Another superlative ISR, this from October 1916 with the lead on the massive rail strike, with several other articles in support, Debs spits fire on the Mesabe Range strikes, a ‘London Engineer’ looks at the dilemma of women making guns for the war, Grace Ford writes on ‘Kings, Queens and History,’ a picture story of the New York Steer Car strike, Robert Minor on the the frame-up of Tom Mooney and others that the left would fight for the next twenty years, Clarence Darrow with ‘Crime and Economic Conditions,’ Marion Wright reports on the reality of the banana you buy, ‘Hamstringing the Unions’ by Mary E. Marcy, pioneering Bolshevik S.J. Rutgers with another look at the developing Left Wing of the international movement, this time ‘The Left Wing and Mass Action.’

The International Socialist Review. Vol. 17 No. 4. October, 1916.

Contents: Why the Rails Won! by Militant, Murder in the First Degree by Eugene V. Debs, Politics and People, Women as Gun Makers by London Engineer, Shorty’s Philosophy by Harrison George, Kings, Queens and History by Grace Ford, The New York Street Car Strike, What Capitalists Are Saying: Forum, The San Francisco Frame-Up by Robert Minor, Crime and Economic Conditions by Clarence Darrow, Industrial Unionism by F.H., About Bananas by Marion Wright, Hamstringing the Unions by Mary E. Mary, A Man vs. Taxes by Georgia Kotsch, The Militant Harvest Workers, At the Mercy of Their Employes by Jack Morton, The Left Wing Mass Action by S.J. Rutgers, The Railroad Work Day by Fullstroke, DEPARTMENTS: News and Views, International Notes, Publishers’ News.

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/v12n05-nov-1911-ISR-gog-Corn.pdf