Communist Party of the United States

United States: Should the left back Bernie Sanders' campaign? Two views
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The attitude to the presidential campaign of long-time independent US senator and self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders has become a major debate on the US left. Some see his decision to run as a Democrat as the major dividing line, accusing him of sidetracking the left into support for the capitalist Democratic Party. Others, while recognising Sanders' shortcomings, point to the wider role his campaign can offer in providing a more radical pole of attraction in US politics at a time when the left is weak. Below Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal makes available two views from significant sections of the US socialist left. Readers' comments are encouraged in the comments box after the articles.

United States: Marxists and the lost Labor Party of 1923
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'We shall overcome': Democracy Now! remembers folk icon, activist Pete Seeger

January 28, 2014 --

The talented and reviled Mr Pepper (Comintern agent)
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How anarchists, syndicalists, socialists and IWW militants were drawn to Bolshevism: four case studies
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William D. Haywood—Soldier to the Last, by James P. Cannon (1928)

“William D. Haywood—Soldier to the Last” by James P. Cannon (Daily Worker, May 22, 1928) is a heartfelt obituary of the IWW leader William “Big Bill” Haywood by a friend and comrade, James P.

United States: Minnesota’s communist mayor

By Pamela A. Brunfelt

James P. Cannon (1955): The I.W.W.
Source: Summer 1955 issue of Fourth International (later International Socialist Review).

Transcribed: by Andy Blunden. Text from the Marxist Internet Archive. For more on the IWW, click HERE.

CONTENTS

The Bold Design
An Organization of Revolutionists
The Duality of the IWW
Vincent St. John
The long Detour
The Wobblies As They Were
The Turning Point
The Heritage

Black liberation and the Communist International
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Claude McKay.

By John Riddell

September 11, 2011 -- This article also appears at http://johnriddell.wordpress.com, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with John Riddell's permission -- The influence of the Communist International was decisive in the early 1920s in winning a generation of black revolutionaries to Marxism. On this the historians agree. But what did this influence consist of, and how was it exerted?

Lucy Parsons: 'More dangerous than a thousand rioters'
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Lucy Parsons, 1930: "I have seen many movements come and go. I belonged to all of those movements. I was a delegate that organized the Industrial Workers of the World. I carried a card in the old Socialist Party. And now I am today connected with the Communists."

By Keith Rosenthal

Communist Party of Egypt resumes open political activities
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James P. Cannon: An introduction
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[This the introduction to Building the Revolutionary Party: An Introduction to James P. Cannon (Resistance Books: Chippendale, 1997). Dave Holmes is now a leader of the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne. This and other writings are also available at Dave Holmes' blog, Arguing for Socialism.]

By Dave Holmes

James P. Cannon was a pioneer of the Communist Party of the United States and one of its central leaders in the 1920s. Breaking with the Stalinised CP in 1928 he founded the US Trotskyist movement and played the decisive role in building it for over three decades.