CPUSA.org report presented by Eric Brooks to the CPUSA National Committee meeting of July 11, 2026.

Thank you for making time on today’s agenda for this report about CPUSA.org as a weapon of struggle today.

In What Is to Be Done, Lenin emphasized that the principal content of party activity — work of political agitation, illuminating all aspects of life, conducted among the broadest possible strata of the masses — was unthinkable without an all-Russia newspaper. The organization that would form around this newspaper would be ready for everything.

Today, that work for the CPUSA revolves around People’s World and CPUSA.org. They complement each other, but have different audiences and goals. CPUSA.org tends to be more internally focused.

CPUSA.org: role and function

CPUSA.org reflects the voices of Party leadership, members, and people close to the Party who write from a Marxist/Leninist perspective about the challenges facing the working class today. It serves as both an agitational and educational/ideological platform, and works to build the unity of the Party and the working class in struggle. It is primarily internal facing.

For Lenin, the paper wasn’t just a product of the party — it was an instrument for building the party. Lenin illustrated this with the metaphor of bricklayers laying bricks in an enormous structure: the newspaper is the thread (the line) that helps them find the correct place, indicates the ultimate goal of the common work, and enables every piece, however small, to be cemented into a finished, continuous line.

That is the challenge that CPUSA.org takes up, to highlight the line of the Party as it is applied in today’s struggles among workers, to help build the Party, and to strengthen the unity of the Party.

Lenin was also clear that there is no neutral press. Within his writing, there is an effort to denounce the perceived “objectivity” of the bourgeois press — he showed that the “mainstream” press of his time, as in our time, while presenting itself as a source of universal truth, actually had a capitalist class status and was an ideological tool for maintaining capitalist rule. That analysis applies with full force today, given corporate media consolidation.

CPUSA.org is not neutral. It stands for Marxism-Leninism and socialism, this Party, and the working class.

Lenin pushed back hard against the “economists” — those who wanted to confine the labor movement to trade union demands and immediate shop-floor grievances. He argued that agitation could not come simply from explaining discontent to workers; it had to take on the form of agitation and ideological struggle around every example of civic life — vocational, civic, personal, family, religious, scientific — in order to develop the political consciousness of the workers through the organization of the political exposure of capitalists in all its aspects.

CPUSA.org, is one vehicle for Party engagement in civic life. It focuses primarily on political/ideological education inside the Party and among youth. There is also an international dimension to the CPUSA.org content as it represents the authoritative statements by this Party and its democratically elected leadership, based on the line adopted at the most recent convention as applied to today’s material conditions of struggle. People in other countries, and in particular fraternal parties, look at this material for a sense of the ideological direction that this party is taking, and of the challenges this party has encountered.

What CPUSA.org publishes

A review of the current homepage shows that CPUSA.org serves three overlapping functions: official party voice, political education, and agitational content connecting Marxist/Leninist analysis to immediate struggles. The following is a summary of what the site is publishing now and the areas of political life it covers.

Party statements and positions. The most prominent content on the homepage is official CPUSA statements on immediate political crises. Current featured statements address the threat of war on Iran and Trump’s escalating attacks on Cuba. This is the site functioning as the authoritative voice of the Party’s elected leadership on the line of the moment.

Internal party documents and leadership reports. Reports to the January 2026 National Committee meeting and to the CPUSA Peace Conference 2.0 are currently featured, serving the function of internal transparency and party unity that this report calls for.

Electoral and resistance work. The trending article as of this writing is “Unite, Fight, Win: What’s at Stake in the Midterms” by Joe Sims. The site also features a “Rapid responses to defend democracy” section and a Target boycott pledge, reflecting the Party’s engagement with the immediate defensive struggles of the working class against the MAGA right.

Political Affairs and theoretical work. This section features articles on theoretical questions. Current articles include Play like the girls in the WNBA, a Marxist analysis of women’s sports, gender, and immigration connecting those questions to capitalist class interests, and “Sinners”: A Marxist take on Hollywood and Black storytelling, a Marxist reading of the titular film. These pieces demonstrate the breadth Lenin called for — applying Marxist analysis to culture, sports, and civic life, not only to shop-floor grievances. Political Affairs will have its own independent platform.

Party voices. This section is divided into videos, “On the Issues” articles, and local activities reports. Current content includes a Good Morning Revolution episode on the left and social media, a piece arguing that capitalism — not individual political figures — is the underlying disease that the “No Kings” resistance movement must name, and a report on CPUSA clubs’ participation in May Day 2026. This is exactly the kind of content — reports from concrete struggle, connected to the Party line — that we hope members will produce and submit for publication.

Education and study. The site hosts video-based Marxist classes produced by the National Marxist Education Commission, a monthly Marxist IQ quiz by historian Norman Markowitz, downloadable pamphlets, and study materials. These are among the most immediately useful resources for club and district educational work.

CPUSA mailbag. A Q&A feature in which CPUSA experts answer questions from the public about the Party’s positions and Marxist theory — for example, “How is communism better than capitalism?” This is an underutilized agitational resource that could be highlighted more systematically in club outreach work.

People’s World integration. The homepage draws in recent People’s World articles through a “More News on Our Network” feed, including recent coverage of the Dark Horse Comics workers’ unionization with CWA Local 7901 and the People’s World Better World Awards. This integration reinforces the complementary relationship between the two platforms described above.

Swag/merchandise. A page offering awesome Party merchandise.

The current state of CPUSA.org

CPUSA.org articles are distributed to the following social media, as well as the website:

• Facebook cpusa with 182K followers
• X/twitter @communistsusa with 72K followers
• BlueSky @communistsusa.bsky.social with 1K followers

What we are asking

Please consider deepening your use of CPUSA.org as an instrument of political agitation and ideological work — illuminating all aspects of life among the broadest strata of the masses — and integrating it more systematically into club and district educational work. Develop email lists of people with whom you share CPUSA.org (and People’s World) regularly.

All members, especially those with two or more years of active struggle, are encouraged to submit to CPUSA.org by sending articles to editors@cpusa.org. Reports from the shop floor, from community campaigns, from electoral work, from study groups. Most needed now are articles that connect theory to concrete struggle — responses to the ideological right, analyses of labor conditions, reports from mass organizations, and international solidarity news. Submission guidelines are here.

For Lenin, the press was never a passive record of events. It was an active instrument of class struggle — organizing, educating, and orienting the movement. That’s the tradition People’s World and CPUSA.org continue, each in its own way. Let’s expand how we put that tradition to work today.

Thank you.

Image: Fred Barr / CPUSA