Revolution's Newsstand
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A site looking at the varied, rich, history of the U.S. left through the original articles, books, essays, pamphlets, flyers, etc. of periodicals from our beginnings until entry into World War Two.
The Young Workers (Communist) League of Minneapolis, Summer Education Course, 1927.
'To Ukrainian Comrades. 'Only in the fraternal alliance of Soviet Ukraine with Soviet Russia is the salvation of workers and peasants from world predators and robbers--landlords, capitalists and generals.' Artist Nikolay Kochergin, 1920.
This page wants to be on record: FUCK FASCISM, FUCK WHITE SUPREMACY, FUCK MISOGYNY, FUCK CHARLIE KIRK.
The Newsstand will be taking a summer break for a little proletarian relaxation. Will be back in a week or so. Solidarity, comrades.
Southern Union Meeting by William Siegel from Labor Defender. Vol. 12 No. 8. August, 1936.
A rare photo of U.S. Communism's formative figure. Louis Fraina, (Lewis Corey) was born in Italy in 1892 and would become the central figure in the founding of U.S. Communism.
A bunch of rebels outside of the Lumberworker's Industrial Union No. 500 in Arlington, Washington during the 1917 Northwest General Lumber Strike.
A bow of deep respect and gratitude to the incomparable, uncompromising comrade Mary E. Marcy, born this day, May 8, in 1877.
One class. As part of Tampa’s rich labor history, in April, 1899 the workers at the Ybor-Manrara cigar factory struck against the use of scales to weigh tobacco for each cigar. Here, the multi-national staff of the 'Economic Kitchen’ which cooked meals for workers’ families during the conflict.
Young Workers League Summer School at Waino, Wisconsin. Class of 1926.
Illustration from the cover of the inaugural issue of The Chicago Daily Socialist. October 25, 1906.
“Federazione Socialista Italiana” Brooklyn Section, Sicilians, 1910.
'Strike Talk' by Selma Freeman from New Masses. Vol. 17 No. 1. October 1, 1935.
The Revolutionary Life and Writings of Mary E. Marcy presented online this Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 8pm EST. Link below.
'Class Struggle on the Sea' by Fred Ellis from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 274. November 19, 1928.
'THE GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY--"I've come to borrow a cup of sugar!" by Jacob Burck from New Masses. Vol. 13 No. 11. December 11, 1934.
The Spirit of '37 reaches all the way to the caddies of Detroit's Red Run Golf Course, who occupied the greens during the wave of sit-down strikes sparked by the auto workers in Flint.
'Strike!' by William Sanderson from New Masses. Vol. 21 No. 11. December 8, 1936.
Striking together in St. Louis at a time of nativist, xenophobic reaction. Members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America during the massive 1925 struggle against the Curlee Clothing Company.
Taking a winter break. See you in the New Year, comrades. Solidarity.
'I.W.W. Local 84 in now maintaining its headquarters at 1320 Franklin St. with a free reading room. All footloose rebels invited to visit us when coming through St. Louis.'
In the early 1930s the 'Festival of Struggle' replaced the 4th of July in Great Lakes communities where the largely Finnish Communist Party had strongholds. If you know Ishpeming today, it is inconceivable that it could have ever hosted such an event, and yet for years it did.
'If It Happens Here' by William Gropper from New Masses. Vol. 17 No. 12. December 17, 1935. The prescient William Gropper on the nose.
Demonstration at the 1912 trial of Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti holding issues of Solidarity, Il Proletario, The Free Press, and The National Rip-Saw.
'Strike' by William Siegel from New Masses. Vol. 17 No. 7. November 12, 1935.