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revolutionsnewsstand.com A site looking at the varied, rich, history of the U.S. left through the original articles, books, essays, pamphlets, flyers, etc. of periodicals from our beginnings until entry into World War Two.

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‘Fayette County—Reign of Horror’ by Martin Abern from Young Worker. Vol. 2 No. 3. March, 1923. Abern visits the insurgent miners’ camps in Fayette County, Pennsylvania fighting both the bosses and the John L. Lewis-U.M.W. bureaucracy revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/07/f...

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‘Fayette County—Reign of Horror’ by Martin Abern from Young Worker. Vol. 2 No. 3. March, 1923.

A bird’s-eye view of the tent colony in Fayette County, Workers, their wives and children are here forced to live in chicken coops, flimsy tents and ramshackle huts because they did not want to bet…

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‘Factory Committee Chairman Comrade Shishkin A Picture Drawn from Life’ by Moissaye J. Olgin from Workers Monthly. Vol. 4 No. 10. August, 1925. Olgin gives us insights into the life in the Soviet Union’s first decade. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/07/f...

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‘Factory Committee Chairman Comrade Shishkin A Picture Drawn from Life’ by Moissaye J. Olgin from Workers Monthly. Vol. 4 No. 10. August, 1925.

In drawing a picture of ‘Comrade Shishkin,’ Olgin gives us insights into the life in the Soviet Union’s first decade. ‘Factory Committee Chairman Comrade Shishkin A Picture Drawn …

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'To What Extent is the Communist Manifesto Obsolete?' by Karl Kautsky from The Comrade. Vol. 3 No. 15. December, 1904. Kautsky’s famous 1904 essay as first printed in The Comrade. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/07/s...

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‘To What Extent is the Communist Manifesto Obsolete?’ by Karl Kautsky from The Comrade. Vol. 3 No. 15. December, 1904.

Kautsky’s famous 1904 essay as first printed in The Comrade. ‘To What Extent is the Communist Manifesto Obsolete?’ by Karl Kautsky from The Comrade. Vol. 3 No. 15. December, 1904.…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘Why is There Martial Law in Butte?’ by Harrison George from Solidarity. Vol. 5 No. 247. October 3, 1914. The conflict between the I.W.W. and Western Federation of Miners in Butte was a long and intractable one. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/07/w...

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‘Why is There Martial Law in Butte?’ by Harrison George from Solidarity. Vol. 5 No. 247. October 3, 1914.

Riots in 1914 The conflict between the I.W.W. and Western Federation of Miners in Butte was a long and intractable one. In the summer of 1914 it descended into violence. A very early article from f…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘British Women Textile Workers in the Struggle’ by Lilly Webb from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 10 No. 10. February 25, 1930. Lilly Webb on the conditions and struggle, under the Labour government, of women mill workers. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/06/b...

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‘British Women Textile Workers in the Struggle’ by Lilly Webb from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 10 No. 10. February 25, 1930.

Lilly Webb on the conditions and struggle, under the Labour government, of women mill workers. ‘British Women Textile Workers in the Struggle’ by Lilly Webb from International Press Correspondence.…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘Do We Need a New Political Party in the United States in the United States?’ by A.J. Muste from Labor Age. Vol. 20 No. 4. April, 1931. The Conference for Progressive Labor Action launches a discussion of creating a new political force. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/06/d...

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‘Do We Need a New Political Party in the United States in the United States?’ by A.J. Muste from Labor Age. Vol. 20 No. 4. April, 1931.

Muste still active decades later. Asking what kind of party workers need, Muste looks at the Democratic and Republican Parties, then the Socialist and Communist, as the Conference for Progressive L…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'Eugene Victor Debs' by Alexander Trachtenberg from The Communist. Vol. 7 No. 11. November, 1928. Substantial appreciation of the foremost Socialist in U.S. history on the second anniversary of his passing. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/06/e...

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‘Eugene Victor Debs’ by Alexander Trachtenberg from The Communist. Vol. 7 No. 11. November, 1928.

