Much of interest in this issue of ‘The Comrade,’ by far the most historically important, and the bulk of this issue, is a-wide ranging review of the Colorado Labor War with pieces pulled from a variety of left and labor (and a few capitalist) publications.

The Comrade. Vol. 3 No. 10. July, 1904. Colorado Special Edition.

Contents: The Class War in Colorado – The History of the Strike – The Capitalist Press – The Socialist Press – William D Haywood a Pen Picture, – Anti-Liberty Bell – The Civic Alliance – Roosevelt Will Not Interfere – The Trade Unions and Colorado – The Lesson, “Rally to the Red Standard” says Eugene V. Debs, Coolie Labor in South Africa, The Walt Whitman Fellowship by Peter E. Burrowes, The Socialist Movement in the Argentine Republic, Conscription for England, In the Land of the Czar The War the Crisis and the Revolution by William Edlin, Socialist Agitation among the Farmers, Socialism and the Church, P.O. MacCartney Memorial, The New Socialist Platform, Public Education, Marseillaise.

The Comrade began in 1901 with the launch of the Socialist Party, and was published monthly until 1905 in New York City. Edited by John Spargo, Otto Wegener, and Algernon Lee amongst others. Along with Socialist politics, it featured radical art and literature. Adorned with photos, portraits, art, and images, The Comrade was known for publishing Utopian Socialist literature and included a serialization of ‘News from Nowhere’ by William Morris along work from with Heinrich Heine, Thomas Nast, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Edward Markham, Jack London, Maxim Gorky, Clarence Darrow, Upton Sinclair, Eugene Debs, and Mother Jones. It would be edited by Algie Simons and absorbed into the International Socialist Review in 1905.

PDF of issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/comrade/pht/v3n10-%5b20-pgs%5d-jul-1904-The-Comrade-P-H.pdf