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Claude M. Lightfoot: Communism and Black liberation
This article was originally published here by the Chicago History Museum. Claude M. Lightfoot (1910–1991) was an African American author, Chicago resident, political candidate, and member of the Communist Party USA’s National Committee. In 1986, he donated a collection of his papers to the Chicago History Museum. Born in Lake Village, Arkansas, in 1910, Claude Mark Lightfoot was raised by his grandmother until 1918 when the Lightfoot family moved...
Report to NC: Upgrading our organizational work
Strengthening our strategic planning, communication, and party structures is on the agenda, as well as developing our theoretical work and mobilizing our members.
"Triple concentration," a Leninist approach to the fight for equality
This text is excerpted from a recorded address of former CPUSA National Chairman Henry Winston. The original audio can be heard here. This subject matter is of extreme urgency for the Party as it is for the mass movement as well. In the conditions of the U.S. no greater error can be made than to try to sever the class aspects of matters from the race and national. To...
The right-wing billionaire grip on government must be broken
Keynote to CPUSA National Committee: Now is the time to build the mass party of action our country so desperately needs.
The rise of the tech oligarchs
With Trump's election and the open, undisguised entry of right-wing tech billionaires into the U.S. government, we have entered a new political moment that in many ways breaks sharply with the past. How did Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and others come to wield such influence? Join us for a town hall with Rob Davis and other leaders of the South African Communist Party, and hear their unique...
Marxist IQ: A defense of Black history
1. Many people in the U.S. today still imagine that the fight against slavery in the U.S. was mainly waged by white abolitionists in the North. However, historians like W.E.B. Du Bois, Howard Zinn, and others have shown that a. Black leaders, newspapers, and organizations played an enormous role in the leadership and grassroots organizing of the abolitionist movement. b. the enslaved population of the South turned the tide...
Globalization, immigration, and the H1-B debate
The anti-Irish sentiments of Marx' day bear striking resemblance to the anti-migrant mantras we fight today.
2025 CPUSA Online National Marxist School: Growing the peace movement
Join the CPUSA National Education Commission and Working-Class Project for a series of Marxist classes dealing with the basics of Marxist political economy, historical and dialectical materialism, democratic struggles for equality, youth and the environment, how we organize, the fight against fascism, the history of our Party, and more. Click here for the recommended readings. The title of this Feb. 15 class is Growing the Peace Movement Register for...
2025 CPUSA Online National Marxist School: Fight against fascism
Join the CPUSA National Education Commission and Working-Class Project for a series of Marxist classes dealing with the basics of Marxist political economy, historical and dialectical materialism, democratic struggles for equality, youth and the environment, how we organize, the fight against fascism, the history of our Party, and more. Click here for the recommended readings. The title of this Feb. 15 class is Lessons from the Fight against Fascism...
2025 CPUSA Online National Marxist School: China
Join the CPUSA National Education Commission and Working-Class Project for a series of Marxist classes dealing with the basics of Marxist political economy, historical and dialectical materialism, democratic struggles for equality, youth and the environment, how we organize, the fight against fascism, the history of our Party, and more. Click here for the recommended readings. This Feb. 13 class will provide an overview of developments taking place within China....