Alexander Trachtenberg, International Publishers editor, historian and veteran of the Socialist Party who knew and worked with Debs for twenty years, writes this fine, substantial appreciation of t…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘Militant Workingwomen in Convention’ by Bertha H. Mailly from St. Louis Labor. No. 546. July 22, 1911. Mailly reports on the Boston convention of the National Women’s Trade Union League held during that watershed year for women’s labor organizing, 1911. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/06/m...

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‘Militant Workingwomen in Convention’ by Bertha H. Mailly from St. Louis Labor. No. 546. July 22, 1911.

Triangle fire protest Mailly reports on the Boston convention of the National Women’s Trade Union League held during that watershed year for women’s labor organizing, 1911. ‘Militant Wo…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘World-Wide Significance of International Red Aid’ by Israel Amter from The Daily Worker Magazine. Vol. 2 No. 35. April 26, 1924. An international organization supporting class war prisoners and their dependents. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/05/w...

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‘World-Wide Significance of International Red Aid’ by Israel Amter from The Daily Worker Magazine. Vol. 2 No. 35. April 26, 1924.

Russian MOPR membership card An international organization supporting class war prisoners and their dependents. A year after its founding, Amter on the reasons for International Red Relief (sometim…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘Freedom In Mexico’ by Frank Seaman (Manuel Gomez) from The Liberator. Vol. 4 No. 9. September, 1921. Phillips, like a whole group of US radicals, found refuge from the draft, persecution, or an intolerable war-time atmosphere in revolutionary Mexico. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/10/05/f...

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‘Freedom In Mexico’ by Frank Seaman (Manuel Gomez) from The Liberator. Vol. 4 No. 9. September, 1921.

Phillips, perhaps the least known, among a group of Second World Congress delegates. Charles Phillips, during World War One a radical student of journalism at Columbia, like a whole group of U.S. r…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While I will not be visiting a Red Army sanitorium in Crimea, I will be taking some time to deal with health issues. Solidarity.

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘Flying Squadrons in Connecticut’ by Walter Snow from the New Masses. Vol. 12 No. 12. September 18, 1934. One of the largest strikes ever held in the United States, the defeat of which we are still living with. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/27/o...

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‘Flying Squadrons in Connecticut’ by Walter Snow from the New Masses. Vol. 12 No. 12. September 18, 1934.

Windham picket line, 1934. A snapshot of just one scene of action during 1934’s textile workers uprising. One of the largest strikes ever held in the United States, the defeat of which we are…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘After the Second Congress’ by A. Losovsky from Labor Herald. Vol. 1 No. 12. February, 1923. Debates between Communists and Syndicalists continued to dominate the Profintern’s Second World Congress. Lozovsky reports. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/27/a...

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‘After the Second Congress’ by A. Losovsky from Labor Herald. Vol. 1 No. 12. February, 1923.

Debates between Communists and Syndicalists continued to dominate the Profintern’s Second World Congress. Lozovsky reports. ‘After the Second Congress’ by A. Losovsky from Labor Herald. Vol. …

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

‘What Happened in Chile’ by Albert Moreau from The Daily Worker Vol. 8 No. 221. September 14, 1931. A wide-spread mutiny by rank-and-file, left-leaning sailors succeeded in capturing much of the country’s fleet. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/26/w...

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‘What Happened in Chile’ by Albert Moreau from The Daily Worker Vol. 8 No. 221. September 14, 1931.

In the instability that followed the overthrow of Chile’s comprador dictator Carlos Ibáñez on July 26, 1931, a wide-spread mutiny by rank-and-file, left-leaning sailors succeeded in capturing…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

‘General Strike of Lumber Workers in Full Swing’ from Solidarity (Chicago). Vol. 8 No. 390. June 30, 1917. By the end of the year most loggers in the region had won the 8-hour, 5-dollar day. A real accomplishment. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/26/g...

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‘General Strike of Lumber Workers in Full Swing’ from Solidarity (Chicago). Vol. 8 No. 390. June 30, 1917.

