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Convention Discussion: Political Tactics in New York

Submitted by the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Club, New York City We are living in a time when the ultra-right is spending big bucks for political purposes and to elevate their favorite candidates in elections. The Republicans, spurred on by the Tea Party, the Koch brothers, Wall Street, Karl Rove, et al, are trying their best to suppress the vote, stop increases in the minimum wage, kill unions, cut public school...

Convention Discussion: For a socialist coalition

Submitted by Rick Nagin, Cleveland, OH According to repeated public surveys by every major polling organization, support for socialism has achieved massive proportions in the United States. This is a relatively new phenomenon brought about by the acute economic, political and environmental crisis and the vast chasm in income and wealth distribution that have greatly discredited capitalism. At the same time all the solutions that Americans want and need -whether...

BY:Rick Nagin|June 02, 2014
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Convention Discussion: Good Drama, but wrongheaded

Submitted by Sam Webb, National Chair, CPUSA Since the name of the Party seems to be commanding so much discussion here, a little heads up for everyone: there is no proposal to change the party's name at the convention. Our attention (and my keynote which I'm working on at this very moment) will focus on the main political tasks, the current and subsequent stages of struggle, and the role and...

BY:Sam Webb|June 02, 2014
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Convention Discussion: Imagining Socialism

Submitted by Len Yannielli, CT Imagine Living In A Socialist USA is a book representing the thinking of an amalgam of left activists and writers. A discussion of it recently occurred on Google Plus. It can be revisited there and on U-TUBE. Represented in the writing are people who have earned respect for their long-term commitment in various struggles and for their ideas. Information and the ideas of Angela Davis...

BY:Len Yannielli|June 02, 2014
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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...

BY:Jarvis Tyner|May 29, 2014
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Convention Discussion: The two choices ahead of us

Submitted by Bernard Sampson, Houston, TX We have seen that there are some ideological differences in our party. I think they all revolve around two things: Doing things the old way and looking at new ways of doing things. As Marxists we should realize that the ideological differences that exist in our party can never be resolved by debate but only by action. Our views have to be put to...

BY:Bernard Sampson|May 29, 2014
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Convention Discussion: Organizational status of the Communist Party

Submitted for discussion by the National Board of the Communist Party. This contribution was originally a report to the National Board. This report is shaped primarily by experiences as a district organizer and co-chair of the Membership Committee. It does not cover every aspect of our work. For example, even though the People's World is at the center of our work, I will only touch on it briefly. It will...

BY:John Bachtell|May 29, 2014
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Stagnation & Low Wage Organizing

Party Chairman Sam Webb examines economic stagnation today, non-traditional labor, and points of strategic focus for the movements.

BY:Sam Webb|May 28, 2014
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Convention Discussion: Defending Core Concepts

Submitted by Carole Marks, New Jersey I have been a member of the Communist Party,USA most of my adult life. I can only recall two moments in all my experience when I feared for the very existence of the Party - as the Communist Party. I believe this is one of those moments. We overcame and preserved our essence in tact during that first moment. Today, I believe we are...

BY:Carole Marks|May 22, 2014
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Convention Discussion: What's in a name?

Submitted by Gabe Falsetta, New York, NY I'm not sure where to start, so much to think about. Well, let me start from my first experience meeting a communist. As a young man of twenty-one working in the graphic arts industry, I met a member of the International Typographical Union he was a proofreader. Getting to know him, his thoughts, opened my eyes to racism and class; at twenty-one I...

BY:Gabe Falsetta|May 22, 2014
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