Click on the title to link to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive's copy of his 1956 letter to historian Theodore Draper about key events in the early days of the American communist movement of the 1920s which he was a central leader.
Markin comment:
The importance of this particular letter concerns Cannon's correct reappraisal of the Communist Party's incorrect caving into the AFL bureaucracy, as the strike wore on and others forces would be needed in order to salvage something from the strike, on the question of throwing strike organizer and leader, Communist Party supporter Albert Weisbord to the dogs. That, indeed, was a serious error, as Cannon acknowledges. Labor militants today should have that lesson etched in their brains.
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