magnificent role in mobilising support bureaucratic degeneration taking place for those revolutionaries-socialists, communists, anarchists etc, who were incarcerated in the Americar jais, It stande as a vivid contrast to the American CP of 1940 wltich actively supported the jailing of Cannon and the other leaders of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party under the Infamous Smith Act. In the 1950s the American ruling class used the same act to railroad the leaders of the American CP into prison.
The work of the ILD is also a salutuary lesson to the British left who. with few exceptions, have done little to defend cluss war prisoners like the Belfast 9 and the Stoke Newington comrades.
Many British trotskyists owe a great debt to Jim Cannon. In che dogdays olsmall isolated groups invariably resources to that end. He saw Americanshort of the resources to publish Trotskyism, not as some 'new" bright material, and often reduced to little more than propaganda circles Cannon's books such as the Hintory of American "humane' than the sullied communism Trotskyim and Notebook of an Agitator were the only readings Stockholm, Sweden, Sat.: 11-3.
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