Communist Party
Communist Party and Labor History Tour a big feature at coming convention
June 11, 2019From the birth of May Day to the birth of the Communist Party, Chicago is a center of world labor history.
Read moreCommunist Party USA to hold 100th anniversary convention in Chicago
June 11, 2019Hundreds will convene in Chicago to commemorate the CPUSA’s 1919 founding and strategize for the road ahead, with a focus on the 2020 elections.
Read moreJames Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights
June 7, 2019It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.
Read moreBreaking ground for gay rights in the Communist press
June 4, 2019Other than left-sectarian grouplets that still believed homosexuality was bourgeois decadence, the only outlier in the '80s was the CPUSA.
Read moreSit down! The CPUSA, the CIO, and the great industrial union drive
June 3, 2019In the second half of the 1930s, Communists took on the task of organizing America's industrial workforce and fighting fascism in Spain.
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