The New York Communist. Vol. 1 No. 8. June 7, 1919.

Contents: Forty Thousand Expelled by Seven, Call for a National Conference of the Left Wing, Editorials, Strike Against the Bosses by Carl Brodsky, The Party and the Berne Conference by Eadmonn MacAlpine, Why Political Democracy Must Go by John Reed, Left Wing Notes, Chicago Turns to the Left by I.E. Ferguson, “Regular Party Channels” by Belle Robins, Proletarian Dictatorship, The Pink Terror VI, The Communist Party of Lettonia by O. Preedin, Exiled by Louise Bryant.

The New York Communist began in April, 1919 as John Reed’s pioneering Communist paper published weekly by the city’s Left Wing Sections of the Socialist Party as different tendencies fought for position in the attempt to create a new, unified Communist Party. The paper began in a split in the Louis Fraina published Revolutionary Age. Edited by John Reed, with Eadmomn MacAlpine, Bertram Wolfe, Maximilian Cohen, until Reed resigned and left for Russia when Ben Gitlow took over. In June, 1921 it merged with Louis Fraina’s The Revolutionary Age after the expulsion of the Left Wing from the Socialist Party to form The Communist (one of many papers of the time with that name).

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