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What is the Communist Party’s stance on LGBTQ equality?
The Communist Party is committed to full equality – including equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. The party opposes any effort to deny employment, housing, adoption privileges, or marriage rights to any person or couple on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Homophobia and the oppression of LGBTQ people, like racism and sexism, only serve to keep working people divided from one another and block...
Why do communists participate in elections?
Communists believe in being fully engaged in the electoral-legislative arena because In the United States and other advanced capitalist countries, it is the main arena of the class struggle. The electoral-legislative arena is where the two contending classes —the working people (the 99%) and the billionaires —deploy their resources, human, financial, technical, educational, etc.. more than anywhere else. It is the arena where power is exercised and policies are finalized. ...
What have Communists done?
Founded in 1919, the Communist Party has helped win important changes in our country. Communists helped organize the great industrial unions including steel, meatpacking and auto. Communists were pioneers in the 1930s in the fight for Social Security, unemployment compensation, the 8-hour day and the 40-hour week. They took a lead in the fight against lynching and to save the Scottsboro Nine. Communists were among those who developed militant direct...
What is the Communist Party’s stance on religion and religious people?
The Communist Party’s aims are fully in harmony with the ethical principles and aspirations of the great religious traditions of our world. We seek to unite people, regardless of their worldview or religion, in the struggle for social progress and, ultimately, for socialism. The United States has a long history of progressive religious activity, from struggles for civil liberties in the Colonial era, through the Abolitionist movement of the nineteenth...
Does the CPUSA run candidates for elected office? What is the history of the CPUSA in presidential elections?
The CPUSA does run candidates for elected office, both as communists and as independent candidates for local office, sometimes on slates of progressives, sometimes for non-partisan offices. However, we don’t yet run candidates in many places. This is due to several factors: our small size, the financial and resource demands of campaigns and the high costs of advertising, and also to the numerous restrictions that still exist in many places...
About Us
Founded in 1919, the Communist Party USA has championed the struggles for democracy, labor rights, women’s equality, racial justice and peace for 100 years. The Communist Party has an unparalleled history in the progressive movement of the United States, from the struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the organizing of the industrial unions, from the canneries of California, to the sweatshops of New York City.
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