Red-Herring No. 2

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

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