Background to ‘The Struggle for a Proletarian Party’

The challenges faced by the Socialist Workers Party in deepening its involvement in the organizations and struggles of the industrial working class in the years prior to U.S. imperialism's entry into World War II. The SWP must “orient in practice the whole organization toward the factories, the strikes, the unions,” writes Leon Trotsky in a 1937 letter to party leader James P. Cannon.