''Labour Monthly'' was a

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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 CPGB ...

. 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 Rajani may refer to: * Rajani (name), people named Rajani * Rajani (actress) (born 1965), Indian film actress * Rajanikanth (born 1950), Indian actor * ''Rajani'' (TV series), a 1980s Indian TV series * ''Rajani'' (film), a 2009 Indian Kannada rom ...

, with only a few months absence in 1922 where he was deputised by another leading party figure,

Tom Wintringham Thomas Henry Wintringham (15 May 1898 – 16 August 1949) was a British soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, Marxist, politician and author. He was a supporter of the Home Guard during the Second World War and was one of the founders ...

.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 :1922:

(acting) :1922: R. Palme Dutt :1975: Andrew Rothstein (acting) :1976: Pat Sloan :1979: Harry Smith :1981: Andrew Rothstein

Authors published

Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer and Bolshevik revolutionary. He was a polymath who pioneered blood transfusion, a ...

::
"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, "When Labour Ruled Australia", ''Labour Monthly'', Vol III, No. 3, September 1922 *

Leonid Krasin Leonid Borisovich Krasin (; – 24 November 1926) was a Russians, Russian Soviet Union, Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. In 1924 he became the first List of ambassadors of Russia to ...

Dipak Nandy Dipak K. Nandy (; born 21 May 1936) is an Indian academic and administrator. Beginning his career as a lecturer in English literature, Nandy developed a greater interests in race relations and was the first director of the Runnymede Trust. He w ...

Billy Strachan William Arthur Watkin Strachan (16 April 1921 – 26 April 1998) was a British communist, civil rights activist, and pilot. He is most noted for his achievements as a bomber pilot with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War, and f ...

, often wrote under pseudonyms such as "Bill Steel" or "Caliban" * 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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''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