James P. Cannon: Early Years Of the American Communist Movement (original) (raw)


Fourth International, Winter 1956

Early Years Of the American Communist Movement

Letters to a Historian

(Winter 1956)

From Fourth International, Vol. 17 No. 1, Winter 1956, pp. 25–29, 35.
Transcription & mark-up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

A student who is doing research work on the history of early American communism asked James P. Cannon, as well as other participants, a number of questions about the events and prominent figures of the pioneer movement: Cannon’s answers, which began in the summer 1954 issue of Fourth International, are continued here.

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