At founding gatherings of the Socialist Workers Party in 1938-39, revolutionists in the U.S. codified two decades of experience in building a communist party. They charted a working-class course in resisting the coming imperialist war, fighting fascism and Jew-hatred, the struggle for Black rights, forging an alliance with exploited farmers, and the battle to transform the unions into revolutionary instruments of struggle by working people. Preface by George Breitman, photos, glossary of people, groups, and periodicals, index. Now with enlarged type.