CPUSA
Before Stonewall: Queer liberation’s Communist Party roots
June 24, 2021The groundbreaking role of Harry Hay and Mattachine in theorizing gay identity was first lost in the fog of anti-communism and again later under the pressures for queer people to assimilate to the standards and social...
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Communist Party unveils ‘Emergency Relief Unity Program’ to confront crisis
March 9, 2021“The pandemic and the crisis…have revealed that the status quo is not sustainable,” the CPUSA says in its new emergency relief unity program.
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From the People’s World archives: W.E.B. DuBois joins the Communist Party
February 23, 2021Editor’s Note: Dr. William E. Burghardt DuBois was born Feb. 23, 1868. Near the end of his life, in 1961, he applied for membership in the Communist Party USA. His letter, and the response from Gus...
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‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in
February 17, 2021This book of essays celebrating the CPUSA's 100 years is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical.
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Bill Davis—beloved labor and peace activist, Communist leader—lost to COVID
February 16, 2021Bill Davis, 1942-2021.
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