CPUSA In the News

People's Weekly World Launches New Websites

08.05.2008

Our fraternal newspaper, the People's Weekly World, has redesigned their website, http://pww.org. It now features daily online articles, multimedia, and even a blog!

We hope you'll consider making the PWW/NM your daily home for progressive news and views.

Communist Party USA on CNBC

02.05.2008

Elena Mora, Organizing Director of the Communist Party USA, went on CNBC to defend the "nationalization" of the Venezuelan oil industry by Hugo Chavez. This originally aired January 31st, 2007.

New Yorkers Say No To Bush Public Housing Cuts

02.05.2008

From the New York State Communist Party Blog

"NEW YORK - Trade unionists, housing activists, and residents of New York City public housing gathered at City Hall today to protest the Bush administration's proposed budget cuts to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)."

Dynamic Magazine Spring 2008 Double Issue!

30.04.2008

Dynamic is the magazine of the Young Communist League USA. It includes art, politics, and culture written by youth, for youth.

The 2008 Spring Double issues includes articles about the youth impact on the 2008 elections, youth participation in unions, the writer's strike and its impact on a family that struggled through it, and much more!

Springfield, MO Sheriff talks about killing communists

12.04.2008

Published in the Springfield, MO "News-Leader":

Thirty-year-old Tony Pecinovsky, a 10-year member of the party living in St. Louis, called Merritt's comment "mind-boggling."

"It is unfortunate that one person's sense of patriotism leads them to talk of murder while ours leads us to fight for peace and democracy and equality and health care and education."

Communist Party of India vows fight on food prices

08.04.2008

PWW Editor Teresa Albano is blogging from India, where she is attending the conventions of the Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist) representing the Communist Party USA. The Communist parties hold seats in the national Parliament and lead the governments in three of India�s states.

Communist Party of India-Marxist meets

04.04.2008

COIMBATORE, India � In a city at the center of India�s textile industry � one that is full of working class history and struggle � the Communist Party of India (Marxist) concluded its six-day congress April 3 with a mass rally of close to 200,000 people.

Landslide: Sweep Republicans from Power in November

31.03.2008

"At its quarterly national committee meeting this past weekend, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) called for a landslide in the November 4th elections to defeat John McCain and strengthening the Democratic Party majorities in Congress."

Reprinted from Political Affairs magazine.

US Communist Party backs Indian Left on Indo-US ties

31.03.2008

Coimbatore (PTI): The Left parties in India on Sunday got a shot in the arm in their opposition to the strategic tie-up with the United States, with an American communist leader saying Washington's plan for Asia was to "pit one country against another" and isolate China.

Read the entire article here

California senator introduces bill to drop Cold War anti-communist laws

30.03.2008

The San Jose Mercury News reports that a state senator in California has introduced a bill there to remove the grossly undemocratic laws on the books that allow schools to fire teachers for being members of the Communist Party USA. Read the entire article here

CPUSA Labor Secretary on Arkansas Talk Radio

28.03.2008

Scott Marshall, Labor Director of the Communist Party USA, appeared on Arkansas Talk Radio, KARN 102.9. In this 15 minute segment, he spoke about the Communist Party USA, the current economic crisis, a green economy, and much more.

Erica Smiley takes your questions

26.03.2008

Erica Smiley, National Coordinator of the Young Communist League, takes caller's questions on The Power Hour, a central Florida call in show.

CPUSA 2008 Electoral Policy

21.03.2008

While we do not endorse any particular candidates, we do endorse and join in the anti-Bush/anti-right wing sentiments that are driving so many people to activism.

The CPUSA and the Civil Rights Movement

19.03.2008

Long-time Party member Danny Rubin makes the case, citing not-widely-known evidence and his own personal experiences at that time, that the CPUSA had a significant impact on the struggle for civil rights and African American equality.

Changing America

17.03.2008

Labor�s campaign for the right to organize, and coalition organizing by peace and community groups for such needs as �not-for-profit� universal health care, affordable housing, equal quality public education, safe, clean energy and green job creation are at the heart of achieving a change of course in our country.

Winter Soldier Hearings: Live!

14.03.2008

Watch the Iraq Veterans Against the War "Winter Soldier" hearings live video streaming!

Women's History Month: Emma Tenayuca

14.03.2008

Emma Tenayuca was a resident and radical militant of San Antonio�s working class west side. Her political formation was shaped, if not heavily influenced, by her early exposure to frequent political rallies and fiery speeches which took place at the Plaza del Zacate with the backdrop of the Great Depression and the early years of nearby Mexico�s revolutionary government.

