Description
Cannon’s classic account of the epic struggle to build a revolutionary workers party in the United States in the 1920s and ’30s. In this series of 12 lectures he explains how the Communist Party was formed after World War I and the struggles it underwent in its first decade. In 1928, following its Stalinist degeneration, Cannon and other supporters of Trotsky split away and The History of American Trotskyism chronicles how the Socialist Workers Party was built against the backdrop of the Depression and then the stormy struggles of the Thirties.