Highlights include articles by editors Louis Friana and Louis Boudin on current affairs and politics, Covington Hall on the ‘Conscience of the North,’ Floyd Dell on Dotskyevsky, and Austin Lewis’ continued historic series on solidarity (needs to be printed as a book), ‘Solidarity and Scabbing.’

The New Review. Vol 3. No. 6. May 15, 1915.

Contents: The Socialism of the Sword by Louis C. Fraina, Current Affairs: Trial by Jury and the Working Class; The Political Mood; Social Reform and Taxes; The Convention and the Socialist Party by Louis B. Boudin, The War in the Far East by Nicholas Russel, “The Conscience of the North” by Covington Hall, Solidarity and Scabbing by Austin Lewis, Billy Sunday as a Social Symptom by Phillips Russell, The Novels of Dostovesky by Floyd Dell, Book Reviews by Louis C. Fraina, William English Walling, and J.D., The Novels of Dostovesky by Floyd Dell, A Socialist Digest: The Trend Toward State Socialism in the Belligerent Nations; The German Socialists’ Peace Terms; The British Socialists and Peace; Interpreting Japan’s Demands on China; Bernstein and the French Socialists, Correspondence: Shaw on Education by Felix Grendon, A Correction by Floyd Dell.

The New Review: A Critical Survey of International Socialism was a New York-based, explicitly Marxist, sometimes weekly/sometimes monthly theoretical journal begun in 1913 and was an important vehicle for left discussion in the period before World War One. Bases in New York it declared in its aim the first issue: “The intellectual achievements of Marx and his successors have become the guiding star of the awakened, self-conscious proletariat on the toilsome road that leads to its emancipation. And it will be one of the principal tasks of The NEW REVIEW to make known these achievements,to the Socialists of America, so that we may attain to that fundamental unity of thought without which unity of action is impossible.” In the world of the East Coast Socialist Party, it included Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, Herman Simpson, Louis Boudin, William English Walling, Moses Oppenheimer, Robert Rives La Monte, Walter Lippmann, William Bohn, Frank Bohn, John Spargo, Austin Lewis, WEB DuBois, Arturo Giovannitti, Harry W. Laidler, Austin Lewis, and Isaac Hourwich as editors. Louis Fraina played an increasing role from 1914 and lead the journal in a leftward direction as New Review addressed many of the leading international questions facing Marxists. International writers in New Review included Rosa Luxemburg, James Connolly, Karl Kautsky, Anton Pannekoek, Lajpat Rai, Alexandra Kollontai, Tom Quelch, S.J. Rutgers, Edward Bernstein, and H.M. Hyndman, The journal folded in June, 1916 for financial reasons. Its issues are a formidable and invaluable archive of Marxist and Socialist discussion of the time.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/newreview/1915/v3n06-may-15-1915.pdf