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Strike wave 1919: The radical forerunners of the CPUSA
May 17, 2019The Bolshevik Revolution inspired workers all over the world, including the United States.
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The Communist Party in the ’30s: The Depression and the great upsurge
May 14, 2019When the Depression struck, Herbert Hoover and the business press said to wait for economic adjustment. But unemployed and hungry people couldn't wait.
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Remembering Pete Seeger on his 100th birthday
May 2, 2019Military intelligence deemed Pete unfit for sensitive positions due to his “Communistic sympathies" and "unsatisfactory relations with landlords."
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Campus events recall Communist Party’s history of fighting racism
May 2, 2019A uniquely American form of amnesia has targeted historians, making “positive appraisals of communists nearly non-existent.”
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Communists and the unemployed—The story of the moldy Thuringer
April 26, 2019In the Depression of the ’30s, the Unemployed Councils, organized by Communists, fought to get people the things they needed.
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