The Liberator

Addendum to 2009 Introduction — 2012/13 Updates

The Liberator project team of Tim Daveport and David Walters has grown to include Dr. Marty Goodman, a parallel project that was digitizing the journals of various organizations tracing their lineage back to the U.S. Left Opposition and the early Trotskyists coming out of the Communist Party USA. This project is called the Riazanov Project. The Riazanov Project has joined this effort and, with the input of Dr. Goodman, has resulted in stunning high-resolution scans of the The Workers Monthly along with some short text introductions on techniques he used to scanned and digitized these works. See these introductions here: Note on Scanning Techniques, and here: Note on Epson Scanner Settings.

David Walters,
Holt Labor Library,
San Francisco, CA
June 2012

May Day 2013 Update on The Liberator Project

After acquiring a almost complete run of the entire Liberator work has commenced by Marty Goodman at his scanning center in San Pablo, CA., on this important political and cultural project. We will be replacing the existing PDFs and HTML pages of The Liberator with newer, better scanned versions. We will be providing usable “Research Grade” scans that have a resolution suitable for excellent screen viewing, even when enlarged on a computer monitor. These will be the standard viewing formatted issues. However, we will also provide very high resolution scans of the entire issues and a distinct high resolution versions of the covers and art work suitable for printing on lazer or inkjet printers. The first issues should be going up in early May.

David Walters,
Holt Labor Library,
San Francisco, CA
May 1 2013

June 24 2013 Update on The Liberator Project

Martin Goodman, Director of the Riazanov Library Project in San Pablo California and Brooklyn, NY, has completed the digtization of The Liberator for it's entire run for the year 1918. These scans, presented in both a higher resolution printable version and a slightly lower resolution viewable resolution (for online reading) are presented with their associated high resolution art work of their covers suitable for printing on color inject and laser writers. Additionally, the pamphlets published under The Liberator rubric for this year have also been digitized or linked from other parts of the MIA. As the first year of The Liberator has gone up here, we have removed the old HTML versions from the web site but ware preseving the work that was done previously on our server for future reference and possible usage of individual artilces. Martin will start commencing the digitization of The Liberator for 1919 in July.

David Walters,
Holt Labor Library,
San Francisco, CA
June 24 2013

September 2013 Update on The Liberator Project

Marty Goodman of the Riazanov Library Project has completed the scanning of all The Liberators through June of 1921. Additionally all the art work for the covers are digitized by Marty Goodman and placed online through December of 1921. This effecively brings collaborative project to the half-way mark for the entire run of The Liberator.

David Walters,
Holt Labor Library,
San Francisco, CA
September 24 2013

The MIA Liberator

In an attempt to make this valuable resource available on the net, Marxists Internet Archive has embarked on a project to obtain and digitize the entire run of The Liberator. Issues were collected by MIA volunteers Tim Davenport and Mitch Abidor over a period of several years. Issues were painstakingly cut and sleeved in archival sheet preservers to prevent further chipping and tearing of the paper and to make them ready for scanning.

The first round of scanning and conversion to pdf format took place in 2006 and was performed by MIA volunteer Brian Baggins. Brian also worked at converting materials to html format, generating files which provided the raw material used to generate many of the revised files here.

After a hiatus of about two years, The Liberator project again began to move forward in 2009, starting with work on a new index by Davenport and David Walters. Additional scanning and conversion to html format of selected articles is expected to take place in 2009.

There are currently 11 issues of The Liberator run which remain to be acquired, all of which are noted in the index. If you happen to hold one or more of these issues and would be willing to loan them or sell them for use in this project, please get in touch: MutantPop@aol.com

Researchers needing immediate access to issues not available here are advised that a run of the publication exists on microfilm, available through the New York Public Library.

Tim Davenport
Corvallis, Oregon
March 2009