What has the Communist Party USA accomplished?
The Communist Party has been a consistent fighter for peace, jobs, racial and gender equality, justice, workers rights, and socialism. We fight against racism, militarization, oppression and exploitation. The CPUSA was founded in 1919, most of its membership originally coming from the left wing of the Socialist Party. Throughout our history, we have been involved in the struggles of our class and people for extending democracy, building unions, uniting against racism and chauvinism, and fighting for peace and justice. In the 20s, we fought against the Palmer Raids, an early example of the anti-democratic nature of anti-communism, where the government arrested and deported many radicals and Communists. Our Party organized solidarity with the fledgling Soviet Union, against the military intervention of the US and other capitalist countries. We built strike solidarity in Gastonia, North Carolina, with mine workers in West Virginia, and began efforts to unionize basic industry through the
