A fine late issue with Scott Nearing on the cost of over consumption and ‘luxury,’, J. Louis Engdahl’s sketch of Illinois miners’ leader Alexander Howatt, Don Brown with articles on repression of Communists in Pittsburgh and a look at the person of artist Hugo Gellert, Jay Lovestone on Ruthenberg’s Bridgman conviction, and the usual fine art and literature you expect from The Liberator.

The Liberator. Vol. 6 No. 6. June, 1923.

Contents: Concerning Ourselves by the Liberator Staff, Editorials: Assassination, Extra-Legal Patriotism, It Sharpens, The More or Less Socialist Convention, The Coming Labor Party, Harding’s Coup D-Etat, Is the Supreme Court Hedging?, Fallow by Lydia Gibson, Hugo Gellert: A Happy Rebel by Don Brown, Bon Voyage, Hillquit! by John Pepper, A Knee Is Bent by George Sterling, City Fear by J. Rorty, Ruthenberg Convicted by Jay Lovestone, The White Terror in Pittsburg by Don Brown, County Detective by Philip Goldbert, The Same in Ohio by H.M. Wicks, Howat the Coaldigger by J. Louis Engdahl, The Lap of Luxury by Scott Nearing, To a Girl Sweeping by Louis Ginsberg, Waterfalls of Stone by Louis Ginsberg, The Outline of Marriage by Floyd Dell, Waking by Annie Higgins, The Ethiopian Art Theater by Floyd Dell and Clarissa S. Ware, The Second ‘Chi’ Blooming by James Fuchs, ART BY Don Brown, Hugo Gellert, John Decker. William Gropper, Robert Minor, Adolph Dehn, Frueh, and Frank Waltz.

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. 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/1923/06/v6n06-w62-jun-1923-liberator-hr.pdf