Radical Society is a quarterly journal published by Radical Society, Ltd. It continues the journal Socialist Review (US)

Socialist Review (US)

Socialist Review is a left-wing political and cultural magazine published in the United States since 1970...

. Timothy Don is the current editor of Radical Society. The journal is currently on an indefinite hiatus, due to editorial departures and academic commitments of writers; it is unclear at this stage whether another issue will be published.

History

Radical Society was launched in April 2002 with the 29th volume of journal. The founding editors of Radical Society were Kira Brunner, Gina Neff, Rachel Neumann, and Greg Smithsimon. Lisa M. Brown, an illustrator and wife of Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is an American author, screenwriter and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket.-Personal life:...

, designed the layout.

Volumes 29 and 30 were published by Routledge.

Beginning with volume 31 the journal was independently published by Radical Society, Ltd. of New York.

Purpose and Mission

In the first issue, the editors wrote that the inspirations for the journal were "both old and new--from The Masses

The Masses

The Masses was a graphically innovative magazine of socialist politics published monthly in the U.S. from 1911 until 1917, when Federal prosecutors brought charges against its editors for conspiring to obstruct conscription. It was succeeded by The Liberator and then later The New Masses...

and Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....

's Mother Earth

Mother Earth (magazine)

Mother Earth was an anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature," edited by Emma Goldman. Alexander Berkman, another well-known anarchist, was the magazine's editor from 1907 to 1915...

to the Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke...

 and the Paris Commune

Paris Commune

The Paris Commune was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and Marxists had taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first assumption of power by the working class during the Industrial Revolution...

, from the end of the cold war

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 to the beginnings of a new global justice movement

Global Justice Movement

The Global Justice Movement is a network or constellation of globalized social movements opposing what is often known as the “corporate globalization” and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.-Movement of movements:...

."

Authors and Artists

Radical Society has published an interviews of filmmaker John Sayles

John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...

 and historian Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...

, New Yorker writer George Packer

George Packer

George Packer is an American journalist, novelist and playwright.-Biography:Packer's parents, Nancy Packer and Herbert Packer, were both academics at Stanford University; his maternal grandfather was George Huddleston, a congressman from Alabama. His sister, Ann Packer, is also a writer...

, and sociologist Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic and an advocate for organized labor.-Social Text:...

. They have also printed essays by Ágnes Heller

Ágnes Heller

Ágnes Heller is a Hungarian philosopher. A prominent Marxist thinker at first, she moved onto a liberal, social-democratic position later in her career...

, Daraka Larimore-Hall

Daraka Larimore-Hall

Daraka Larimore-Hall is a labor and political activist based in Santa Barbara, California. He is the former President of UAW Local 2865 in California...

, Stephen Duncombe, Doug Henwood

Doug Henwood

Doug Henwood is an American journalist who writes frequently about economic affairs. He publishes a newsletter, Left Business Observer, that analyzes economics and politics from a left-wing perspective, and is a contributing editor at The Nation.- Early years :Henwood was born in Teaneck, New...

, Liza Featherstone

Liza Featherstone

Liza Featherstone is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on labor and student activism for The Nation....

, Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist and author. His books include: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis , a survey of the rise of the prison industrial complex from the Nixon through Reagan Eras and into the present; The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America...

, William Thornton, Lisa Levy, Daniel Radosh

Daniel Radosh

Daniel Radosh is an American journalist and blogger. Radosh is presently a staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He was previously a contributing editor at The Week. He writes occasionally for The New Yorker...

, Jennifer Lena and Allen Shelton.