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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.
As high-ranking officials in the American Communist Party, they informed on the CPUSA for the rest of the Cold War, monitoring the Soviet funding. [82] [83] They also traveled to Moscow and Beijing to meet USSR and PRC leadership. [84] Jack and Morris Childs both received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987 for their intelligence work ...
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is an American political party with a communist platform that was founded in 1919 and reconstituted in 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. [1] [2] 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, [3] as well as ...
In July 2024, Hinkle participated in a Russian sponsored press briefing at the United Nations, during which he talked about the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine he visited. [54] On July 21, 2024, Hinkle announced the launch of the American Communist Party (ACP), [3] a political party where he serves on the Plenary Council. [55]
American Labor Party [28] Andrew Biemiller: House January 3, 1945: January 3, 1947: Wisconsin: Democratic Party (former Socialist Party of America member) [27] Hugh De Lacy: House January 3, 1945: January 3, 1947: Washington Democratic Party (Communist Party USA member) [29] Bolívar Pagán: House December 26, 1939: January 3, 1945: Puerto Rico
Claudia De la Cruz, a leftist activist from New York, announced her 2024 campaign for president of the United States on September 7, 2023. She and running mate Karina Garcia formed the presidential ticket for the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a communist party, in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
There were also a number of congresses held by the earlier (though often underground) organizational predecessors of the party, including the Communist Labor Party of America, the United Communist Party and two groups known as the Communist Party of America. The Communist Party's 31st National Convention took place in Chicago from June 13 to 15 ...
Gordon Griffiths, who died in 2001, had been a graduate student at Berkeley during 1936–42, when he served as liaison between the Communist Party of Alameda County and a secret “closed unit ...