3 days ago - They call themselves Democrats. We have a Communist Party, but it's actually the worst kind of communism imaginable, which is DEI communism. [ACP logo and "@ACP_California" visible in video.] ↑ American Communist Party [@ACPMain] (December 21, 2025). "Fox News and sleazy Zionist shill @JesseBWatters are so desperate for ratings they're using footage of our chapters to boost their dying duopoly narratives. We challenge Watters to debate our Executive Chairman ...

January 10, 2023 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, released the following statement after voting to establish the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

April 12, 2012 - West: “It’s a good question. I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. … It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.” · So how many — if any — Democrats in Congress are communists? ... We asked West’s spokeswoman Angela Melvin for an explanation: “The congressman was referring to the 76 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The Communist Party has publicly referred to the Progressive Caucus as its allies. The Progressive Caucus speaks for itself. These individuals certainly aren’t proponents of free markets or individual economic freedom.” · On Facebook, West elaborated: “I stand by the point of my comments. The press wants to write gotcha stories and talk semantics, but just look at the words and actions of the Progressive Caucus. You can call them socialist, Marxist, communist or whatever you want, but the point is, they oppose free markets and individual economic freedom, they want to redistribute wealth,

3 weeks ago - 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. See also: List of Communist Party USA election results. In a 1934 Daily Worker article, the Communist Party claimed that "party candidates" had won office in a dozen communities, including two mayors (Emil Nygard of Crosby, Minnesota and Bill Young of Platte Township, Michigan) and several councilmen. By 19

January 11, 2021 - In an in-depth write-up titled, “People’s World,” John Batchell, the current chairman of the organization, said that until a like-minded third party rises to prominence, his organization’s members need to support Democrats.

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...

October 20, 2009 - The chair of the Communist Party's political action commission, and other communist leaders respond to the results of the 2010 midterm elections in this audio podcast. ... Political Affairs interviewed Ali Fischer, President of the United States Student Association's (USSA), on March 11, 2001 during the USSA's annual legislative conference and lobby day in Washington, DC.

US Communist Party (CPUSA) chairman declares open intent to work with Democratic Party · Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 31 14:06:55 2015

National Committee of the Communist Party USA’s new tactics to gain power in America. Though Chairman John Bachtell believes our nation needs a third political party for communists, he’s just fine working with the Democrats to infiltrate our halls of power until that day comes.

1 month ago - The remaining Communists struggled ... part of Communist Party politics today. The party was left reeling after the split and was plagued by many of the same issues yet maintained Gus Hall as General Secretary. In 2000, after the death of Gus Hall, Sam Webb became the chairman of the National Committee. Under his leadership, the party's top priority became supporting the Democratic Party in elections ...

July 4, 2026 - The party condemned his ... his rhetoric a “dangerous escalation of anti‑communist hysteria.” · CPUSA co-Chair Joe Sims contends that no current or hopeful Democratic candidates are communists....

February 18, 1973 - The Communist Party, U.S.A., is circulating a statement by Gus Hall, its general secretary, telling party members to stop working and voting for the Democratic party—and to try to elect Communist's openly.

July 27, 2026 - According to a post that surfaced on X, in a stunning 164-12 vote, the Democratic National Committee officially voted to merge with the Communist Party of America, embracing the ideology as the future of America.

Answer (1 of 141): There are two ways to look at the question - looking at the foundations of Communism as laid out by Karl Marx, and by looking at the authoritarian governments that used that economic system to take power. In neither case are Democrats anywhere close to Communist ideology. The...

June 25, 2019 - “It will take the unity of the left and the center,” including even working with sometimes “unstable and unreliable” interests and “within and alongside the Democratic Party.” · The Communist Party’s organizing for 2020 will center ...

April 27, 2026 - The most senior CPUSA person implicated was Earl Browder, a high-ranking CPUSA officer for most of the years of CPUSA cooperation with Soviet espionage agencies, and the top leader (chairman) of the CPUSA from 1934-1945.

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 ...

4 days ago - The United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party is a select committee of the United States House of Representatives established in the 118th Congress, on January 10, 2023. The committee focuses on American economic and security competition with the People's Republic of China, and its ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The committee is chaired by Representative John Moolenaar of Michigan, a member of the Republican Party, and the ranking member is Ro Khanna of California, a Democrat. Republicans in Congres

December 20, 2024 - Despite their disappointment, however, Communists are not in a state of paralysis over the Trump win, the party’s national co-chair said. The mass labor and democratic movements are strategizing about what to do next, he pointed out, and hundreds of people have applied to join the Communist Party since Election Day.

July 7, 2026 - Communist Party USA has a small footprint in current U.S. politics. It brought in about 20,000 members over the past several years and is in the process of assessing how many are active, according to co-chair Joe Sims.