Memo

From The New International, Vol. XIV No. 1, January 1948, p. 2.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

We presume it’s quite unnecessary for us to draw your attention to the revolution that has taken place on the cover of the NI ... The old masthead has been going strong for six years (it came in with the January 1942 issue) and we thought we’d pension it off ... Besides the reversing of the masthead (black on white) and the smaller type used for articles, we might add that the new look means a more uniform arrangement of the cover from month to month ... There’s no use concealing the fact that we think it’s great, but we’d be glad to hear from you about it.

The preparation of the article by Max Shachtman on One Hundred Years of Marxism, in commemoration of the centenary of the Communist Manifesto, has been interrupted by Comrade Shachtman’s tour of the Workers Party branches on the west coast. It’s still pending ... A coming issue will also contain a round-up review of articles on the anniversary in the periodical press, reading from left to right.

There are two more essays which we want to excerpt from Trotsky’s book Problems of Life (see the first, Not by Politics Alone ..., in this issue) ... One discusses the effect of the Russian Revolution on the institution of the family, and the other is on the church and the movies as channels of education and propaganda ... They’re ready but unscheduled. The current series of articles by James T. Farrell on the great Irish revolutionist, James Connolly, will remind our readers of Farrell’s interesting article on James Larkin last year ... Both will appear as part of a book to be entitled Irish Essays, which will also discuss James Joyce among others. Among our contributors in this issue ... Luis Velasco is a South American Marxist who has been a frequent contributor to the NI. We should mention, perhaps, that his thought-provoking article in this number was written primarily as a discussion of social-structural changes in Latin America, not as a discussion of Peron the individual ... Henry Judd is a member of the NI editorial staff and at present acting editor of Labor Action; author of India in Revolt. As readers of both publications know, he is the leading American Marxist analyst of the problems of India ... James M. Fenwick runs the column Off Limits in Labor Action on matters of interest to GIs. He is also the Newark organizer of the Workers Party ... Al Findley is a regular writer for Labor Action on the Jewish question.

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