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 Peoples 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