Juan Lopez

Juan Lopez is chairman of the Communist Party in northern California and statewide coordinator. He has been a labor and community activist during the nearly forty years he's lived in Oakland, where he and his wife raised three children. He was formerly a member of the Teamsters union and a shop steward.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Juan Lopez

U.S.

California’s DREAM Act poised to become reality
September 9, 2011 By Juan Lopez
California is poised to become the first state to grant undocumented immigrant college students access to publicly funded financial aid.
Read more
Labor

Farm workers march for justice
August 25, 2011 By Juan Lopez
On Tuesday, farm workers launched a 13-day, 200-mile march, through California's rich agricultural Central Valley to the State Capitol in Sacramento.
Read more
U.S.

Campaign to solve housing crisis and create one million jobs
August 22, 2011 By Juan Lopez
The New Bottom Line campaign turned up the heat on the big banks responsible for billions of dollars in mortgage fraud.
Read more
Opinion

Grappling with cuts when Democrats are in charge
July 20, 2011 By Juan Lopez
In many states, Democratic leaders make cuts to social programs, putting a big hole in the safety net as the economic crisis and unemployment worsen - What to do?
Read more
World

With Gladys, We’ll win a thousand times
April 22, 2005 By Juan Lopez
It was with a heavy heart that I arrived in Chile. Compañera Gladys Marin, president of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC), had died March 6 of a brain tumor. She was 63. Communist and workers...
Read more