Communist Party
‘We Charge Genocide’ petition’s call for justice still echoes seven decades later
August 26, 2020The We Charge Genocide petition indicted the anti-Black crimes and violence of U.S. capitalism. The Claudia Jones School for Political Education and the Paul Robeson House are keeping its memory alive.
Read moreRepublicans’ rabid anti-communism is a sign of their political weakness
August 25, 2020The notorious Sen. Joe McCarthy would feel right at home at this year’s Republican National Convention.
Read moreHow Communist ‘popular front’ activism built a labor-community alliance that changed Detroit
August 24, 2020Rather than focusing on the CPUSA’s relation to the Soviet party—a favorite topic of historians—Ryan Pettengill has begun to unearth the everyday activities of rank-and-file Communists.
Read moreFirst Black woman presidential candidate: The Communist Party’s Charlene Mitchell
August 19, 2020Mitchell made history when she was nominated as the CPUSA candidate for president in July 1968.
Read moreClass struggle in Jerusalem
August 18, 2020Maor Yavetz interviews Oren Feld of Hadash on the recent upsurge of protest in Jerusalem, police brutality, and the situation for Israel's younger generation.
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