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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.
The party announced on April 7, 2021, that it intended to run candidates in elections again, after a hiatus of over thirty years. [50] Steven Estrada, who ran for city council in Long Beach, was one of the first candidates to run as an open member of the CPUSA again (although Long Beach local elections are officially non-partisan). [51]
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 ...
The Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 (PKP-1930), also known as the Philippine Communist Party, is a communist party in the Philippines that was established on November 7, 1930. It uses the aforementioned appellation in order to distinguish itself from its better known splinter group, the Communist Party of the Philippines. [5]
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 .
Mitchell joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) at the age of 16, and is considered to have been one of the most influential leaders in the party in the late 1950s and the 1960s. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] After leaving the party, she became a leader of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) in the 1990s.
His responsibilities in the party grew rapidly, and in 1939 he became the CPUSA leader for the city of Cleveland. [2] Hall ran on the CPUSA ticket for Youngstown councilman and also for governor of Ohio, but received few votes. [12] In 1940 Hall was convicted of fraud and forgery in an election scandal and spent 90 days in jail. [13]