This article is about the magazine published by the Socialist Workers Party of the United States. For the British newspaper publisher, see News International. For the British magazine, see New Internationalist. For the Pakistani newspaper, see The News International. For the book by Jacues Derrida, see Specters of Marx.
Since the magazine's resumption in 1983, The New International has included articles written by leaders of the 'Pathfinder tendency' which left the Fourth International in the 1980s. Content focuses on speeches and resolutions of the SWP's biannual conference, and archival documents by Bolshevik and Castroistcommunists. It is now published roughly once every two years.
The magazine's last publication (online) was a 2008 issue with a covers story entitled "Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X" by Jack Barnes. Other articles were: "The Clintons' Antilabor Legacy: Roots of the 2008 World Financial Crisis", "The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class", and "Setting the Record Straight on Fascism and World War II: Building a World Federation of Democratic Youth that Fights Imperialism and War".[3]
When Shachtman and his associates split from the SWP to form the Workers Party in 1940, they brought the journal to the new organization: an action regarded by the SWP as theft. The SWP replaced New International with Fourth International, later called International Socialist Review.
The New International Publishing Company published the magazine from 1934 to 1958 as "a monthly organ of revolutionary Marxism." From 1934 to 1949, it published monthly. Publication suspended from July 1936 to December 1937 and also in Jan. 1940. In this period, publishers changed several times:
January 1935 - June 1936: Workers Party of the U.S.
January 1938 - April 1940: Socialist Workers Party
May 1940 - May 1949: Workers Party of the U.S.
May 1949 - Spring/Summer 1958: Independent Socialist League[1]
In the September–October 1952 issue, the major advertiser was the Labor Action Book Service (named after the ISL's newspaper).[4]
January–February 1950 to January–February 1953: Emmanuel Garrett (Shachtman as “formal editor”)
March–April 1952 to 1958: Julius Falk as managing editor (Shachtman as “editor”)[5]
The September–October 1952 issue lists Shachtman as editor and Julius Falk as managing editor. Contributors include: Gordon Haskell, G. Zinoviev, and Albert Gates (Albert Glotzer). Forthcoming issues would have contributions from Ben Hall, Shachtman, and Zinoviev.[4]
