3 weeks ago - In July 2024, dissenting members of the CPUSA formed their own party, the American Communist Party, citing the CPUSA's support for the Democratic Party and alleged abandonment of Marxism–Leninism, with online political commentators Haz Al-Din as its founding chairman and Jackson Hinkle as ...

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January 29, 2015 - The chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA has penned a 2,023-word manifesto making the critical point that American Communists are eager to work with the Democratic Party to advance the modern communist agenda and achieve communist goals. Communist Party chairman John...

The Communist Party must continue ... its demands. In our electoral policy, we seek to cooperate and strengthen our relationship with the more progressive elements in Democratic Party, such as the Progressive Caucus in the ...

... Ranking Member Ro Khanna Statement on Rep. Tom Suozzi Appointment to the Select Committee ... WASHINGTON – Rep. Ro Khanna, Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese ...

2 days ago - In July 2025, Hinkle met with Doğu Perinçek, chairman of Turkey's Patriotic Party, with ACP "partnering" with the Patriotic Party. Hinkle stated: "The Islamic world will unite against Israel and the West will stand against Israel. [....] If all forces that fight against imperialism – like Khomeini – come together, Russia, China, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will defeat imperialism." ACP has fielded electoral candidates for local offices in the United States. Currently 1 ACP member holds an elected public office and 1 member holds an appointed public position. History of the so

During the 1960s, the Communist party became involved in the civil rights movement and also the antiwar movement. Gus Hall, longtime general secretary of the party, ran for President in 1968 (the party had not run its own candidate since 1940) and received only 1,075 votes. He ran in subsequent years and in 1976 he received 58,992 votes. In 1988, instead of running, Hall pledged his support to jesse jackson, who was seeking the Democratic nomination for president.

1 week ago - He agreed that recent Democratic candidates cannot accurately be described as members of his party. “I don’t know of any of those candidates who are members of the Communist Party or who subscribe to Marxism in the tradition that our party comes from,” he said.

Two Communists were elected in the 1940s to the New York City Council, one on the Communist Party ticket and one on the American Labor Party ticket. Communists also allied with Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party and supported the election of progressive Democratic Party candidates.

May 5, 2026 - The ideology also calls for distribution of goods based on need rather than profit. In practice, communist systems have taken many forms, from democratic socialist movements to authoritarian one‑party states. In the U.S., the Communist Party USA has historically combined Marxist theory with participation in labor organizing and civil‑rights activism. American hostility toward communism dates to the early 20th century and intensified during the Red Scare after World War I as well as during the Cold War with the Soviet Union · This sparked McCarthyism in the 1950s, when suspected Communists were blacklisted, fired or even prosecuted. Thousands lost jobs or were imprisoned under laws like the Smith Act, and the Communist Party’s influence largely disappeared under government surveillance and public fear. As of Marx’s birthday this year, openly Communist elected officials in the U.S.

4 days ago - He agreed that recent Democratic candidates cannot accurately be described as members of his party. “I don’t know of any of those candidates who are members of the Communist Party or who subscribe to Marxism in the tradition that our party comes from,” he said.

April 27, 2026 - With all rivals in Moscow now opposed to cooperation with La Follette, the CPUSA abandoned its alliance with his coalition, and during the 1924 election ran William Z. Foster as the CPUSA’s own presidential candidate. According to historians Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes, the “Communists spent more time attacking La Follette than they did criticizing the Republican or Democratic ...

June 6, 2026 - This is a list of American politicians who are members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and who have held elected office in the United States. CPUSA has run candidates on an explicit Communist ticket, on tickets of third parties (such as the Nonpartisan League), and on Democratic tickets.

3 weeks ago - The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a left-wing political party that became one of the most important leftist organizations in the U.S. from its founding in 1919 to the late 1950s. Inspired by the October Revolution in Russia, two U.S.

Following the German invasion of the USSR, the Communists again switched their line to unrelenting opposition to the Nazis. Under the Democratic Front policy the Party worked with all other democratic forces to rally new levels of popular support for Soviet-American cooperation.

1 week ago - Communist Party USA chairman says no current or hopeful Democratic candidates are communists.

April 11, 2012 - Allen West’s “sad ploy” for claiming that as many as 80 Democratic members of the House are communists. “I just think it’s an absurd way to cast a shadow over his colleagues.

Hall was hostile to Eurocommunism as it developed in the 1980s and then to the reforms initiated in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev. Hall resisted the attempts to introduce democratic reforms. In 1989 Hall outmaneuvered his opponents, leading to large numbers leaving the party. Hall did not resign as party chairman until just before his death on 13th October, 2000.