Meeting at the Arlington I.W.W. Hall during the strike. In June, 1917, a strike by I.W.W. Local 500, Lumber Worker Industrial Union, won an eight-hour, 5-dollar day on the St. Maries River in Monta…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'The Workers (Communist) Party in the South' by William Z. Foster from The Communist. Vol. 7 No. 11. November, 1928. There as been no greater task for the labor movement than to organize the South; a project that requires the organized Left. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/26/t...

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‘The Workers (Communist) Party in the South’ by William Z. Foster from The Communist. Vol. 7 No. 11. November, 1928.

There as been no greater task for the labor movement than to organize the South; a project that requires the commitment, perseverance, and class-wide orientation that only the organized Left can pr…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Dossier on International Red Relief (MOPR): The International Organization for Assistance to Fighters for Revolution' by Ehrenfried Wagner from International Press Correspondence. January-May, 1924. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/26/d...

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‘Dossier on International Red Relief (MOPR): The International Organization for Assistance to Fighters for Revolution’ by Ehrenfried Wagner from International Press Correspondence. January-May, 1924.

International Organization for Aid to Fighters of the Revolution (MOPR): Don’t forget us! A major organ in the defense of our class, a project which needs reborn. A dossier on the first year&…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

‘Beer Brewing and the Brewery Workers of the United States’ by Hermann Schlüter from International Socialist Review. Vol. 10 No. 2. August, 1910. A selection from Schlüter’s definitive work on the U.S.’s beer brewing industry. A classic of its genre. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/25/a...

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‘Beer Brewing and the Brewery Workers of the United States’ by Hermann Schlüter from International Socialist Review. Vol. 10 No. 2. August, 1910.

A selection of from Schlüter’s larger, definitive early work on the technology, political economy, social world, temperance conflicts, and labor organizations of the U.S.’s German-domin…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Hillquit and Haywood Clash in Debate on Party Tactics’ from The New York Call. Vol. 5 No. 12. January 12, 1912. The reformist lawyer debates the revolutionary miner at Cooper Union. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/25/h...

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‘Hillquit and Haywood Clash in Debate on Party Tactics’ from The New York Call. Vol. 5 No. 12. January 12, 1912.

The reformist lawyer debates the revolutionary miner at Cooper Union, hostile territory for the Left with the Hillquit-supporting New York Call making no attempt to hide the encouragement for their…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Socialist Movement in Ohio’ by W.G. Critchlow from Appeal to Reason. No. 398. July 18, 1903. The dramatic growth of the Ohio Socialist Party from an outlier to a genuine political force. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/25/s...

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‘Socialist Movement in Ohio’ by W.G. Critchlow from Appeal to Reason. No. 398. July 18, 1903.

The dramatic growth of the Ohio Socialist Party from an outlier to a genuine political force. The Secretary of Ohio’s Socialist Party reports on its quite modest beginnings in 1902 when the P…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Is the Movement Towards Class Political Action Dead?’ by Charles E. Ruthenberg from Workers Monthly. Vol. 4 No. 2. December, 1924. After the 1924 debacle Ruthenberg asks what’s next for the possibility of a Labor Party. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/25/i...

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‘Is the Movement Towards Class Political Action Dead?’ by Charles E. Ruthenberg from Workers Monthly. Vol. 4 No. 2. December, 1924.

Despite some early promise, the failures in creating a new Labor/Farmer-Labor Party to contest 1924’s election, led the Workers (Communist) Party to decide to run independently in its first e…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Perspectives of the Dance’ by Harry Elion from New Theatre. Vol. 1 No. 8. September, 1934. Finding inspiration for a new, modern revolutionary dance in that of Ancient Greece. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/25/p...

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‘Perspectives of the Dance’ by Harry Elion from New Theatre. Vol. 1 No. 8. September, 1934.

