Turning Point [16 issues]
Published by P.R. Club, Communist Party (Expelled), SPARK Maritime Committee for a Communist Party and Fore 'N' Aft [Later simply the PR Club (Expelled), and by 1961 the Communist League], New York, 1961
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- Magazine / Periodical
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Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
AbeBooks seller since December 14, 1997
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US$ 391.00
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Sixteen issues of the newsletter, originally mimeographed, with 1955-1956 issues more professionally printed; 8.5x11 inches, some issues toned, generally very good condition. Subtitle on issues up to 1954 is "For Peace-Democracy-Socialism," after which it changes to "Towards a new Marxist-Leninist Communist Party." Issues present are a supplement to vol. 1 no. 1; vol. 2 nos. 5, 6, 7; vol. 3 no. 1; vol. 4 no. 1; vol. 7 no. 4; vol. 8 no. 2; unnumbered issues from October and December 1955, vol. 9 nos. 2, 3, 4/5, and unnumbered issues from October, November, and December 1961. Journal originally published by the expelled members of the Bronx CP youth group, the Paul Robeson Club, along with the Maritime Committee for a Communist Party. Over time it attracted members who had not been part of the original expelled faction. The first issue here is an open letter asking Stalin to offer guidance to American communists who have lost their way. Later issues lament the "Revisionism" of the 20th CPSU Congress. Much discussion of how the CPUSA has betrayed the science of Marxism; what's needed to correct course.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Turning Point [16 issues]
- Author
- Burt, Ralph, Earl Price, et al., editors
- Publisher
- P.R. Club, Communist Party (Expelled), SPARK Maritime Committee for a Communist Party and Fore 'N' Aft [Later simply the PR Club (Expelled), and by 1961 the Communist League], New York
- Publication year
- 1961
- Binding
- Newsletter
- Seller catalogs
- 1940S, Communist Party USA, Labor - American, Marxism-Leninism, New York
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