Political Affairs Magazine was a monthly Marxist publication, originally published in print and later online only.

Well-known editors of Political Affairs Magazine included V. J. Jerome, Gus Hall, Hyman Lumer, Herbert Aptheker, Gerald Horne, and Joe Sims.

Political Affairs shed its role as an internal organ of the Communist Party and adopted a broader stance.

The publication can be traced back to The Masses, the famous Greenwich Village paper of the 1910s.

Foster had begun Labor Herald as the official publication of his Trade Union Educational League in March 1922.