International Socialist Review. Vol. 4 No. 6. December, 1903.

Contents: Shall We Revise Our Program Forward or Backward? by Ernest Untermann, ocialism and the Storthing Elections In Norway by Jacob Vindes, The Inconsistency of Morris by “Centrist”, Australian Labor and Socialist News by Andrew M. Anderson, The Socialist; the Ideal Peace and Arbitration Man by Edwin Arnold Bernholz, Hilquit’s ‘‘History of Socialism in America” by A.M. Simons, The Religion of Resistance by Peter E. Burrowes, Socialism or Anarchist Communism by A.F. Dugan, Equal Distribution by Charles F. Purdy, Editorial, The World of Labor by Max Hayes, Socialism Abroad, Book Reviews, Publishers Department.

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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