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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.
‘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
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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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October 8, 2026 at 2:07 AM
‘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.
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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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October 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
'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.
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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.…
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October 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
‘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.
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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…
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October 7, 2026 at 4:53 AM
‘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.
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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.…
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October 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
‘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.
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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…
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October 7, 2026 at 2:01 AM
'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.
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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…
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October 6, 2026 at 11:48 PM
‘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.
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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…
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October 6, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘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.
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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…
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October 6, 2026 at 3:53 AM
‘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.
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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…
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October 6, 2026 at 12:43 AM
While I will not be visiting a Red Army sanitorium in Crimea, I will be taking some time to deal with health issues. Solidarity.
September 30, 2026 at 5:13 PM
‘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.
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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…
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September 27, 2026 at 9:50 PM
‘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.
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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. …
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September 27, 2026 at 7:37 PM
‘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.
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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…
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September 26, 2026 at 10:43 PM
‘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.

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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…
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September 26, 2026 at 9:29 PM
'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.
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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…
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September 26, 2026 at 3:48 PM
'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.

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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&…
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September 26, 2026 at 6:17 AM
‘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.
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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…
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September 26, 2026 at 1:00 AM
‘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.
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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…
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September 25, 2026 at 10:54 PM
‘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.
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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…
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September 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
‘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.
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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…
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September 25, 2026 at 8:01 AM
‘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.
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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 …
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September 25, 2026 at 5:38 AM
‘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.
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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…
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September 25, 2026 at 3:27 AM
‘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.
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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…
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September 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
‘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.
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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…
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September 24, 2026 at 9:50 PM