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This is a list of American politicians who are members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and who have held elected office in the United States. CPUSA has run candidates on an explicit Communist ticket, on tickets of third parties (such as the Nonpartisan League), and on Democratic tickets. See also: List of Communist Party USA election results.
The CPUSA also used a covert apparatus to assist the Soviets with their intelligence activities in the United States and utilized a network of front organizations to shape public opinion. [18] The CPUSA opposed glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union. As a result, major funding from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ended in 1991. [19]
The DA fielded candidates for Congress and Senate, including Vicente Lava, who was part of the PKP's Central Committee at the time. [2] Six congressional candidates won, including Taruc, Juan Feleo, and Jesus Lava, [2] but were prevented from taking their oaths in Congress by the Roxas administration, due to their opposition to the Bell Trade ...
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is an American political party with a communist platform that was founded in 1919 [1] Its history is deeply rooted in the history of the American labor movement as it played critical roles in the earliest struggles to organize American workers into unions, in leadership of labor strikes, [2] as well as prominent involvement in later civil rights and anti-war ...
James W. “Jim” Ford (December 22, 1893 – June 21, 1957 [1]) was an activist, a politician, and the vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in the years 1932, 1936, and 1940. Ford was born in Alabama and later worked as a party organizer for the CPUSA in New York City.
By September 2020, Marcos's sister Imee said that her brother was still noncommittal to which position he'd run for. [7] A year later, Marcos himself confirmed that "The presidency is not taken off the table." [8] On September 21, the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP; transl. Federal Party of the Philippines) nominated Marcos to run for president.
Joe Sims is the national co-chairman of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), as well as a co-editor of the Party's online newspaper, People's World. He has held the position of co-chairman since 2019, when he was elected alongside Rossana Cambron at the party's 31st national convention in Chicago. [1]
The Senate of the Philippines is elected via multiple non-transferable vote on an at-large basis, where a voter has 12 votes, cannot transfer any of the votes to a candidate, and can vote for up to twelve candidates. If the mock ballot has 13 or more preferences, the pollster classifies it as "invalid."