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CPUSA 28th National Convention - DRAFT Main Political Resolution
The CPUSA will hold its 28th National Convention July 1-3 in Chicago Illinois. The theme is 'DEFEAT THE BUSH AGENDA -- THE PEOPLE CAN WIN!' This draft of the Conventions Main Political Report is for Pre-Convention discussion. [] 'The 28th National Convention of the Communist Party USA takes place at a dangerous time in our nations history. Twenty-five years of right-wing dominance of the nations political agenda has reached a...
The Fight to Save and Expand Social Security: A Family and Community Project
Report to the National Committee, Communist Party USA January 29, 2005. The inauguration is over, but the battle for hearts and minds, for the future of our country, is raging. As Linda Chavez Thompson put it so eloquently during the Martin Luther King celebration in Los Angeles: Things can turn around much sooner than anyone can imagine if we fight smart, and if we fight hard and if we fight...
Marxist Classics: The Nature of the 'White-Black Relationship'
One of the reading selections of the African American History Month educational guide: Chapter 7 from Class, Race and Black Liberation, Published 1977, International Publishers Co
Club Educational Study Guide: African American History Month 2005
This educational has the goal of upgrading our understanding of the national question, the fight against racism, and the fight for African American equality. The recommended readings include classic writings based on a theoretical foundation which is still sound even if the statistical data have shifted.
'No mandate, no surrender' from report to the CPUSA National Committee
Never in my lifetime have I participated in an election in which the stakes were so high, the opposing sides so clearly defined, the forms and methods of struggle so creative and wide-ranging, and the battle so bitterly contested and so consequential to the lives of billions on our planet. The results werent what we had hoped for, but we should be immensely proud that we were engaged and tireless...
Youth vote 2004: a whole new level
If you turned on the TV on November 3rd CNN mentioned to you that young people showed up at the polls but it was nothing too impressive. They told you that while the numbers went up, so did all voter-turnout numbers and there was no significant shift or big change in how many young folks showed up as compared to the rest of the population. Some of them even went...
The Communist Party USA and the 2004 Elections: Build the Party, Build the Coalitions
Our banner for 2004 was Build Unity Defeat Bush and the Ultra-Right. Our method was an all-out effort with the broad labor-led democratic front against extreme right-wing reaction; and within that all-out for a bigger, stronger Communist Party and YCL.
'No mandate, no surrender' reprinted from the People's Weekly World
Several months ago most pollsters predicted that the margin of difference between Kerry and Bush would be razor thin. I cant recall anyone projecting a landslide for either candidate, let alone a major political realignment nationwide. Guess what? They were more right than wrong. (First published in People's Weekly World Newspaper http://pww.org/article/articleview/6100)
In three key states, labor takes stock
After a hard-fought battle, Minnesota voters gave their state to John Kerry, but they also reshaped the balance of power in the state Capitol by trouncing a score of Republican state legislators.
We have our work cut out for us
Editorial This is a deeply divided country. Out of some 114 million votes, George W. Bush garnered just over 3 million more than John Kerry. Bush will claim a mandate for his extremist agenda. Hell, he claimed a mandate when he grabbed the White House in 2000 by one Supreme Court justice vote. But the reality is at least half the country is against him.