Something to Guard. the Stormy Life of the National Guardian 1948-1967

Belfrage, Cedric; Aronson, James

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“…Alongside Monthly Review, the National Guardian was another crucial publication for the continuity of progressive discourse during the 1950s and 1960s. Even after 1968 when the National Guardian embraced Third World Marxism and a narrow segment of the 1970s left, it continued to serve as a forum for a plurality of views, resisting capture by any one group (Belfrage andAronson 1978, Munk 1968). book publishing and fundraising capabilities.…”

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Radical Economics as Journalism: The Origins of Dollars & Sense

Mata

2018

Review of Radical Political Economics

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In this essay, I argue that radical economics innovated in the communication of economic ideas, engendering new idioms and print formats to intervene in circuits of progressive activism. The essay mentions the pamphlet work of the Union for Radical Political Economics' various public engagement projects of the early 1970s but at its heart is the 1974 founding of the mass distribution monthly Dollars & Sense. It looks at the positions taken by the periodical over the years and asks, "What kind of print object was it?" It places the publication within a twentieth century history of left political economy periodicals and compares it with its closest contemporaries in the cultures of print of the American Left, notably Monthly Review and Radical America. The attention to the print ventures of radical economics in the 1970s is a contribution to a new kind of historiography that takes an expanded and extra-curricular outlook of economics.

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Radical Economics as Journalism: The Origins of Dollars & Sense

Mata

2018

Review of Radical Political Economics

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Three Cold-War Texts and a Critique of Imperialism

Munro

2017

The Anticolonial Front

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LAP’s Remarkable Editorial Core

Bollinger¹

2013

Latin American Perspectives

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Progressive publications are fragile institutions. Most appear and then collapse with the ebb and flow of the movements that spawn them. In its early years, Latin American Perspectives passed through crises that could have destroyed it. The Southern California group of editors is a genuine collective to which dozens of members have devoted a great deal of time over many years, each making personal sacrifices for the good of the whole. But, in my opinion, the journal's success is also a testament to the core group of five who nurtured it and never wavered in their commitment to its mission. As perhaps the youngest member of the original editorial collective, I was privileged to be mentored by that fiveperson core: Tim Harding, Ron and Fran Chilcote, Marjorie and Don Bray.My journey into their circle began 10 years earlier in an exchange program at Fisk University, where I discovered the centrality of race in U.S. history and decided to become a historian. 1 In Nashville I received training in civil disobedience from a group developed by the Rev. James Lawson. 2 Curiosity about the world awakened at Fisk led me into the U.S. Peace Corps, which began my attachment to Latin America-helped along by love and marriage.For two years in Peru I watched helplessly as the United States expanded its war in Vietnam, and I was ready to join Students for a Democratic Society as soon as I returned to California in 1967. The leader of the University of California, Irvine, chapter, Patty Lee Parmalee, informed me that there was just one requirement for membership: subscribe to the National Guardian, a progressive weekly published in New York and the first publication about which I became passionate. 3 I remember how indignant I felt when I learned that the United States had deported one of its founders, Cedric Belfrage. 4 The Guardian went through a succession of crises, and I feared it would disappear. 5 I loved my professors at the University of California, Los Angeles, where I moved in 1968. Prowling the marvelous Latin America collections in its library was a daily adventure. But, wishing to connect historical studies with solidarity activism, I was drawn to the Latin Americanists at California State University, Los Angeles. Everyone knew about "Harding and the Brays," scholars intimately connected to the political and social movements of Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and other countries. Marjorie Bray introduced me to Ron and Fran Chilcote (if I recall correctly, during an antiwar march down the middle of Wilshire Boulevard). The internationalism they practiced led to the formation of the Los Angeles Group for Latin American Solidarity (LAGLAS), of which I served as treasurer. As did coalitions in other large U.S. cities, LAGLAS coordinated visits by Latin American activists, musicians, and scholars, bringing the U.S. public into direct connection with the continent's revolutionary movements.William Bollinger has taught Latin American studies at California State University, Los Angeles, since 1976. He is a founding member and honor...

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Something to Guard. the Stormy Life of the National Guardian 1948-1967

Cited by 3 publications

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Radical Economics as Journalism: The Origins of Dollars & Sense

Radical Economics as Journalism: The Origins of Dollars & Sense

Three Cold-War Texts and a Critique of Imperialism

LAP’s Remarkable Editorial Core

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