Labor Defender
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Labor Defender (1926–1937) was a magazine published by the International Labor Defense (ILD), itself a legal advocacy organization established in 1925 as the American section of the Comintern's International Red Aid network and thus as support to the Communist Party.
Cover featuring Eugene V. Debs of rival Socialist Party of America (December 1926)
James S. Allen
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James S. "Jim" Allen, born Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), was an American Marxist historian, journalist, editor, activist, and functionary of the Communist Party USA. Allen is best remembered as the author and editor of over two dozen books and pamphlets and as one of the party's leading experts on African-American history.
James S. Allen was the editor of The Southern Worker, a regional newspaper of the Communist Party USA, targeted particularly to Southern blacks.
Philippines President Manuel Quezon preparing for an April 1937 radio broadcast. Allen was instrumental in gaining the release of jailed Philippine Communist leaders through Quezón.
1932 book