Dancing maenad with krotala. Athens, c. 500 BCE. A fascinating piece from Harry Elion looking to the popular, topical, and purposeful public dance of Ancient Greece for inspiration in the creation …

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘A Communist View of Political Action’ by Alexander Bittelman from The Daily Worker Magazine. Vol. 2 no. 140. August 30, 1924. A late decision to run an open C.P. ticket in an election just weeks away was not without considerable internal dissent. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/24/a...

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‘A Communist View of Political Action’ by Alexander Bittelman from The Daily Worker Magazine. Vol. 2 no. 140. August 30, 1924.

1928 campaign button After 1924’s Farmer-Labor/LaFollette attempting to create a working class party for that year’s election fractured and collapse in a genuine debacle, a late decisio…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Experiences In Keeping New Members’ from party Organizer (Internal Bulletin C.P.U.S.A.). Vol. 3 No. 4. June-July, 1930. In 1930, after two years of factional convulsions, the Communist Party’s membership had dropped by a third and counted just 6,800. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/24/e...

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‘Experiences In Keeping New Members’ from party Organizer (Internal Bulletin C.P.U.S.A.). Vol. 3 No. 4. June-July, 1930.

In 1930, after two years of factional expulsions and convulsions, the Communist Party’s dues-paying membership had dropped by a third and counted just 6,800, the lowest number in its first th…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Class Forces in Mexico’ by Janet Cork (Ella G. Wolfe) from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 6 No. 60. September 6, 1928. The scenario that established the PRI, which would hold power in Mexico without interruption for the next seventy years. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/24/c...

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‘Class Forces in Mexico’ by Janet Cork (Ella G. Wolfe) from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 6 No. 60. September 6, 1928.

A later May Day celebration at CROM offices. Russian-born Ella Goldberg and her husband Bertram Wolfe were central figures in the formative period of Mexican Communism before their expulsion from t…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Wanted: The Necessities of Life’ by William Thurston Brown from International Socialist Review. Vol. 12 No. 4. August, 1911. This crystal clear call for the self-emancipate of our class and to expropriate our expropriators. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/24/9...

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‘Wanted: The Necessities of Life’ by William Thurston Brown from International Socialist Review. Vol. 12 No. 4. August, 1911.

This crystal clear call for the self-emancipate of our class and to expropriate our expropriators, was surely informed and under-girded by Brown’s preacher’s indignation and solemn reli…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Capitalist Class Justice Triumphs: Sacco and Vanzetti Murdered!’ by Willi Münzenberg from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 7 No. 50. August 25, 1927. Comrade Münzenberg says that the ruling class challenge of their murders must be answered. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/23/c...

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‘Capitalist Class Justice Triumphs: Sacco and Vanzetti Murdered!’ by Willi Münzenberg from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 7 No. 50. August 25, 1927.

It is likely that no other campaign to save death-row political prisoners was as sustained and international as the truly global, near-decade long fight to spare the lives of the obviously innocent…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'The Case Against Sanctions and “Neutrality Legislation”' by Hal Draper Socialist Appeal (Chicago). Vol. 2 No. 3. January-February, 1936. Ignited by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia this debate would become central during the Spanish Civil War revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/23/t...

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‘The Case Against Sanctions and “Neutrality Legislation”’ by Hal Draper Socialist Appeal (Chicago). Vol. 2 No. 3. January-February, 1936.

A 21-year-old Hal Draper writes from Albert Goldman’s ‘Socialist Appeal’ on the consistent question of the workers movement’s attitude towards the foreign policies of the st…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘The Literary Method of John Reed’ by Sergei Dinamov from Literature of International Revolution. No. 4. 1931. A must-read essay on what made Reed such an exemplary writer, one whose best journalism remains a Gold Standard of radical reportage. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/23/t...

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‘The Literary Method of John Reed’ by Sergei Dinamov from Literature of International Revolution. No. 4. 1931.

