Labor Defender. Vol. 8 No. 10. October, 1932.

Labor Defender. Vol. 8 No. 10. October, 1932.

Contents: Scottsboro Alabama by Louis Berg, What’s to be Done, I Go to Jail for the Scottsboro Boys by Ada Wright, Ten Years Fight Against Terror by Sasha Smalls, Who Are the Undesirable Aliens? by Albert Deutsch, Almanac of Protest, The Farmers Fight by Dan Lowell, Behind the Dollar Sign, Cleveland Convention of the I.L.D., When Gangsters Lead Union by Fred Gillette, We March Together Against War by Martin Bank, A Letter to Edith Berkman by Johanna Reed, And Now Logan Circle! by William Patterson, Torture in the Land of the Caballeros by Alberto E. Sanchez, Rally the Youth, What Workers are Reading, Voices from prison, Scottsboro.

Labor Defender was published monthly from 1926 until 1937 by the International Labor Defense (ILD), a Workers Party of America, and later Communist Party-led, non-partisan defense organization founded by James Cannon and William Haywood while in Moscow, 1925 to support prisoners of the class war, victims of racism and imperialism, and the struggle against fascism. It included, poetry, letters from prisoners, and was heavily illustrated with photos, images, and cartoons. Labor Defender was the central organ of the Scottsboro and Sacco and Vanzetti defense campaigns. Editors included T. J. O’ Flaherty, Max Shactman, Karl Reeve, J. Louis Engdahl, William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, and Sender Garlin.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1932/v08n10-oct-1932-LD.pdf

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