International Socialist Review. Vol. 5 No. 3. September, 1904.

Contents: The Socialist Party and the Working Class by Eugene V. Debs, The Rise of Labor in America by A.M. Simons, Assassination of Von Plehve by Russian Revolutionary Socialist Party, The Socialist Vote of the World by A.M. Simons, The Socialization of Humanity by Ernest Untermann, The International Congress, Letters of a Pork Packer’s Stenographer by Mary E. Marcy, Editorials, World of Labor by Max Hayes, Socialism Abroad by Ernest Untermann, Book Reviews, Publisher’s 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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