Party Building and Political Leadership

The first two articles in this book are reports delivered at the Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, in America, held June 17-20, 1937. The second two articles are excerpts from reports at the same meeting. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, ALEX BITTELMAN, JAMES W. FORD, CHARLES KRUMBEIN contribute to this classic reprint. In the United States, under the blows of the difficult economic situation and the threat of political reaction, the masses are moving towards the People's Front; they are being rapidly radicalized and are breaking the leading strings that held them so long under the control of the capitalist class. There is a deep class differentiation and shifting of class forces