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.
Despite MAGA's setbacks and rising resistance, the attacks on democracy accelerate. Building the party, overcoming racism, and fighting for labor's role remain key tasks. Don't lose faith!
Workers young and old are fighting across the country to build the labor movement, link it up with community struggles, and push it to the forefront of the fight back.
What can the working class do to not only defend ourselves, but fight forward? Fight back and organize! Through collective struggle and learning, our tactics will come into focus.
Blind to anti-communism's function in the class and democratic struggle, Risen erases CPUSA history, presenting McCarthyism as a mere cultural phenomenon.