Communists in the United States Labor Movement (1937–50) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-30

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00:01:42 1 Factionalism, zig zags and retreats
00:07:22 1.1 Break with the Roosevelt administration
00:14:13 2 World War II and the no-strike pledge
00:21:27 3 The post-war era and expulsion from the CIO
00:25:59 4 The years since
00:28:20 5 See also
00:28:38 6 Footnotes
00:28:47 7 Further reading
00:30:44 8 External links



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The Communist Party (CP) and its allies played a role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but never succeeded, with rare exceptions, either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda or in converting their influence in any particular union into membership gains for the Party. The CP has had only negligible influence in labor since its supporters' defeat in internal union political battles in the aftermath of World War II and the CIO's (CIO) expulsion of unions in which the party held the most influence in 1950.

Historians disagree why the American union movement never formed a labor party and why American workers have never embraced socialist parties in any numbers. Some have argued that a strain of American exceptionalism made U.S. workers resistant to parties that emphasized class struggle; others have contended that downplaying political and social agendas for the sake of unity, short-term gains and building strong unions was at the cost of a potential labor party. Others contend instead that the left lost its power to lead the labor movement by what commenters charged were 'ideological zig-zags'. The CP's history within the labor movement support parts of all of these theses.