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The records provided an irrefutable link between Soviet intelligence and information obtained by the Communist Party and its contacts in the United States government from the 1920s through the 1940s. Some documents revealed that the Communist Party was actively involved in secretly recruiting party members from African American groups and rural ...
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 ...
People's Party (United States) (Future Socialist Party of America Member) [42] Lewis Featherstone: House March 5, 1890: March 3, 1891: Arkansas: Union Labor Party: Henry Smith: House March 4, 1887: March 3, 1889: Wisconsin: Union Labor Party [43] Horace Greeley: House December 4, 1848: March 3, 1849: New York: Whig Party (United States) [44 ...
On January 7, 1920, at the first session of the New York State Assembly, Assembly Speaker Thaddeus C. Sweet attacked the Assembly's five Socialist members, declaring they had been "elected on a platform that is absolutely inimical to the best interests of the state of New York and the United States." The Socialist Party, Sweet said, was "not ...
Workers Party of America: Communist Party USA: Marxism–Leninism: 1921 1929 American Party (1924) Nativism [109] 1924 1924 Progressive Party (1924) Progressivism [110] Merged into: Wisconsin Progressive Party: 1924 1924 Communist League of America: Trotskyism [111] Split from: Communist Party USA: 1928 1934 American Labor Party (1932) De ...
A political party platform (American English), party program, or party manifesto (preferential term in British and often Commonwealth English) is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated topics or issues.
The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844) is an American law signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on August 24, 1954, that outlaws the Communist Party of the United States and criminalizes membership in or support for the party or "Communist-action" organizations and defines evidence to be considered by a jury in determining participation in the activities ...
A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term "communist party" was popularized by the title of The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.