Langal was the second magazine edited by Kazi Nazrul Islam, the first being Dhumketu.
It was the official publication of the Labour Swaraj Party.
It published poems about the working class and articles on famous socialists and communists of the era.
[3] Rabindranath Tagore wrote a piece for magazine at the request of Kazi Nazrul Islam.
It was published on Kazi Nazrul Islams's hundred birth anniversary.