Communist Party of the United States
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United States: Marxists and the lost Labor Party of 1923
1919 US Labor Party convention.
The talented and reviled Mr Pepper (Comintern agent)
A Communist Odyssey: The Life of József Pogány/John Pepper
William Dudley (Big Bill) Haywood, US labour movement leader, marching with strikers in Lowell, Massachusetts, circa 19
William D. Haywood—Soldier to the Last, by James P. Cannon (1928)
“William D. Haywood—Soldier to the Last” by James P. Cannon (Daily Worker, May 22, 1928) is a heartfelt obituary of the IWW leader William “Big Bill” Haywood by a friend and comrade, James P.
United States: Minnesota’s communist mayor
By Pamela A. Brunfelt
James P. Cannon (1955): The I.W.W.
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden. Text from the Marxist Internet Archive. For more on the IWW, click HERE.
CONTENTS
The Bold Design
An Organization of Revolutionists
The Duality of the IWW
Vincent St. John
The long Detour
The Wobblies As They Were
The Turning Point
The Heritage
Black liberation and the Communist International
Claude McKay.
By John Riddell
September 11, 2011 -- This article also appears at http://johnriddell.wordpress.com, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with John Riddell's permission -- The influence of the Communist International was decisive in the early 1920s in winning a generation of black revolutionaries to Marxism. On this the historians agree. But what did this influence consist of, and how was it exerted?
Lucy Parsons: 'More dangerous than a thousand rioters'
Lucy Parsons, 1930: "I have seen many movements come and go. I belonged to all of those movements. I was a delegate that organized the Industrial Workers of the World. I carried a card in the old Socialist Party. And now I am today connected with the Communists."
By Keith Rosenthal
Communist Party of Egypt resumes open political activities
March 24, 2011 – People's World – On March 15, the
James P. Cannon: An introduction
[This the introduction to Building the Revolutionary Party: An Introduction to James P. Cannon (Resistance Books: Chippendale, 1997). Dave Holmes is now a leader of the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne. This and other writings are also available at Dave Holmes' blog, Arguing for Socialism.]
By Dave Holmes
James P. Cannon was a pioneer of the Communist Party of the United States and one of its central leaders in the 1920s. Breaking with the Stalinised CP in 1928 he founded the US Trotskyist movement and played the decisive role in building it for over three decades.