"The party must fight with all its power and with every necessary strategy against the attempt to isolate it and throw its energy back upon itself. The party must also conduct a resolute struggle against the tendency to construe “party work” only in the sense of inner party work as well as against the tendency to make an artificial separation between mass work and inner party work."
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Activists from the United StatesAnti-fascistsAtheists from the United StatesAnti-war activistsTrotskyists from the United States
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"Unite the Party!", (1925)
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James P. Cannon
James P. Cannon (February 11, 1890 – August 21, 1974) was an American Marxist and Trotskyist leader. Cannon was the leading founder of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Labor Party, which would be a early precursor to the Communist Party of America.
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