Joelle Fishman

Joelle Fishman chairs the Connecticut Communist Party USA. She is a Commissioner on the City of New Haven Peace Commission, serves on the executive board of the Alliance of Retired Americans in Connecticut and is an active member of many economic rights and social justice organizations. As chair of the CPUSA Political Action Commission, she has played an active role in the broad labor and people's alliance and continues to mobilize for health care, worker rights and peace.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joelle Fishman

U.S.

What will it take to bring progressive change?
March 11, 2008 By Joelle Fishman
“I never looked at the primaries before, but this year they got my notice,” a former factory worker now stuck in a low-wage health care job exclaimed to me recently. She stays glued to the election...
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Peace

New Haven calls for end to Iraq war
January 18, 2008 By Joelle Fishman
As Congress reconvenes for the new year, the newly elected Board of Aldermen in New Haven joined cities across the country speaking out for peace.
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Si Gerson, 95, journalist and electoral expert
January 28, 2005 By Joelle Fishman
Simon W. Gerson, veteran journalist and legendary fighter for working class political representation, died on Dec. 26, 2004 in Brooklyn, N.Y., at 95. A member of the national committee of the Communist Party USA, Gerson’s activism...
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Joelle Fishman

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joelle Fishman

What will it take to bring progressive change?

New Haven calls for end to Iraq war

Si Gerson, 95, journalist and electoral expert