Mike Quin
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"Mike Quin" was the pen name of the American Communist writer Paul Ryan, who also used a second pen name, "Robert Finnegan". He is best known for his posthumously published book The Big Strike about t
Scene from San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, shortly after which Quin was born
Scene from the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, about which Quin reported and later wrote a book
New Masses
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New Masses was an American Marxist magazine closely associated with the Communist Party USA. It was the successor to both The Masses and The Liberator. New Masses was later merged into Masses & Mainst
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…short story, "The Sacred Thing", published in Scribner's Magazine. He also started contributing to the John Reed Club's Partisan magazine, as well as to New Masses and the Western Worker (predecessor of People's Daily World). It was at this time that "Mike Quin" was born. Under that pseudonym, he published a 1933…
New Masses cover by Hugo Gellert, May 1926
The New Masses featured the political art of a number of prominent radical cartoonists, including William Gropper.
Mike Gold was among the most widely recognized radical literary figures associated with New Masses.