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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.
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.
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massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957.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 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 ...
Gus Hall (born Arvo Kustaa Halberg; October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was an American activist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) from 1959 to 2000. As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called " Little Steel " Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel ...
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 ...
Earl Russell Browder (May 20, 1891 – June 27, 1973) was an American politician, spy for the Soviet Union, communist activist and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Browder was the General Secretary of the CPUSA during the 1930s and first half of the 1940s.
In 1925, Nelson left the YWL and joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). That same year, he and Margaret moved to Detroit. He worked in the auto industry as an assembly line worker and union organizer. [6] In 1928, the Nelsons relocated to New York City where he studied Marxism at the New York Workers School.