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The Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU) was a Communist-aligned union active in California in the early 1930s. Organizers provided support to workers in California's fields and canning industry.
Pat Chambers (born John Ernest Williams; 13 September 1901 – 8 May 1990) was an influential labor organizer and Communist Party member in the 1930s in California. He was a key figure in some of the largest California agricultural strikes of 1933. Chambers was the inspiration for the character "Mac" in John Steinbeck's 1936 novel, In Dubious ...
Cannery workers in Santa Clara fell prey to the seasonal nature of cannery work. In the 1930s a cannery would employ only 4,731 workers in February and up to 17,333 workers in August. [6] Seasonal work also led to low annual income for cannery workers. In 1939, the average annual salary was under three hundred dollars.
The Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany (German: Assoziation revolutionärer bildender Künstler Deutschlands, or ARBKD) was an organization of artists who were members of the Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, or KPD). Known primarily by its shortened name, "Asso", it was founded in March 1928.
The KPO official organ (Gegen den Strom) continued to be produced after the Nazis' rise to power in 1933The Communist Party of Germany (Opposition) (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Opposition)), generally abbreviated as KPO or KPD(O), was a communist opposition organisation established at the end of 1928 and maintaining its existence until 1939 or 1940.
The Communist Workers' Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands; KAPD) was an anti-parliamentarian and left communist party that was active in Germany during the Weimar Republic. It was founded in 1920 in Heidelberg as a split from the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). [1]
By the time of the formal formation of the East German state in 1949, the SED was a full-fledged Communist party, and developed along lines similar to other Soviet-bloc communist parties. [65] It was the ruling party in East Germany from its formation in 1949 until 1989.
The German Communist Party (German: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, DKP) is a communist party in Germany. [2] The DKP supports far-left positions and was an observer member of the European Left before leaving in February 2016.