Gus Hall

Gus Hall (1910-2000) served as leader of the Communist Party USA from 1959 until the time of his death. Born on Minnesota's Iron Range, he joined the Communist Party in 1927 and became an organizer for the Young Communist League. He was a founding organizer of the United Steel Workers and was a leader of the "Little Steel" strike in 1937. In 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984, he was the presidential candidate of the Communist Party.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Gus Hall

Opinion

Fighting fascism in the USA: Lessons from history
October 22, 2024 By Gus Hall
“Anti-communism, great power chauvinism, white supremacy, racism, and anti-Semitism” – the hallmarks of fascism’s divide-and-rule strategy.
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Opinion

PW archives 1981: CPUSA leader Gus Hall on the attempted assassination of Reagan
July 15, 2024 By Gus Hall
Recalling the Marxist observation that the ruling ideas of any era are those of the ruling class, Hall pinpoints monopoly capital’s pursuit of profits at all costs as the root cause of the violence erupting in...
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CP100

From the People’s World archives: W.E.B. DuBois joins the Communist Party
February 23, 2021 By W.E.B. DuBois And Gus Hall

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CP100

Archives 1974: Communist leader Gus Hall on the Nixon impeachment and resignation
December 19, 2019 By Gus Hall
Hall called Nixon’s exit a “positive step,” but warned that the forces behind his conspiracy” were still in power. They still are today.
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Opinion

May Day flashbacks: Memories of a Communist and working-class leader
April 30, 2019 By Gus Hall
On this special day, workers hold their heads higher and walk with a jaunty spring to their step. This is their day.
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Opinion

Marxism vs. Donald Trump on the issue of nationalism
October 24, 2018 By Gus Hall
A sense of national pride or a love of one’s country is not necessarily good or bad, positive or negative, in the abstract. The real issue is to what use it is put.
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