Since World War 2, there have been only two social revolutions in the West: Cuba in 1959 and Portugal’s Carnation Revolution in 1974. Asia has fared better with China, Vietnam, and Laos’ attempts to lay the material basis for socialist transition. Attempts in Southern Africa and Latin America were either overthrown, as in Ghana and Chile, rejected, or faultily conceived.
Why is it that in Europe and the U.S., the countries of developed capitalism, once powerful Communist, Workers, and Socialist parties seemed to lose momentum, stall out, and in the worst cases, collapse? As capitalist crisis deepens, is there still a path forward for the Left?
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The Communist Party USA is a revolutionary working-class political party founded in 1919 in Chicago, IL.
The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.
But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit — socialism.
We are rooted in our country's revolutionary history and its struggles for democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms.
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