Cannon, James P. (1890-1974); Farrell Dobbs (Intro.)
Socialism on Trial ; The Official Court Record of James P. Cannon's testimony in the Famous Minneapolis "Sedition" Trial
New York, Pioneer Publishers, 1949. Third Edition. Card Covers. pp. iv, 111. Small 8vo. Stiff red card covers. Remarkably well-preserved. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Since publication of the first edition of Socialism on Trial, the 18 defendants in the famous Minneapolis "sedition" trial been imprisoned. Fourteen are now at Sandstone penitentiary in Minnesota, three at Danbury, Connecticut, and one at the federal prison for women, Alderson, West Virginia. Prison gates closed on these socialists and trade unionists in "democratic" America despite the fact they were guilty of no crime other than exercising their right of free speech. They were incarcerated because they opposed imperialist war, and because they advocated building a socialist society as the only means of ending such wars and all other evils of capitalism in its death agony.
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Keywords: law; history; labour history; american history; socialist party of the united states; socialism; trotsky