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'The Young Communists of Canada' by Harry Gannes from Young Worker. Vol. 2 No. 12. December, 1923.

A report on the 800 members of Canada’s Young Communists in 1923.
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‘The Young Communists of Canada’ by Harry Gannes from Young Worker. Vol. 2 No. 12. December, 1923.

A report on the 800 members of Canada’s Young Communists in 1923. ‘The Young Communists of Canada’ by Harry Gannes from Young Worker. Vol. 2 No. 12. December, 1923. A SMALL but ac…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 7h

"Rasseya” by Lev Sosnovsky from Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 6 Nos. 6 & 7. April 1 & 15, 1922.

A rare English-translated article from Lev Sosnovsky is this remarkable look into the changes the first years of the revolution brought to one village.
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“Rasseya” by Lev Sosnovsky from Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 6 Nos. 6 & 7. April 1 & 15, 1922.

A rare English-translated article from Lev Sosnovsky is this remarkable look into the changes the first years of the revolution brought to one small village in the Kaluga region whose name was chan…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 10h

'The Growth of Terror Against the Rising Strike Wave in the U.S.A’ by B. Sherman from Communist International. Vol. 11 No. 18. September 20, 1934.

Violence of the state and and vigilantes against labor organizations and the left during 34's mass strikes
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‘The Growth of Terror Against the Rising Strike Wave in the U.S.A’ by B. Sherman from Communist International. Vol. 11 No. 18. September 20, 1934.

Sherman reports on the violence of the state and and vigilantes against labor organizations and the left during the summer of mass strikes in 1934. ‘The Growth of Terror Against the Rising St…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 12h

‘Discussion in the American Party’ by Israel Amter from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 5 No. 7 January 22, 1924.

Amter was a partisan of the Ruthenberg-Lovestone-Pepper faction during the 1920s and gives a valuable summary of their position.
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‘Discussion in the American Party’ by Israel Amter from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 5 No. 7 January 22, 1924.

A founder of the Party and lead Comintern correspondent, Israel Amter was a partisan of the Ruthenberg-Lovestone-Pepper faction during the 1920s and gives a valuable summary of their, then minority…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 13h

'Sterilization--A Fascist Weapon' from Health and Hygiene. Vol. 1 No. 2. May, 1935.

Degenerate and dangerous, faux science is always a thing with fascism.
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‘Sterilization–A Fascist Weapon’ from Health and Hygiene. Vol. 1 No. 2. May, 1935.

Degenerate and dangerous, faux science is always a thing with fascism. ‘Sterilization–A Fascist Weapon’ from Health and Hygiene. Vol. 1 No. 2. May, 1935. More than 12,000 have bee…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 1d

‘The Spring Drive of the Lumber Jacks’ by C.E. Payne from International Socialist Review. Vol. 17 No. 12. June, 1917.

How the I.W.W. developed an organizational method based on agricultural workers.
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‘The Spring Drive of the Lumber Jacks’ by C.E. Payne from International Socialist Review. Vol. 17 No. 12. June, 1917.

Payne, a wobbly organizer in the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest on how the I.W.W. developed an organizational method based on agricultural workers. As the U.S. entered WWI rolling strikes h…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 1d

'Bloody Fascist Hand Reaches into America' by Nicola Napoli from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 249. October 20, 1928.

Two anti-fascists, Luigi Barra and Angelo Lentucchia, jeer a blackshirt parade in Detroit on Columbus Day, 1928 and are shot by fascists.
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‘Bloody Fascist Hand Reaches into America’ by Nicola Napoli from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 249. October 20, 1928.

Two anti-fascist Italian-born workers, Luigi Barra and Angelo Lentucchia, jeer a blackshirt parade in Detroit on Columbus Day, 1928 and are shot by fascists. Barra died, while Lentucchia seriously …

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 1d

‘Latin-American Workers and Murder of Gonzales’ by Alberto Moreau from The Daily Worker. Vol. 7 No. 167. July 12, 1930.

Moreau on the impact the killing of Michoacán-born Gonzola Gonzales on Latin New York.
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‘Latin-American Workers and Murder of Gonzales’ by Alberto Moreau from The Daily Worker. Vol. 7 No. 167. July 12, 1930.

Moreau on the impact the killing of Michoacán-born Gonzola Gonzales on Latin New York. Within days during the summer of 1930 two Communist activists, Alfred Levy and Gonzalo Gonzales, were murdered…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 1d

‘The Advance of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia’ by Karl Kreibich from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 2 No. 98. November 13, 1922.

The Czech–Slovak Communist Party quickly became the largest in the Comintern outside of Soviet Russia...
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‘The Advance of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia’ by Karl Kreibich from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 2 No. 98. November 13, 1922.

