Initially under the editorship of Peter Arshinov, after it published the Organizational Platform, the subsequent controversy resulted in his exit from the anarchist movement.

In 1925, Delo Truda was founded in Paris by Peter Arshinov and Nestor Makhno, two former confederates of the Makhnovist movement, which had attempted to establish libertarian communism in Ukraine.

[3] Makhno's articles were often written in a confusing polemical manner, to the frustration of Arshinov, who as editor had to constantly make revisions and corrections, which became a point of contention between the two.

[7] Later that year, Arshinov joined the Communist Party and before long had returned to the Soviet Union, leaving Delo Truda in the hands of Grigorii Maksimov, who transferred the magazine to the United States.

[8] With the magazine relocated to Chicago,[9] it shifted ideologically towards anarcho-syndicalism, while still keeping its pages open for contributions from anarchists of other tendencies.