The New York Communist. Vol. 1 No. 1. April 19, 1919. Inaugural Issue.

Contents: Greetings, Why the New York Communist?, Socialist Tactics, Conference of the Left Wing, Shall Debs Go Out or Shall We Go In?, The Party Situation in New York, The Left Wing and The Call, A Window on the World, The Telescope, Problems of the Representative of Soviet Russia in America by Nicholas Hourwich, We’re Gonna be Expelled! Help!!.

The New York Communist began in April, 1919 as John Reed’s pioneering Communist paper published weekly by the city’s Left Wing Sections of the Socialist Party as different tendencies fought for position in the attempt to create a new, unified Communist Party. Edited by John Reed, with Eadmomn MacAlpine, Bertram Wolfe, Maximilian Cohen, until Reed resigned and left for Russia when Ben Gitlow took over. In June, 1921 it merged with Louis Fraina’s The Revolutionary Age after the expulsion of the Left Wing from the Socialist Party to form The Communist (one of many papers of the time with that name).

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/thecommunist/thecommunist1/v1n01-apr-19-1919-NY-communist.pdf