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.

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1919 – 1922 | 1923 | 1924 – 1925 | 1927 – 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 – 1935 | 1936 – 1937 | 1938 – 1940 | 1941 – 1948 | 1951 | 1953 | 1954 – 1959 | 1961 – 1967

1919 – 1922

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

1923, February: Scott Nearing and the Workers Party

1923, March: What Kind of a Party?

1923, November: Our Labor Party Policy

1924 – 1925

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, August: Letter to Rose Pastor Stokes in Hinsdale, MA

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

1927

1927: Ruthenberg, the Fighter: The Passing of an American Pioneer

1928

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

1928: To The Party Members

1928: Concerning Our Expulsion

1928: Fortress Of The World Revolution

1928: The Party “Discussion” Opens!

1928: Trotsky’s Book and It's Bourgeois Critics (A review of Leon Trotsky̱s ‘The Real Situation In Russia’)

1928: Gangsterism!

1928, December 17 : Our Appeal Against Expulsion from the Communist Party

1929

1929, January 1: A Burglary—Its Political Meaning

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

1929: Results Of The Party Convention

1929: Next Steps in the Struggle

1929: The Labor Revolt In The South

1929: Organize The Unorganized Communists

1929: The Lost Leader

1929: May Day—Our Conference and The Trade Unions

1929: Conference of the Opposition Communists

1929: The Crisis In The Communist Party

1929: Vincent St. John

1930

1930: Aftermath of the Needle Trades Convention

1930, January: The Struggle For The South

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

1930, February: The Socialist Party and Radicalization of the Masses

1930:, April: Karl Marx, The Man

1930:, May: Character and Limits of Our Faction

1931

1931: Limits of the United Front

1931: The Capitalist Offensive

1931: The Union Square Meeting

1931: They Overlooked the German Situation

1931: Saving Germany From Whom?

1931: Even A Browder Can Learn

1931: Our Revolution

1931: Silk Revolt Growing

1931: A Reply To The Discussion (first contribution)

1931: A Reply To The Discussion (second contribution)

1931: Laying The Foundations

1931: Hail, ‘Young Spartacus’!

1931: An Apologist For Stalinism

1931: Amter Will Get Your Money Back?

1931: Where Is The Mooney Movement?

1931: The Case Of Theodore Dreiser

1931: The Marine Workers Tortured in Jail – Defendents Plead Not Guilty on Charges in the New York «Dynamite Plot»

1931: The “Hunger March”

1931: The Kentucky Miners

1931: Greetings To “Communistes”

1931: The Canadian Communist Trials

1932

1932: Foreign-Language Work Of The CLA

1932: Proletarian Party Split

1932: Darrow and the Scottsboro Case

1932: A Sorry Adventure

1932: Lassalle

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

1932: A False Slogan

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

1932: Statement on the Situation in the International Left Opposition

1932: Scottsboro

1932: Trade Union Unity and the ILGWU

1932: Centrist-Right Wing Unity?

1932: Weisbord Blows The Whistle

1932: For Genuine Reunification Of Communist Forces

1932: Stalinist-Pacifist Collaboration A Letter to Roger Baldwin

1933

1933: The New Party Turn

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 – 1935

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 Strike Wave and the Left Wing

1934: The Socialist Party Convention

1934: The New Militant

1934: Non-Partisan Defense

1934: For Fusion with the AWP!

1935: At the Crossroads in the Socialist Party

1936 – 1937

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 – 1940

1938: The New Party Is Founded

1938: Jersey City: Lesson and Warning

1939: The New Policy of Stalinism in America

1939: Speech on the Russian Question

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

1940: The Struggle for a Proletarian Party

1940: The Convention of the Socialist Workers Party

1940: Military Policy of the Proletariat

1940: The Pathology of Renegacy

1940: First Results of our Military Policy

1940: Militarism and Workers' Rights

1940: Lenin, Trotsky and the First World War

1941 – 1948

1941: Socialism On Trial

1941: A Statement on the War

1942: The Attack on The Militant They Collaborate with Fascists Abroad and Attack Freedom of the Press at Home

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

1943: Campaign for a Labor Party!

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: 1948 Wallace Campaign : ‘A Diversion & An Obstacle’

1948: The Two Americas

1951

1951: The Trend of the Twentieth Century

1951: Youth and Foreign Policy

1951: The Road to Peace: According to Stalin and According to Lenin

1953

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 – 1959

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

1954: Letter to Leslie Goonewardene February 23, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: Letter to Leslie Goonewardene May 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: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs April 13, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs April 24, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs April 28, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs May 12, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs June 3, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs July 16, 1954. From Toward a History of the Fourth International

1954: William Z. Foster: An Appraisal of the Man and His Career

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 1956: Letters to a Historian: Nine articles from Fourth International and International Socialist Review, based on 22 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

1956: Trotsky on America

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