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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.
The party announced on April 7, 2021, that it intended to run candidates in elections again, after a hiatus of over thirty years. [50] Steven Estrada, who ran for city council in Long Beach, was one of the first candidates to run as an open member of the CPUSA again (although Long Beach local elections are officially non-partisan). [51]
His responsibilities in the party grew rapidly, and in 1939 he became the CPUSA leader for the city of Cleveland. [2] Hall ran on the CPUSA ticket for Youngstown councilman and also for governor of Ohio, but received few votes. [12] In 1940 Hall was convicted of fraud and forgery in an election scandal and spent 90 days in jail. [13]
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Of the 71 members of the new CPUSA National Committee: 28 are women, 14 are African-American, 14 are Latino/Latina, 1 is Arab/Muslim and 3 are members of the LGBTQ community. Of the 71 members, 32 are new to the National Committee and 24 are younger than 50 years old. [4]
Joe Sims is the national co-chairman of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), as well as a co-editor of the Party's online newspaper, People's World. He has held the position of co-chairman since 2019, when he was elected alongside Rossana Cambron at the party's 31st national convention in Chicago. [1]
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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 ...