The Revolutionary Age

With the establishment of the Left Wing National Council in June 1919, the paper was moved from Boston to New York City gained status as the official voice of the nascent American communist movement.

Many of these foreign language groups, particularly those hailing from the Russian Empire, were deeply inspired by the Marxist revolutionary movement which overthrew the Tsarist regime in 1917.

[1] Contributing editors included Scott Nearing, John Reed, Ludwig Lore, and Sen Katayama, as well as Nicholas Hourwich and Gregory Weinstein of the Russian Socialist Federation.

The front page of the tabloid newsprint publication was dominated by a banner headline warning against the war's continuation as a military intervention against Soviet Russia.

[5] Additional material was dedicated to the ongoing revolution in Germany, thereby assuring that the issue's whole content lived up to the slogan printed on the publication's masthead — "A Chronicle and Interpretation of Events in Europe.

[8] The Lovestone group, which including such veterans of the Left Wing Section Benjamin Gitlow and Bertram D. Wolfe, chose to pay homage to the seminal earlier publication by choosing the same name for their own official organ.