English-language press of the Communist Party USA

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Soviet Russia, magazine of the Friends of Soviet Russia. Fsr-sovietrussiacover.jpg
Soviet Russia, magazine of the Friends of Soviet Russia.

During the ten decades since its establishment in 1919, the Communist Party USA produced or inspired a vast array of newspapers and magazines in the English language.

Contents

This list was launched in 2009, based upon material said to have been "principally taken from the California Senate's report" of 1949 [1] and the testimony of Walter S. Steele before House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1947. [2]

Various alterations were made over time, including the deletion of ephemeral personnel names as well as additions and subtractions where merited. Further changes took place in 2011 based upon the book Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications published in 1962 by HUAC. [3]

This list does not include the vast array of Communist Party newspapers, periodicals, and magazines published in languages other than English. This material appears at Non-English press of the Communist Party USA.

Party press

Official newspapers

During the 1930s the CPUSA issued a west coast newspaper called Western Worker. 320701-westernworker-cover.tif
During the 1930s the CPUSA issued a west coast newspaper called Western Worker.

Party magazines

Young Communist League

New Pioneer was a glossy monthly magazine for Communist children, issued from 1931 through 1938. 3502-newpioneer-cover.jpg
New Pioneer was a glossy monthly magazine for Communist children, issued from 1931 through 1938.

Local and shop publications

Publications of Communist-supported "Mass Organizations"

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born

FIGHT against War and Fascism was the first of three titles used by the CPUSA's anti-militarism mass organization of the 1930s. FightAgainst-3405.jpg
FIGHT against War and Fascism was the first of three titles used by the CPUSA's anti-militarism mass organization of the 1930s.

American League Against War and Fascism/American League for Peace and Democracy

American–Russian Institute

American Slav Congress

American Youth for Democracy

Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union (ICOR)

Emergency Civil Liberties Committee

Friends of Soviet Russia / Friends of the Soviet Union / National Council of American–Soviet Friendship

The first issue of the magazine of the Friends of the Chinese People, China Today, was published in 1934. ChinaToday-3410.jpg
The first issue of the magazine of the Friends of the Chinese People, China Today, was published in 1934.

Friends of the Chinese People

Independent Citizens Committee of Arts, Sciences, and Professions

International Labor Defense / Civil Rights Congress

International Workers Order

Labor Youth League

League of American Writers

Trade Union Educational League/Trade Union Unity League

World Peace Congress

Communist-sponsored publications dealing with specific topics

Agriculture

Black liberation movement

Civil rights movement

Current affairs

Drama

New Theatre was a glossy magazine produced from 1934 until 1937, succeeding Workers Theatre. NewTheatre-cover-1936.jpg
New Theatre was a glossy magazine produced from 1934 until 1937, succeeding Workers Theatre.

Education

Health and medicine

Health and Hygiene was a CPUSA magazine dedicated to medicine and fitness issued from 1935 to 1938, the height of the Popular Front period. Health-and-Hygiene-April1935-v1-no1.jpg
Health and Hygiene was a CPUSA magazine dedicated to medicine and fitness issued from 1935 to 1938, the height of the Popular Front period.

All (except for one) issues of Health and Hygiene can be downloaded from Marcists.org at this link: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/health/index.htm

International affairs

Jewish

Labor movement

Law

Peace

Religion

Social work

Sports

Veterans affairs

Women's liberation movement

Soviet publications for America

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References

  1. Fifth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee On Un-American Activities, California Legislature, 1949, pp. 545-546.
  2. Testimony of Walter S. Steele regarding Communist activities in the United States. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session, on H. R. 1884 and H. R. 2122, bills to curb or outlaw the Communist Party in the United States. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (2) July 21, 1947.
  3. Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications (And Appendixes). Revised and Published December 1, 1961 to Supersede Guide Published on January 2, 1957. 87th Congress, 2nd Session, House Document No. 398. Washington, DC: Committee on Un-American Activities, US House of Representatives, 1962; pp. 183-205.
  4. PDF's of The Bulletin are available at Archive.org for both Issue No. 1 and Issue No. 2.
  5. Dirk Hoerder with Christiane Harzig (eds.), The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s: An Annotated Bibliography: Volume 1: Migrants from Northern Europe. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987; pg. 109.
  6. HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 186.
  7. 1 2 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 194.
  8. 1 2 3 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 196.
  9. 1 2 Harvey A. Levenstein, "National Issues: New York, 1939," in Joseph R. Conlin (ed.), The American Radical Press, 1880-1960: Volume 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974; pg. 289.
  10. Levenstein, "National Issues," pp. 290-291.
  11. Levenstein, "National Issues," pg. 291.
  12. Harvey A. Levenstein (ed.), National Issues: A Survey of Politics and Legislation. Westport, CT: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, 1970.
  13. New Pioneer, OCLC WorldCat, OCLC 8279914.
  14. 1 2 3 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 184.
  15. "About Midwest Daily Record, 1938-1938," Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
  16. 1 2 3 4 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 203.
  17. 1 2 3 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 191.
  18. 1 2 3 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 195.
  19. "FIGHT against War and Fascism," New York Public Library, New York City.
  20. "The Fight for Peace and Democracy," New York Public Library, New York City.
  21. "World for Peace and Democracy," New York Public Library, New York City.
  22. HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 201.
  23. HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 185.
  24. 1 2 3 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 183.
  25. China Today, New York Public Library, New York City.
  26. OCLC WorldCat listing: Labor Defender.
  27. HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 205.
  28. 1 2 3 4 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 190.
  29. 1 2 3 4 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 187.
  30. Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. New York: Modern Library, 1998.
  31. John Earl Haynes annotations to "Adolf Berle's Notes on his Meeting with Whittaker Chambers.
  32. The paper is contained on Microfilm R-7472, "Communist Party Miscellaneous Newspapers," Reel 2, title 8.
  33. Workers Theatre, OCLC WorldCat, OCLC No. 5012730.
  34. "Workers theatre" (catalogue entry). UCLA Library. Retrieved November 20, 2022. New York : League of Workers Theatres. V. 1-5, no. 7/8; April 1931-July/Aug. 1933.
  35. New Theatre, Princeton University Library.
  36. "New Theatre League records: Detailed Description: Series IX. Publications of the New Theatre League 1934-1941". New York Public Library: Archives and Manuscripts. Retrieved November 21, 2022. Series contains runs of New Theatre (incomplete), Theatre and Film, and New Theatre News (incomplete)... New Theatre, June, 1934 - Nov. 1936; Theatre and Film, April, 1937; New Theatre News Nov. 1939 - April, 1941
  37. Health and Hygiene, MadCat, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. OCLC 02261823.
  38. "Amerasia," OCLC WorldCat. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
  39. 1 2 3 4 HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 189.
  40. HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 200.
  41. 1 2 3 "The Sport Call," Fitchburg, MA: Workers' Sports League of America, 1936. OCLC 26666818.
  42. OCLC 12014412, called "New York Working Woman" in the Daily Worker of December 11, 1928, pg. 4.
  43. HUAC, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications... Revised and Published December 1, 1961..., pg. 204.