In the 1960s, at the height of the Free Speech movement, Communist Party leaders and activists embarked on a tour of college campuses, where they spoke to thousands of students. Tony Pecinovsky, author of Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, discusses the popularity of their message among students who gathered by the hundreds and thousands to hear Gus Hall, Benjamin Davis Jr., Herbert Aptheker, James Jackson, and others.
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The Communist Party USA is a working class organization founded in 1919 in Chicago, IL.
The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.
But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit — socialism.
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