New Leader
The New Leader was an American magazine in print from 1924 to 2006.[1]
It was founded in New York in January 1924, under the editorship of James Oneal, as an official organ of the Socialist Party of America.[2] Its editorial line was aligned with the anti-communism of the party's "Old Guard" and of trade union leaders like David Dubinsky.[3]
When the Old Guard left the Socialist Party in 1936, the New Leader became the official organ of their new vehicle, the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). During this period tensions began to arise between Oneal and business manager Sol Levitas, an exiled Russian Menshevik who prioritised anti-communism at the expense of positive social democracy. After Oneal resigned in 1940, the paper established links with the Union for Democratic Action, eventually breaking the connection with the SDF.[3]
By spring 1940, the New Leader was receiving subsidies from Dubinsky's ILGWU and Sydney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.[4]
In 1949, the New Leader printed an article by Allen Dulles, calling for the US to establish an internal security commission.[3]
By 1951, Irving Brown was arranging free subscriptions in Europe, as a way of subsidising the magazine.[5] On at least three occasions, at around the same time, the CIA's Tom Braden handed sums of around $10,000 directly to Levitas.[6]
In 1953, C.D. Jackson arranged a $5,000 dollar annual grant from Time in return for research data on international communism.[5]
The National Committee for a Free Europe paid the New Leader an annual subsidy of $25,000 until 1955.[7]
People
- James Oneal - Editor 1924-1940
- Sol Levitas - Editor 1936-1961
- Myron Kolatch - Editor 1961-2006
- Melvin Lasky - Literary Editor 1942-32, Foreign correspondent.
- Daniel Bell - 1941-1944
- Irving Kristol - Contributor 1946-75[8]
External Resources
- thenewleader.com - Official website.
- Guide to the New LeaderRecords TAM.271, Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives, New York University.
- New Leader records, 1895-2008 (bulk dates, 1924-2006), Columbia University Libraries.
Notes
- ↑ Myron Kolatch, Who We Are and Where We Came From, newleader.com, 2006.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? Frank Cass, 2003, p.123.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? Frank Cass, 2003, p.124. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Wilford124" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Harvey A. Levenstein, Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO, Greenwood University Press, 1981, p.108.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? Frank Cass, 2003, p.134.
- ↑ Frances Stonor-Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? Granta Books, 1999, p.163.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? Frank Cass, 2003, p.135.
- ↑ Myron Kolatch, Between Issues, New Leader, September-October 2009.