Winter Soldier Preview

13.03.2008

Check out this preview for the IVAW "Winter Soldier" Hearings.

Political Affairs Editor on NPR

28.02.2008

Joe Sims, editor of the Communist Party's magazine "Political Affairs" will be interviewed live on NPR on Friday, Feb. 28th at 10AM central time. You can listen to it online at http://www.wdetfm.org/detroittoday/

Black History Month: Henry Winston and the African American Freedom Struggle

26.02.2008

Strategy for a Black Agenda first came out in 1973. The book was and remains a fundamental contribution to the struggle. The issues that Henry Winston raised centered on the unity of the class and national questions.

Reprinted from Political Affairs Magazine, the magazine of the Communist Party USA.

James E. Jackson Jr. � an appreciation

14.09.2007

By Jarvis Tyner and Sam Webb

James E. Jackson, Jr., a giant in the struggle for African American equality, world peace and socialism, passed away Sept. 1, just short of his 93rd birthday. He was one of the truly heroic figures of the African American freedom movement, the progressive movement generally, and the Communist Party USA. He was an activist, mass leader, theoretician, tactician, teacher, writer and humanist, beginning at age 16. He was devoted to Esther Cooper Jackson, his wife of 66 years, a major leader in her own right, and to his daughters Harriet and Kathryn and their families, as well as to his many friends and comrades.

CPUSA Response to the 3-19-2007 New York Times article

22.03.2007

Dear Editor,

Your article on the Communist Party's archive donation to NYU quotes Joe Hill: "My will is easy to decide, for there is nothing to divide." Willing our archive to NYU also was easy to decide. Not because there was nothing to divide, but precisely because in it lies a rich legacy that the US public should be made aware of.

CPUSA Delegation returns from China, Vietnam

22.12.2006

A Communist Party USA delegation to China and Vietnam returned to the United States on Dec. 12 with a wealth of political and cultural experiences they say they hope to share with the U.S. public in order to build better understanding and friendship between the peoples of the U.S., China and Vietnam.

US communist leader believes in Vietnam's success

12.12.2006

Chairman of the Communist Party USA expressed his belief in the success of the socialist national construction cause, especially how it is being executed by the Vietnamese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

US/Vietnamese Communist Parties Meet To Strengthen Ties

12.12.2006

HA NOI � Nong Duc Manh, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, welcomed the leader of the US Communist Party in Ha Noi yesterday, discussing ways for the Vietnamese and American parties to promote bilateral relations.

Comrades, come rally

06.11.2006

HISTORY is perhaps on their side after all. At their annual conference next month, delegates from 70-odd Communist parties will be in a buoyant mood. Memories of Soviet crimes are fading, America's stock is falling and the injustices of global capitalism make an increasingly easy target. Communists always had good songs. Their political tunes of justice and solidarity may still sound hollow to some, but they now resonate more widely.

A Tireless Fighter for Race, Class and Socialist Revolution

06.11.2006

ANN DOUGLAS explains why US visitor Jarvis Tyner is the perfect person to hear speak during Black History Month. (Article originally appeared in Morning Star 10/11/2006) One of the most prominent and influential leaders of the American left will begin a speaking tour of Britain next week, during what is appropriately Black History Month.

The Communist: Sam Webb

14.02.2006

To me, money is... what most of us have too little of, notwithstanding the efforts of the Bush Administration--we're all still waiting for that money to trickle down.

Workers of the world united in solidarity with Garland

15.11.2005

International outrage over the arrest of Workers� party president Sean Garland grows apace. At least in lefty circles. The Communist Party USA (yes, there is such a thing) issued a statement calling the arrest �a violation not only of the civil rights of Comrade Garland as an Irish citizen, but of the sovereignty of the country of Ireland�.

Bush Signs Controversial Free Trade Deal Into Law

03.08.2005

US President George W. Bush signed on Tuesday the Central American Free Trade Agreement, saying it will "advance peace and prosperity throughout the region." The agreement, with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, removes trade barriers and opens up the region to US goods and services and has been harshly criticised.

Democrat representatives that voted against the agreement called the accord a "job killer." Trade unions in the United States and across Central America also warned about its bad consequences for the working class.

The Communist Party of the United States of America dennounced the agreement in a statement on Tuesday...

