The end is coming for International Socialist Review as the Iron Heel walks across the U.S. From September, 1917 with a focus on the severe state and vigilante repression sweeping the country as the United States entered World War One. Leslie and Marcy Marcy have articles on the Bisbee Deportations, Phillips Russell on the murder of Frank Little, the case of Rena Mooney is covered, and many other articles of value in this packed issue.

The International Socialist Review. Vol. 18 No 3. September, 1917.

Contents: To Frank Little by Phillips Russell, The Man Who Was Hung, Shall Labor Be Conscripted? by Phillips Russell, Grass by Carl Sandburg, Conscript the Mines, News from Lumber Workers’ Strike by John Martin, Look At It! by Jack Phillips, King Coal by Hugh Reid, A Month of Lawlessness by Mary Marcy, Two Deportations from The Masses, The Eleven Hundred Exiled Copper Miners by Leslie Marcy, The Rubber Industry in Malaya by R. R. Hornbeck, Why Organic Beings Evolve by Jack Morton, The Course of Revolution by William E. Bohn, World Policies by S.J. Rutgers, The Labor Movement in Japan by S. Katayama, Rena Mooney Acquitted by Press Committee, International Notes, Editorial: What Is Treason?, News and Views.

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.

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