Joelle Fishman
Joelle Fishman chairs the Connecticut Communist Party USA. She is a Commissioner on the City of New Haven Peace Commission, serves on the executive board of the Alliance of Retired Americans in Connecticut and is an active member of many economic rights and social justice organizations. She was a candidate for Congress from 1973 to 1982, maintaining minor-party ballot status for the Communist Party in Connecticut's Third Congressional District. As chair of the CPUSA Political Action Commission, she has played an active role in the broad labor and people's alliance that defeated the ultra-right in the 2008 elections and continues to mobilize for health care, worker rights and peace.
The fight for voting rights today
Fighting voter suppression is central to achieving working-class unity and defeating the Trump agenda.
A plan to rebuild the U.S. infrastructure can unite the working class
In these times of escalating inequality, life conditions are at a crisis point. There is a jobs crisis, a housing crisis, a crisis of drinking water in rural and urban...
A communist approach to election work in 2018
We work in the elections not just for a candidate but strategically to build and strengthen the movement and our Party for the long term.
Women in politics 2018
The uprising of working-class women candidates in 2018 is reshaping politics. It is an important part of the revolutionary process.
All in for unity, solidarity and get out the vote
When people see their common interests, Trump's policies can be successfully challenged.