Left-wing Publications

Eight Topical Galleries

   1928 General Election
   Political Parties
   Farmers’ Movements
   Labor Movement
   Labor Disputes
   May Day
   Leftwing Publications / Marxism
   Leftwing Theater & Art

Images: Ohara Institute for Social
Research, Hosei University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
© 2013 Visualizing Cultures

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Leftwing protest in the 1920s and 1930s was commonly led by intellectuals versed in Marxist, socialist, and communist theory and practice—much of which was readily accessible through translations and commentaries in the print media. A variety of “proletarian” newspapers, magazines, and booklets disseminated these views to the working class. The last graphic here, dated 1933, announces a major symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx—and is accompanied (on the right-hand side) by advertisements for a range of leftwing books and pamphlets.