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The Communist League of America (Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern late in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. The CLA(O) was the United States section of Leon Trotsky 's International Left Opposition and initially positioned itself as not a rival party to the CPUSA ...
She joined the Communist Party USA at the age of 16, and had joined the youth branch, the American Youth for Democracy, when she was 13. [1] Early activism by Mitchell in the 1940s included participation in a successful sit-in protest against segregated seating in a theater, with white students sitting in the "colored only" balcony and Black ...
Antoinette F. Buchholz Konikow (November 1869 – 2 July 1946) [1] was an American physician, Marxist, and radical political activist.Konikow is best remembered as one of the pioneers of the American birth control movement and as a founding member of the Communist Party of America, forerunner of the Communist Party, USA.
Pages in category "Members of the Communist League of America" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Charlotte Anita Whitney (July 7, 1867 – February 4, 1955) was an American women's rights activist, political activist, suffragist, and early Communist Labor Party of America and Communist Party USA organizer in California. She is best remembered as the defendant in a landmark 1927 California criminal syndicalism trial, Whitney v.
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.
Bella Dodd (née Visono; 1904 [1] – 29 April 1969 [2]) was a teacher, lawyer, and labor union activist, member of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA) and New York City Teachers Union (TU) in the 1930s and 1940s ("one of Communism's most strident voices"), and vocal anti-communist after she had a big conversion after meeting Fulton J. Sheen, Bishop of Rochester, New York.
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: Republican Union (Socialist Party member) Vito Marcantonio: House January 3, 1939: January 3 ...