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James Patrick Cannon (February 11, 1890 – August 21, 1974) was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party . Born on February 11, 1890, in Rosedale, Kansas, the son of Irish immigrants with strong socialist convictions, he joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in 1908 and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW ...
Mar 26, 2024 · James P. Cannon. Internet Archive. 1920 to 1928: James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920–1928. [The complete book, consisting of 66 articles, letters, extracts from minutes and speeches, plus an introductory overview of Cannon’s role in the early CP.
James P. Cannon. Born : February 11, 1890. Died : August 21, 1974. James Patrick Cannon was born in February 1890 in Rosedale, Kansas (today a part of Kansas City). His socialism came from his father, an Irish republican and Populist who had become a socialist in 1897.
The Revolutionary Party & Its Role in the Struggle for Socialism. James P. Cannon. First Written: 1967. Published: International Socialist Review, Vol.28 No.5, September-October 1967, and later included in the anthology 50 Years of World Revolution (1917-1967) (Merit Publishers: New York, 1968).
Dec 21, 2022 · James P. Cannon helped transform the development of the American left, leaving a militant, revolutionary footprint on the landscape of class relations in the world’s most powerful capitalist nation” (943).
Aug 23, 1974 · James P. Cannon, a Trotskyite who helped to found the Socialist Workers party in 1938 and who later became its national chairman, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84 years old.
Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era.
Jim Cannon was a passionate, principled and eloquent radical who fought against imperialist war and for immigrants and workers. He despised all forms of discrimination and championed the Black freedom movement and the equal rights of women.
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38. Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world.
Mar 10, 2010 · Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the life experiences of a native son of United States radicalism, the narrative moving from ...
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