Communist Party USA

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## Communist Party USA

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## Information

### Base

235 W. 23rd Street, New York City, New York, 10011

### Afilliation

International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (International)

## Extra Information

### Ideology

* Communism
* Marxism–Leninism
* Bill of Rights socialism

### Website

http://cpusa.org/

The Communist Party USA is a third party that has not reached the level of power as the democrats and Republicans. Communism and socialism is disliked by the majority of the American Population due to Communism being linked with dictators.

## Description

### Appearance

CPUSA can be seen in any type of suits. They can be in any color too but mostly shown in various shades of red.

### Personality

They are serious, and quiet. They thirst for justice and revenge for the working class, trying to create an equivalent to the modern-day guillotine. Though this is the current beliefs but back in the Soviet days he willingly back stabbed Americans by spying for the Soviets.

## History

### Formation and Early years

The first Socialist Party of the United States was the Socialist Labor Party of America which was formed in 1876 and was a viable force for the International Socialist Movement. By the mid 1890’s it came under radical views from one Daniel De Leon. This led to a large discontent with the party and created the Socialist Party of America. However a “left-wing” started to grow within the party in 1919 Vladimir Lenin invited that section into the Communist International. During the spring of 1919, the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party, buoyed by a large influx of new members from countries involved in the Russian Revolution, prepared to wrest control from the smaller controlling faction of moderate socialists. Then a referendum was passed with 90% this was to join Comintern however it was suppressed. Elections for the party's National Executive Committee resulted in 12 leftists being elected out of a total of 15. Calls were made to expel moderates from the party. The moderate incumbents struck back by expelling several state organizations. The Socialist Party then called a emergency convention. The left wing section planned at a June conference of its own to regain control of the party by sending delegations from the sections of the party that had been expelled to the convention to demand that they be seated. However the language federations turned away from that effort and created the Communist Party of America. Meanwhile the earlier plans succeeded and lad to the creation of the Communist Labor Party of America. The Comintern was not happy with two communist parties and in January 1920 dispatched an order that the two parties, which consisted of about 12,000 members, merge under the name United Communist Party and to follow the party line established in Moscow.

### Red Scare and the Communist Party USA

From its inception the party came under attack from the federal and state governments and later the FBI due to unattributed bombings and attempted assassinations, the department of justice headed by attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer, acting under the Sedition Act of 1918. They began to arrest thousands of foreign born members which many were deported. The communist party was forced underground and used various techniques to not get captured. It re-emerged in the last days of 1921 as a legal political party called the Workers Party of America. As the Red Scare and deportations of the 1920s ebbed, the party became bolder and more open. However, an element of the party remained permanently underground and came to be known as the "CPUSA secret apparatus". During this time it was reported that immigrants from Eastern Europe played a crucial role of that time.

### Factional War

Since the above ground level was legal the Communists decided that their central task was to develop roots within the working class. This move from revolution to workers was caused by the decisions of the fifth world congress. This work however was complicated by factional struggles within the Party which quickly developed a number of more or less fixed factional groupings within its leadership.

### Third Period

The “Upheavals” within the communist party in 1928 happened to be an echo of a much more significant change as Stalin's decision to break off any form of collaboration with Western socialist parties, which were now being called as "social fascists". The impact of this policy in the United States was counted in membership figures. In 1928 there were about 24,000 members but by 1932, the total had dropped to 6,000 members. Though some members did oppose the third period policies and one of the main ones were James P. Cannon. Though this did mean he was kicked out of the party. He then went on to establish the CLA with two other individuals. They declared themselves a “external faction” until Stalin's policies in Germany helped Adolf Hitler take power. At that point, they started working towards the founding of a new international, the Fourth International. By 1930, the party adopted the slogan of "the united front from below". The Communist Party devoted much of its energy in the Great Depression to organizing the unemployed, attempting to found "red" unions, championing the rights of African Americans and fighting evictions of farmers and the working poor. At the same time, the party attempted to weave its sectarian revolutionary politics into its day-to-day defense of workers, usually with only limited success. They recruited more disaffected members of the Socialist Party and an organization of African American socialists called the African Blood Brotherhood, some of whose members, particularly Harry Haywood, would later play important roles in Communist work among blacks.

### Popular Front

The ideological rigidity of the third period began to crack with two events which were the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Roosevelt's passing of th National Industrial Recovery Act had sparked a upsurge in union organizing. While the party line still favored creation of autonomous revolutionary unions, party activists chose to fold up those organizations and follow the mass of workers into the AFL unions they had been attacking. The Seventh Congress of the Comintern made the change in line official, when it declared the need for a front of all groups opposed to fascism. The Communist Party also abandoned its opposition to the New Deal, provided many of the organizers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and began supporting African American civil rights. The party also sought unity with forces to its right. Earl Browder offered to run as Norman Thomas' running mate on a joint Socialist Party-Communist Party ticket in the 1936 presidential election, but Thomas rejected this overture. The gesture did not mean that much in practical terms since by 1936 the Communist Party effectively supporting Roosevelt in much of his trade union work. While continuing to run its own candidates for office, the party pursued a policy of showing the Democratic Party as the lesser evil in elections. Party members happened to also rally behind the defense of the Spanish Republic during the period of nationalist military uprising moved to overthrow it, resulting in the Spanish Civil War.

### World War II and aftermath

The party adamantly opposed to fascism during the Popular Front period. Although membership in the party rose to about 75,000, many members left the party after the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany on August 23, 1939. General secretary Browder at first began to attack Nazi germany for invading western Poland A directive from Moscow stated to denounce the polish government this scrambled the party around and party leaders began to bicker. On September 17 the Soviet Union invaded the eastern portion of Poland. British, French, and German communist parties were originally war supportive then denounced their anti fascist attempts and moved towards “peace” and denounced allied governments. The CPUSA took a similar turn moving away from anti fascism and advocating peace they would even stand for Hitler, condemning those opposed to him. They then stopped boycotting of Nazi goods. Then nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union the communist party then took another shift advocating for the defeat and stopping of fascism and started being more pro war.

## How successful

The CPUSA has very little success with the United States Population with only around 5,000–10,000 members.

## Ideology

CPUSA ideology is Communism, Marxism–Leninism, and Bill of Rights socialism.

### Public Opinion

Many Americans dislike Communists to a extreme this all comes from dictatorships using Communism to commit atrocities.

## References

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist\_Party\_USA
* https://cpusa.org/