Magazine covers from the Masses & Liberator magazines
Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University (excerpt):
The Masses, a richly illustrated radical magazine, was published monthly in New York from 1911 until 1917, when it was suppressed by the government for its anti-war and anti-government perspective ~ The Masses blended art and politics and included fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and illustrations by many of the leading radical figures of the day ~ the digital edition reproduces the holdings of the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University ~ to contact the library, please email special.collections@nyu.edu.
marxist.org (excerpt):
The Liberator, arguably the greatest radical magazine ever produced in America, began in the spring of 1918 as a successor to the New York left wing political, artistic, and literary magazine, The Masses, which had been effectively terminated by postal censorship and justice department prosecution during world war i ~ Masses editor Max Eastman and his sister crystal... determined to carry forward The Masses project in new clothes... the change of name did not mean a change of political orientation, however ~ as with The Masses, The Liberator continued to support various tendencies of the socialist movement, gradualist to revolutionary...
source information:
The Masses source page: <http://dlib.nyu.edu/themasses/>
Liberator source page: <https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/#tm>