The Paris Commune, Anton Checkoff, Walter Crane, Leo Tolstoy, Ferdinand Freiligrath, and William Morris in a classic issue of the John Spargo’s Romantic Marxist magazine.

The Comrade. Vol. 1 No. 6. March, 1902.

Contents: The Dream and the Dedication by Paul Shivell, Chameleon by Anton Checkvoff, Forty Years by Leo Tolstoy, When Equity Shall Rule by Robert Whitelaw, The Slave of the Slave by Amy Wellington, In Memoriam: 1871, Ferdinand Freiligrath and His Work by John Spargo, The Revolution by Ferdinand Freiligrath, The Paris Commune of 1871 by William Edlin, News from Nowhere (Chapter 6) by William Morris, An Everyday Story by William Mailly, Book Reviews, Letters.

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/v01n06-mar-1902-The-Comrade.pdf