A must-read essay on what made Reed such an exemplary writer, one whose best journalism remains a Gold Standard of radical reportage. Sergei Dinamov, from a working-class family and former textile …

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘Report on the Work of the P.P.T.U.S. Since the First Conference’ by Earl Browder from Pan-Pacific Monthly. No. 32. November, 1929. Browder gives an informatively valuable, businesslike overview of the Profintern’s PPTUS work. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/23/o...

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‘Report on the Work of the P.P.T.U.S. Since the First Conference’ by Earl Browder from Pan-Pacific Monthly. No. 32. November, 1929.

Browder standing behind Lozovsky in tie. Browder, speaking as the Secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, gives an informatively valuable, businesslike overview of the Profintern&#821…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Tendencies in the Soviet Film' by Harry Alan Potamkin from The New Masses. Vol. 7 No. 12. June, 1932. Potamkin was among the earliest U.S. aficionados on emerging Soviet film who both help to popularize and analyze the art form. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/22/h...

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‘Tendencies in the Soviet Film’ by Harry Alan Potamkin from The New Masses. Vol. 7 No. 12. June, 1932.

‘Enthusiasm: The Symphony of Donbas’ by Dziga Vertov, 1930. Potamkin was among the earliest U.S. aficionados on emerging Soviet film who both help to popularize and analyze the art form…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘Reorganization of the Workers Party’ by C.E. Ruthenberg from The Liberator. Vol. 7 No. 10. October, 1924. U.S. Communist Party Secretary Ruthenberg introduces the 5th Party Congress resolution on ‘A Party of Factory Nuclei’ revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/22/r...

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‘Reorganization of the Workers Party’ by C.E. Ruthenberg from The Liberator. Vol. 7 No. 10. October, 1924.

The reorganization of many newly formed Communist Parties, moving away from the electoralist and politically contradictory organizational model of the Socialist Parties they had emerged from, began…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘Public Education in Soviet Russia’ by Anatoly Lunacharsky from The Communist. Vol. 1 Nos. 2, 4 & 6. June, August, October, 1919. An essential piece from the Commissar of Education on the early drive to reimagine and to remake Soviet education. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/22/9...

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‘Public Education in Soviet Russia’ by Anatoly Lunacharsky from The Communist. Vol. 1 Nos. 2, 4 & 6. June, August, October, 1919.

An essential piece from the Commissar of Education on the early drive to reimagine and to remake Soviet education. A substantial paper spread over three issue of C.I., Lunacharsky provides a first …

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

'Decree to the Army of Art' (1918) by Vladimir Mayakovsky from The New Masses. Vol. 7 No. 9. February, 1932. Mayakovsky inspires in the call to art. A personal favorite work of the great poet. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2023/01/13/b...

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‘Decree to the Army of Art’ (1918) by Vladimir Mayakovsky from The New Masses. Vol. 7 No. 9. February, 1932.

Mayakosky with fans Mayakovsky inspires in the call to art. A personal favorite work of the great poet. ‘Decree to the Army of Art’ (1918) by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated by Joseph F…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘Kalamazoo Corset Makers Still on Strike’ from The New York Call. Vol. 5 No. 56, June 4, 1912. Kalamazoo women workers strike against predator bosses in 1912. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/21/k...

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‘Kalamazoo Corset Makers Still on Strike’ from The New York Call. Vol. 5 No. 56, June 4, 1912.

A males boss stands in hovering watch over the Kalamazoo Corset Co. women workers in 1912. Kalamazoo women workers strike against predator bosses in 1912. Though not overly explicit due to a hypocr…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

'Lovestone’s Labor Party Book' by William Z. Foster' from the Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 246. January 7, 1925. Would the U.S. working class have to pass though first a Social-Democratic, or even a lessor Labor Party ‘stage’ before a Communist perspective? revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/21/l...

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‘Lovestone’s Labor Party Book’ by William Z. Foster’ from the Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 246. January 7, 1925.

Would the U.S. working class have to pass though first a Social-Democratic, or even a lessor Labor Party ‘stage’ before being able to absorb to the Communist perspective and therefore, …

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘The Economic Boom and the International Labor Movement’ by Leon Trotsky from International Press Correspondence, Vol. 2 No. 4. January 13, 1922. Those relationship are never straightforward, many times contradictory, and often counter-intuitive. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/21/t...

