Communist Party
James 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.
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Breaking 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.
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Sit 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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Salt of the Earth: The revolutionary life of Anita Torrez
May 30, 2019“When did you join the Communist Party USA?” I asked. “I can’t quite remember…we just kept going to meeting after meeting, and before I knew it, we had joined,” she replied, laughing.
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The fighting history of Earl George, for worker rights, equality
May 22, 2019Tim Wheeler recalls the profound influence Earl George had on him and his family, as well as his great contributions to the ILWU and the Daily World.
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