Works of James P. Cannon

Letters to a Historian

These articles from the magazines Fourth International and International Socialist Review are based on letters Cannon wrote to Theodore Draper who was then researching his two-volume series on the history of the U.S. Communist Party

Written: 1954 to 1957
Source: Original bound volumes of Fourth International and International Socialist Review and microfilm provided by the NYU Tamiment Labor Libraries.
Transcription\HTML Markup: Andrew Pollack

Introduction; Birth of the Communist Party; The Early Leadership
The "American Question" at the Fourth Congress
Origin of the Policy on the Labor Party; Fraina - the Founder; Four Ways of Viewing the Communist Party
The Year 1923: The Reshaping of the Leadership; The Pepper Regime; Overthrow of the Pepper Regime
The Pre-War Left Wing; Foster and Browder; Foster in World War I; Origins of the Foster-Cannon Group
The Passaic Strike; After 1925
After Ruthenberg
Notes and Sidelights on the Year 1927; A Note on Zinoviev
Before the Sixth Congress
At the Sixth World Congress