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The '''Guardian''' was a radical independent weekly newspaper published between 1948 and 1992 in New York City. The paper was founded by James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage and John T. McManus.
Supporters of the Progressive Party presidential campaign of Henry A. Wallace founded the paper in 1948 as the '''National Guardian''' to circumvent the increasingly pro-Cold War mainstream press. At the outset, the ''National Guardian'' formed part of a leftist movement in New York, along with the daily newspaper ''PM'' and the labor left in the CIO District Council 65. It published early campaign reporting by Norman Mailer. The paper continued after the campaign as a locus of support for the New Deal and the New York American Labor Party (ALP).
When other papers on the left would not or could not publish news about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the ''National Guardian'' closely followed the case. The reportage was so important to the defense that Aronson was named guardian to the Rosenberg's children.
After the dissolution of the ALP, the National Guardian supported the 1956 Independent-Socialist campaign of co-founder John McManus for New York Governor. The new initiative's vote fell to 35,000 from the ALP's 1950 vote of 208,000 and the left lost its ballot line. The paper remained outside particular party organizations, while continuing to advovocate a unified leftist party in the United States.
In the 1960s the paper became known for its independent and investigative journalism. Joanne Grant wrote groundbreaking articles on the Civil Rights Movement. Mark Lane wrote a critical account of the John F. Kennedy assassination in a special issue of the ''Guardian'' which appeared on December 13, 1963.
The paper changed with the times, but not without internal conflict. As the sixties progressed, the Aronson and Old Left leadership disagreed with a more radical staff about the direction of the paper. In 1968, Aronson sold his shares to the staff the ''National Guardian'' became a New Left publication, shortening its name to '''Guardian''' in the process.
In the 1970s the Guardian adopted a Marxist-Leninist ideology initially aligned with the Third-worldist and Maoist New Communist Movement and later oriented toward The Trend. The paper editorially called for a new Marxist-Leninist party in the United States. It never aligned with any particular group and remained critical of the small New Left party organizations. At the same time, it opened its pages to opposing viewpoints and continued a tradition of investigative journalism.
In the early 1980s the paper established Guardian Clubs for readers and discussed forming a new political party. The plan was abandoned as unlikely to result in unification of the American left.
The Guardian ceased publication in 1992 after years of financial difficulties and declining circulation.
★ Alternative press (U.S. political left)
★ Communist Party USA
★ Regroupment
★ Muckraker
★ New Communist Movement
★ Progressive Party
★ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
★ ''Left in Form, Right in Essence A Critique of Contemporary Trotskyism'' by Carl Davidson. Second printing Spring 1974. This pamphlet was originally published as a series of 12 articles in early 1973 in the Guardian newsweekly.
★ ''Oswald innocent? a lawyer's brief; a Guardian special'' description of pamphlet of the December 19, 1963 National Guardian
★ ''Which Way to a New American Radicalism'' by Harry Braverman. 'American Socialist', April 1956. An independent marxist article on regroupment, the National Guardian and the CPUSA.
★ The James Aronson Award for Social Justice in Journalism
★ Joanne Grant obituary in Guardian (UK) January 25, 2005
★ History of the Guardian Newsweekly Excerpted from Encyclopedia of the American Left. Includes picture of Editor Bill Ryan and Production Manager Eric Goldhagen taken in 1989.
★ Mark Lane Brief Bio on Spartacus
'Archives'
★ 'Cedric Belfrage Papers'. Archive #: Tamiment 143. Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
★ 'Sally Belfrage Papers'. Archive #: Tamiment 189. Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. New York University.
'Articles'
★ Colhoun, Jack. ''The Guardian Newsweekly Ceases Publication''. 'Radical Historians Newsletter' number 67. November 1992.
★ Georgakas, Dan. ''National Guardian/Guardian''. 'Encyclopedia of the American Left' pp 529-532 Oxford University Press Second Edition 1998. ISBN 0-19-512088-4.
★ Munk, Michael. ''The Guardian from Old to New Left''. 'Radical America' 2 (March-April 1968).
