1 month ago - The remaining Communists struggled with questions of identity in the post-Soviet world, some of which that are still 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 in order to defeat the "ultra right". Despite the party's previous rigidity which partially caused the previous split,

2 weeks ago - The result of the sudden shift ... of the Communist Party USA, a good number of whom had joined during the period of the Popular Front against fascism. Browder declared at one Philadelphia rally that only "a dozen or so" had left the CPUSA over the change of line; but this was simply untrue. On the contrary, the party's ranks fell by 15% between 1939 and 1940, and recruitment of new members in 1940 fell by 75% from 1938 levels. The public image of the USSR as a main bulwark against fascism and claims of the CPUSA as an indigenous radical organization were severely undermined. Moreover, the CPU

The future belongs to the working class.

3 days ago - ACP supports the Chinese Communist Party and opposes Taiwan independence. The ACP aligns themselves with the Chinese perspective on the Sino-Soviet split, and considers the Soviet Union's de-Stalinization efforts as having been revisionist. The ACP supports the Cultural Revolution alongside Deng Xiaoping's pro-market economic reforms. In a 2025 ACP explainer video, Chairman ...

May 1, 2014 - It has just two salaried staff - Chairman Sam Webb and his deputy Jarvis Tyner, who was a vice-presidential candidate in the 1970s. Its ultimate aim, however, is still sweeping in its ambition.

Charles Ruthenberg, General Secretary (1919-1927), James P. Cannon, Party Chairman, (1919-1928)

April 27, 2026 - 2 · Following the purge of Earl Browder from leadership, the CPUSA appointed Eugene Dennis as its general secretary in 1946. William Z. Foster, in ill health, held onto a leadership title as party chairman...

August 31, 1991 - Gus Hall, the chairman of the American Communist Party, yesterday warned of a frightening new wave of "witch hunts," "mass hysteria" and McCarthyism. He was talking about about persecution of Communists in the Soviet Union.

Recordings are largely contained ... video tapes contain recordings of Communist Party programs created for radio and television, and include Chairman Gus Hall's weekly radio address Update, and...

Brezhnev, Leonid, General Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union · Brock, William Emerson, III, Senator (R-Tennessee) Broomfield, William S., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-Michigan) Brown, George S., General, USAF; Air Force Chief of Staff from August 1, 1973 until June 30, 1974; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 1, 1974 · Buchen, Philip W., Legal Counsel to the President from August 15, 1974 · Buffum, William Burnside, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon until January 17, 1974; Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs from February 4, 1974 until December 18, 1975 · Bush, George H.W., Representative to the United Nations until January 18, 1973; Head of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing from October 21, 1974 until December 7, 1975; Director of Central Intelligence from January 30, 1976 until January 20, 1977 ·

1 week ago - During the last years of his life, Hall lived in Yonkers, New York, with his wife, Elizabeth. Along with following political events, Hall engaged in hobbies that included art collecting, organic gardening, and painting. In 2000, shortly before his death, Hall resigned the post of party chairman in favor of Sam Webb and was appointed honorary chairman. In 1994, Michael Myerson, who had left the CPUSA along with Herbert Aptheker, Angela Davis, Gil Green, and Charlene Mitchell, accused Hall of living a "good bourgeois life" including "an estate in fashionable Hampton Bays". When the Trotskyist So

January 1, 1970 - In 1946, Eugene Dennis was appointed General Secretary. The ailing William Zebulon Foster continued to hold the leadership position of Chairman of the Communist Party of the United States of America, but Dennis became the operational commander.

August 22, 2025 - Party officers Rossana Cambron, Co-chair Rossana Cambron was elected CPUSA co-chair at the 31st Convention of the Communist Party USA in 2019. Cambron is a former special education teacher of Mexican descent.

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.

July 20, 1998 - Earl Browder was the U.S. Communist Party leader for almost 25 years, until his split with official party doctrine after World War II. As a result of his opposition to the entrance of the United States into World War I, Browder was imprisoned ...

In an April 2018 exclusive interview with Chinese news agency Xinhua, John Bachtell, Communist Party USA's national chairman, said that Marxism is a revolutionary "guide to action" for the party as far as strategy and tactics.

James Cannon, the chairman of the American Communist Party, attended the Sixth Congress of the Comintern in 1928. While in the Soviet Union he was given a document written by Leon Trotsky on the rule of Joseph Stalin.

As of interest in connection with the Congress there is enclosed a statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States which appeared in the February 5, 1935, issue of the New York City edition of the Communist International40 setting forth the topics to be discussed among Party members in the United States in anticipation of the Congress. The Department does not know as yet the names of the American delegates to the Congress but in the event such information becomes available the Embassy will be advised. In this connection information regarding the identity of the American delegate or delegates stationed permanently in Moscow on the Executive Committee of the Communist International would be of great interest to the Department. Persons acting in this capacity now may possibly be identical with either McIlhone, Grossman, or Sherman whose names were contained as signatories to an announcement of the Executive Committee of the Communist International regarding