Communists in the United States Labor Movement (1919–37) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-30

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00:01:31 1 The CPUSA's founding and early years
00:07:13 2 The CPUSA turns left: the Trade Union Unity League
00:09:53 2.1 Miners' unions
00:13:47 3 The early years of the New Deal and the founding of the CIO
00:18:20 3.1 CIO
00:20:45 4 Organizing basic industry
00:22:26 4.1 United Auto Workers
00:25:27 4.2 Steelworkers
00:27:19 5 See also
00:27:37 6 Footnotes
00:27:46 7 External links



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The Communist Party and its allies played an important 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 of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, 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 expulsion of the unions in which they held the most influence in 1950. After the expulsion of the Communists, organized labor in the United States began a steady decline.

Historians disagree why the union movement never formed a labor party and why American workers have never embraced socialist parties in any numbers in the last ninety years. Some have argued that a strain of American exceptionalism made U.S. workers resistant to parties that emphasized class struggle; others have attributed the left's failure to its own successes in building strong unions, but at the cost of downplaying its own political and social agendas for the sake of unity or short-term gains. Others take just the opposite position: that the left lost its power to lead the labor movement by its ideological zig-zags. The CP's history within the labor movement can support all of these theses.