Civil Rights

Long-time Party member Danny Rubin makes the case, citing not-widely-known evidence and his own personal experiences at that time, that the CPUSA had a significant impact on the struggle for civil rights and African American equality.

Strategy for a Black Agenda first came out in 1973. The book was and remains a fundamental contribution to the struggle. The issues that Henry Winston raised centered on the unity of the class and national questions.

Reprinted from Political Affairs Magazine, the magazine of the Communist Party USA.

We are living through a very dangerous period. The Bush Administration and most Republicans in Congress are using the events of September 11th to push their reactionary agenda: imperialist aggression abroad, racism and austerity at home. We are in the middle of a deepening economic crisis made worse by the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the great corporate scandals of 2002, and the right-wing policies of the Bush Administration.

WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is waging a last ditch struggle to block a so-called "anti-terrorism" measures adopted by the House and Senate that grants the Bush Administration sweeping new powers of detention and surveillance without judicial review.

WASHINGTON - Defenders of civil liberties warned this week that a "compromise" anti-terrorism bill that the Bush administration is seeking to ram through Congress would give federal authorities vast new powers of surveillance and mass detention in violation of the Bill of Rights.

DURBAN, South Africa - An atmosphere of protests, strikes and mass actions surrounded the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discriminiation, Xenophobia and Related Intolerances in Durban, South Africa.