The Guardian, New York City, 1948-1992.

The Guardian began publishing in 1948 and folded in 1992. Each issue consisted of about 20 tabloid pages with some pictures, a fund-raising appeal or two, a small amount of Movement advertising, and perhaps an anguished essay about the failure of the Left to organize even in the midst of a collapsing economy. Their parent organization was the Institute for Independent Social Journalism, Inc., a nonprofit educational foundation. In 1985 their circulation was 20,000.

Their masthead proclaimed that The Guardian is an "Independent Radical Newsweekly" -- historically, they had remained independent of the Trots, Communists, Maoists, and other sectarians. This allowed them to publish some of the most informative reporting on international current events that the U.S. Left had to offer. But lately, all that's left on the Left is an increasingly bizarre multiculturalism, which simultaneously manages to be both overly-diluted and distressingly narrow as it celebrates everyone and everything except straight white males. Until they folded, Washington correspondent Jack Colhoun still plugged away at stories that interested NameBase users, and they still published informative articles on what was happening abroad. But too many issues would go by before I was compelled to clip an article and make room in my files. -- D.Brandt

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