A fantastic issue of The Liberator, with stand outs from Robert Minor on May Day, Max Shachtman on Marx as Revolutionist, Radek with ‘The Life of Lenin,’ and Alexa Bittleman on the attack on immigrants and immigration.

The Liberator. Vol. 7 No. 5. May, 1924.

Contents: The Story of May Day by Robert Minor, May Day Song by Michael Gold, The Storm is Coming by Max Bedacht, Dear Government by Scott Nearing, Karl Marx: The Revolutionist by Max Shachtman, What Are We Doing to Honduras? by Bertram D. Wolfe, The Crusade Against the Foreign-Born by Alexander Bittelman, The Life and Work of Lenin by Karl Radek, Literature and the Machine Age by Floyd Dell, Editorials, An Irrelevant Saint [On Gandhi] by C.E. Ruthenberg.

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 full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1924/05/v7n05-w73-may-1924-liberator-hr.pdf