In this study session, we locate the Communist Party USA's history within history of the class and democratic struggles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This discussion challenges sectarian concepts of the party's leading role arguing that for Lenin, the concept of working-class leadership is inseparable from building alliances and the united front.
We must confront all sectarian and white chauvinist barriers to working class unity within the peace movement to move forward toward peace, justice, equality, and socialism.
Jesús Colón's A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches is an autobiographical narrative composed of short stories that document the formation of class consciousness from the ground up.
Party life empowered Cruz to overcome personal hurdles and build a legacy of working class struggle against racism and for Puerto Rican liberation that those he mentored build on today.