James Cannon. Speeches for Socialism.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION / Peggy Brundy – Dianne Feeley

THE FIRST DECADE OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM

1 – Speech at the First Workers Party Convention (1921)

2 – Our Appeal Against Expulsion (1928)

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

3 – The Fifth Year of the Russian Revolution (1923)

4 – The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution (1942)

AMERICAN UNIONISM AT A TURNING POINT

5 – The AFL and the Start of the CIO (1935)

SIXTY YEARS OF AMERICAN RADICALISM

6 – Sixty Years of American Radicalism (1959)

STALINISM

7 – The End of the Comintern and the Prospects of Labor Internationalism (1943)

8 – The Downfall of Browder (1945)

9 – The Trial of the Stalinist Leaders (1949)

10 – The End of the Stalin Cult (1956)

11 – Khrushchev’s Report to the Twentieth Congress (1956)

TROTSKY AND TROTSKYISM

12 – Leon Trotsky: To the Memory of the Old Man (1940)

13 – How We Began and Where We Are Going (1953)

THE STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR

14 – How to Put an End to Imperialist War (1942)

THE YOUTH AND REVOLUTION

15 – Youth and Foreign Policy (1951)

16 – What It Means to Be a Young Revolutionist Today (1964)

THE SMITH ACT CASE

17 – Before the Minneapolis Trial (1941)

18 – Speech on the Way to Prison (1943)

PERSONAL REMARKS ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS

19 – Sixtieth Birthday Speech (1950)

20 – Revolutionary Journalism (1958)

21 – The Lives of Two Revolutionaries (1962)

Remarks by Rose Karsner

Remarks by James P. Cannon

COMRADES IN THE STRUGGLE

22 – Bill Brown: A Proletarian Fighter (1938)

23 – Address at the Funeral of Inger Swabeck (1948)

24 – Goldie Geldman (1952)

25 – Joseph Vanzler (1956)

26 – A Wake for Usick (1956)

27 – A Tribute to Miles Dunne (1958)

28 – Carl Skoglund: One of the Old Guard

The Man Who Had No Papers (1954)

Speech at Memorial Meeting (1961)

POLICY AND PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIALISM

29 – Socialist Electoral Policy (1958)

30 – Socialism and Democracy (1957)

31 – The Trend of the Twentieth Century (1949)

32 – The Coming American Revolution (1946)

33 – What Socialist America Will Look Like (1953)