The general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States outlines the position of the Party on current events and issues, such as the C.I.O., the Supreme Court, the Farmer-Labor Party movement, the welfare of the new generation, the struggle for Negro rights, foreign policy, civil war in Spain, Japan’s invasion of China, the building of socialism in the U.S.S.R., the recent Soviet trials. The author also analyzes concretely the basic contemporary questions of democracy versus fascism, war and peace, socialism and the People’s Front, the defense of culture, etc.

He also treats some the phases of our American tradition—the revolutionary background of the Constitution, and the relation of the ideas of Jefferson and Lincoln to present-day problems.

While these subjects are presented in the form of separate papers and reports, radio speeches and other public addresses, together they give a complete picture of the Communist position, embodied in the slogan, “Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism.”
—from the front flap of the dust jacket

Parties and Issues. The American Tradition. The United States and World Affairs.