A founding leader of the communist movement in the united States tells the story of the early years of the effort to build a proletarian party emulating the Bolshevik leadership of the October 1917 revolution in Russia.

James P. Cannon was a traveling organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World before and during World War I and a leader of the working-class left wing of the Socialist Party.  Inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, Cannon joined with other revolutionists in 1919 to found the Communist Party in the United States and soon became a central leader. He was expelled from the CP in 1928 for leasing the fight in the party to maintain Lenin's revolutionary internationalist course.

Description by the publisher.

See also: Cannon's The History of American Trotskyism.

417 pages.

By James P. Cannon

Pathfinder Press