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arrowOrganizations: Labor Unions, Communist Party, Socialist Party


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arrowThe Case of Tom Mooney


arrowRadical Novels


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arrowVoices from the Right


arrowThe Spanish Civil War


arrowViolence in Labor Strikes


arrowWPA Federal Theatre Project


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Left Front.
Sept.-Oct., 1933.
Chicago: John Reed Club, 1933.
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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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