Archive of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
New Trends
New Trends Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 1945)
The Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 1945) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
Contents include:
-The challenge of unemployment by S. Morrison (a.k.a. Sidney Solomon)
-The 'Frisco fiasco by Jos. Harap
-The anti-Franco forces in Spain by Gabriel Javsicas
-The rude awakening by H. Simon
-The charter can work if...
-New Trends number one
-Three men in Berlin
-Atomic fissure vs civilization by Raphael Sico
-Notes and comments on our contemporaries
-France of today and tomorrow by Pierre Besnard
-Literature and life by Jack White (a.k.a. Jack Schlesinger)
-The fate of international labor by S.A.
-Books of today by J.W.
-Is World War III inevitable?
-Free grants of territories
-Facts and defects
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New Trends Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 1945)
The Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 1945) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
Contents include:
-Has Great Britain gone bankrupt? by George Michel
-This month: Behind the strike wave; Atomic bomb at home; ...and abroad; Foreign news
-World Federation of Trade Unions by Oliver Parish
-Warning from Texas by John Nicholas Beffel
-Labor's stake in tax reduction by Henry Simon
-A doctor's view of socialized medicine by Irving Byrd, M.D.
-Silone and the hollow men by J.S. White (a.k.a. Jack Schlesinger)
-Vargas hits a snag
-For white patients only
-Communism and Catholicism
-Diplomatic rupture by John Peters
-French labor and politics by Pierre Besnard
-Letter from Holland by Anthon Bakels
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New Trends Vol. 1, No. 3 (November 1945)
The Vol. 1, No. 3 (November 1945) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
Contents include:
-Labor swings to co-ops by Sidney Aberman
-Halt the firing squad in Spain!
-"34 bucks to take home"
-The atomic counter-revolution
-World government?
-Iran, U.S.S.R.
-Spanish libertarians adopt new program
-British imperialism in the Middle East by Nels Anderson
-Fog over the Tresca case by Eric Duane
-Nightmare in the west by Ina Sugihara
-Arthur Koestler: from logic to morality by J.S. White (a.k.a. Jack Schlesinger)
-Comments on contemporaries
-French syndicalism at crossroads by Pierre Besnard
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New Trends Vol. 1, No. 4 (January 1946)
The Vol. 1, No. 4 (January 1946) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
Contents include:
-U.S.A. beats a retreat by George Michel
-'New Trends" and Spain
-Fact finding
-"The wave of prosperity"
-"Free" elections
-France comes to the aid of Spain
-State Department tries to learn
-The Pope's political views
-The Atomic bomb secret
-Italy on the march
-Science as political weapon by A.S.
-White man's dilemma by John Nicholas Beffel
-Tresca case dogs Hogan by Eric Duane
-Origin of libertarian thought in America by Rudolf Rocker
-Will China turn fascist?
-Comments on contemporaries
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New Trends Vol. 1, No. 5-6 (February-March 1946)
The Vol. 1, No. 5-6 (February-March 1946) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
Contents include:
-New tactics for labor by Sidney Morrison (a.k.a. Sidney Solomon)
C.N.T. at home and in exile
-A slight change which requires an explanation
-Full steam ahead to World War III
-President Truman in conflict with "people's representatives"
-Military implications?
-French official labor against strikers
-Where are the mature?
-Death stalks the coal fields
-Shadows in "free" Russia by Joseph Harap
-The political problems of Spain
-In favor of collaboration (Reprinted from Solidaridad Obrera, Mexico City, December 8, 1945)
-Unite for the defense of Spain (Reprinted from Solidaridad Obrera, Mexico City, November 24, 1945)
-Youth and the terror (Reprinted from Solidaridad Obrera, Mexico City, December 8, 1945)
-An inescapable dilemma by Jose Viadiu
-Opposed to collaboration (reprinted from Cultura Obrera, New York)
-Spain-in-exile: its background by Gabriel Javsicas
-Accident or murder? by John Nicholas Beffel
-Ivory tower or market place? by J.S. White (a.k.a. Jack Schlesinger)
-Anarcho-syndicalism moves forward in France
-Tresca 'clues' on page 1 by Eric Duane
-Comments on contemporaries
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New Trends Vol. 1, No. 7 (April 1946)
The Vol. 1, No. 7 (April 1946) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
Contents include:
-Dark currents in Russia by George Michel
-Food as a political weapon
-Wheat for the French and starvation for the Russians
-Not enough whitewash
-De Gaulle: the modern iron mask
-No labor protection in Russia
-Political abstentionists pro tem
-"Settlement" in Iran
-Problems of Negro migration by George Creighton (a.k.a. Glenn Carrington)
-Goya's rebel art lives on
-Voices out of Spain
-An interview with Araquistain on the CNT
-Reveille for Mr. Alinsky by J.S. White (a.k.a. Jack Schlesinger)
-Do they understand?
