Red-Herring No. 2

Red-Herring No. 2
Publication	Red-Herring
Date	1978
Volume	1
Number	2
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Contents

Author	Title	pg.
	Editorial	2-3
H. R. Felton	The Artists' Union, N.Y. (1934-1938)	4-6
Ron Stevens	Meeting (story)	7-25
J. Byron	'Down with Shah': courageous Iranian students lead nationwide protest against the Shah's fascist regime	25-35
Langston Hughes	To Negro writers: given at the American Writer's Congress, 1935	36
Langston Hughes	White Man	36
Fred Lonidier	Art and unions in the U.S.	37-45
C.K. Conridge	Two roads	46-61
Steven V. Roberts	Social mobility found key to U.S. views on class	62
L. Lucha	The free world thesis	63-67
Helen R.	Listen close	64

Retrospectives

Michael Corris, 2017

[...] the second issue of Red-Herring had already been published and it­ was ­radically­ different ­than ­the ­first number. [...] I wasn’t [involved in its making]. And Heller and I felt that the new emphasis on social realism in art was, to say the least, mistaken. We had no interest to wallow in nostalgia for the 1930s. [...] it was a mix of mediocre social realist short stories, bad activist graphics, and pedestrian historical summaries of the 1930s. It was really promoting the worst kind of visual cultural propaganda. So this marked the end of the line for me in terms of working across art and politics. [...]