CONTENTS
PREFACE
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REMEMBER WHEN? EVENTS THAT MADE HISTORY. 1924 to 1949
THE DEATH OF V. I. LENIN
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Mourners Pass Bier of V. I. Lenin
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'Gene Debs Pays Glowing Tribute
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SACCO AND VANZETTI
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Boston Prepares for a Lynching, by Michael Gold
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Sacco and Vanzetti Murdered
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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A Signal of Coming Struggle, Editorial
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Jobless Demand Relief
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The Hunger March
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Hoover Ignores Hunger Marchers
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Police Gas Bonus March
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THE SCOTTSBORO CASE
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Ruby Bates Denies Rape
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"Why I Fled Prison/' by Haywood Patterson
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HERNDON GETS 20 YEARS ON CHAIN GANG, by R. H. Hart
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THE REICHSTAG FIRE FRAME-UP
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Dimitroff Shatters Frame-Up
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Goering Unmasked by Dimitroff
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SIT DOWN! by George Morris
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SPAIN IN ARMS
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In Madrid, by Robert Minor
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Crossing the Ebro, by Joseph North
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THE MUNICH BETRAYAL
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The Betrayal, Editorial by Harry Garmes
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Three Years After, Editorial
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TOM MOONEY
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Tom Mooney Freed, by Al Richmond
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The Most Celebrated Case of All Time, by Robert Minor
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NAZIS INVADE U.S.S.R
People Rally to Stalin....
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PEARL HARBOR, Editorial
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STALINGRAD, by Veteran Commander
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D-DAY
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Rendezvous in Berlin, by llya Ehrenburg
THE COMMUNIST PARTY
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Foster Calls for Return to Party
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Parley Reestablishes Party
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Dreiser Joins the Communist Party
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LYNCH TERROR NORTH AND SOUTH
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Taps in Freeport, by Harry Raymond
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Columbia, Tennessee, by Harry Raymond
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FIGHTING JIM CROW IN SPORTS
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Paige Asks Chance for Negro Stars, by Lester Rodney
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"Robinson's a Dodger," the Guy Said, by Bill Mardo
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GAMBLING WITH MINERS' LIVES, by Ruby Cooper
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THE MARSHALL PLAN
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The Ruhr—Can Liberals Support Revival of Reich Trusts? by Milton Howard..
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The Billion-Dollar Empire Scheme for Europe, by James S. AUen
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How the Bank President Wanted to Help Astoria's Uncle, by Rob F. H a l l . . . .
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"PETE" CACCHIONE AS I KNEW HIM, by Councilman Benjamin J. D a v i s . . . .
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THE TAFT-HARTLEY LAW
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The Pattern for Disruption, by George Morris
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Communists Fight for Democracy, by Mel Fiske
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NEGRO MOTHER OF 12 FACES ELECTRIC CHAIR, by Harry Raymond,
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PACKINGHOUSE BURIES A STRIKE VICTIM, by Ruby Cooper
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AN UN-AMERICAN COMMITTEE
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Did "Un-Americans" Thomas, Mundt, and Rankin Aid Axis Propaganda? by
Art Shields
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The Statement the Un-Americans Feared, by Eugene Dennis...
