International Publishers

International Publishers is a book publishing company based in New York City specializing in Marxist works of economics, political science, and history.

Publisher of the works of Marx & Engels, labor history, African-American history, working women's history, civil rights and liberties, and a Marxist approach to many other subjects. Brought V I Lenin's writings to the U.S. audience in English translation.

Works by many authors including: Herbert Aptheker, Phillip Bonosky, Virginia Brodine, Jesus Colon, Benjamin Davis, George Dimitrov, W.E.B. DuBois, Philip Foner, William Z. Foster, Antonio Gramsci, Hosea Hudson, Dolores ibarruri, Meridel LeSueur, Beatrice Lumpkin, William L. Patterson, Victor Perlo, William Pomeroy, Mike Quin, John Reed, Daniel Rubin, Art Shields, and many others.

Alexander L. Trachtenberg (1885-1966) founded International Publishers in 1924.

Trachtenberg was a leading writer, educator and publisher of works on Marxism.

As a student at Yale he wrote his dissertation on philosophy. First active in the Socialist Party, he was a founding member of the Communist Party USA in 1919. He wrote several historical works including a pamphlet entitled "The History of May Day."

Trachtenberg was jailed for his writings and leadership of the Jefferson School of Social Studies in New York City in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was jailed for contempt of Congress when he would not turn over school records to the McCarthyites.

He was active in the John Reed Clubs that spread on campuses and among artistic circles.

Trachtenberg is interred at the same cemetery as the Haymarket Martyrs, Lucy Parsons, and many other communists, socialists, Wobblies, and other radicals: Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, just west of Chicago.

Alexander L. Trachtenberg: Grave 76, Sector B.

For more information on the Cemetery, visit the Illinois Labor History Society website: illinoislaborhistory.org.

International Publishers Company, Inc., was founded in 1924 with funds given the project by A.A. Heller. Heller was the radical son of a wealthy jeweler doing business in Paris. He expanded his fortune as head of the International Oxygen Company, a welding supply company that operated a trade concession in Soviet Russia during the time of the New Economic Policy in the early 1920s. A lifelong socialist, Heller had previously been a heavy financial donor to the New York Call, the Socialist Party's New York daily newspaper. He had been instrumental in funding the purchase of the headquarters building for the Rand School of Social Science.

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