James P. Cannon Speaks! "The Trend of the 20th Century"
Channel: Matthew Siegfried
Date: 2015-05-17

James P Cannon Speaks! The Trend of the 20th Century. 1949. Socialist Workers Party leader James Cannon gives a talk to comrades in 1949 as McCarthyism and the Cold War emerge from World War II and the great post-War labor struggles. 
James "Jim" Cannon (February 11, 1890 – August 21, 1974) was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party. Born  in Rosedale, Kansas, he joined the Socialist Party of America in 1908 and the Industrial Workers of the World in 1911. He was IWW organizer throughout the Midwest. 

A founding and leading member of the Communist Party, Cannon was expelled from the CP for his Trotskyism in 1928. Cannon was national secretary of the Communist League of America, Workers Party of the United States and Socialist Workers Party until his retirement and move to California in 1953. 

He was national chairman emeritus of the SWP when he died in Los Angeles on August 21, 1974.
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