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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, 1951: New York American Labor Party [28] [30] Henry Teigan: House January 3, 1937: January 3, 1939: Pennsylvania
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.
Communist Party USA and African Americans; Communist Party USA in the labor movement. 1919–1937; 1937–1957; Espionage Act of 1917; First Red Scare; John Birch Society; McCarthyism; Seattle General Strike; Smith Act. Smith Act trials; Anti-war and civil rights movements. Black power movement; COINTELPRO "I Have a Dream" March on Washington ...
The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), [9] is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.
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 ...
This category lists people who have, at one time or another, been active members of a communist party, or have declared themselves to be "communist".It should not be taken for granted that inclusion in this category implies that figures remained their whole life or continue to be communists.
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massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957.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]
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 ...