See the Wikipedia article on it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Masses
At its height, it actually had many distinguished writers contributing to it.
It successor, Masses & Mainstream, sometimes had good stuff too. I have some copies of that magazine from nearly sixty years ago which feature articles from people like W.E.B. Dubois and poetry from Lorraine Hansberry, who was then still a college student.
Jim Farmelant http://independent/academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> To: "lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] terrible political writer gets promotion Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:59:36 -0500
Michael Gold, for a Stalinist hack, was incredible. One of my favorite writers and some of his best polemics were in the New Masses.
On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:47 PM, "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
>> The Nation is excited to announce that our March 8th issue (which
>> goes live at TheNation.com next Thursday) marks the debut of
>> Melissa Harris- Lacewell's new column, Sister Citizen.
>
> I'd rather read the New Masses.
>
> Dennis
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