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‘The Economic Boom and the International Labor Movement’ by Leon Trotsky from International Press Correspondence, Vol. 2 No. 4. January 13, 1922.

Line for a soup kitchen in Manhattan The relationship between conditions of the economy–growth or retraction, stagnation or boom–have, naturally, an effect on the consciousness of worke…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘It is an Endless Campaign’ by Eugene V. Debs from Social Democratic Herald. Vol. 6 No. 27. October 31, 1903. Debs says our work only is constant ’til the Socialist Republic. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/21/i...

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‘It is an Endless Campaign’ by Eugene V. Debs from Social Democratic Herald. Vol. 6 No. 27. October 31, 1903.

Debs says our work only is constant ’til the Socialist Republic. ‘It is an Endless Campaign’ by Eugene V. Debs from Social Democratic Herald. Vol. 6 No. 27. October 31, 1903. The old parties …

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

‘The Political Significance of the New Administrative Division of Yugoslavia’ by P. Dragashevatz from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 9 No. 61. October 25, 1929. The maps of Yugoslavia redrawn... revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/20/t...

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‘The Political Significance of the New Administrative Division of Yugoslavia’ by P. Dragashevatz from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 9 No. 61. October 25, 1929.

The maps of Yugoslavia redrawn, with traditional ethnic and national regions reshuffled to ensure the domination of the Serb ruling class, with no good coming to anyone else. On October 3, 1929 the…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Unpublished Review of Marx's Capital for Fortnightly Review' (1868) by Frederick Engels from On Capital. Marxist Library Vol. 34. International Publishers. New York, 1937. The Marx-Engels Institute preserved this, finding among Engels’ papers. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/20/u...

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‘Unpublished Review of Marx’s Capital for Fortnightly Review’ (1868) by Frederick Engels from On Capital. Marxist Library Vol. 34. International Publishers. New York, 1937.

Written in English for a British liberal magazine, Fortnightly Review, in 1868 as a review, it was rejected for publication, and the promised second article therefore never written. And we are poor…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

‘The Position of the Chinese Working Woman’ by A. Rasumova from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 10 No. 10. February 25, 1930. The increased exploitation, and continued strike action, of Chinese women following the defeat of 1927’s Revolution. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/20/t...

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‘The Position of the Chinese Working Woman’ by A. Rasumova from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 10 No. 10. February 25, 1930.

Women workers participating in a 1927 demo. The increased exploitation, and continued strike action, of Chinese women workers in the years following the defeat of 1927’s Revolution. ‘The Posi…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

‘In the Land of Gloom’ by Moissaye J. Olgin from The Daily Worker Magazine. Vol. 2 No. 58. May 24, 1924. Olgin visited Germany in the aftermath of the October Revolt, where crisis weighed upon crisis. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/20/i...

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‘In the Land of Gloom’ by Moissaye J. Olgin from The Daily Worker Magazine. Vol. 2 No. 58. May 24, 1924.

On his way to an extended visit to the Soviet Union, and the Fifth World Congress, Olgin visited Germany in the aftermath of the October Revolt, where crisis weighed upon crisis. ‘In the Land of Gl…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

‘Is the Sit-Down Legal?’ by Maurice Sugar from New Masses. Vol. 23 No. 6. May 4, 1937. Detroit’s legendary radical labor lawyer, counsel for the U.A.W., Maurice Sugar’s status as a champion of workers was made with arguments like this. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/19/i...

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‘Is the Sit-Down Legal?’ by Maurice Sugar from New Masses. Vol. 23 No. 6. May 4, 1937.

The Flint sit-down strike begins on the evening of Dec. 30, 1936. Detroit’s legendary radical labor lawyer, counsel for the U.A.W., Maurice Sugar’s status as a champion of workers was m…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Memories of James McInerney' from Industrial Worker. Vol. 12 No. 34. August 23, 1930. Born in the village of Scarriff, in Ireland’s County Clare, wobbly logger James McInerney died in Walla Walla prison from meningitis and neglect on August 13, 1930. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/19/m...

