Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in
the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the
emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in
the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of American
Trotskyism, Palmer builds on his previously published and
award-winning book, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American
Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, with a deeply-researched and
elegantly-written study of Cannon and the Trotskyist movement in
the United States from 1928-38. Situating this dissident communist
movement within the history of class struggle, both national and
international, Palmer examines how Cannon and others fought to
revive a combative trade unionism, thwart fascism and the drift to
war, refuse Stalinism's many degenerations, and build a new Party
and a new International—both of which would be dedicated to
reviving and realizing the possibilities of revolutionary
socialism. The result is a peerless study that provides a
definitive account of the largest and most influential Trotskyist
movement in the world in the 1930s, an effort whose results recasts
established understandings of the more extensively-studied
experience of United States working-class militancy and the place
of the Comintern-affiliated Communist Party within it.
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