The final issue of ISR as federal repression closes, arguably, the most important left publication in U.S. history.

International Socialist Review. Vol. 18 No. 8. February, 1918.

Contents: The Bolsheviki and World Peace (Illustrated) by Leon Trotzky, The I. W. W. Bogey by Eugene Debs, Labor in Prison: America, 1917 (poem) by Charles Ashleigh, From the Bolsheviki by A. Niebut, Economic Power by Mary E. Marcy, Speaking of the Department of justice by Jack Phillips, I. W. W. General Defense Committee by Leslie Marcy, What Do the Workers Work For? by Austin Lewis, Your Dream Come True by D. Bobspa, Current Events, Study Course in Scientific Socialism by Local Puyallup, International Notes. News and Views by CE Ruthenberg, Publishers’ 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.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v18n08-feb-1918-ISR-HOLES-riaz.pdf