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Remarks on Women's Equality
Genesis is explained by the indisputable fact that tens of millions of women are found in every - or nearly every - arena of political, economic, and social life. Its genesis is explained by the indisputable fact that the role of women in social movements has grown enormously compared with only a few decades ago. Women are agents of progressive change.
We are living in dangerous times
Our country and the world are going through an exceedingly dangerous period. I suppose one could imagine a more ominous time, but I cant think of one. We have fought two wars in the space of six months and two bloody, costly, and coercive occupations have followed. No exit strategy is under consideration in either Afghanistan or Iraq.
Black, Brown, White -- Unite and Fight!
The fight against the capitalist class enemy, against the ultra-right danger which threatens even limited bourgeois democracy, requires the highest levels of all people's unity. Without higher levels of multi-racial and multi-national working class, Black, Brown, white unity, the fight to build all people's unity, will be stymied.
Convention Discussion: No more tradition's chains shall bind us
Submitted by Elena, Bronx, NY Over the past 15 or so years, we have been making lots of changes that move us closer to being a 21st century party. We have emphasized our broad, coalition politics, and the importance of democratic struggles and their interconnectedness with the class struggle. We have updated organizational practices and terminology and utilize new technology to the fullest. We have worked to root ourselves in...
Convention Discussion: Zombie Marxism or 21st Century Socialism?
Submitted by Chris Elliott, Los Angeles, CA "No power on Earth can now restore capitalism in the Soviet Union and defeat the socialist community." — Institute of Marxism-LeninismV.I. Lenin, Selected Works, Vol. 3, Preface 'Idea' invariably was discredited every time it departed from 'interest.' — K. Marx Plakat Poster, Moscow, 1990 "The method they used consisted in the refusal of a section of the Party to work under the direction...
Convention Discussion: Some thoughts on changing our name
Submitted by Jarvis Tyner, Executive Vice-Chair, CPUSA I am not for changing our name. I think we can build and large and influential CPUSA in the 21st Century. We can change our name but there is no way it won't be widely viewed by right, left and center as a retreat from the struggle against the menace of anti communism. I assume that comrades pushing for dropping "Communist" from our...
Trump and the Republican elite: Two Sides of a Single Coin
Some have been wondering how Donald Trump has one-upped the Republican Party on his way to a Presidential nomination. But should anyone really be surprised...the right has been sowing this dangerous rhetoric for years. Sam Webb offers his thoughts on how Donald Trump came to represent this new brand of Republicans.
Dmitrov's speech to 7th Congress of Communist International
Excerpts from Dimitrov’s Speech to the 7th Congress of the Communist International 1935 Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described . . . as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital. It is a government system of political gangsterism. Fascism is not a form of state power "standing above both classes -- the proletariat and the bourgeoisie"...
Stop the FTAA, On to Miami!
Thousands will be marching in the streets of Miami, Florida, during the week of Nov. 17-21, protesting the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). They will pour into Miami from all over the country and from all over the world. The protesters will be trade unionists, anti-globalization activists, environmentalists, family farmers, religious activists, civil and human rights activists. Thousands will come to Miami to make their voices heard...
We Are the Real Uniters
Report by Executive Vice-Chair Jarvis Tyner on the key role of unity in the fight for progress. Delivered to the Communist Party's 2012 Members Conference.