — A. Landy (ed.) — pp. 610-611.
- “Bibliography: Recent Literature on Marx, Engels, and Marxism in English” — unsigned — pp. 612-613.
- “The Spirit of the First American Revolution” — Jay Lovestone — pp. 614-617.
Issue 26: December 1926 (v. 5, no. 14)
- “After Elections — What Now?” — Max Bedacht — pp. 627-630.
- “‘After Gompers — What?’ Answered,” — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 631-635.
- “Lessons From Passiac” — Albert Weisbord — pp. 636-640.
- “The Situation of the Rubber Workers” — I. Amter — pp. 640-643.
- “A Queen Serenades Wall Street” — Thurber Lewis — pp. 644-646.
- “The Coal Stoppage in England” — L. Zoobock — pp. 647-649.
- “The Bournemouth Trade Union Congress” — Earl R. Browder — pp. 650-653.
- “Ultra Left Menshevism” [part 1] — Heinz Neumann — pp. 654-657.
- “With Marx and Engels” [part 3] — A. Landy (ed.) — pp. 658-661.
- “The New German Imperialism” — Max Shachtman — pp. 662-666.
1927
Issue 27: January 1927 (v. 5, no. 15)
- “Towards Leninism” — Bertram D. Wolfe — pp. 675-680, 697.
- “Position and Opposition in the CPSU” — Max Bedacht — pp. 681-686.
- “The Problems of the Enlarged Executive of the Comintern” — John Pepper — pp. 686-687.
- “The Struggle in the Needle Trades” — William Z. Foster — 688-690.
- “‘Peasantry or Power’” — J. Louis Engdahl — pp. 691-694.
- “The Five Day Week” — Earl R. Browder — pp. 695-697.
- “The Youth and the Labor Movement” [part 1] — L. Plott — pp. 698-700.
- “The Soviet Economy on the Ninth Anniversary” — unsigned — pp. 701-702.
- “Ultra Left Menshevism” [part 2] — Heinz Neumann — pp. 702-707.
- “Civilization — An Historical Category” — Emanuel Kanter — pp. 707-709.
- “Editor’s Note,” [reply to Kanter] — [Max Bedacht] — pp. 709-710.
- “With Marx and Engels” [part 4] — A. Landy (ed.) — pp. 711-712.
Issue 28: February 1927 (v. 5, no. 16)
- “Announcement!” [notice that Workers Monthly changing name effective next issue] — pg. 722.
- “Mexico and Nicaragua” — Ella G. Wolfe — pp. 723-725.
- “American Labor at Cross Roads” — Max Bedacht — pp. 726-729.
- “American Imperialism and the Fight for the Pacific” — N. Manuilsky — pp. 730-733.
- “The Answell Bill Shall Not Pass” — Chicago Office of the Council for Protection of Foreign-Born — pp. 734-736.
- “The Youth and the Labor Movement” [part 2] — L. Plott — pp. 737-740.
- “Apprentice Training in the USSR” — C.A. Hathaway — pp. 740-742.
- “The Relation of the Workers Party to Religion” — N. Lenin — pp. 743-746.
- “Ultra Left Menshevism” [part 3] — Heinz Neumann — pp. 747-752.
- “Between the Past and the Future” [Soviet literature] — Victor Serge — pp. 753-755.
- “Trade Unionism as It Is — What and How to Study” — Solon DeLeon — pp. 756. 762.
- “To All of Our Readers” [on changing Workers Monthly to The Communist ]— unsigned [Max Bedacht] — pp. 763-764.