-Not all the answers by Eric Duane
-Letters from Holland by Albert de Jong
-Vishinsky outlaws tolerance by Joseph Rose
-Auto delegates in action by Rose Pesotta
-De Gaulle a prisoner by Pierre Besnard
-From our readers
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Thanks to the New York/New
Thanks to the New York/New Jersey Workers Solidarity Alliance archives for scanning 7 issues of this. I kind of stumbled across this title, as it isn't mentioned in Andrew Cornell's book, and only briefly in Paul Avrich's Anarchist Voices.
There are 3 additional issues, going up to August 1946. I'm assuming it ceased publication because, the editor, Alexander Schapiro, passed away around this time.
Yes, many thanks to JC and
Yes, many thanks to JC and the WSA
Many of the same people who
Many of the same people who worked on "Challenege" or around some of the "The Vanguard" circles also worked on "New Trends" When I read the domestic labor articles I could see many of the writers held what I would, rightly or wrongly, call "soft core" perspectives. I think, thin, that one or two ended up in the Libertarian League. While scanning I was trying to figure out who some of the authors were. Been long time since I looked at the pub
Right quick, on a couple of the folks.
Gabriel Javsicas. * I met him a few times when he, Abe Bluestein ** and the Dolgoff's published the informative english language "News from Libertarian Spain". Although I found them insular and cranky at the time (except to our contemporary Maria G, who was from spain and did lots of their translations), we did our best to republish/distribute their stuff. While looking to see any of "NFLS"was on line (not really), I did come across one piece we ran
https://libcom.org/book/export/html/35778
It took me a long time to figure out some of their dynamics and why they acted the way they did towards us. The were veterans of the Spanish Revolution Period, put lots of time into defending and promoting the Revolution (Bluesmen actually being a CNT-FAI-AIT english language announcer). In some ways it was their "last" and lifelong project. They saw it as "theirs" and it was hard to understand at the time. Suspect there may have been more at play, but after 40 years of Francois repression, they did the best they could to help get the news out about the massive surge in CNT membership and libertarian movement. I salute their efforts and contributions in this regard.
John Nicholas Beffel *** I only knew of him He died a couple of years before I became an anarchist, then a wob. I would see mention of him and some of his stuff in the "Industrial Worker" and "The Match". He was well respected from what I could tell.
* https://books.google.com/books?id=8z8mdUYp-6gC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=Gabriel+Javsicas&source=bl&ots=cXCndWY0xP&sig=Bf8nUZjonqLAnHt5wv6wqr7bHeg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB6deNhpTOAhXEFj4KHddMBUoQ6AEIMDAD#v=onepage&q=Gabriel%20Javsicas&f=false
** https://libcom.org/history/abe-bluestein-anarchist-life-rebecca-dewitt
*** John Nicholas Beffel (1887 1973) "Radical journalist, publicist, and editor. A prolific writer of articles, essays, and publicity dealing with leftist issues, many pertaining to the syndicalist labor organization the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), anarchism and several noted anarchists. Beffel also produced short stories, autobiographical sketches and poems. Much of his activity involved defense committees for accused radicals in such cases as: the Mooney Billings Case in which the two men were found guilty of a fatal bombing during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco in 1916; the Centralia, Washington, case in which ten IWW's were accused of murder during an assault of IWW headquarters in connection with an Armistice Day parade in 1919; Sacco and Vanzetti; the Kentucky Miners Defense, stemming from the bloody “Battle of Evarts” in Harlan County, 1931; the case of Athos Terzani, an anti fascist accused of accidentally murdering a comrade during a fascist rally in New York in 1933; and the un¬solved political murder of anti fascist leader Carlo Tresca in 1943. Beffel was also involved with The League for Mutual Aid, a social service agency for leftists in need of assistance, founded by Roger Baldwin in 1920. Much of the boxes of correspondence relates to Beffel’s organizational and publicity efforts in these causes; much of the rest concerns his writings or those of his correspondents. Beffel edited several (published and unpblished) manuscripts, primarily by or about various anarchists (including Mikhail Bakunin, Rose Pesotta, and Harry Kelley, co-founder of the Ferrer colony in Stelton, N.J.), was interested in, and wrote about mysterious disappearances, and sometimes wrote articles under the names of Lancey Fitzgibbons, George Moresby, Mary Starland, Daniel Tower and others." http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_055/bioghist.html
Interesting 1932 article ("Four Radicals") of his: http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmMercury-1932apr-00441
http://www.unz.org/Author/BeffelJohnNicholas