Life from the Left

16.07.2005

For people with a particular taste in music, Pete Seeger is still a cultural icon. For too many others, mentioning his name gets a blank look and a question: "Is he related to Bob?"

Well, no. Pete (he insists on being called Pete) was one of the creators of modern folk music. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songs that he wrote, helped write or helped make famous include "If I Had a Hammer," "We Shall Overcome," "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

Music is not Pete's only legacy, though. As he puts it, he was a lefty. Actually, he was a member of the Communist Party USA in the 1930s and early 1940s, and he sang at Communist rallies and events.

Baseball's Conscience Finally Gets His Due

10.07.2005

As virtually everyone knows, Jackie Robinson, the Negro Leagues star who joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, broke the color ban in baseball.

But few Americans know that it was Walnut Creek resident Lester Rodney -- working as reporter, columnist and sports editor for the Daily Worker, the New York Communist Party newspaper -- who prepared the ground, repeatedly referring to the ban as "un-American" and "the crime of the big leagues."

Reds Come Out Fighting: Time to Turn Up Heat vs. Ultra-Right, Communist Meet Says

09.07.2005

The Communist Party USA wound up its convention here in a fighting mood July 3, with the 450 participants vowing to pour their energies into blocking the ultra-right effort to take over the Supreme Court.

�This is a key struggle,� CPUSA National Chair Sam Webb said in closing remarks. The ultra-right �wants to lock in control of that court,� he said. �Perhaps they will begin with reproductive rights, but they won�t stop there.�

Communist Convention Pickets Hotel

09.07.2005

More than 300 Communist Party USA members joined the picket line of UNITE HERE Local 1 at the Congress Hotel on July 2. The workers have been forced on strike for the past two years.

The picket line action was held as part of the CPUSA�s 28th National Convention here. The picket line was loud and lively. Participants shouted, �2, 4, 6, 8 � help us negotiate!� �No Justice, No Peace!� and carried picket signs.

Communists are Singing in Chicago

08.07.2005

They still call each other "comrade". They still sing the socialist Internationale. But most of all, they are still around.

Members of the Communist Party of the USA, which was hounded during the McCarthyite political witch-hunts of the 1950s and marginalised by the cold war, gathered in Chicago earlier this week to mark the anniversary of their party's founding in the city in 1919.

Viet Nam Sends Delegation to US Communist Party's National Convention

06.07.2005

A delegation of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) led by Vu Quoc Hung, member of the Party Central Committee and Vice Chairman of its Inspection Commission, attended the 28th National Convention of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) in Chicago, the US, from July 1-3.

To: 'Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition': A report on the CPUSA Convention Live Feed

03.07.2005

"This morning I had a chance to listen to some of the final sessions of the CPUSA convention. The session included a trade union panel and credentials report..." -- Walter Lippmann is a writer, photographer and activist, who directs the CubaNews list, a free e-mail service.

Communists Return to Chicago for Quadrennial Meeting

30.06.2005

Senator Joe McCarthy may be turning over in his grave, but communists are alive and well in the United States - and meeting in Chicago this weekend.

Entrevista a Sam Webb, Presidente Nacional: A nossa prioridade � derrotar Bush (Portuguese)

23.09.2004

N�s n�o subestimamos a amea�a de direita que Bush representa para o nosso pa�s e para o mundo. Caso Bush seja derrotado, teremos um terreno pol�tico distinto a n�vel interno e externo para continuar as lutas pela paz e a igualdade, por justi�a econ�mica e social�. As palavras s�o de Sam Webb, Presidente Nacional do Partido Comunista dos EUA (PCEUA), que em entrevista concedida ao Avante! a 18 de Agosto, em Nova Iorque, analisa a import�ncia das elei��es presidenciais norte-americanas de 2 de Novembro pr�ximo, e d� conta da crescente mobiliza��o das for�as de esquerda e progressistas pela democracia e pela paz.

U.S. leader highlights combative spirit of the Cuban Five

01.06.2004

"WE really need to have the same combative spirit as those five heroes,� affirmed Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, during a meeting with the relatives of Gerardo, Ram�n, Antonio, Fernando and Ren�.

�It is ironic that these men should be fighting against terrorism and find themselves imprisoned in the �age of combating terrorism.� This Bush administration is hypocritical, it lies all the time, but I am sure that we will win,� Webb added. He is on a visit to Cuba at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba...