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U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part II: Endurance The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3

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Published Nov 2018

Paul Le Blanc and Bryan D. Palmer (eds)

Editors: Paul Le Blanc and Bryan D. Palmer
U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence: Uneven and Combined Development is the third of a documentary trilogy on a revolutionary socialist split-off from the U.S. Communist Party, reflecting Leon Trotsky’s confrontation with Stalinism in the global Communist movement. Spanning 1954 to 1965, this volume surveys the Cold War era, the civil rights and black liberation movements, the ‘third wave’ of feminism, and other social and cultural developments of the 1950s and 1960s. Documenting responses to a variety of anti-colonial and revolutionary insurgencies, the volume also surveys the crisis and decline of Stalinism. Attention is given to internal debates and splits, but also to the partial reunification of the international Trotskyist movement (the Fourth International), as well as substantial contributions to the study of history and the development of Marxist theory. Scholars and activists will find much of interest in these primary sources.

Biographical Note

Paul Le Blanc is Professor of History at La Roche College (Pittsburgh). He has written extensively on labour and social struggles, including A Short History of the U.S. Working Class (Prometheus Books, 1999), the acclaimed short biography Leon Trotsky (Reaktion Books, 2015), and most recently October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924 (Haymarket Books, 2017).

Bryan Palmer is Professor of History at Trent University. His books include studies of British labour historian E.P. Thompson and U.S. Communist and Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, and Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 (Brill, 2013).

Readership

Scholars and activists interested in the history and ideas associated with the labor and socialist movements of the twentieth century, and in experiences associated with U.S. radicalism.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: the Coming American Revolution  Paul Le Blanc
2 Dawn of the American Century  Paul Le Blanc  1 Joseph Hansen, ‘The March of Military Events’  2 Terence Phelan (Sherry Mangan), ‘How Paris Fell’  3 John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler), ‘Class Relations in the Soviet Union’  4 Marc Loris (Jean van Heijenoort), ‘Europe Under the Iron Heel’  5 Joseph Hansen, ‘On the War Fronts’  6 Art Preis, ‘America’s Sixty Families and the Nazis’  7 George Breitman, ‘Wartime Crimes of Big Business’  8 James P. Cannon, ‘The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’  9 William Warde (George Novack), ‘The Big Five at London’  10 E.R. Frank (Bert Cochran), ‘The Great Strike Wave and Its Significance’  11 James P. Cannon, ‘The Coming American Revolution’
3 Challenging Racism  Tom Bias  1 Albert Parker (George Breitman), ‘The Negro March on Washington’  2 Albert Parker and John Sanders (George Breitman and Arthur Burch), ‘The Struggle for Negro Equality’  3 Carl Jackson (Edgar Keemer), ‘The Case of Milton Henry’  4 Carl Jackson (Edgar Keemer), ‘Government Policy on Race Equality’  5 Carl Jackson (Edgar Keemer), ‘How to Win the Struggle’  6 Robert Birchman, ‘The Case of James Hickman’  7 Freddie Forrest (Raya Dunayevskaya), ‘Industrialization and the Negro’  8 J. Meyer (C.L.R. James), ‘Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the United States’  9 George Breitman, ‘The Bomb Murder of Harry T. Moore’  10 George Breitman, ‘When Anti-Negro Prejudice Began’
4 Dissensions  Paul Le Blanc  1 Felix Morrow, ‘The Political Position of the Minority in the SWP’  2 Albert Goldman, ‘On Joining the Workers Party’  3 Johnson-Forest (C.L.R. James, R. Dunayevskaya, G. Lee), ‘State-Capitalism and the World Revolution’  4 [C.L.R. James], ‘The Balance Sheet Completed: Ten Years of American Trotskyism’
5 Coping with the Cold War, Global and Domestic  Paul Le Blanc  1 James P. Cannon, ‘American Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism’  2 James P. Cannon, ‘The Treason of the Intellectuals’  3 E.R. Frank (Bert Cochran), ‘The Kremlin’s Satellite States in Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Marxist Theory, and Our Perspectives’  4 Joseph Hansen, ‘The Problem of Eastern Europe’  5 Li Fu-jen (Frank Glass), ‘China: A World Power’  6 Tom Kerry, ‘The Meaning of the CIO–AFL Merger’  7 James P. Cannon, ‘Socialism and Democracy’
6 Confrontations Internal and International  Bryan Palmer  1 Michel Pablo (Michalis Raptis), ‘Where Are We Going?’  2 E.R. Frank (Bert Cochran), ‘Notes on Our Discussion’  3 Michel Pablo (Michalis Raptis), ‘On the Duration and the Nature of the Period of Transition from Capitalism to Socialism’  4 George Clarke, ‘A Milestone in Internationalism’  5 Mike Bartell (Milt Zaslow), ‘The New York Local – Report and Tasks’  6 D. Stevens (David Weiss) and Harry Ring, ‘Perspectives for the Period Ahead’  7 Farrell Dobbs, ‘For an Independent Party Based on a Proletarian Orientation’  8 Bert Cochran and George Clarke et al., ‘Roots of the Party Crisis – Its Causes and Solution’  9 Michel Pablo (Michalis Raptis), ‘The Post-Stalin ‘New Course’’  10 James P. Cannon, ‘The ‘Six Points’ of Cochranism’  11 Bert Cochran, ‘American Tasks’  12 Genora Dollinger, ‘Where I Stand’  13 James P. Cannon, ‘Internationalism and the SWP’  14 Socialist Workers Party National Committee, ‘Against Pabloist Revisionism’  15 James P. Cannon, ‘The 25th Anniversary of the SWP’  16 George Breitman and Ernest Germain (Ernest Mandel), ‘Trotskyism vs. Pabloism’  17 Sam Ryan, ‘The Bolivian Revolution and the Fight Against Revisionism’
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