James P. Cannon

The Struggle for a Proletarian Party

(April/May 1940)


Published: Socialist Appeal, Vol IV No 16, 20 April 1941, p. 3, Vol. IV. No 17, 27 April 1940, p. 6, Vol. IV No. 18, 4 May 1940, p. 3, Vol. IV No. 19, 11 May 1940, p. 3, Vol. IV No. 20, 18 May 1940, p. 3 & Vol. IV No. 21, 25 May 1940, p. 3.
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I. What the Discussion Has Revealed

II. A New Stage in the Development of American Trotskyism

III. The Organization Question

IV. The Intellectuals and the Workers

V. The Case of Burnham

VI. The Case of Burnham (cont’d)



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