★ Rubinstein, Annette. ''The Independent Socialist Party.'' Paper presented at 'Explorations in the History of U.S. Trotskyism' conference. New York University, Tamiment Library, 2000.
'Books'
★ Aronson, James and Belfrage, Cedrick.'Something to Guard: The Stormy Life of the National Guardian, 1948 - 1967'. 362 pages. Columbia University Press. 1978. ISBN 0-231-04510-7.
★ Elbaum, Max. 'Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che'. 320 pages Publisher: Verso (June, 2002) ISBN 1-85984-617-3.
★ Grant, Joanne. 'Black Protest: 350 Years of History, Documents, and Analyses'. Ballantine Books; 2nd edition (September 29, 1996). ISBN 0-449-91223-X.
'Publications'
★ Allen, Robert L. 'Dialectics of black power'. Weekly Guardian Associates, New York. 1968.
★ Belfrage, Cedric. 'Why I am troublesome to the McCarthy mind'. Weekly Guardian Associates, New York. 1955.
★ League for Proletarian Revolution. 'Which side are you on? Reply to the opportunists of the Revolutionary Union, October League, and the GUARDIAN newspaper'. Red Star Publications, San Francisco. 1974
★ Munk, Michael. 'The New Left: What It Is ... Where It's Going ... What Makes it Move'. 22pp. ''A National Guardian Pamphlet''. New York. n.d. [1965]. Stapled softcover. Photos.
★ Pritt, Denis Nowell. 'An appeal for clemency'. National Guardian, New York. [1952?].
★ Smith, Jack A. 'Unite the many, defeat the few. China's revolutionary line in foreign affairs'. Guardian, New York. 1972.
★ Thomas, Tony. 'Marxism versus Maoism; a reply to the ''Guardian'''. Pathfinder Press, New York. 1974.
★ 'Women in revolution the 1979 Guardian calendar'. Guardian Publications, New York. 1978.
| Contents |
| ''National Guardian'' |
| The Name Change and the New Left |
| See also |
| External links |
| Guardian Publications |
| Related links |
| Further reading |
''National Guardian''
Supporters of the Progressive Party presidential campaign of Henry A. Wallace founded the paper in 1948 as the '''National Guardian''' to circumvent the increasingly pro-Cold War mainstream press. At the outset, the ''National Guardian'' formed part of a leftist movement in New York, along with the daily newspaper ''PM'' and the labor left in the CIO District Council 65. It published early campaign reporting by Norman Mailer. The paper continued after the campaign as a locus of support for the New Deal and the New York American Labor Party (ALP).
When other papers on the left would not or could not publish news about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the ''National Guardian'' closely followed the case. The reportage was so important to the defense that Aronson was named guardian to the Rosenberg's children.
After the dissolution of the ALP, the National Guardian supported the 1956 Independent-Socialist campaign of co-founder John McManus for New York Governor. The new initiative's vote fell to 35,000 from the ALP's 1950 vote of 208,000 and the left lost its ballot line. The paper remained outside particular party organizations, while continuing to advovocate a unified leftist party in the United States.
In the 1960s the paper became known for its independent and investigative journalism. Joanne Grant wrote groundbreaking articles on the Civil Rights Movement. Mark Lane wrote a critical account of the John F. Kennedy assassination in a special issue of the ''Guardian'' which appeared on December 13, 1963.
The Name Change and the New Left
The paper changed with the times, but not without internal conflict. As the sixties progressed, the Aronson and Old Left leadership disagreed with a more radical staff about the direction of the paper. In 1968, Aronson sold his shares to the staff the ''National Guardian'' became a New Left publication, shortening its name to '''Guardian''' in the process.
In the 1970s the Guardian adopted a Marxist-Leninist ideology initially aligned with the Third-worldist and Maoist New Communist Movement and later oriented toward The Trend. The paper editorially called for a new Marxist-Leninist party in the United States. It never aligned with any particular group and remained critical of the small New Left party organizations. At the same time, it opened its pages to opposing viewpoints and continued a tradition of investigative journalism.
