''Labour Monthly'' was a

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

associated with the

Communist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPG ...

. It was not technically published by the Party, and, particularly in its later period, it carried articles by left-wing trade unionists from outside the Party. It was published from June 1921 to March 1981, and from its inception until his death in 1974 it was edited by leading Party member and theoretician Rajani Palme Dutt, with only a few months absence in 1922 where he was deputised by another leading party figure, Tom Wintringham.Hugh Purcell & Phyll Smith, Last English Revolutionary, 2012 LSE/Sussex Academic Press. The several-page editorial, entitled Notes of the Month, represented official CPGB policy. The intention was to try to keep open a potential channel of communication to Party members in the event of the CPGB being banned at any point.

Editors

:1921:

R. Palme Dutt Rajani Palme Dutt (19 June 1896 – 20 December 1974), generally known as R. Palme Dutt, was a leading journalist and theoretician in the Communist Party of Great Britain. His classic book ''India Today'' heralded the Marxist approach in In ...

:1922: Tom Wintringham (acting) :1922:

:1975: Andrew Rothstein (acting) :1976: Pat Sloan :1979: Harry Smith :1981: Andrew Rothstein

Authors published

Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and B ...

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"Proletarian Poetry"
(1918), ''Labour Monthly'', Vol. IV, No. 5-6, May–June 1923 ::* "The Criticism of Proletarian Art" (from ''Kritika proletarskogo iskusstva'', 1918) ''Labour Monthly'', Vol. V, No. 6, December 1923 ::

''Labour Monthly'', Vol. VI, No. 8, August 1924 *

V. Gordon Childe Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 189219 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and th ...

, "When Labour Ruled Australia", ''Labour Monthly'', Vol III, No. 3, September 1922 * Leonid Krasin * Dipak Nandy * Sanzō Nosaka ::"The Labour Struggle in Japan", part 1, ''Labour Monthly'' Vol. 1 August 1921 No. 2 ::"The Labour Struggle in Japan", part 2, ''Labour Monthly'' Vol. 1 September 1921 No. 3

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External links

Labour Monthly Archive
at Marxists Internet Archive
''Labour Monthly''
Vol. 2, January-June 1922. Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom Communist magazines Communist Party of Great Britain Defunct political magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1921 Magazines disestablished in 1981