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References
- ↑ "Footnote for Historians" by Max Shachtman in New International, Vol.4 No.12, December 1938, pp.377-379
- ↑ Creative Communism worldcat entry
- ↑ Goldwater, Walter Radical periodicals in America 1890-1950 New Haven, Yale University Library 1964 p.36
