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Gun-control legislation has yet to materialize from the Biden administration, despite a promise to send a bill to Congress on the first day in office. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
Gun control continues to vex the Biden White House. On Feb. 20, 2020, President
February 15, 2021
MilitantEighteen SWP and Teamster leaders on their way to federal prison, Dec. 31, 1943. They were framed up for leading labor opposition to U.S. rulers’ war drive. James P. Cannon, third from right, partly obscured. Defendants were first victims of thought-control Smith Act. by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Cannon was the lead defendant among 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters union framed up in 1941. They were jailed for up to 16 months under the thought-control Smith Act. The U.S. government targeted them for organizing labor opposition to Washington’s drive to enter World War II. Cannon was a founding member of the communist movement in North America in 1919, dedicating his life to the fight to emulate the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin. He fought against Joseph Stalin’s efforts to bury Lenin’s revolutionary course, and became the ce