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From New International, Vol. VI No. 7 (Whole No. 46), August 1940, p. 98.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
The New International has reapplied for second class mailing privileges. This course was taken when the Cannon Group proceeded to contest our mailing rights to the magazine in which they had never before expressed the slightest interest, nor in whose existence they were very much concerned. Rather than engage in a fruitless legal struggle with malicious obstructionists we have refiled. It has added to our financial burdens, but there was no other way for us.
Last month the Manager’s Column was omitted to make room for the splendid article by J.R. Johnson, entitled, Capitalist Society and the War. Judging from the response to the July issue, we are certain that the printing of the above article, taking up the entire issue, was well worth it. The issue has been almost completely sold.
Yet, the Editorial Board prefers not to print articles which take the entire issue. The chief reason why this has happened even for the first time is due to lack of space in a sixteen page magazine. We are planning to reissue the thirty-two page New International. Only a thirty-two page magazine will permit the publication of thorough analytical articles on the great problems of our time. A well-rounded magazine treating with the variegated issues of the war in Europe, American policy, the elections, the situation in the world labor movement, book reviews, archives of the revolution, and theoretical studies, is the need of the moment. The New International must become a thirty-two page magazine!
While the August issue is somewhat late in appearing, we have already prepared material for the September issue. We plan to make that a special election number with articles reviewing the political situation in the United States, the role of the two main political parties in the light of the war, American imperialist policy, and the currents in the labor movement. There is to be printed the concluding section of J.R. Johnson’s, The State and Counter-Revolution. Frank Demby is now at work on an article dealing with the factional struggles in the ranks of the financial ruling class. A discussion article on the nature of German economy is promised by Dwight Macdonald. These are some of the materials waiting to be published.
It is easy to see why the thirty-two page magazine is indispensable. But it cannot be had just for the asking. While there has been a good response to The New International, it is not near enough to guarantee the continued existence of the magazine, or its enlargement to thirty-two pages. How are we going to realize this absolutely necessary improvement? By donations, first of all! By an increase in subscriptions! By an increase of the bundle orders and a general increase of the sales of the magazine. If the peg is lifted on each of the items, we shall be able to hurdle the present difficulties and come out with the thirty-two page magazine in September.
We believe that this as good a time as any to call attention of the branches and literature agents on the outstanding debts to the magazine. The business office has communicated with all comrades in respect to this matter, but as yet the response is not what it should be. We want our accounts up to date, since that too, will go a considerable way in helping to realize the thirty-two page magazine.
Every comrade! Into the campaign for the thirty-two page New International. Let’s get all bundle order accounts paid up at once. All sympathizers and friends of the New International are asked to send in their donations and do their bit to help enlarge the magazine. We want more subscriptions and we want an increase in sales! We know it can be done. Just a little more effort all around and we’ll get it without delay.
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