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A look at what I have come to regard as the twenty-five most important (even if ‘wrong’), consequential (for better and for worse), and finest (we have plenty to be deeply proud of) English-language U.S. left publications of our class’s earlier history. The enormous labor, resources, effort (physical and intellectual), financial sacrifices, and even real danger, gone into producing and distributing these publications is one of the reasons we revolutionaries are still here to continue the fight.
From our modest beginnings, mostly confined to the world and publications of Red ’48 German exiles, it was their increasing focus on the very ‘America’ war against slavery, and their sporadic but real collaboration with rising Black militants, that was responsible for birthing what we would recognize as the modern U.S. left; to the to a new daily press reflecting the growth of socialism and emergence of vibrant national organizations; to the development of a party press; of theoretical journals, arts-orientated cultural magazines, to the emergence of a rich Black radical press well before WWI; a regular a socialist-feminist organ essential in giving a forum to women socialists in their struggle within the S.P.; of wobbly and insurgent proletarian papers, large and small, rising to challenge conservatism in the movement; to the defining and long-lived Daily Worker, and subsequent development of the oppositional Communist currents of the 1930s.
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