Submitted for discussion by Emile Schepers, Virginia District.
Submitted for discussion by Greg Rose, on behalf of the Oregon District Executive Committee.
Submitted for discussion by the National Board of the Communist Party. This essay was originally a report to the National Board. Given that we live in an era marked by economic stagnation, growing threats to humankind's survival, changes in people's sensibilities and thinking, the beginnings of a counteroffensive against corporate capital at the national and global level, and an ongoing regroupment of the communist movement on the level of theory...
Submitted by Hank Millstein of California As yet, the labor movement in the U.S. has made few inroads into this the high-tech industry. Our Party has theoretical insights and practical experience that could be of great value in reaching this increasingly important sector of the working class. The high-tech workforce is divided into two principal sectors: the engineers and software developers who design the hardware and software for computers and...
Submitted by Emile Schepers, International Secretary of the Communist Party USA The panorama of the world today is that of intensified struggle, worldwide instability and great upsurges of popular protest. The transnational corporations, the governments of wealthy capitalist states, international capitalist blocs and NATO scramble to control major sources of raw materials (including key energy resources) and markets. The neo-liberal program is operative: To destroy the labor unions...
Submitted for discussion by the Environmental Working Group of the Communist Party USA "No civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized." — Rachel Carson In mid-nineteenth century England, wife beating was one of the many scourges afflicting the populous. Thus when Karl Marx, and another friend from Germany, heard a cry for help by a woman along a...
The Communist Party denounces the events that have transpired in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela over the past week.
Convention Discussion: The winning of universal publicly funded education is one of our nation's great achievements. Public education has provided a road out of poverty for millions of workers and their children. It has also created a literate working class with the tools to organize to end exploitation and build a system that puts people before profits.
Convention discussion: The labor movement is changing. Technology is changing how we work and produce. Capitalist globalization is creating new international divisions of labor. Global corporate power is restructuring class relations between labor and capital nationally and internationally.
For Convention Discussion: What is the Communist Party USA. Who are we, what principles guide us, and how do we both plant our feet in the present and at the same time project the future, including necessary steps to socialism?