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Abe Lincoln Grilled, by Rob F. Hall
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A Hunger Striker's Day, by Joseph North
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The Editor Testifies, by John Gates
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Foreign Ideas, by Gerhart Eisler
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A NEW PARTY IS FOUNDED
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30,000 Cheer Wallace's Call to Vote Peace, by Rob F. Hall
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Operation Georgia, by Irene Paull
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ISRAEL
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A New Nationt Editorial
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Partisan in Israel, by A. B. Magil
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THE MURDER OF WILLIAM MILTON, by Art Shields
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THE ASSAULT ON BOB THOMPSON, by Robert Friedman
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INDICTMENT OF THE TWELVE
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The Plot to Outlaw the Communist Party, by William Z. Foster
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Trial of the Twelve Apostles, by George Bernard Shaw
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CHINA WINS FREEDOM
Two People's Generals, by James Wong
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WORTH REPEATING, PIECES—MOSTLY RECENT—BY OUR WRITERS
$35 A HEAD, by Billy Allen
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AL HITS 6 OUT OF 7
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"I SAW LIFE IN THE BLACK BELT'-CLOSEUP OF A DIXIE PLANTATION,
by Abner Berry
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18 COUPLES WED QUIETLY, by Bernard Burton
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UNLAMENTED MUSSOLINI, by Councilman Peter V. Cacchione
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ARE RICH KIDS MORE INTELLIGENT? by Dyson Carter
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WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, by Howard Fast
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THE HASHMALL CASE, by Elmer O. Fehlhaber
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GIANT LOCOMOTIVE PLANT SHUDDERS TO STOP, by Ben Field
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LIFE OF THE PARTY, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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It Is Not a Crime to Be Foreign Born
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A City That Died
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WHY LET THE KIDS SWELTER IN THE CITIES? by William Z. Foster
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LINCOLN STEFFENS-MUCKRAKER, by Sender Garlin
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HE WAS A MAN, by Mike Gold
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HELL IN A DRUGSTORE, by Mike Gold
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NEGRO NAVAL HERO, by Eugene Gordon
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WILL 1920 BE REPEATED? by Max Gordon
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HOW FASCISM STEALS INTO A NATION'S SOUL, by Milton Howard
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IF THERE WERE NO MOSCOW, WOULD THERE BE COMMUNISM? by
Milton Howard
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50 WOMEN, by Claudia Jones
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I GOT ENOUGH—I CAN'T STAND NO MORE, by John Hudson Jones
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A SOVIET STEEL WORKER, by Sergei Kournakoff
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THE TRUTH ABOUT SOVIET DEMOCRACY, by Adam Lapin
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PALE CHILDREN, by Meridel L e Sueur
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LOW-SEAM MINE, by Walter Lowenfels
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A MEAN WOMAN, by Beth UcHenry
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AH, THOSE FIGHT MANAGERS, by BM Mardo
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WHEN THE BOSS QUOTES SCRIPTURE, by George Marion
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POINT OF ORDER, by Alan Max
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A Solution to the Housing Problem
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How to Spot a Communist
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Price Probe
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THE STRANGE CASE OF CASPER BLODGETT, A Story by Alan Max
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ASBESTOS HEIR, by Louise Mitchell
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EVERY MINUTE COUNTS, by George Morris
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BANKERS' CONVENTION, by John F. Norman
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WHO ARE THE COMMUNISTS?, by Joseph North
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AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE DIMITROFF, by John Pittman
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THE NEGRO IN FILMS, by David Piatt
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THE MUGGITY WUMPUS, by Mike Quin
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GOLDEN TRUMPETS OF YAP YAP, by Mike Quin
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LEGION'S DARLING, by Harry Raymond
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TWO MINUTES, by Lester Rodney
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SELECTIONS FROM BROADWAY BEAT, by Barnard Rubin
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VICTORY FEAST, by Art Shields
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A TROTSKYITE'S SLUMMING TRIP, by Samuel SiUen
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THE ADVENTURES OF RICHARD, by Michael Singer
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The Kids Take a Beachhead
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Baby-Sitters
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The Bottle Business
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WE PHONE MR. ATTLEE, by Arnold Sroog
BLOOB BANK PROFITEERS, by Arnold Sroog
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THE TEXAS BLAST TELLS TRUTHS ABOUT AMERICA, by Joseph Starobin 214
EUROPEAN LABOR CONFIDENT, by Joseph Starobin
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"SCOOPS," by Lincoln Steffens
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A NEGRO SCIENTIST AND THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Peter Stone
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MME. CHIANG-CHEESECAKE AND CORRUPTION, by llona Rolf Sues
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THE ALIEN PLATYPUS, by Olive Sutton
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A CHRISTMAS STORY, by Herb Tank
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AND SATYRS SHALL DANCE THERE (Isaiah: 13), A Story by Spike Tarr.. 220
TEN TINSLEY SAYS
ABC Lesson for Victor
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How Anyone Can Be a Capitalist
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Care and Feeding of Capitalism
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MESSAGE FROM LONDON, by Eliot White
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LIFE BEGINS AT 2 TIMES 40, by Art Young
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