NEW YORK - As Communist Party chair Sam Webb noted in his
opening speech for the 2nd annual CPUSA National Conference
April 21, many of the delegates present were youth. With
them came a modern medium for the journalistic and political
environment: social media. That tool was one of the
highlights of this important two-day event.
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NEW YORK - The Communist Party USA sees the 2012 elections
as literally a matter of life and death.
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2012 is the 101st year since the birth of the former
National Chair of the Communist Party, Henry Winston. The
article below is taken from Winston's 1973 book, *Strategy
for a Black Agenda*. It is a critique of the strategy and
tactics necessary to advance the revolutionary process in
the face of right-wing extremism and white supremacy from
the time of slavery to the upsurge of the 1960s and early
1970s.
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Two years into the Obama presidency it is fair to say that
racist ideology is the main mobilizing discourse of
right-wing extremism. In subtle and crude forms, it has
become the main poison to draw white people into the theater
of politics on the side of the most reactionary sections of
corporate capital.
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The CPUSA attended the November 2008 meeting of Communist
and Worker's Parties in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Check out this
video made by the Party of the Italian Communists about the
event:
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CPUSA statement on Appeals Court decision June 4 in the case
of the Cuban Five. The Communist Party USA rejects
unequivocally the decision announced June 4 by a three-judge
panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that puts off
freedom for five Cuban men who as of September 12 will have
served ten years of unjust imprisonment. They are Gerardo
Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio
Guerrero, and Ramon Labanino. Their supposed crime was to
have taken non-violent actions in defense of their nation.
For almost fifty years, thugs and criminals, encouraged by
successive U.S.governments, have directed murder and mayhem
against the Cuban people. Five men, courageous and
principled, volunteered to watch over unseemly private
groupings, gangs we say, to report their plotting to Cuban
authorities. The Communist Party condemns the U.S.
government for its complicity with this terror campaign. We
view that government judges included as party to continuing
persecution of the Cuban Five. They have, in fact, put the
Cuban revolution in the dock. The valor and idealism of our
brothers who are in jail exemplify revolutionary ideals. We
take to heart Gerardo Hernandez words in response to this
skewed decision: This is the same system that has unjustly
incarcerated Mumia for more than 20 years along with Leonard
Peltier and the Puerto Rican political prisoners. He asserts
that, We will endure as many years as necessary, adding
that, As long as one of you is resisting, we will also
resist until there is justice. We resist too. The Communist
Party USA was gratified by Amnesty Internationals
denunciation of U.S. persecution of the Cuban Five contained
within its annual report issued May 28. Our Party recalls
the designation by a United Nations working group in 2005 of
their detention as arbitrary. We point to phrasing early in
theAppeals Courtdecision demonstrating either bias or
incompetence. We say the former. Judge William Pryor,
writing for the Court, asserts that Each Cuban agent was
convicted of espionage charges... In fact three were
convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, among other
charges; none of espionage. On another occasion, Leonard
Weinglass, appeals attorney for Antonio Guerrero, indicated
why this lapse is significant: By using the charge of
conspiracy the government is relieved of the requirement
that the underlying crime be proven. Our Party will not rest
until these five Cuban combatants against terrorism -
defenders of the Cuban revolution - are freed. Additionally,
the Communist Party USA pledges continuing dedication, with
allies, toward bringing arch terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
to justice.
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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).
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Dear Comrade Fidel Castro,
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U.S. leader highlights combative spirit of the Cuban Five BY
ARNALDO MUSA Published: June, 2004
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