Did you know Michael Gold and M.N. Roy wrote a story together? Neither did I. Along with that, highlights include Arthur Ransome’s ‘Conversations with Lenin,’ poems by Claude McKay, Lydia Gibson, and many others, Max Eastman reviews the Iron Heel with ‘Examples of Americanisms,’ J.T. Doran on Centralia, an anonymous but on-the-scene ‘Counter Revolution in Advance: A Summary of Recent German History,’ a wonderfully detailed report on revolutionary Italy by Hiram K. Moderwell, and art by the liked of Boardman Robinson, Art Young, Cornelia Barns, Robert Minor, William Gropper, Bellows, Maurice Becker, and Hugo Gellert. Great stuff.

The Liberator. Vol. 3 No. 2. February, 1920.

Contents: Editorials by Max Eastman, A Significant Picture; Anarchism; Criminal Capitalism; Contributions, To Ethiopia by Claude McKay, CHAMPAK – A Story of India by Irwin Granich (Michael Gold) and Manabendra Nath Roy, Examples of “Americanism” by Max Eastman, Murder in Centralia by J.T. Doran, Home Thoughts by Claude McKay, Leap-Yearlings by Howard Brubaker, Counter Revolution in Advance: A Summary of Recent German History, Solidarity! Serenity! Audacity!: An Account of the Italian Situation, by Hiram K. Moderwell, To My Baby by Floyd Hardin, Frank James Burke by Ruth R. Pearson, Ruth by J. George Frederick, Books by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, House Spirits by Evelyn Scott, Timberline by Ruth Suckow, Epitaph for a Young German by Edmund Wilson, Jr., Child at a Concert by Jean Starr Untermeyer, A Blind Girl by Rose Henderson, West Street on Sunday Night by S.A.N., The Rune of the Sower by Harry Kemp, Wanted Music! by H.F. Kane, ART BY Boardman Robinson, Art Young, Cornelia Barns, Robert Minor, William Gropper, J.J. Lankes, George Bellows, Maurice Becker, and Hugo Gellert.

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 original issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1920/02/v3n02-w23-feb-1920-liberator-hr.pdf