Neighborhood and Workplace Concentration Clubs Are Essential to Building the Party and Defeating...

Proposed resolution submitted by the Connecticut District to the National Convention of the Communist Party USA June 10, 2001

Whereas: The 27th National Convention of the Communist Party USA convenes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to build broad labor and people's unity against the extreme-right wing in 2001. We return to Milwaukee 20 years after the Extraordinary Conference in 1981 that launched our Party into a new era of grass roots neighborhood and workplace club building and organizing among our multi-racial, multi-national working class.

And Whereas: Broad grass-roots, mass action is required to withstand and forestall legislative, legal and economic attacks on jobs, public services, the environment and peace, labor rights, civil rights and human rights. Electorally, the experiences of the labor and people's movements have shown that the greatest success in turning out the pro-labor and people's vote is a result of discussions with workers on the job and at their homes about issues and candidates.

And Whereas: Grass roots organizing by clubs concentrated on neighborhoods and workplaces is key to our ability to build a larger Communist Party and to join in coalitions with labor and community organizations to turn out the vote in the common struggle to defeat the corporate extreme-right wing stranglehold on federal government policies affecting all communities.

And Whereas: The Peoples Weekly World is an indispensable tool in educating and mobilizing at the grass roots, especially when these weekly door to door and workplace distributions are carried out in such as way as to result in new Communist Party clubs in working class neighborhoods and workplaces, and in rural communities.

And Whereas: To implement the decisions of the Milwaukee Conference, the Connecticut District concentrated on building grass roots neighborhood and workplace clubs. This resulted in a large growth in the number of clubs and members and in a transformation and strengthening of the working class and multi-racial, multi-national composition of the District.

And Whereas: The success of building grass roots clubs in working class neighborhoods and workplaces requires the full participation and support of the District leadership backed up by full help and support to districts in this endeavor from the national organization.

Therefore be it resolved that: The 27th National Convention of the Communist Party USA reaffirms the goals and substance of the Extraordinary National Conference of 1981 which emphasized the primary unit of the Communist Party USA as neighborhood and workplace clubs for the purpose of carrying out working-class concentration

And be it further resolved that: We call upon the 27th National Convention of the CPUSA to consider all political, ideological and organizational questions in the framework of building and strengthening neighborhood and workplace clubs, and helping district organizations in this effort.

This resolution was unanimously adopted by the Connecticut State Convention.