Harry Gannes

Career

Harry Gannes was one of the founders (in 1922) of the Young Workers League, the predecessor of the Young Communist League, serving briefly as its general secretary. As foreign editor of the Daily Worker he was a mentor to Theodore Draper, with whom he coauthored Spain in Revolt in 1936. Gannes traveled to China, and later to Europe (1938) using a passport under the name Henry George Jacobs.

Foreign this he was indicted for passport fraud in 1939.

At almost the same time, he fell ill and was diagnosed with a brain tumor, from which he died on 3 January 1941.

Works

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  • When China Unites - An Interpretive History Of The Chinese Revolution

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  • When China Unites - An Interpretive History Of The Chinese Revolution by Harry Gannes (2007-03-15)

Politics

His book When China Unites, 1937, based on research and experiences during a trip to China in 1932-1933, describes the Kuomintang-Communist alliance of the mid-1920s and the confrontations between the two parties from 1927 on.