The following May, Samuels worked with Thomas Cantwell, Joseph Presburg, Carl Quinn, John Turner and Ernest Young to relaunch the paper, with funding from Max Nettlau and Fauset MacDonald.
Samuels also called for attacks on employers, and praised a bombing at the Liceo Theatre in Barcelona, which killed thirty people.
Nicoll, who had been released in September 1893, was a leading critic, claiming that Samuels was a spy for the police, or a puppet of one.
From December 1893, Samuels began moderating his language, and he won re-election as editor of the Commonweal at the end of the month, defeating Nicoll.
In 1895, he joined Hardie's new organisation, the Independent Labour Party, and he won election to its London Executive Committee.