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.
A month in the life of the Connecticut CPUSA
In 2017 all basic democratic rights are threatened by policies that favor the richest 1% over everyone else.
The “urgency of now” in building the democratic resistance
Actions each day affirm that the possibilities to build a broad, democratic movement that can stem the tide are here.
Resistance rising: No hate, no fear
One hundred days of resistance are planned by the broad peoples movement.
“We Won’t Go Back!” says Communist Party at Women’s Marches
CPUSA members marched in coalition with others in large cities and small towns all across the country.