Is the CPUSA different from the Labor Party?
Yes. The Labor Party is one of a number of important efforts to build alternative political and electoral formations, including the Green Party, the New Party, the Working Families Party, the Vermont Progressive Party, and some other organizations in particular locales. The Labor Party, like each of these, has a combination of strengths and weaknesses, and like all of them is struggling to make a place in the political system dominated by big money and the two major parties. The CP is not affiliated with any of these formations, though we do have members who participate in all of them. We support these efforts to provide the voters of our country with real choice and with alternative politics. We also support progressive Democrats as well as the efforts of the AFL-CIO and affiliated unions to build their own political apparatus independent of the Democratic Party, and to run and elect thousands of labor union members to local and state offices. We also, wherever possible, run our own c
