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Williana Burroughs: Revolutionary educator, fighter for democracy

Williana Burroughs: Revolutionary educator, fighter for democracy

Williana Burroughs advanced the struggle for African American equality and women’s equality as a teacher, housing organizer, Communist candidate, and anti-imperialist Pan-Africanist.

BY: Michael O’Dea| August 12, 2025
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Jewish women in the U.S. labor movement

Jewish women in the U.S. labor movement

Countless working class Jewish women like Clara Lemlich, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, and Pauline Newman have played important roles in U.S. labor and Communist Party history.

BY: Jewish Committee| March 27, 2025
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Erasing History: A useful, if liberal intro to fascist revisionism

Erasing History: A useful, if liberal intro to fascist revisionism

For those unfamiliar with fascism's distortions of the past, Stanley's book provides context for current U.S. politics, though fascism's economic basis is not much examined.

BY: Mario Lepanto| March 19, 2025
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Socialism: the next chapter of the American story

Socialism: the next chapter of the American story

In putting forward our vision of socialism, we must make clear that the U.S. would not be discarding its past but building upon it.

May 15, 2024
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NYTimes’ McCarthyite “exposé” carries water for the MAGA right

NYTimes’ McCarthyite “exposé” carries water for the MAGA right

Pushing Cold War 2.0 politics to its McCarthyite conclusion, a recent article from the NYTimes aides the MAGA right's assault on democracy.

BY: Communist Party USA| August 11, 2023
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