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‘Memories of James McInerney’ from Industrial Worker. Vol. 12 No. 34. August 23, 1930.

Born in the village of Scarriff, in Ireland’s County Clare, wobbly logger James McInerney died in Walla Walla prison from meningitis and neglect on August 13, 1930. Jailed for ‘murder’ in the Centr…

Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‘Who Shall Organize— and How?’ by A.J. Muste from Labor Age. Vol. 19 No. 9. September, 1930. The fundamental question for the labor movement is always organizing the unorganized. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/19/w...

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‘Who Shall Organize— and How?’ by A.J. Muste from Labor Age. Vol. 19 No. 9. September, 1930.

The fundamental question for the labor movement is always organizing the unorganized. A.J. Muste and the Conference for Progressive Labor Action spent much time thinking and acting on the problem. …

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‘General Railway Strike of Great Britain’ by George Hardy from One Big Union. Vol. 1 No. 10. December, 1919. Much of the world, the U.S. included, had a wave of strikes and unrest in the aftermath of the First World War. Britain was no exception. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/19/g...

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‘General Railway Strike of Great Britain’ by George Hardy from One Big Union. Vol. 1 No. 10. December, 1919.

STRIKE COMMITTEE, HULL DISTRICT OF NATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYMEN—IN CONTINUOUS SESSION FOR NINE DAYS Much of the world, the U.S. included, had a wave of strikes and unrest in the aftermath of the Fi…

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‘The Chinese Relief Work of the Workers International Relief and the Shame of the Amsterdamers’ by G. (Berlin) from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 5 No. 74. October 15, 1925. The next big WIR campaign was to support Chinese unions on strike. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/18/9...

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‘The Chinese Relief Work of the Workers International Relief and the Shame of the Amsterdamers’ by G. (Berlin) from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 5 No. 74. October 15, 1925.

Following the Irish famine relief, the next large-scale international campaign of the now-named Workers International Relief (these names can be confusing–it was International Workers Relief,…

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‘On the Death Masks of Sacco and Vanzetti’ by Michael Gold from The Daily Worker. Vol. 4. No. 196. August 31, 1927. After their execution, the death masks of Sacco and Vanzetti were displayed in the East Side’s Stuyvesant Casino, Michael Gold was there. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/18/o...

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‘On the Death Masks of Sacco and Vanzetti’ by Michael Gold from The Daily Worker. Vol. 4. No. 196. August 31, 1927.

Immediately after the August 22, 1927 execution, the death masks of Sacco and Vanzetti were toured, with a wave of indignation, arriving shortly after in New York City where they were displayed in …

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‘For Unrestricted Immigration’ by Dr. Antoinette M. Konikow from The Worker (New York). Vol. 17 No. 43. January 25, 1908. Konikow intervenes sharply in the debate over immigration that occurred around the 1907 Stuttgart Congress. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/18/i...

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‘For Unrestricted Immigration’ by Dr. Antoinette M. Konikow from The Worker (New York). Vol. 17 No. 43. January 25, 1908.

Always on the internationalist far-left of the Socialist Party, Antoinette M. Konikow intervenes sharply in the debate over immigration that occurred around the 1907 Stuttgart Congress of the Inter…

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‘Immigration: Once S.P., Always S.P.’ by Daniel De Leon from The People. Vol. 10 No. 50. March 12, 1910. De Leon, himself an immigrant, with an editorial on the 1910 Socialist Party debate on immigration revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/09/18/i...

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‘Immigration: Once S.P., Always S.P.’ by Daniel De Leon from The People. Vol. 10 No. 50. March 12, 1910.

De Leon, himself an immigrant, with an editorial on the 1910 Socialist Party debate on immigration in which a racist exclusionary resolution championed by Ernest Untermann and Victor Berger went do…