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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. See also: List of Communist Party USA election results.
The Alabama Chapter of the Communist Party USA helped organize the unemployed Black workers, the Alabama Sharecroppers' Union and numerous anti-lynching campaigns. Further, the Alabama chapter organized young activists that would later go on to be prominent members in the civil rights movement, such as Rosa Parks. [ 69 ]
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 ...
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 ...
The CPUSA reestablished a youth organization in 1949 as the Labor Youth League, which dissolved in the dissension following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 20th Congress of the CPSU. In 1965, after a period of mainly local activity, the DuBois Clubs were formed and later renamed the Young Workers Liberation League before reaffirming ...
The 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA was held from 21 to 23 June 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. [1] September 2019 would be 100 years since the founding of the CPUSA . [ 2 ] The Party set its agenda taking into account developments since its June 2014 convention , including protecting the voting rights of women and minority ...
Peggy Dennis (January 1, 1909 – September 25, 1993) was an American–Russian journalist, author, and Communist activist known for her association with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). [1] She wrote a memoir, The Autobiography of an American Communist: A Personal View of a Political Life , that provides information about the CPUSA and the ...
On the other hand, the CP mended fences with Sidney Hillman and others within the CIO leadership by coming out strongly in support of Roosevelt for the duration of the war and working diligently in the CIO's political efforts. The Party also grew tremendously during the war years and even took the step, in the wake of the formal alliance ...