MIA: Comintern Writers: William Z. Foster Archive

William Z. Foster

 

William Z. Foster

(1881–1961)

 

 

 


Biography

 

Writings:

1910: Spokane Fight for Free Speech Settled
1910: Special News from France
1911: The Socialist and Syndicalist Movements in France

1912: Syndicalism (with Earl C. Ford) 📖

1920: The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons

1921: The Railroaders’ Next Step, Labor Herald Library No. 1
1921: The Russian Revolution, Labor Herald Library No. 2

1922: The American Federation of Labor Convention
1922: Gompersism in Full Flower
1922: The Crisis on the Railroads
1922: The Principles and Program of the Trade Union Educational League
1922: The Revolutionary Crisis of 1918–1921 in Germany, England, Italy and France, Labor Herald Library No. 3
1922: Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement, Labor Herald Library No. 4
1922: Radical Tactics

1923: The National Railroad Amalgamation Conference in the U.S.A.
1923: Amalgamation Movement in America
1923: Gompers Faces Triple Revolt

1924: Russia in 1924, Labor Herald Library No. 11
1924: An Open Letter to John Fitzpatrick

1926: Organize the Unorganized, Labor Herald Library No. 17
1926: Strike Strategy, Labor Herald Library No. 18
1926: Program for the Needleworkers’ Union

1931: Victorious Socialist Construction

1932: Toward Soviet America
1932: Culture and the Crisis an An open letter to the writers, artists, teachers, physicians, engineers, scientists and other professional workers of America

1935: The New Political Bases for a Labor Party in the United States

1936: The Industrial Union Bloc in the American Federation of Labor
1936: Unionizing Steel
1936: Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry

1937: What Means a Strike in Steel?
1937: The Convention of the American Federation of Labor
1937: The Renaissance of the American Trade Union Movement
1937: A Manual of Industrial Unionism
1937: Questions and Answers on the Piatakov-Radek Trial

1938: The Meaning of the Soviet Trials (written by E. Yaroslavsky but introduction by Foster).

1939: He Wrote His Name in the Heart of the Masses, tribute to Moissaye J. Olgin
1939: Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders

1942: From Defense to Attack

1944: Letter to the National Committee

1945: Organized Labor Faces the New World
1945: On the Question of Revisionism
1945: The Struggle Against Revisionism
1945: For a Fighting Communist Party!

1947: Workers, Defend Your Unions!

1952: History of the Communist Party of the United States (off site)

1954: The Negro People in American History, (200Mb) 1954

1955:The Role of Mao Tse-tung, from History of the Three Internationals

 


 

Comment on Foster by Max Eastman


 

Last updated on 2 September 2022