Political Affairs

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Political Affairs is the online magazine of the Communist Party USA network and has also appeared as a monthly journal since at least the 1940's under an earlier name. The network includes the Communist Party USA, the Young Communist League and Political Affairs.

About

The magazine works to provide analysis and investigate what is new and changing in the world, from a working-class, Marxist point of view.

It publishes "stories on struggling to defeat the ultra right in the Republican Party, strengthening the labor movement, winning the battle for racial justice, ending war and imperialism, winning women's equality, fighting homophobia and presenting working-class views of popular culture and mass media."

Political Affairs was cited as a Communist Party USA CPUSA publication several times as found in ^[1].

From The Guide we find the following citations:

1."Among publications which "are or were during their existence official and controlled organs" of the Communist Party of the United States of America. "The record is clear that the Daily Worker and Political Affairs are used as means to inform respondent's [the Communist Party's] membership on the 'correct' views and policies, as well as to spread propaganda in behalf of the positions and policies of the Party, including those positions designed to win over the working class."^[2]

2. "Cited as an "official Communist Party monthly theoretical organ."

"Political Affairs, formerly known as The Communist, 'a magazine of the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism published monthly by the Communist Party of the United States of America,' now calls itself 'a magazine devoted to the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism." Its chief editor is Eugene Dennis, executive secretary of the party."^[3]

Personnel

2010 Political Affairs people;^[4]

As at August 1998, the following worked for the magazine:^[5]

Selected Issues of Political Affairs

"Political Affairs: Journal of Marxist Thought & Analysis", April 1971, Vol. L, No. 4 Self described as follows: "Political Affairs is published monthly by Political Affairs Publishers, inc., at 23 West Street, New York, New York, 10010. It's Allied Printing Trade Union "Bug" number was 209, i.e. that of the CP's Prompt Press shop.

Staff and Writers for this issue: (No staff listed)

• William Z. Foster - "The Paris Commune"
• Gaylord C. Leroy and Ursula Beitz - "Socialist Humanism and Second Culture" - Though not identified here, Leroy was a Professor at Temple University
• Michael O'Riordan - "Class and National Struggles in Ireland" - "the author is the Secretary of the National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland"
• Francois Hincker - "Roger Garaudy and the French Communist Party
• Herbert Aptheker - "Blaming the Victims" - Aptheker was the theoretician of the CPUSA

Communications:

• Gordon Ellis - "Steigerwald on the Frankfort School"
• Robert Steigerwald - "A Reply to Ellis"
• Robert Heisler - "On Criticism of Marcuse"

Book Review:

• William J. Pomeroy - "A Foreign Policy of Skullduggery" - a review of the book The Second Indochina War: Cambodia and Laos, International Publishers, New York, New York, 1970, by Wilfred G. Burchett

Pomeroy joined the communist Huk HukbalahapAnti-Japanese People's Army guerrilla movement in the Philippines after World War II, was captured and jailed for a number of years. The Huks were created during WW2 by the Partido Komunista ng Philipinas . For a brief history of the PKP and the newer New People's Army , see the [{House Internal Security Committee report "Terrorism"^[6]

"Political Affairs", May 1976, Volume LV, No. 5 - names of interest

• Therese D'Agostino - "Women as Steelworkers"
• Judy Gallo - "Some Trends Among Working Women"
• Grace Frederick - "Rediscovering the Dialectics of Nature"
• Grace Arnold - "My Parents"
• Communications:
• Carmen Ristorucci - "A Correction on the ERA"
• A. W. Font - "The Real 'Nate Shaw'"
• Lorenzo Torrez - "On the Columbian Situation"

"Political Affairs", September 1982, Volume LXI, No. 9

Editorial Board:

• Gus Hall - Editor
• Barry Cohen - Associate Editor
• Brenda Steele - Associate Editor
• James E. Jackson
• Daniel Mason
• Daniel Rubin
• Betty Smith
• Naomi Chesman - Circulation

"Political Affairs" Journal of Marxist Thought, April 1991, Vol. LXX, No. 4

Editorial Board:

• Leonard Levenson - Editor
• Phillip Bonofsky
• Lou Diskin
• Norman Goldberg
• Carole Marks
• Tony Monteiro - a college Professor
• Victor Perlo - an identified Soviet spy in the U.S. Government War Production Board during WW2
• James West

In Memoriam noticed about the death of Board member Thomas Dennis, 1918-11991

Address:Political Affairs Publishers, Inc., 235 West 23rd Street, New York,New York, 10011 (212) 989-4994 Printing Shop Bug 490M

Authors of Articles and Miscellaneous Items:

• Gus Hall - "Petty Bourgeois Ideology" - Hall is the Chairman of the CPUSA
• Tony Monteiro - "The Criminalization of African Americans" - "Tony Monteiro is a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA
• Michael Parenti - "Media Distortion and the Gulf War Protest" -"Michael Parenti's latest book, "Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment", a critical study of Hollywood films and television will be published in June 1991 by [{St. Martin's Press]] (No mention of Parenti having been a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies IPS]])
• Labor Commission, CPUSA - "Free Trade Agreements: The Threat to Labor"
• Mike Davidow - "Strengthening the Party: The Key to Soviet Stability"
• Fred Whitehead - "Poets as Legislators of the World" - in the Book Reviews section

Mail Box:

• James Lawler - "Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism: a reply to Goldberg and Godwin"

Cover Art:

• Sue Coe

External links

• People's Weekly World website

References