Simons

1903 · 73138 — Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1903. First edition. Small octavo. 32 pp. Publisher gray wrappers lettered in darlk blue. An excellent copy. No copies located by OCLC.Algie Martin Simons was an American socialist journalist newspaper editor and political activist best remembered as the editor of The International Socialist Review for nearly a decade. Originally an adherent of the Socialist Labor Party of America and a founding member of the Socialist Party of America. In addition to his position as editor of the Chicago weekly The Workers' Call and to his role in the formation of the Socialist Party of America Algie Simons occupied a prominent place in the affairs of the largest Marxist publisher in the United States to that date Charles H. Kerr & Co. of Chicago. In 1900 Kerr decided to publish his own lefty periodical and called it the The International Socialist Review It was a monthly magazine published in Chicago Illinois by Charles H. Kerr & Co. from 1900 until 1918. The magazine was chiefly a Marxist theoretical journal during its first years under the editorship of A.M. Simons and featured such writes as William Thurston Brown English social democrat Henry Hyndman AF of L trade union activist Max S. Hayes and Marcus Hitch. Beginning in 1908 the publication took a turn to the left with publisher Charles H. Kerr taking over the main editorial task. Charles H. Kerr & Company unknown