The Communist. Vol. 18 No. 3. March, 1939.

Contents: Review of the Month by A. B., America and the Communist International by Earl Browder, Lenin and the International Labor Movement by D. Z. Manuilsky, The Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba by William Z. Foster, The Day of International Women’s Solidarity by N. K. Krupskaya, Canada-The Key to Anti-Fascist Unity of the English — Speaking Peoples by Tim Buck, Deterioration of Labor Conditions the Last Decade During by George Wallace, The Mexican Question in the Southwest by Emma Tenayuca and Homer Brooks, Class Forces in California Agriculture by Harrison George, Class Conflicts in the South, 1850-1860 by Herbert Biel, From the World Communist Press, Book Reviews by Harry Robinson.

There are a number of journals with this name in the history of the movement. This ‘Communist’ was the main theoretical journal of the Communist Party from 1927 until 1944. Its origins lie with the folding of The Liberator, Soviet Russia Pictorial, and Labor Herald together into Workers Monthly as the new unified Communist Party’s official cultural and discussion magazine in November, 1924. Workers Monthly became The Communist in March ,1927 and was also published monthly. The Communist contains the most thorough archive of the Communist Party’s positions and thinking during its run. The New Masses became the main cultural vehicle for the CP and the Communist, though it began with with more vibrancy and discussion, became increasingly an organ of Comintern and CP program. Over its run the tagline went from “A Theoretical Magazine for the Discussion of Revolutionary Problems” to “A Magazine of the Theory and Practice of Marxism-Leninism” to “A Marxist Magazine Devoted to Advancement of Democratic Thought and Action.” The aesthetic of the journal also changed dramatically over its years. Editors included Earl Browder, Alex Bittelman, Max Bedacht, and Bertram D. Wolfe.

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