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James Patrick Cannon (February 11, 1890 – August 21, 1974) was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party . Born on February 11, 1890, in Rosedale, Kansas, the son of Irish immigrants with strong socialist convictions, he joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in 1908 and the Industrial Workers of the ...
26 mar 2024 · 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.
Early Years of the American Communist Movement. Letters to a Historian. Before the Sixth Congress. Source:International Socialist Review, Vol.18 No.1, Winter 1957, pp.24-25, 34-35. Original bound volumes of International Socialist Review and microfilm provided by the NYU Tamiment Labor Libraries.
James P. Cannon was an outstanding example for American labour radicalism, a life-long devoted and unwaver ing socialist and internationalist, a co-founder of both the communist (in 1919/20) and the Trotskyist (in 1928/ 29) movement in the United States, the founder and long-time leader of the American Socialist Workers Party
This second volume of Bryan Palmer’s biography, James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938, is a crucial contribution to our understanding of that tradition, grappling with both Cannon’s political and organizational strengths and weaknesses.
- Bryan D. Palmer
- October 25, 2021
10 apr 2015 · A political history of the United States during the Depression era cannot neglect the role played by James P. Cannon. Those that make such an omission invite substantial critique, as Cannon's life ...
31 dic 2022 · Throughout the 1920s, up to his expulsion from the CPUSA in 1928, Cannon was a prominent public Communist – best known as the party’s first Chairman and for his contributions to its trade union and labour defense work – as well as a key leader of the Foster-Cannon faction within the party.
