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Daily Worker Publishing Company

Defunct

The publisher of the legal American communist party in the 1920s, the Workers Party of America, whose literature department and the Daily Worker Publishing Company in Chicago issued the first American editions of Lenin and the party's pamphlets until Workers Library Publishers took over in New York.

Years
1922–1929
Location
Chicago, United States
Name history
  1. 1922–1925 Workers Party of America
  2. 1924–1929 Daily Worker Publishing Company
Also known as
Workers Party of America · Literature Department, Workers Party of America
Affiliation
Workers (Communist) Party of America
Languages
English
Succeeded by
Workers Library Publishers
Authority records
Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND · ISNI · BnF
Sources
Wikipedia — Communist Party USA

Backlist

1101920Founded 1922Closed 19291921: 2 titles1922: 4 titles1923: 7 titles1924: 5 titles1925: 11 titles1926: 5 titles1927: 3 titles1929: 2 titles
Titles of Daily Worker Publishing Company by year: 39 dated titles, 1921–1929, most in 1925 (11); 3 undated. Lines mark founded 1922 and closed 1929.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1920s39
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1921Should Communists Participate in Reactionary Trade Unions?✓Free
Harvard Social History/business Preservation Microfilm Project -- 25202
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1921The American Foreign-Born Workers✓FreeClarissa S. WareEnglish
1922Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism)✓Free — A Reply to Karl KautskyLeon TrotskyEnglish
1922Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) a Reply to Karl Kautsky, by Leon Trotsky [Pseud.] with a Preface by H. N. Brailsford, and a Foreword by Max Bedact✓Free
Workers Party Library, Vol. I
Leon TrotskyEnglish, Russian
1922For a Labor Party✓Free — Recent Revolutionary Changes in American Politics: A Statement by the Workers PartyCommunist Party of the United States of AmericaEnglish
1922For a Labor Party: Recent Revolutionary Changes in American PoliticsFreePepper, John, flEnglish
1923"Underground Radicalism"✓Free — An Open Letter to Eugene v. Debs and to All Honest Workers Within the Socialist Party
Harvard Social History/business Preservation Microfilm Project -- 25198
John PepperEnglish
1923For a Labor Party✓Free — Recent Revolutionary Changes in American PoliticsJohn PepperEnglish
1923Strategy of the Communists✓ — A Letter from the Communist International to the Mexican Communist PartyCommunist International. Executive Committee & Partido Communista MexicanoEnglish
1923The American Foreign-Born Workers✓FreeClarissa S. WareEnglish
1923The Government--strikebreaker✓Free — A Study of the Role of the Government in the Recent Industrial Crisis
Workers Party Library -- v. 2
Jay LovestoneEnglish
1923The Labor Lieutenants of American Imperialism✓FreeJay LovestoneEnglish
1923Why Every Worker Should Be a Communist and Join the Workers PartyFreeCharles E. RuthenbergEnglish
1924Class Struggle vs Class Collaboration✓Free
The Little Red Library -- No.2
Earl BrowderEnglish
1924Nikolai Lenin✓Free — His Life and WorkGrigory Yevseyevich ZinovyevEnglish
1924The Daily Worker✓Workers (Communist) Party of America & Communist PartyEnglish
1924The La Follette Illusion as Revealed in an Analysis of the Political Role of Senator Robert M. La Follette✓FreeJay LovestoneEnglish
1924The State and RevolutionFree — Marxist Teaching on the State and the Task of the Proletariat in the RevolutionVladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1925American Imperialism✓Free — The Menace of the Greatest Capitalist World PowerJay LovestoneEnglish
1925Class Struggle vs. Class Collaboration✓Free
The Little Red Library -- No. 2
Earl Browder & Communist Party of the United States of AmericaEnglish
1925Fairy Tales for Workers' Children✓FreeHermynia Zur MühlenEnglish
1925Leninism or Trotskyism✓FreeGrigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev, Joseph Stalin, Lev Borisovich Kamenev & Communist PartyEnglish
1925Poems for Workers✓Free — An Anthology
The Little Red Library -- No. 5
Manuel GomezEnglish
1925Principles of CommunismFree
The Little Red Library, No. 3
Friedrich Engels & Max BedachtEnglish
1925Principles of Communism: (Engels' Original Draft of the Communist Manifesto)FreeEngels, Friedrich 1820-1895. Bedacht, MaxEnglish
1925The Fourth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party of America✓Free — Report of the Central Executive Committee to the 4th National Convention...resolutions of the Parity Commission and OthersWorkers (Communist) Party (United States). National ConventionEnglish
1925The Fourth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party of America: Report of the Central Executive Committee to the 4th National Convention Held in Chicago, Illinois, August 21st to 30th, 1925: Resolutions of the Parity Commission and OthersFreeWorkers (Communist) Party of AmericaEnglish
1925The Theory and Practice of LeninismFreeJoseph StalinEnglish
1925Worker Correspondents✓Free — What? When? Where? Why? How?
The Little Red Library -- No. 4
William F. DunneEnglish
1926Cons Titution of the U.S.S.R.✓ — Rights of the Trade Unions in the U.S.S.R.
Little Red Library -- No. 10
Soviet UnionEnglish
1926Elements of Political Education✓FreeAleksandr Ivanovich BerdnikovEnglish
1926The Awakening of China, by James H. Dolsen✓FreeJames H. DolsenEnglish
1926The General Strike and the General BetrayalFreeJohn PepperEnglish
1926The Menace of Opportunism✓ — A Contribution to the Bolshevization of the Workers (Communist) PartyMax BedachtEnglish
1927Red Cartoons of 1927 from the Daily Worker and the Workers Monthly✓—English
1927The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti in Cartoons from the Daily Worker✓FreeFred EllisEnglish
1927Worker Correspondents: What? When? Where? Why? How?FreeWilliam F. DunneEnglish
1929The Farmer-Labor United Front✓FreeCharles E. RuthenbergEnglish
1929The Theory and Practice of Leninism✓FreeJoseph StalinEnglish
n.d.How Class Collaboration WorksFree
The Little Red Library -- No.9
Bertram D. WolfeEnglish
n.d.Marx and Engels on Revolution in AmericaFree
The Little Red Library -- No.6
Heinz NeumannEnglish
n.d.Questions and Notes on "the A.B.C. of Communism" for Study Class Use — Including the Purpose of Communist Education and How to Organize and Conduct a Study Class—English