outbreak of World War II, the Western Socialist could not be published in Canada as an anti-war journal. Beginning with Vol. VI whole number 55, October 1939, the periodical was published in Boston and became the official organ of both the SPC and the WSPUS. Its final issue was Vol. XL, whole number 319, 1979–1980. In 1947, the party's name was changed, this time to the present World Socialist Party of the United States. During the 1980s, the party began to publish World Socialist Review, the first issue being dated 1986. World Socialist Review has been published irregularly since then. Present The WSPUS rejuvenated in the mid-1990s due to the emergence of the Internet. As of September 2008, it has members scattered throughout the United States, including local branches in Boston and Portland as well as a regional branch in the area encompassing Detroit and Toledo, Ohio. Notable members Taffy Brown – Detroit Labor Journalist for Labor News Agency. Bill Davenport – founding Director of the United Auto Workers Education Department. Adolph Kohn – leading party member during the foundation period. J. A. "Jack" McDonald – former IWW, Industrial Worker Editor, Socialist Party of Canada member and owner of McDonald's Books (founded 1926; 48 Turk St., San Francisco); McDonald (sometimes spelled "MacDonald") published a periodical entitled On the Record. Frank Marquart – helped found the UAW, Education Director of the Briggs Local 313, Dissident against the Reuthers, author of An Auto Workers' Journal. Samuel Orner – former IWW Organizer, organized the 1934 New York Taxi Strike, served as the inspiration for Lefty in Waiting for Lefty. Bill Pritchard – former SPC member, Dockworker, founding member of the One Big Union (Canada), Defendant in the Winnipeg General Strike Trial, Mayor of Burnaby, BC. Issac Rab – active in Typographers Union as well as in Detroit and Boston socialist politics for 60 years. Publications The Socialist (1929–1938) () Western Socialist Journal (1–40; 1939–1980) World Socialist Review No. 1 (1986) World Socialist Review No. 2 (1986) World Socialist Review No. 3 (1987) World Socialist Review No. 4 (1987) World Socialist Review No. 5 (1988) World Socialist Review No. 6 (1989) World Socialist Review No. 7 (1991) World Socialist Review No. 8 (1992) World Socialist Review No. 9 (1992) World Socialist Review No. 10 (1993) World Socialist Review No. 11 (1994) World Socialist Review No. 12 (1995) World Socialist Review No. 13 (1997) World