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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 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]
During the 1972 presidential election, the CPUSA withdrew its support from the Democratic Party and nominated Hall as its candidate. [25] Hall ran for president four times — in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984 — the last two times with Angela Davis . [ 4 ]
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 ...
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Candidates could decide to file an official contest of the certified results, according to Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University School of Law and an expert on constitutional and ...
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 groups , the 2016 election , and the Green New Deal .
While continuing to run its own candidates for office, the CPUSA pursued a policy of representing the Democratic Party as the lesser evil in elections. Party members also rallied to the defense of the Spanish Republic of 1931-1939 during this period after a Nationalist military uprising moved to overthrow it, resulting in the Spanish Civil War ...