Events
Dec 2017
2
11:00 AM
CPUSA Phonathon
Online/Phone Only United StatesJoin us for a national phonathon on Saturday, December 2, 2017. We'll be calling members urging participation in the fight against the GOP tax "reforms." Sign up to participate here: https://tinyurl.com/y9zz44ku
Nov 2017
29
8:00 PM
Marxist Classes
Online/Phone Only United StatesJoin Rick Nagin for a discussion of Lenin's, The Proletarian Revolution and The Renegade Kautsky. Register NOW: https://attendee.gotowebinar. com/register/ 9012083672225905667
Nov 2017
11
12:00 AM
National party building conference
Join party members from all across the country for a two day conference to plan the all rounded building of the CPUSA. The conference broadcast online and will be held the same day in Chicago, New Haven, Los Angeles and Orlando. Write membership@cpusa.org for more information.
Oct 2017
15
8:00 PM
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Join Carl Wood for a discussion of Frederick Engels', Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. You can register here: https://tinyurl.com/ydymutgx In an eminently readable few pages, Engels explains Marxist socialism as the product of earlier utopian ideas transformed by an analysis grounded in the materialism of modern science. Wood will discuss its relevance to today's class struggle.
Sep 2017
24
8:00 PM
1917 – 2017: 100 Years of Struggle for Scientific Socialism
Join Dr. Gerald Horne for a discussion of Philip Foner's, The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Impact on American Radicals, Liberals, and Labor. This book's Centennial Edition can be purchased through International Publishers. You can register for the discussion here.
Jun 2017
14
8:00 PM
Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France
This class will discuss the four articles published between 1848 and 1850, in which we see the great theorist of revolution grapple for the first time with a revolution as it is unfolding. In these essays, Marx traces the emergence of the “bourgeois republic” and the nature of class struggle under capitalism, paying close attention […]
Jun 2017
12
8:00 PM
Marxist news analysis for the 99%: It’s the Peoplesworld.org
Online/Phone Only United StatesJoin John Wojcik, Editor-in-Chief of PeoplesWorld.org, for a Marxist analysis of current events in the news. Topics will include the: -continuing disasters in the current administration; -withdrawing from the Paris Climate Change Agreement; -attempts to undermine labor; -attacks on public education; -status of the resistance movement and more.
Jun 2017
4
8:00 PM
Cuba today: CPUSA delegation report back
The CPUSA recently sent a delegation to Cuba. How do the Cubans assess the world situation; by what means are they building socialism from the base up: what is the view regarding Cuban socialism and the working class; and how does the media and political education take these issues into account? All of this […]
May 2017
24
8:00 PM
Ideology, Insidious Individualism, and Insurrection: Angela Davis and the Critique of Racial Capitalism
Online/Phone Only United StatesIs neoliberalism solely an economic policy or a white supremacy project; how do the life and theoretical work of Angela Davis help us understand the current moment; can we defeat the ideology of individualism? All of this and more in a discussion led by Joel Wendland. Register here.
May 2017
10
8:00 PM
Revolutionary love, courage, and struggle: Remembering James and Esther Jackson
Online/Phone Only United StatesJoin us in a discussion of the lives of labor and civil rights activists James and Esther Cooper Jackson. You can sign up here. Sara Rzeszutek Haviland, author of James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement, will lead the discussion as we explore the Jacksons' leadership in the Southern […]
May 2017
8
8:00 PM
The labor movement, democracy and the resistance
Online/Phone Only United StatesDiscuss current events: the attack on healthcare, Trump's labeling the media as the "enemy of the people" and the fightback in a webinar with John Wojcik, Editor, Peoplesworld.org. Wojcik will focus on the role of the labor and Marxist press within the context of the broad front against Trump. Topics will include: Trump's attempt to […]
Apr 2017
29
12:00 AM
Peoples Climate March
Join the CPUSA contingent at the Peoples Climate March on April 29th in Washington D.C. For more information write us at cpusa@cpusa.org. We resist, we build, we rise.
Apr 2017
24
8:00 PM
Black revolutionary: William Patterson and the globalization of the African American freedom struggle
Dr. Gerald Horne will participate in a discussion of his book, Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle. William Patterson was the African American Communist lawyer who helped build international support for the movement of the African American people for freedom and equality. Patterson also filed a "We Charge Genocide" petition […]
Apr 2017
12
8:00 PM
Celebrate Earth Day: Put people and nature before profits
Online/Phone Only United StatesThis discussion will review the Communist Party's history on environmental issues. It will examine whether the CP's current slogan "Put people and nature before profits" meets the needs of the times from a scientific and ethical standpoint. Participants are invited to bring your creative juices to class and submit slogan ideas! The webinar will be […]
Mar 2017
26
8:00 PM
Mass incarceration and black youth
Online/Phone Only United StatesThis class will counter the narrative of criminalization. Dr. Prince White will discuss: -Understanding the school to prison pipeline; -Treatment of youth as adults in the criminal (in)justice system; -Efforts to counter the criminalization of youth of color. Click here to register.