MIA: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Periodicals


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In Defense of Bolshevism (1937-1941)

New York. Journal of the Leninist League. This group was the result of a series of splits that originated with Socialist Workers Party of the U.S. in 1936. The first split resulted in a group calling itself the Revolutionary Workers League and lead by Hugo Oehler and Thomas Stamm. In 1937 a split occurred in the RWL that resulted in two organizations both claiming the name “Revolutionary Workers League”, both published in Chicago. At the same time, RWL leader George Marlin left the RWL to form the “Leninist League” with about half a dozen members at the most. It created for itself a space to polemicize with both wings of the RWL, the SWP and the Trotskyist movement as a whole, something Marlen and his comrades rejected formally. Marlin’s nom-de-plume was George Spiro. In October of 1939 the name of the publication changed to The Bulletin of the Leninist League,U.S.A.

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Collection digitized by Marty Goodman, M.D. for the Riazanov Library Project

 

International and the War

A Menshevik magazine, only one issue of was published in late 1915.

 

Internationalist, The (1997-present)

New York. Organ of the Internationalist Group. A split from the US based Spartacist League in 1996. Active in New York City's community collage/university system. Also produced Revolution, youth paper of the IG and El Internacionalista, Spanish language version of The Internationalist.

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Collection digitized by Ralph Vesecky for the Internationalist Group

 

International News (1935/1950)

Chicago, then New York. First published in 1935 this journal was the theorectical magazine of the Revolutionary Workers League in the U.S. It published for under a year when it became the Fourth International. Fourth International stopped publishing in 1939 when International News was relaunched but as the journal of the Organ of the Provisional International Contact Commission for the New Communist (Fourth) International. The journal was continuously published from 1940 until 1950 when the organization ceased to exist.

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International Socialist Review, The (all three publications with the same name)

1900-1918

The first incarnation of a publcation called the International Socialist Review was produced by Chicago Marxist publisher Charles H Kerr & Co. publication from 1900 to 1918. The publication, first edited by A.M. Simons took a strongly academic and theoretical bent in its early years, featuring sometimes quite lengthy contributions from array of leading activists in the Socialist Party of America. About 1908, Simons was replaced as editor by Charles H. Kerr himself and the publication changed to a profusely illustrated format which backed the left-wing of the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World. The publication carried a range of articles emphasizing current events in America and Europe, not shying away from the controversial issues of race and gender. The publication, never profitable in the best of times, fell in 1918 to the wartime censorship of Albert S. Burleson, who banned the magazine from the mail.

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1956-1975

The second ISR was a Trotskyist publication produced by the Socialist Workers Party in the United States from 1956 to 1975. Publsihed in New York City, it continued the SWP’s former theorectical magazine The Fourth International as that party’s publication until the 1990s as a supplement to the organization's weekly newspaper, The Militant. This ISR was published in a small “book size” form quarterly from 1956 until May of 1970 when it was returned to a larger, monthly format normally associated with magazines (8 1/2 x 11 inches).

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Collection digitized by Marty Goodman, M.D. for the Riazanov Library Project

 

1997-present day

The current version has been published since 1997 in Chicago by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change. Its editorial board includes several leading members of the International Socialist Organization (ISO). It is currently a bimonthly magazine. The modern incarnation of the ISR has articles about issues within the United States currently with the historical context such as racism, labor struggles, and evolution versus intelligent design debate. Articles about struggles outside the United States are covered as well, such as current Latin American anti-neoliberalism movements, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role of China in the world economy.