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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. [83] [84] They also traveled to Moscow and Beijing to meet USSR and PRC leadership. [85] 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 [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 ...
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.
When the Communist Party USA was founded in the United States, it had almost no black members. The Communist Party had attracted most of its members from European immigrants and the various foreign language federations formerly associated with the Socialist Party of America; those workers, many of whom were not fluent English-speakers, often had little contact with black Americans or competed ...
This category lists people who have, at one time or another, been active members of a communist party, or have declared themselves to be "communist".It should not be taken for granted that inclusion in this category implies that figures remained their whole life or continue to be communists.
Democratic Party (Communist Party USA member) [29] Bolívar Pagán: House December 26, 1939: January 3, 1945: Puerto Rico: Republican Union (Socialist Party member) Vito Marcantonio: House January 3, 1939: January 3, 1951: New York American Labor Party [28] [30] Henry Teigan: House January 3, 1937: January 3, 1939: Pennsylvania
Communist Party USA politicians (2 C, 42 P) Pages in category "Members of the Communist Party USA" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 320 total.
The Communist Labor Party of America (CLPA) was one of the organizational predecessors of the Communist Party USA. The group was established at the end of August 1919 following a three-way split of the Socialist Party of America .