The Liberator. Vol. 4 No. 7. July, 1921.

The Liberator. Vol. 4 No. 7. July, 1921.

Contents: Editorials, Personal Testimony [IWW] by John L. Murphy, Poems, Second Class Smatter, Marriage and Freedom by Floyd Dell, Guns, Bombs and Benzine by Normat Matson, In Memory [poem] by Louise Bryant, Tulsa Oklahoma by Harry Salpeter, The Siege is Lifted by Arturo Giovannitti, More News from Nowhere by Michael Gold.

The Liberator was published monthly from 1918, first established by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman continuing The Masses, was shut down by the US Government during World War One. Like The Masses, The Liberator contained some of the best radical journalism of its, or any, day. It combined political coverage with the arts, culture, and a commitment to revolutionary politics. Increasingly, The Liberator oriented to the Communist movement and by late 1922 was a de facto publication of the Party. Max Eastman would sell the paper to the Party and In 1924, The Liberator merged with Labor Herald and Soviet Russia Pictorial into Workers Monthly. An essential magazine of the US left.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1921/07/v04n07-w40-jul-1921-liberator-hr.pdf

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