[American Radicalism] Group of 14 Issues of the "Proletarian News", and Other Periodicals Related to Communism, Anti-Fascism, etc.

Proletarian News
Chicago, 1939-1950. In 14 issues, comprising: November 1, 1939 (Vol. VIII, No. 7, Whole No. 83); September 1943 (Vol. XII, No, 9, Whole No. 126); September 1944 (Vol. XIII, No. 9, Whole No. 138); July 1945 (Vol. XIV, No. 7, Whole No. 148); November 1946 (Vol. XV, No. 11, Whole No. 164); December 1946 (Vol. XV, No. 12, Whole No. 165); November 1948 (Vol. XVII, No. 11, Whole No. 188); January 1949 (Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Whole No. 190); March 1949 (Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Whole No. 192); August 1949 (Vol. XVIII, No. 8, Whole No. 197); December 1949 (Vol. XVIII, No. 12, Whole No. 201); November 1950, mimeograph (Vol. XIX, No. 11, Whole No. 212); December 1950 (Vol. XIX, No. 12, Whole No. 213); May 1953 (Vol. XXII, No. 5, Whole No. 242). Folio. Each 8 pp.; mimeograph issue 12 pp. Variously toned and soiled.

A run of issues of the Proletarian News newspaper, the official organ of the Proletarian Party of America. Originally founded in 1919 as The Proletarian to serve the left wing of the Socialist Party of Michigan, in 1932 it changed its name to the above, and was discontinued in 1960.

Lot includes a group of eight other items, including: Puck (New York, October 26, 1887); Special Magazine Supplement The Daily Worker (Chicago, July 26, 1924); The Daily Worker (Chicago, August 30, 1924, Vol. II, No. 140); Demokratia (New York, March 1970, Vol. 3, No. 3); Printed broadside ad for "The Militant" (New York, ca. 1976); People's World (San Francisco, September 3, 1966, Vol. 29, No. 36); an excised front-page from an issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (May 15, 1886), illustrating the aftermath of the bombing at Haymarket Square in Chicago. Sizes and condition varies, generally good; usual wear to newspapers.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

[American Radicalism] Group of 14 Issues of the "Proletarian News", and Other Periodicals Related to Communism, Anti-Fascism, etc.