Much of interest in this issue with standout articles from Austin Lewis, ‘Oligarchy and Imperialism,’ Jacob Milch’s ‘New Movements Amongst the Jewish Proletariat,’ and Meily on the working class and religion.

International Socialist Review. Vol. 7 No. 8. February, 1907.

Contents: First Impressions of Socialism Abroad by Robert Hunter, Why the Workingman is Without a Church by Clarence Meily, The National Strike by Francis Marshall Elliott, To Ernest Howard Crosby Poem by Edward Perkins Clarke, Oligarchy and Imperialism by Austin Lewis, New Movements Amongst the Jewish Proletariat by Jacob Milch, The General Laws of Evolution as seen in Social Evolution by John T. Gulick, A Propaganda Plan by Sidney M. Ullinan, DEPARTMENTS: Editorial: The Evolution of Socialists, The World of Labor, Socialism Abroad, Book Reviews, Publishers’ Department.

The International Socialist Review (ISR) was published monthly in Chicago from 1900 until 1918 by Charles H. Kerr and critically loyal to the Socialist Party of America. It is one of the essential publications in U.S. left history. During the editorship of A.M. Simons it was largely theoretical and moderate. In 1908, Charles H. Kerr took over as editor with strong influence from Mary E Marcy. The magazine became the foremost proponent of the SP’s left wing growing to tens of thousands of subscribers. It remained revolutionary in outlook and anti-militarist during World War One. It liberally used photographs and images, with news, theory, arts and organizing in its pages. It articles, reports and essays are an invaluable record of the U.S. class struggle and the development of Marxism in the decades before the Soviet experience. It was closed down in government repression in 1918.

PDF of full issue:https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v07n08-feb-1907-ISR-gog-Harv.pdf