Kreibich From modest beginnings, the Czech–Slovak Communist Party quickly became the largest in the Comintern outside of Soviet Russia. Karl Kreibich with a useful summary written for the 4th…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 1d

‘On Hunger Strike Against Fascism’ by Hugo Gellert from Labor Defender. Vol. 5 No. 1. January, 1930.

Nearly a decade after the overthrow of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Communists languishing in jail go on hunger strike...
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‘On Hunger Strike Against Fascism’ by Hugo Gellert from Labor Defender. Vol. 5 No. 1. January, 1930.

Nearly a decade after the overthrow of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Communists languishing in jail go on hunger strike sparking rare public protests against Horthy’s fascist dictatorship. T…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 1d

‘Onion Strikers Guard O’Dell: Farm Workers’ Leader Defies Scab Lynch Mob’ from Labor Action (A.W.P.). Vol. 11 No. 16. September 1, 1934.

Brave fight of workers laboring on the 17,000 acres of onion fields in Hardin County, Ohio...
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‘Onion Strikers Guard O’Dell: Farm Workers’ Leader Defies Scab Lynch Mob’ from Labor Action (A.W.P.). Vol. 11 No. 16. September 1, 1934.

Okey O’Dell Brave fight of workers laboring on the 17,000 acres of onion fields in Hardin County, Ohio led by the National Unemployed Leagues and the Agricultural Workers’ Union with ai…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 2d

‘The Klan Turns to Murder’ by Bruce Minton from New Masses. Vol. 7 No. 11. December 10, 1935.

Frank Norman, white worker and Communist organizing an inter-racial union in Florida is murdered by the Klan. His body still not found.
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‘The Klan Turns to Murder’ by Bruce Minton from New Masses. Vol. 7 No. 11. December 10, 1935.

Lakeland orange grove. Frank Norman was a working class white man from Chicago, but long a resident of Florida. He was a husband and a father. He was a Communist, a labor organizer with the Citrus …

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 2d

‘The Political Situation in Turkey and Tasks of the Communist Party’ by Fachri from International Press Correspondence, Volume 13 Nos. 22 & 23, May, 19 & 26, 1933.

If comrades can identify the author of this perspectives and tasks I would be grateful.
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‘The Political Situation in Turkey and Tasks of the Communist Party’ by Fachri from International Press Correspondence, Volume 13 Nos. 22 & 23, May, 19 & 26, 1933.

1920 Baku conference of Turkish Communists. If comrades can identify the author in the early 30s perspectives and tasks from Turkey I would be grateful. ‘The Political Situation in Turkey and Tasks…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 2d

‘The Great Paterson Revolt’ by Ewald Koettgen from Solidarity. Vol. 4 No. 13. March 22, 1913.

Not just a high-point for wobbly organizing in the East, but what is still a byword for the best of the U.S.’s radical labor tradition...
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‘The Great Paterson Revolt’ by Ewald Koettgen from Solidarity. Vol. 4 No. 13. March 22, 1913.

Ewald Koettggen (recorded in a variety of spellings), veteran New Jersey silk worker, I.W.W. organizer and G.E.B. member, reports on what was not just a high-point for wobbly organizing in the East…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 2d

‘James Connolly’ by J.T. Murphy from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 52. May 17, 1924.

The debate over Connolly’s role and legacy began immediately upon his May 12, 1916 execution...
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‘James Connolly’ by J.T. Murphy from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 52. May 17, 1924.

The debate over Connolly’s role and legacy began immediately upon his May 12, 1916 execution. Among the earliest biographies and collections of Connolly’s writings was by Desmond Ryan i…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 2d

'The Fight against the Fascist Regime in Bulgaria' by Khristo Kabakchiev from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 7 No. 26. April 21, 1927.

While a number of repressive measures were relaxed, the ban on the CP and reliance on death squads remained.
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‘The Fight against the Fascist Regime in Bulgaria’ by Khristo Kabakchiev from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 7 No. 26. April 21, 1927.

General Ivan Lukov, Andrey Lyapchev and Simeon Radev, members of the Bulgarian delegation to the negotiations for a ceasefire in Thessaloniki. After June, 1923’s coup an the violent suppressi…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 3d

‘Venezuelan Workers Fight Imperialism’ by J.N. from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 70. March 23, 1928.

Organizers from the Venezuelan Labor Union breech the defenses of Royal Dutch Shell...
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‘Venezuelan Workers Fight Imperialism’ by J.N. from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 70. March 23, 1928.

