Den amerikanske socialist og grundlægger af den trotskistiske bevægelse i USA, James P. Cannon fødtes i Rosedale, Kansas, 11. februar 1890. (Dør 21. august 1974). 

Leksikale/Sites etc:

• James P. Cannon (Wikipedia.org). Link to other languages, incl. Swedish. 
• James P. Cannon Internet Archive (Marxists Internet Archive). With Biography page + Written Archive (articles 1919-1967) + Photo gallery and Audio files (app. 20 files) + book online: James P. Cannon and the Early Years of  American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920-1928.
  
• Introduction to James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism. By the Prometheus Research Library (August 1992; online at Marxists Internet Archive).
• James P. Cannon (pdf) (Lubitz’ TrotskyanaNet). Biography + Bibliography. 
• Böcker av James P Cannon (tre online bøger på svensk) + Artiklar av och om James P Cannon (Marxistarkiv.se).

Litteratur/Literature:

James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890–1928. By Bryan D. Palmer (University of Illinois Press, 2007, 576 p.). "Destined to become a path-breaking classic on American Communism, Bryan Palmer’s study of Jim Cannon offers a coherent and richly detailed account of that movement’s formative decade."
Reviews and interviews:

• Early days of the US left. By Niall Mulholland (Socialism Today, Issue 142, October 2010). "This recent publication is an important addition to the historical literature of a crucial period in the US workers’ movement."
• James P. Cannon: ’a revolutionary that one could model oneself after’. By Paul Hampton (Workers’ Liberty, 5 March 2008). "James P. Cannon was a titanic figure in the history of Marxism, yet in spite of a long life devoted to socialism, he has until now eluded a decent biography."
• A Review: A Biography of James P. Cannon (Spartacist, No.60, Autumn 2007). "[the book] is quite good—far better than one would expect from a sympathetic, but nonetheless academic, source."
• Interview with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of American Trotskyism, Part 1. By Fred Mazelis  (World Socialist Web Site, 28 September 2007) + Part 2 (29 September 2007) . "What really puts me outside of most academic convention, however, is that my own background has been one of commitment to, the Trotskyist movement ..."
• A fighter for Marxism in America. By Fred Mazelis and Tom Mackaman (World Socialist Web Site, 18 September 2007). "The publication of a biography of James P. Cannon, one of the leading figures of early American Communism and the founder, in 1928, of the American Trotskyist movement, is a major event."
• A revolutionary life. By Alan Wald (Against the Current, Issue 129, July-August 2007). "One of the most inspiring leaders of the early United States Communist movement has at long last found a biographer worthy to recount the first four decades of his life."
• The making of an agitator. By Chris Bambery (International Socialism, Issue 115, Summer 2007). "But whatever criticisms are made of Cannon, he remained a link to the glory days of the US left ..."

James P. Cannon (t.h. for Trotskij/to the right of Trotsky, with Fr. Engels, Karl Marx, Max Shachtman, a.o. (Text: Workers of the World Unite in the IVth International!!). Mural by Diego Rivera (source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/10632426@N05/3461833634/)