Much to recommend in the issue, including Jean Longuet’s ‘Zola the Socialist,’ Ernest Untermann’s ‘How I Became a Socialist,’ a report on socialism in Poland, a review of ‘The Spirit of the Ghetto’ by John Spargo, a sketch of E Balfort Bax, and the continued serialization of William Morris’ ‘News from Nowhere.’

The Comrade. Vol. 2 No. 3. December, 1902.

Contents: Zola the Socialist by Jean Longuet, The Buffoon by Polly Dawson, Flight in the Night by Paul Shivell, The Polish Socialist Movement by B.A. Jedrzejowksi (Foreign Secretary of the Polish Socialist Party), The Spirit of the Ghetto a Review by John Spargo, A Tribute to Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Leonard D. Abbott, A Sketch of E. Balfort Bax, Editorials, The Cotton Mill by Ernest Crosby, How I Became a Socialist by Ernest Untermann, News from Nowhere by William Morris, Views and Reviews, To Our Readers.

The Comrade began in 1901 with the launch of the Socialist Party, and was published monthly until 1905 in New York City and edited by John Spargo, Otto Wegener, and Algernon Lee amongst others. Along with Socialist politics, it featured radical art and literature. 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 absorbed into the International Socialist Review in 1905.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/comrade/v02n03-dec-1902-The-Comrade.pdf