Labor Defender. Vol. 11 No. 2. February, 1935.

Contents: Supreme Court, J.B. McNamara: Proletarian Fighter by William Z. Foster, Persecution of the Foreign Born on Ellis Island by John Howard Lawson, Class Justice in the U.S.S.R. by Granville Hicks, Directives from Tom Mooney, Hillsboro- A Victory of United Front Defense by Jan Wittenber, Spain’s October by Robert Blache, Douglass Day by Richard B. Moore, The Great Dynamite Plot, Among Ourselves, Voices from Prison, I.L.D. Around the World, Young Defenders Corner, Spain’s October Supplement.

Labor Defender was published monthly from 1926 until 1937 by the International Labor Defense (ILD), a Workers Party of America, and later Communist Party-led, non-partisan defense organization founded by James Cannon and William Haywood while in Moscow, 1925 to support prisoners of the class war, victims of racism and imperialism, and the struggle against fascism. It included, poetry, letters from prisoners, and was heavily illustrated with photos, images, and cartoons. Labor Defender was the central organ of the Scottsboro and Sacco and Vanzetti defense campaigns. Editors included T. J. O’ Flaherty, Max Shactman, Karl Reeve, J. Louis Engdahl, William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, and Sender Garlin.

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