James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches 1920-1928

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Contents Introduction 1920-22 The IWW at Philadelphia, 27 August 1920 Another Renegade, 11 December 1920 The Story of Alex Howat, April 1921 The Political Prisoners, 1 May 1921 Who Can Save the Unions?, 7 May 1921 Workers Party of America Born, 23 December 1921 The American Question, ca. November 1922, with Max Bedacht, Arne Swabeck et al 1923 The Fifth Year of the Russian Revolution, early 1923 What Kind of a Party?, 3 March 1923 Don’t Pack the July 3 Conference, 25 May 1923 The Workers Party Today —And Tomorrow, 25 August-22 September 1923 Amalgamation—The Burning Question, 20 September 1923 Statement on Our Labor Party Policy, November 1923, with William Z. Foster What Happened at Portland?, 24 November 1923 The IWW and the Red International of Labor Unions, 1 December 1923 1924 The IWW Convention,January 1924 Reply to the Thesis of Comrades Lore and Olgin, 12 April 1924, with Alexander Bittelman vii St. Paul—June 17th, May 1924 Our Aims and Tactics in the Trade Unions, 27July 1924 Communist Candidates and the Farmer-Labor Party, 29 July 1924 The Bolshevization of the Party, 5 October 1924 The Minority Attitude Toward Our Election Campaign— A Warning Signal for the Party, 3 December 1924 Lovestone Quotes Mahoney, 8 December 1924 The CEC, the Minority and Comrade Lore, 11 December 1924 How to Organize and Conduct a Study Class, 13 December 1924 A Year of Party Progress, 27 December 1924, with William Z. Foster and Alexander Bittelman Statement on Two and a Half Internationalism, 27 December 1924, with William Z. Foster, Alexander Bittelman, Earl Browder, Fahle Burman, William F. Dunne and Martin Abern 1925 Controversial Questions in the Workers Party of America, ca. February-March 1925, with William Z. Foster Recommendations to the American Commission (excerpt), ca. February-March 1925, with William Z. Foster Pepper: Menace to Party Unity, 13 February 1925 The Situation Is Different in America, 30 March 1925 We Must Acknowledge Our Mistake, But We Want No Fake Labor Party, 5 April 1925 Proposal On Comrade Pepper, 6 April 1925 Struggle Over Leadership of the ILD, 26 June 1925, minutes of Workers Party Executive Council (excerpt ILD Will Grow Quickly, 15 July 1925 Cannon Replies to Henry Askeli, 8 August 1925 Achievements of the Parity Commission, 11 August 1925 Our Party and the Communist International, 4 October 1925 viii On Trade-Union Policy, 10 October 1925, motions by Cannon, statement by Cannon with William F. Dunne Unify the Party!, 16 November 1925, with Max Bedacht, William F. Dunne,Jay Lovestone, C.E. Ruthenberg and the National Executive Committee of the YWL 1926 Broaden the TUEL, 18 March 1926 Our World Party at Work, 27 May 1926 The United Front at Passaic, June 1926 For Industrial Groups on a Broader Basis Than the TUEL, 29 October 1926 1927 Conference on Moderating Factionalism, 7 February 1927, unsigned summary of conversation between J .P. Cannon, C.E. Ruthenberg, Max Bedacht and Jay Lovestone For the Liquidation of Factionalism, 6 May 1927 Theses on the Party Factional Situation (excerpt), ca. May 1927, with William Weinstone Letter to the American Commission, 16June 1927, with William Weinstone and William Z. Foster Report from Moscow, 26 June 1927, unsigned Cannon Group factional circular Lovestone Faction an Obstacle to Party Unity, ca.June 1927 The Red Month of November, November 1927 1928 Workers Entering New Path of Struggle, 5 February 1928 Party Work and Accountability, March-April 1928 Organization of Propaganda Meetings, 14 May 1928 Opening the Election Campaign, 5 June 1928 I Will Go to the Sixth Congress, 13 June 1928 The Voice of the Communist Movement, 26 June 1928 Trade-Union Questions,July 1928 Against the Opportunism of the Lovestone Majority, 25 July 1928 I Stand on My Record, 27 October 1928 Appendix 1: Cannon’s Collaborators International Labor Defense Activities from January- July 1928, 23 July 1928, by Martin Abern Letter on the Textile Situation, 23July 1928, by Arne Swabeck Report on the Mining Situation by Arne Swabeck and Motions on the Mining Situation, 8 August 1928, by Arne Swabeck and Alfred Wagenknecht Attack on the National Miners’ Union Convention, 18 September 1928, by Martin Abern Letter to Lovestone, 2 November 1928, by Antoinette Konikow Appendix 2: Report to Political Committee on the Right Danger and Trotskyism, 25 December 1928, byJack Stachel Photo Sources Glossary Bibliography of the Writings and Speeches of James P. Cannon, 1912-1928 Index