Labor Defender. Vol. 10 No. 3. March, 1934.

Labor Defender. Vol. 10 No. 3. March, 1934.

Contents: Lessons of Austria, ‘Viva La Commune’ by Sasha Small, Greetings to the 4th MPOR Conference, Mass Action to Defeat CS Laws by Lawrence Emery, Farmers Mass Defense, Fight Against Fascism by Leo Gallagher, The Story of Shan-Fei by Agnes Smedley, China Today by Charles Phillips, Smash Injunctions by Michael Pierce, Support the Dutch Soldiers, Victory at Sing Sing, In the Beautiful West Indies by A. Gomez, Political Prisoners, Ruby’s Story, A Message from Germany, Voices from Prison.

Labor Defender was published monthly from 1926 until 1937 by the International Labor Defense (ILD), a Workers Party of America, and later Communist Party-led, non-partisan defense organization founded by James Cannon and William Haywood while in Moscow, 1925 to support prisoners of the class war, victims of racism and imperialism, and the struggle against fascism. It included, poetry, letters from prisoners, and was heavily illustrated with photos, images, and cartoons. Labor Defender was the central organ of the Scottsboro and Sacco and Vanzetti defense campaigns. Editors included T. J. O’ Flaherty, Max Shactman, Karl Reeve, J. Louis Engdahl, William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, and Sender Garlin.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n03-mar-1934-orig-LD.pdf

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