A Pathfinder upgraded edition. In speeches given over 40 years, a founder of the communist movement in the U.S. explains the living legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution; proletarian internationalism and the fight for power; Stalinism's rise and decline; the class-struggle road in the battle against national oppression and imperialist war; and the fight to transform the unions into instruments of revolutionary struggle. The greatest satisfaction a person can possibly have, Cannon tells young revolutionists, is to live the life of a rebel against capitalism, the life of a proletarian revolutionist.
 Photos, notes. Now with enlarged type.

Speeches for Socialism

James P. Cannon

Literature & Fiction

Pathfinder Press (NY)

"The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise, " Cannon asserts. On the eve of World War II, a founder of the communist movement in the U.S. defends the program and party-building course of the Communist International in Lenin s time. 
 Introduction by George Novack, photo, glossary, index. Appendix, "The War and Bureaucratic Conservatism," by James Burnham.

The Struggle for a Proletarian Party

History

Military

Pathfinder

Prison correspondence of a revolutionary leader jailed during World War II. Discusses how to educate and organize a communist movement able to stand up to wartime repression and prepare for the big labor battles that were emerging during the closing years of the war. 
 Introduction by Jack Barnes, photos, index. An upgraded edition with enlarged type.

Letters from Prison: A Revolutionary Party Prepares for Post-WWII Labor Battles

Americas

"Stalinism has worked mightily to obliterate the honorable record of American communism in its pioneer days. Yet the Communist Party wrote such a chapter too, and the young militants of the new generation ought to know about it and claim it for their own. It belongs to them."-James P. Cannon, 1962. 
Preface by Theodore Draper, photographs, index. Now in an upgraded edition with enlarged type.

First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant

The coming confrontation between the producing majority and the wealthy few, and a perspective on what the United States will look like under a government of workers and farmers.
 Introduction by George Novack, photo, index.

America's Road to Socialism

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pathfinder Press

Preparing the communist movement in the U.S. to stand against the patriotic wave inside the working class and unions supporting the imperialist slaughter and to join with other working people in campaigning against wartime censorship, repression, and antiunion assaults. 
 Photos, notes, glossary, index. Now with enlarged type.

The Socialist Workers Party in World War II: Writings and Speeches, 1940-43 (James P. Cannon writings & speeches)

The challenges posed by the post-World War II labor upsurge, the rapid expansion of openings for the communist movement, and the subsequent ebb in face of the stabilization of U.S. capitalism and the employers' antilabor offensive and witch-hunt.
 Photos, cartoons by Laura Gray, notes, glossary, index.

The Struggle for Socialism in the American Century : Writings and Speeches, 1945-1947

A Pathfinder upgraded edition. Articles spanning four decades of working-class battles--defending IWW frame-up victims and Sacco and Vanzetti; 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes; battles on the San Francisco waterfront; labor's fight against the McCarthyite witch-hunt; and much more. Preface by Joseph Hansen, photos, glossary, index. Now with enlarged type.

Notebook of an Agitator: From the Wobblies to the Fight against the Korean War and McCarthyism (paperback)

Dans 12 présentations faites en 1942, James P. Cannon raconte les premiers efforts des communistes aux États-Unis pour suivre l’exemple des bolcheviks et construire un parti prolétarien d’un type nouveau. Tout en se concentrant sur la décennie de 1928 à 1938, son récit commence avec la réponse politique des travailleurs d’avant-garde à la révolution russe d’octobre 1917 et se termine à la veille de la deuxième guerre mondiale, quand l’organisation communiste aux États-Unis prend le nom de Parti socialiste des travailleurs (SWP).Introduction par Joseph Hansen, préface par Jack Barnes, cahier de photos de 24 pages, index. Maintenant avec caractères typographiques plus grands.Aussi disponible en: English, Spanish

L'histoire du trotskysme américain, 1928-1938: Le rapport d'un participant (French Edition)

Russia

“El trotskismo no es un nuevo movimiento, una nueva doctrina”, dice Cannon, “sino la restauración, el renacimiento del marxismo genuino tal como se expuso y se practicó en la Revolución Rusa y en los primeros días de la Internacional Comunista”. En 12 charlas en 1942, James P. Cannon recuenta un periodo decisivo en la labor de construir un partido proletario en Estados Unidos. Introducción por Joseph Hansen, prefacio por Jack Barnes, sección de fotos de 24 páginas, índice. Ahora con tipografía más grande. También disponible en: English, French

La Historia del Trotskismo Americano, 1928-38: Informe de un partícipe (Spanish Edition)

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