In the early 1980s the paper established Guardian Clubs for readers and discussed forming a new political party. The plan was abandoned as unlikely to result in unification of the American left.
The Guardian ceased publication in 1992 after years of financial difficulties and declining circulation.
See also
★ Alternative press (U.S. political left)
★ Communist Party USA
★ Regroupment
★ Muckraker
★ New Communist Movement
★ Progressive Party
★ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
External links
Guardian Publications
★ ''Left in Form, Right in Essence A Critique of Contemporary Trotskyism'' by Carl Davidson. Second printing Spring 1974. This pamphlet was originally published as a series of 12 articles in early 1973 in the Guardian newsweekly.
★ ''Oswald innocent? a lawyer's brief; a Guardian special'' description of pamphlet of the December 19, 1963 National Guardian
Related links
★ ''Which Way to a New American Radicalism'' by Harry Braverman. 'American Socialist', April 1956. An independent marxist article on regroupment, the National Guardian and the CPUSA.
★ The James Aronson Award for Social Justice in Journalism
★ Joanne Grant obituary in Guardian (UK) January 25, 2005
★ History of the Guardian Newsweekly Excerpted from Encyclopedia of the American Left. Includes picture of Editor Bill Ryan and Production Manager Eric Goldhagen taken in 1989.
★ Mark Lane Brief Bio on Spartacus
Further reading
'Archives'
★ 'Cedric Belfrage Papers'. Archive #: Tamiment 143. Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
★ 'Sally Belfrage Papers'. Archive #: Tamiment 189. Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. New York University.
'Articles'
★ Colhoun, Jack. ''The Guardian Newsweekly Ceases Publication''. 'Radical Historians Newsletter' number 67. November 1992.
★ Georgakas, Dan. ''National Guardian/Guardian''. 'Encyclopedia of the American Left' pp 529-532 Oxford University Press Second Edition 1998. ISBN 0-19-512088-4.
★ Munk, Michael. ''The Guardian from Old to New Left''. 'Radical America' 2 (March-April 1968).
★ Rubinstein, Annette. ''The Independent Socialist Party.'' Paper presented at 'Explorations in the History of U.S. Trotskyism' conference. New York University, Tamiment Library, 2000.
'Books'
★ Aronson, James and Belfrage, Cedrick.'Something to Guard: The Stormy Life of the National Guardian, 1948 - 1967'. 362 pages. Columbia University Press. 1978. ISBN 0-231-04510-7.
★ Elbaum, Max. 'Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che'. 320 pages Publisher: Verso (June, 2002) ISBN 1-85984-617-3.
★ Grant, Joanne. 'Black Protest: 350 Years of History, Documents, and Analyses'. Ballantine Books; 2nd edition (September 29, 1996). ISBN 0-449-91223-X.
'Publications'
★ Allen, Robert L. 'Dialectics of black power'. Weekly Guardian Associates, New York. 1968.
★ Belfrage, Cedric. 'Why I am troublesome to the McCarthy mind'. Weekly Guardian Associates, New York. 1955.
★ League for Proletarian Revolution. 'Which side are you on? Reply to the opportunists of the Revolutionary Union, October League, and the GUARDIAN newspaper'. Red Star Publications, San Francisco. 1974
★ Munk, Michael. 'The New Left: What It Is ... Where It's Going ... What Makes it Move'. 22pp. ''A National Guardian Pamphlet''. New York. n.d. [1965]. Stapled softcover. Photos.
★ Pritt, Denis Nowell. 'An appeal for clemency'. National Guardian, New York. [1952?].
★ Smith, Jack A. 'Unite the many, defeat the few. China's revolutionary line in foreign affairs'. Guardian, New York. 1972.
★ Thomas, Tony. 'Marxism versus Maoism; a reply to the ''Guardian'''. Pathfinder Press, New York. 1974.
★ 'Women in revolution the 1979 Guardian calendar'. Guardian Publications, New York. 1978.
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