An issue that proves why ‘The Liberator’ was the essential publication of its time. Each contribution is deserving of being read today. Louise Bryant on her friend and comrade Jim Larkin’s trial, Bertrand Russell on democracy and revolution, Robert Minor’s scathing account of the Palmer Raid’s and cultural reaction after World War One, William F. Dunne on the murder of miners in Butte, Montana where he was a workers’ leader, and most importantly is Lenin’s speech debating Bukharin on Self-Determination of Nations at the 8th Party Congress in March, 1919.

The Liberator. Vol. 3 No. 6. June, 1920.

Contents: Palmer and the Outlaws by Robert Minor, Jim Larkin Goes to Jail by Louise Bryant, Why Copper is Red by William F. Dunne, Self-Determination of Nations: A Speech by Nikolai Lenin, Democracy and Revolution (Part Two) by Bertrand Russell, Books (Bolshevism at Work by William T. Goode, The Russian Republic, by Colonel Cecil L’ Estrange Malone, M.P., Raymond Robins’ Own Story by William Hard, Primitive Society by Robert H. Lowie) Reviewed by Floyd Dell, One Pleasure Bent by Jennie Doyle, POETRY AND PROSE BY Miriam Vedder, Anna Spencer Twikhell, Joseph Freeman, Edmund Wilson Jr., ART BY Boardman Robinson, Art Young, Clive Ward, William Gropper.

The Liberator was published monthly from 1918, first established by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman continuing The Masses, was shut down by the US Government during World War One. Like The Masses, The Liberator contained some of the best radical journalism of its, or any, day. It combined political coverage with the arts, culture, and a commitment to revolutionary politics. Increasingly, The Liberator oriented to the Communist movement and by late 1922 was a de facto publication of the Party. In 1924, The Liberator merged with Labor Herald and Soviet Russia Pictorial into Workers Monthly. An essential magazine of the US left.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1920/06/v3n06-w27-jun-1920-liberator-hr.pdf