Click on the title to link to a James P. Cannon Internet Archive online copy of his evaluation of early American Communist Party leader William Z. Foster.
Every Month Is Labor History Month
This commentary is part of a series under the following general title: Labor’s Untold Story- Reclaiming Our Labor History In Order To Fight Another Day-And Win!
As a first run through, and in some cases until I can get enough other sources in order to make a decent presentation, I will start with short entries on each topic that I will eventually go into greater detail about. Or, better yet, take my suggested topic and run with it yourself.
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This analysis of William Z. Foster by early American Trotskyist leader and Socialist Workers party founder, James P. Cannon, a fellow early American Communist Party (one of them, anyway)post-World I leader when all things seemed possible, factional partner in the never-ending factional struggles that rend that party in the "lost generation" 1920s, and later opponent of his, from inside and outside, the generic American communist movement takes on added significance because it is likely to stand as one of the few fairly honest evaluations of the man from a contemporary who maintained a communist perspective. Don't expect it from the latter days Stalinists (including Maoist variant). No way.
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