CP100

Where were you on May Day? A communist schoolboy’s memoir

October 23, 2019 By Noyma Appelbaum

When I was eight, the principal, Dr. Pizor, called me to his office and asked why I had not attended school on May 1. He didn't understand that the May Day march probably had more educational...

Ain’t nobody gonna turn us around: Celebrating CP100 in Ohio

October 11, 2019 By Joe Sims

As great as our history is, it is not enough. Today, we are called upon to make a new history side-by-side with our people and our class.

Henry Winston’s Laugh

October 2, 2019 By Rafael Pizarro

A poetic tribute to the memory of Henry Winston, a long-time national chair of the Communist Party USA.

Growing up as a communist kid in the 1930s

September 23, 2019 By Noyma Appelbaum

I didn't always understand the nuances of the political arguments advanced at the big gatherings, but I always felt comfortable in the warmth of a movement that had as its professed goals brotherhood of peoples and...

Working-class solidarity: George Edwards and the pink hard hat

September 3, 2019 By Bruce Bostick

The interesting thing we learned is that the “perfect issue” to organize around wasn't any of the big ideas we had, but rather what the workers themselves wanted.