Editor's note: This archive is something of a sampling of the 90 years of the Communist Party's part in the struggle for democracy, social justice, equality, environmental justice, workers rights and socialism.
It is not meant as an exhaustive compendium of that history, but as a starting point for the honest researcher seeking the truth about a side of working-class history in the US rarely broached in mainstream circles.
It is a history that is embedded in American history, like the stories of Crispus Attack, John Brown, Alice Paul and Cesar Chavez – seldom told honestly by those in power because of a deep-abiding fear of real change.
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Class Struggle in St. Louis, an Interview with Rosemary Feurer
by Political Affairs, 09/01/2009
Claudia Jones, a Life in the Struggle
by Clara West, 03/09/2007
Reflections on Socialism (pdf version)
by Sam Webb
Brother Dave Moore and Organizing the Union at Ford
by Political Affairs, 03/07/2007
Brother Dave Moore and the Ford Hunger March
by Political Affairs, 03/06/2007
Marxism Reloaded: The Revolution Revived
by Joe Sims, 05/01/2004
Black History Month: Henry Winston and the African American Freedom Struggle
by Political Affairs, 02/25/2008
Beyond Equality: Class, Gender and Race Today
By Mary Davis, 02/27/2007
Podcast #106: People's World – Working-class Publication, an interview with PW Editor Teresa Albano
by Political Affairs, 08/01/2009
Portraits in RED, White and Blue
by Norman Markowitz, 01/14/2004
Speak Easy, Speak Free: Sonia Sanchez Talks about Language
by Sonia Sanchez, 02/23/2004
Our Living Legacy: The Salt of the Earth Labor College
by Joe Bernick, 02/04/2004
Book Review: Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953
by Joel Wendland, 11/21/2005
Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement, an Interview
by Political Affairs, 06/05/2009
Book Review: Underground Communists in the McCarthy Period
by Norman Markowitz, 06/08/2009
Podcast #101: McCarthyism in American History
by Political Affairs, 06/11/2009
Vito Marcantonio, Radical Congressman from New York
by Gerald Meyer, 08/03/2009
Book Review: Radical Unionism in the Midwest
by Norman Markowitz, 08/13/2009
Breaking the Blockade on Cuba, an Interview with Erica Smiley
by Political Affairs, 09/10/2007
The End of Neo-Liberalism and Bush's Last Scam: How Racism Sparked the Financial Crisis
by Joe Sims, 01/28/2009
Fighting for Change: The Great Depression, the New Deal and the CPUSA
by Norman Markowitz, 09/01/2009
From Something Evil Good May Come: Sojourner Truth and the Civil War
by Anna Bates, 07/01/2009
Podcast #108 – The Art of Radical Painter Alice Neel
by Political Affairs, 08/31/2009
Labor in the Era of Capitalist Globalization
by Scott Marshall, 06/13/2005
Portrait in Red: The Radical Art of Alice Neel
by Political Affairs, 09/01/2009
James E. Jackson Jr. – an Appreciation
by Jarvis Tyner and Sam Webb, 09/12/2007
Election 2008: Making Change Real
by Joelle Fishman, 08/06/2008
Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party
by Gerald Horne, 03/28/2007
Richard Wright: A Bright and Morning Star
by Eric Brooks, 02/27/2007
The Legacy of the Cultural Front: an Interview with Alan Wald
by Political Affairs, 07/25/2006
A Profile of Philip Bonosky, Proletarian Novelist
by Norman Markowitz, 03/30/2006
The Rosenberg Case in Historical Perspective
by Norman Markowitz, 10/06/2008
Red Writer Launches Web Site
by Political Affairs, 06/13/2008
Podcast #102: Building Bridges with Cuba
by Political Affairs, 06/17/2009
Podcast #101: McCarthyism in American History
by Political Affairs, 06/11/2009
Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness
by Political Affairs, 10/05/2008
Recession, the Working Class, and Real Stimulus
by Arthur Perlo, 02/15/2008
Marxism, Language, and the Laureate Who Wasn't
by Political Affairs, 10/28/2007
The Struggle for Women’s Equality in the US Today
by Susan Webb, 11/24/2008
Why Class isn’t just another -ism
by Joel Wendland, 05/25/2006
Driven to the Brink: A Discussion of the Crisis in Auto with Lew Moye
by Tony Pecinovsky, 05/25/2006
Not Your Usual Suspects: Leonardo Padura Talks to PA
by Political Affairs, 04/01/2006
Revolution from Below: The Communist Party and the Bolivarian Revolution
by Political Affairs, 12/21/2005
View from Left Field: Interview with Lester Rodney
by Political Affairs, 06/23/2004
Marx, Markets and Meatgrinders: An Interview with Bertell Ollman
by Joel Wendland, 02/23/2004
Let the Dreamer Awake: Talking with Robin D. G. Kelley
by Political Affairs, 01/27/2004
An Execution in the Family: An Interview with Robert Meeropol
by Carolyn Rummel, 01/18/2004
Democracy Matters: An Interview with Sam Webb
by Sam Webb, 01/07/2004
The Role of the National Negro Labor Council in the Struggle for Civil Rights
by Clara West, 02/15/2007
Struggle is a Beautiful Thing: The Life and Work of Jacob Lawrence
by Libero Della Piana, 02/13/2007
Resistance Is Not Futile: Labor and the Struggle for Iraq
by Joel Wendland, 04/01/2005
A Hundred Years of the Struggle for Freedom
by W.E.B. Du Bois, 02/12/2007
Book Review: The New Red Negro , by James Smethurst
by Joel Wendland, 02/04/2004
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