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Communist influence in labor unions was seen by the Roosevelt administration as a serious threat to US military preparedness. As the US military built up in 1940 and 1941, US Secretary of War Henry Stimson was convinced that labor strikes and slowdowns at key facilities were due to the CPUSA's efforts to block Franklin Roosevelt's military ...
The Communist Party USA and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, or in converting their influence in any particular union ...
This massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957. [1] The style of the publication follows that of a 1948 HUAC pamphlet, Citations by Official Government Agencies of Organizations and Publications Found to be ...
[140] [141] [139] It was also meant to demonstrate the viability of a third way between the capitalist United States and the socialist Soviet Union. [142] From 1949 the central government began to cede power to communal local governments, seeking to decentralise the government [139] and work towards a withering away of the state.
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is an American political party with a communist platform that was founded in 1919 [1] Its history is deeply rooted in the history of the American labor movement as it played critical roles in the earliest struggles to organize American workers into unions, in leadership of labor strikes, [2] as well as prominent involvement in later civil rights and anti-war ...
List of countries by system of government; List of political ideologies; List of political systems in France; Project Cybersyn, a data fed group of secluded individuals in Chile in the 1970s that regulated aspects of public and private life using data feeds and technology having no interactivity with the citizens but using facts only to decide ...
Pages in category "Communism in the United States" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. ... Communist Party USA and American labor movement ...
By the 1880s, anarcho-communism had reached the United States as can be seen in the publication of the journal Freedom: A Revolutionary Anarchist-Communist Monthly by Lucy Parsons and Lizzy Holmes. [49] Parsons debated in her time in the United States with fellow anarcha-communist Emma Goldman over issues of free love and feminism. [49]