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It was the belief of opponents of the Communist Party such as J. Edgar Hoover, longtime director of the FBI; and Joseph McCarthy, for whom McCarthyism is named; and other anti-Communists that the Communist Party constituted an active conspiracy, was secretive, loyal to a foreign power and whose members assisted Soviet intelligence in the ...
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 Communist Party USA and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, or in converting their influence in any particular union ...
These two groups would be combined as the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). [78] The Communists organized the Trade Union Unity League to compete with the AFL. By August 1919, only months after its founding, the Communist Party USA claimed 50,000 to 60,000 members. [79] Members also included anarchists and other radical ...
Communist Workers Party: Maoism [169] 1969 1985 National Socialist Party of America: Neo-Nazism: Split from: American Nazi Party: 1970 1981 National Amerindianist American Redman's Party: Third Worldism, Socialism: 1972 1976 National Alliance: Neo-Nazism: Split from: American Nazi Party: 1974 2013 New Union Party: De Leonism [170] 1974 2005
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a communist political party in the United States. PSL formed in 2004, when its members split from the Workers World Party . PSL describes itself as a revolutionary socialist party , as the party believes that only a revolution can end capitalism and establish socialism .
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 ...
A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term "communist party" was popularized by the title of The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.