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James P. Cannon. Struggle for a Proletarian Party.

Biblioteca /  1940-1949

James P. Cannon. The Struggle for a Proletarian Party

Nueva York: Pioneer Publishers, 1943. 302 páginas.

2da edición, Nueva York: Pathfinder Press, 1973. 436 páginas.

Contents

Introduction / George Novack

1 – The struggle for a proletarian party

What the discussion has revealed

A new stage in the development of American Trotskyism

Their method and ours

The organization question

The intellectuals and the workers

The case of Burnham

The evil of combinationism

Abernism: the case history of a disease

The question of the party regime

«Conservatism»

«Bureaucratism»

The «clique» and the «leader cult»

The proletarian orientation

2 – Letters to comrades

To all members of the National Committee, September 8, 1939

To Joseph Hansen, October 24, 1939

To Vincent R. Dunne, October 25, 1939

To Joseph Hansen, October 26, 1939

To Leon Trotsky, November 2, 1939

To Leon Trotsky, November 4, 1939

To Leon Trotsky, November 8, 1939

To all majority groups, November 20, 1939

To Charles Curtis, December 1, 1939

To Joseph Hansen, December 14, 1939

To Bill Morgan, December 15, 1939

To Farrell Dobbs, December 15, 1939

To Leon Trotsky, December 21, 1939

To a Seattle comrade, December 27, 1939

To the party membership, January 3, 1940

To the party membership, January 3, 1940

To all majority groups, January 3, 1940

To Farrell Dobbs, January 3, 1940

To a Seattle comrade, January 4, 1940

To a New Haven comrade, January 4, 1940

A graduate Burnhamite (An internal circular)

To Leon Trotsky, January 11, 1940

To Leon Trotsky, January 18, 1940

To Farrell Dobbs, January 18, 1940

To all majority groups, January 19, 1940

To a Rochester comrade, January 22, 1940

To Oscar Coover, January 22, 1940

To Tom Kerry, January 22, 1940

To all majority groups, January 24, 1940

To Bill Morgan, January 25, 1940

To Tom Kerry, January 25, 1940

To all majority groups, January 25, 1940

To Murry Weiss, January 25, 1940

To Charles Curtis, February 1, 1940

To all majority groups, February 2, 1940

To the party membership, February 3, 1940

To all majority groups, February 3, 1940

To a St. Louis comrade, February 6, 1940

To a Fresno comrade, February 6, 1940

To Murry Weiss, February 6, 1940

To Grace Carlson, February 9, 1940

To Leon Trotsky, February 20, 1940

To Leon Trotsky, February 22, 1940

To Oscar Coover, February 22, 1940

A telegram to the minority conference, February 24, 1940

To Leon Trotsky, February 29, 1940

A circular letter to the party membership, March 5, 1940

To Charles Curtis, March 6, 1940

To Leon Trotsky, March 7, 1940

To Murry Weiss, March 7, 1940

To all majority groups, March 8, 1940

To Murry Weiss, March 8, 1940

To Charles Curtis, March 12, 1940

To all majority groups, March 15, 1940

To Leon Trotsky, March 16, 1940

3 – Documents of the struggle

Speech on the Russian question

Resolution on party unity

Convention resolutions

The suspension of the Burnham-Shachtman-Abern Group

The convention of the Socialist Workers Party

Why we publish Fourth International

Fourth International conference resolution on SWP internal struggle

The expulsion of the Shachtman-Abern group

4 – Appendix

The war and bureaucratic conservatism