Radical Responses to the Great Depression - Radical Appeals to the Literati

Radical Responses to the Great Depression

Introduction

Unemployment, Hunger & Deprivation

Organizations: Labor Unions, Communist Party, Socialist Party

The Case of the Scottsboro Boys

The Case of Tom Mooney

Radical Novels

Radical Appeals to the Literati

Voices from the Right

The Spanish Civil War

Violence in Labor Strikes

WPA Federal Theatre Project

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The Anvil.

Sept.-Oct., 1933, front cover (top); March-April, 1934, front cover (bottom)
Moberly, Montana: The Anvil Press, 1933, 1934.

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First organized in October 1929, the John Reed Clubs were a successful and highly interesting project by the Communist Party to appeal to intellectuals and to recruit aspiring writers. Left Front, the organ of the Chicago Club, was, with the New Masses and the Anvil, the first to publish the work of Richard Wright. Wright was deeply shocked in 1935 when the John Reed Clubs were arbitrarily abolished to pave the way for the new Popular Front organization, the League of American Writers, and vividly conveyed his feelings about his whole involvement in the chapter he contributed to The God that Failed.

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