Table of Contents
Preface to the Documentary Trilogy on US Trotskyism
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Left Opposition in the United States
Paul Le Blanc
2 Communist League of America
Bryan Palmer
1 James P. Cannon, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman, For the Russian Opposition! Against Opportunism and Bureaucracy in the Worker's Communist Party of America! A Statement to American Communists
2 Antoinette Konikow and Others, What is Wrong with the Communist Party?
3 Leon Trotsky, Tasks of the American Opposition
4 Maurice Spector, The Cult of the &'Third Period'
5 Arne Swabeck, United Front on Unemployment
6 James P. Cannon, The Red Army Sings the International Sometimes ...
7 Max Shachtman, The Knife is at Their Throat
8 Joseph Carter, Unite to Smash Fascism!
9 National Committee, CLA, For a New Party and a New International
3 Building Revolutionary Forces
Paul Le Blanc
1 A.J. Muste, The Workers Party is Founded
2 James P. Cannon, Letter to Ruth Querio
3 Max Shachtman, Marxist Politics or Unprincipled Combinationism?
4 Editorial, Workers Party Calls All Revolutionary Workers to Join Socialist Party
5 Editorial, The Crisis in the Party
4 Founding the Socialist Workers Party
Thomas Bias
1 James P. Cannon, The New Party is Founded
2 Declaration of Principles
3 J.P. Cannon and Max Shachtman, Internal Situation and the Character of the Party
4 Constitution of the Socialist Workers Party, Declaration of Principles and Constitution of the Socialist Workers Party
5 Labour Struggles
Bryan Palmer
1 Editorial, The End of the New York Hotel Strike
2 James P. Cannon, Minneapolis and Its Meaning
3 A.J. Muste, Labor Marshalls Forces for Banner May Day
4 Arne Swabeck, Roosevelt Steals Labor Party Thunder
5 James P. Cannon, Deeper into the Unions
6 B.J. Widick, Labor Unity: A New Stage
7 Farrell Dobbs, The Unions and Politics
8 Leon Trotsky et al., If You are Afraid, You Lose Your Independence
6 &'The Negro Question'
Thomas Bias
1 The Militant, 1929, Work Among Negroes
2 James P. Cannon, Trifling with the Negro Question
3 Hugo Oehler, The Negro and Class Struggle
4 Negro Question in America - Discussions with Trotsky, Swabeck
5 John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler), Shifts on the Negro Question
6 J.R. Johnson (C.L.R. James), Preliminary Notes on the Negro Question
7 SWP Resolution, 1939, Self-Determination and the Negro in the US
8 J.R. Johnson (C.L.R. James), The Destiny of the Negro
9 SWP Resolution, 1939, The SWP and Negro Work
7 Confronting Stalinism
Andrew Pollack
1 James P. Cannon, At the Sixth World Congress
2 James P. Cannon, Dog Days of the Left Opposition
3 Arne Swabeck, Decay of the Stalinist Party
4 Albert Goldman, Communists Play Follow the Leader
5 Editorial, The Dewey Commission
6 Max Shachtman, Revolution and Counter-revolution in Russia
8 Political Complications
Paul Le Blanc
1 Max Shachtman, A Footnote for Historians
2 Max Shachtman and James Burnham, The Intellectuals in Retreat
9 Ruptures, 1939-40
Andrew Pollack
1 James P. Cannon, The Struggle for a Proletarian Party
2 Max Shachtman, James Burnham, Martin Abern, The War and Bureaucratic Conservatism
3 James P. Cannon, Speech on the Russian Question
4 Leon Trotsky, From a Scratch to the Danger of Gangrene
5 Leon Trotsky, Open Letter to James Burnham
6 James Burnham, Science and Style
7 Resolutions of the SWP Convention, 1940
8 Post-convention Reports and Decisions
9 James Burnham, Exit Letter
10 Holding the Line: Smith Act Trial
Bryan Palmer
1 Farrell Dobbs, The FBI and the Unions
2 George Novack, Witch Hunt in Minnesota
3 William F. Warde (George Novack), Capitalist Frame-Up: 1941 Model
4 James P. Cannon, Socialism on Trial
5 Grandzio Munis, A Criticism of the Minneapolis Trials
6 James P. Cannon, Defense Policy in the Minneapolis Trial
7 Albert Goldman, Farewell Statement
11 History and Theory
Paul Le Blanc
1 Felix Morrow, The Spirit of the US Constitution
2 George Novack, Marx and Engels on the Civil War
3 Albert Goldman, What is Socialism? (Lecture 2)
4 Max Shachtman, Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg
5 J.R. Johnson (C.L.R. James), Revolution and the Negro
6 William F. Warde (George Novack), The Right of Revolution
Bibliography
Index