The

James P. Cannon

Internet Archive

1920 to 1928: James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920-1928. The complete book, consisting of 66 articles, letters, extracts from minutes and speeches, plus an introductory overview of Cannon's role in the early CP. Published by Spartacist Publishing Company in 1992, introductory material and notes by the Prometheus Research Library.

1919, February: Open Letter to the Conference Called by the Authorized Committee of the 16 Standard Railroad Labor Organizations from the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America

1919, August: Letter from James P. Cannon in Kansas City, MO to John Reed and Ben Gitlow in New York, August 16, 1919.

1921, April: The Story of Alex Howat

1921, December: Speech at the First Workers Party Convention

1922, February: Open Letter to the Conference Called by the Authorized Committee of the 16 Standard Railroad Labor Organizations from the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America

1922, June: Report on the United States of America, a document prepared for the Comintern

1923, February: Scott Nearing and the Workers Party

1923, March: What Kind of a Party?

1923, November: Our Labor Party Policy

1924: How to Organise and Conduct a Study Class

1924, May: St. Paul—June 17th

1924, July: Letter to M. Hansen, Secretary, English Branch - Seattle, WPA, from James P. Cannon, Assistant Executive Secondary, WPA, July 22, 1924

1924, October: The Bolshevization of the Party

1925, March: On Boshevization and a Labor Party: Speech to the 5th Plenum of the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist International, Moscow—March 30, 1925

1928: For The Russian Opposition! Against Opportunism and Bureaucracy in the Workers (Communist) Party

1928: To The Party Members

1928: Concerning Our Expulsion

1929, January 11 : Our Appeal Against Expulsion from the Communist Party

1929: Where is the Left Wing Going?

1929: The Communists and the "Progressives"

1929: The New Unions and the Communists

1929: Platform of the Communist Opposition

1930: Aftermath of the Needle Trades Convention

1930: Passaic Strike Anniversary: Some Lessons in Militant Labor Leadership for the Future

1931: Limits of the United Front

1932: Two Articles on the Slogan "Rank-and-File Leadership"

1932: The Threat of Illegality and the Mood of the Workers

1932: Mobilize White Workers for Scottsboro Prisoners

1932: Trade Union Unity and the ILGWU

1932: Centrist-Right Wing Unity?

1933: The New York Unemployed Conference

1933: Albany: Three Years of Party Policy

1933: The Left Wing Needs a New Policy and a New Leadership

1933: For a United Front to Defend Mooney

1933: The Lynching Wave and American Fascism

1933: The AFL, the Strike Wave, and Trade Union Perspectives

1933: Strike the Hotels!

1934: All Out to Madison Square on May Day

1934: New Defense Organization Needed

1934: The Furriers and the Needle-Trade Unions

1934: Strike Call of Local 574 From the Daily Strike Bulletins of the 1934 Truckers Strike

1934: “ . . . If It Takes All Summer” From the Daily Strike Bulletins of the 1934 Truckers Strike

1934: Eternal Vigilance From the Daily Strike Bulletins of the 1934 Truckers Strike

1934: Spilling the Dirt—a Bughouse Fable From the Daily Strike Bulletins of the 1934 Truckers Strike

1934: Drivers’ Strike Reveals Workers’ Great Resources From the Daily Strike Bulletins of the 1934 Truckers Strike

1934: Thanks to Pine County Farmers From the Daily Strike Bulletins of the 1934 Truckers Strike

1934: The Secret of Local 574 From the Daily Strike Bulletins of the 1934 Truckers Strike

1934: What the Union Means From the Daily Strike Bulletins of the 1934 Truckers Strike

1934: Learn from Minneapolis!

1934: Victory in Minneapolis!

1934: The Meaning of Minneapolis

1934: In the Spirit of the Pioneers Labor Action

1934: The New Militant

1934: Non-Partisan Defense

1934: For Fusion with the AWP!

1936: Is Everybody Happy? Labor Action

1936: The Maritime Strike Labor Action

1936: Deeper into the Unions Labor Action

1936: The Color of Arsenic - and Just as Poisonous Labor Action

1937: Four Days that Shook the Waterfront Labor Action

1937: The Champion from Far Labor Action

1937: After the Maritime Strike Labor Action

1938: Jersey City: Lesson and Warning

1940, August 28: To the memory of the old man (Trotsky obituary) [speech]

1940: The Struggle for a Proletarian Party

1940: Military Policy of the Proletariat

1940: First Results of our Military Policy

1940: Militarism and Workers' Rights

1940: Lenin, Trotsky and the First World War

1941: Socialism On Trial

1941: A Statement on the War

1943: The End of the Comintern And The Prospects of Labor Internationalism

1944: The First Days of American Communism

1944: The Dog Days of the Left Opposition

1944: The Great Minneapolis Strikes

1945: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1946: Theses on the American Revolution [The American Theses]

1946: The Coming American Revolution

1947: The Treason of the Intellectuals

1947: American Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism

1948: The Two Americas

1953, 16 January: America Under the Workers’ Rule

1953, 23 January: What Socialist America Will Look Like

1953: Defending Trade Unionists And Revolutionists

1953: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs , March 9, 1953. From Toward A History of the Fourth International

1953: Letter James P. Cannon to Michel Pablo From Toward A History of the Fourth International

1953: Letter from James P. Cannon to Sam Gordon, June 4, 1953. From Toward A History of the Fourth International

1953: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs, July 9, 1953. From Trotskyism versus Revisionism

1953: Letter from James P. Cannon to George Novack, September 2, 1953. From Trotskyism versus Revisionism

1953: Letter from James P. Cannon to George Novack, September 3, 1953. From Trotskyism versus Revisionism

1953: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs, September 18, 1953. From Trotskyism versus Revisionism

1953: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs, December 7, 1953. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1953: Internationalism and the SWP

1953: Happy Birthday, Arne Swabeck

1953: Factional Struggle and Party Leadership

1954: Letter from James P. Cannon to George Breitman, January 12, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: Letter from James P. Cannon to George Breitman, March 1, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: Fascism and the Workers’ Movement.

1954: The Degeneration of the Communist Party and the New Beginning

1954: Trotsky or Deutscher? On the New Revisionism and Its Theoretical Source

1954 to 1957: Letters to a Historian: Nine articles from Fourth International and International Socialist Review, based on letters written to Theodore Draper, who was researching his history of the US Communist Party.

1955, June: The I.W.W.

1955, June: Engels on the American Question

1956: E.V. Debs

1957, June : Socialism and Democracy

1959, May 27: The Decision to Join the Trotskyist Camp in 1928

1959, Summer : The Russian Revolution and the Black Struggle in the United States

1960: American Radicalism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1961: New Revolutionary Forces Are Emerging

1961: Intellectuals and Revolution

1967: “Don't Strangle the Party!”

1967: The Revolutionary Party & Its Role in the Struggle for Socialism