Organizers from the Venezuelan Labor Union breech the defenses of Royal Dutch Shell and spies of the Gómez regime to bring labor’s message to workers at the massive coastal oil refineries. ‘V…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 3d

‘The Struggle for State Power, Introduction IV’ by Louis C. Fraina from The Proletarian Revolution in Russia by V.I. Lenin and L. Trotzky. Communist Press, New York, 1918.

Fraina continues his fine introduction to his early history of the Revolution...
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‘The Struggle for State Power, Introduction IV’ by Louis C. Fraina from The Proletarian Revolution in Russia by V.I. Lenin and L. Trotzky. Communist Press, New York, 1918.

Bolshevik slogans “Peace to the Whole World—All Power to the People—All Land to the People” and “Down with the minister-capitalists” on the Petrograd streets in June, 1917. Dedicated “to the …

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 3d

‘Memorial for Sol Edwards’ by Walter Larkin from St. Louis Labor. No. 556. September 30, 1911.

Welsh-born steelworker Solomon Edwards was shot and mortally wounded by a scab while striking against a subsidiary of U.S. Steel in Belmont County, Ohio...
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‘Memorial for Sol Edwards’ by Walter Larkin from St. Louis Labor. No. 556. September 30, 1911.

Welsh-born steelworker Solomon Edwards was shot and mortally wounded by a scab while striking against a subsidiary of U.S. Steel in Belmont County, Ohio for union recognition. When told he would so…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 3d

‘The Cinema in America: Some Impressions of Hollywood’ by Sergei Eisenstein from International Literature. No. 3. 1933.

One of the 20th century’s great artists came to the U.S. in 1930 to try and create art in Hollywood; it did not work...
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‘The Cinema in America: Some Impressions of Hollywood’ by Sergei Eisenstein from International Literature. No. 3. 1933.

Eisenstein and Disney pondering Mickey Mouse. One of the 20th century’s great artists, the pioneering Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, came to the U.S. in 1930 to try and create art in Hollywood…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 3d

‘Hands off Liberia!’ by George Padmore from The Negro Worker. Vol. 1. No. 10-11. October-November, 1931.

Padmore attacking the relations of the figures in the Black ‘left’, particularly George Schuyler, to U.S. imperialism’s control over the country.
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‘Hands off Liberia!’ by George Padmore from The Negro Worker. Vol. 1. No. 10-11. October-November, 1931.

Firestone plantation Padmore on the Firestone dictatorship in Liberia, attacking the relations of the figures in the Black ‘left’, particularly George Schuyler, to U.S. imperialism&#821…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 3d

‘Angelo Herndon--a Leader of the Unemployed’ from Labor Defender. Vol. 10 Nos. 4 & 5. April & May, 1934.

Incredible dignity and bravery in the face of the racist barbarism of capitalist America.
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‘Angelo Herndon–a Leader of the Unemployed’ from Labor Defender. Vol. 10 Nos. 4 & 5. April & May, 1934.

Incredible dignity and bravery in the face of the racist barbarism of capitalist America. Angelo Herndon was a young Black coal miner who joined the Party in 1930 and quickly became a leading organ…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 4d

‘Letters from Warsaw (January, 1906)' by Rosa Luxemburg from Letters to Karl and Luise Kautsky from 1896 to 1918. Robert M. McBride and Company, New York. 1925.

At the end of 1905 Luxemburg went to Warsaw and the Revolution sweeping the Czarist Empire...
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‘Letters from Warsaw (January, 1906)’ by Rosa Luxemburg from Letters to Karl and Luise Kautsky from 1896 to 1918. Robert M. McBride and Company, New York. 1925.

1907. At the end of 1905 Rosa Luxemburg left Berlin for Warsaw to participate in the Revolution then sweeping the Czarist Empire as a leader of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lit…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 4d

‘The San Francisco General Strike and Its Lessons’ by B. Sherman from Communist International. Vol. 11 No. 17. September 5, 1934.

Here, an official summation made immediately after on the role of the Party in those momentous events.
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‘The San Francisco General Strike and Its Lessons’ by B. Sherman from Communist International. Vol. 11 No. 17. September 5, 1934.

While different left groups were involved to a greater or lesser degree in all of the large strikes of that turning-point year of 1934, it was only in the San Francisco General Strike that the Comm…

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Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand.bsky.social · 4d

‘Mass Strikes’ by Louis C. Fraina from Class Struggle. Vol. 3 No. 2. May, 1919.

Already at this writing, it was clear that the workers’ struggle in 1919 was unlike what had come before.
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‘Mass Strikes’ by Louis C. Fraina from Class Struggle. Vol. 3 No. 2. May, 1919.

The Seattle General Strike, 7th and Union. Already at this writing, it was clear that the workers’ struggle in 1919 was unlike what had come before. The strikes in Seattle, Butte, and other c…

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