Hear the histories of African American leaders in the CPUSA such as James Jackson, Claude McKay, Harry Haywood, Otto Huiswoud, Paul Robeson, Benjamin Davis, Angelo Herndon, Henry Winston, Angela Davis, and others, and their involvement with the National Negro Labor Council, the Scottsboro Boys case, and the fight against fascism.
Presenter: Jarvis Tyner
Image: Otto Huiswoud (L) and Claude McKay, at the Fourth Congress of the Third International in Moscow in 1933. Claude McKay Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Creative Commons (BY 2.0).
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The Communist Party USA is a working class organization 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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