Masses & Mainstream (1948-1963) was an American Marxist monthly publication headquartered in New York City.
The magazine resulted from a merger between New Masses, which ceased publication in January 1948, and Mainstream, a Communist cultural quarterly established in 1947.
Du Bois, Mike Gold, Herbert Aptheker, Phillip Bonosky, Lloyd L. Brown, Annette Rubinstein, and John Howard Lawson.
[2] Although many of the magazine's best-known contributors had written for New Masses before World War II, Masses & Mainstream also provided a platform for younger writers such as Howard Fast, Thomas McGrath, Eve Merriam, Jesús Colón, and Lorraine Hansberry.
[4] In addition to its monthly magazine, Masses & Mainstream published a small number of pamphlets and books, including:[5]