Meet the Challenge! Join the CPUSA.

A popular video from the Communist Party USA
The next episode in a series on the Communist Party USA(CPUSA) new national office. Green features and new parts of the office are showcased. With a comical intro and outro.

The party-builder will not add to your “to do” list – rather, it aims to keep you up to date on our political focus -- the elections – and provide food for thought with articles on the experience, what works and what doesn’t, of the Party organization, especially the clubs.


In this Issue:

* Organizing in Oregon
* Watch the speech
* YCL summer youth voter training camp
* PWW Fund Drive

The Beijing Olympics represent a vision of the kind of future for which the Communist Party USA strives: a world where people from hundreds of countries come together peacefully to enjoy a common cause.

205 states will participate in the Olympic games, many of whom are in conflict with each other. Iraq and the United States, Israel and Palestine, Russia and Georgia, the D.R. Congo and Rwanda, Sudan and Chad: All of these nations and dozens more will be part of a single, peaceful event.

Everyone in this room knows we’re in bad shape, and it’s not getting better. Every month this year has brought worse news on unemployment numbers, May brought a 0.5% increase to bring the total to 5.5%, an increase that was the largest since the mid-1980s, and the highest rate since late 2004. Over the past six months private-sector employment has fallen by 411,000; the long-term unemployed share is up to 18.3%; the underemployment rate is at 9.7%; all of which add up to the fact that almost 10% of the workforce is unemployed or underemployed.

In This Newsletter:
USW: History in the Making
Action Alerts: UFW; Bad Boss is Back
Round-up of International Strikes
Working Women Survey results
DC stands with Smithfield Workers
Million Member Mobilization
Willamette Reds event
Election 2008: Trumka addresses USW convention
Union Jobs (still more needed!)