James P Cannon (1890-1974) helped build the American revolutionary left. This study is both a biographical treatment of Cannon’s formative years as well as an examination of a pivotal epoch…

Preparing the communist workers movement in the United States to campaign against wartime censorship, repression, and antiunion assaults.

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, Cannon says, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and…

Lessons from the fight against incipient fascist movements since the capitalist crisis and labor radicalization of the 1930s.

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Workers’ leaders assess Father Charles Coughlin’s Social Justice movement and Mayor Frank Hague’s dictatorial antilabor regime in Jersey City in the 1930s, and the anticommunist crusade led by Sen. Joseph…

These articles span four decades of working-class battles in the US, including: defending IWW frame-up victims and Saco and Vanzetti; the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes; battles on the San Francisco…