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The Communist Party opposed the United States involvement in the early stages of World War II (until June 22, 1941, the date of the German invasion of the Soviet Union), the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasion of Grenada, and American support for anti-Communist military dictatorships and movements in Central America.
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 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 (CP) and its allies played a role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but largely wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda or in converting their influence in any particular union into membership gains for the Party.
Communist Party USA member John Gates called Browderism "a valuable instrument in the hands of U.S. imperialism in its plans for world war and counter-revolution." [ 27 ] Today, the CPUSA has remained critical of Browderism, calling its ideas "opportunistic", the result of communist parties' "theoretical confusion and their abandonment of core ...
The crisis of U.S. capitalism and the fight-back: report to the 21st convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A., New York: International Publishers, 1975. Labor up-front in the people's fight against the crisis: report to the 22nd convention of the Communist Party, USA, New York: International Publishers, 1979.
The Communist Party was near the end of a brutal civil war with the nationalist Kuomintang party and not making new enemies was a matter of survival, said Deng Yuwen, an expert in party politics ...
On December 1, 1961, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) published a 288-page book entitled Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications. [1] This massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957. [1]