A fantastic ISR from 1916, beginning with pioneering Communist S.J. Rutgers’ ‘The Battle Cry of the New International,’ John Kenneth Turner reports from revolutionary Mexico, Jack Phillips on the machinations of the rail union sell-outs, Mary E. Marcy with a chapter from her ‘Stories of Cave People,’ Illinois Socialist Part and future Communist J.O. Bentall on the fight with the Right in the international Socialist movement, Dudley Foulk writes in the mechanization of pie-making, international editor William E. Bohn on the impact of militarism on the world workers’ movement, a topic on which Henry Slobidin also writes, Mary Marcy’s editorial on working class power, and the usual delights of the ‘News and Notes.’

The International Socialist Review. Vol. 16 No. 11. May, 1916.

Contents: Government by Carl Sandburg, Hands ‘Round the World by C. A. Miller, The Battle Cry of a New International by S. J Rutgers, When They Ask You, Marching Through Mexico by John Kenneth Turner, Will the Rail Strike Be Side-tracked? by Jack Phillips, The Treasures of Coal by Georg Lidy Weissenburg, The Exiled Belgian Workers in England by Camille David, Stories of the Cave People by Mary E. Marcy, The Socialist Crisis by Bentall, What Kind of Organization? by J. V. Wills, Automatic Pie-Making by Dudley Foulk, Socialists and Militarism by William E. Bohn, Labor Notes, Imperialistic Socialism by Henry L. Slobodin. International Notes, Editorial: Power. News and Views, 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/v16n11-may-1916-ISR-gog-Princ-ocr.pdf