Workers Banner (Communist Workers Group). Vol. 2 No. 5. September, 1940.

Workers Banner (Communist Workers Group). Vol. 2 No. 5. September, 1940.

Contents: Down with the Draft, Two-Ring Circus, Win Speech Fight, Nations Face to Face, Showdown in France, USSR Spoils the Party, The “National Defense” Racket, It’s Not News, The Hull Ball of Wax, World of Labor, Steel Rolls for War.

Workers Banner was the organ of the Communist Workers Group, a small Chicago-based split from Hugo Oehler’s Revolutionary Workers League over the nature of the Soviet Union and other issues. Led by J. Hadley, unity discussions with other ex-RWL groups went nowhere, with the ‘Workers Banner’ lasting only until October, 1941 and CWG disbanding in the early 1940s.

PDF of full issue: https://archive.org/download/workers_banner_1940-09/workers_banner_1940-09_text.pdf

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