Communist Party USA

Organization Trends
Beware Extremists in Green Hats at the Democratic National Convention
Scores of radical groups are promising to “March on the DNC.” While the protesters’ ancillary demands span the full “Everything Leftism” spectrum, the overriding motivation is animosity toward “apartheid Israel”…
by Robert Stilson on August 22, 2024

Organization Trends
The Unspoken Cause of “California Disease”
Theories of demographic change driving political change are overstated. California is often pointed to as an example, but California was a progressive state, not a red state. Using these theories…
by Michael Watson on July 17, 2024

CRC in the News
The Mainstreaming of Marxism in Unions
For decades, Marxism has has a complicated relationship with labor unions in the United States, with some unions leaning toward communism while other unions were unapologetically anti-Communist. However, since the…
by Michael Watson on January 17, 2024

Labor Watch
BEST OF 2023: Creation of the Labor-Progressive Alliance
The ties that bind organized labor to the left-of-center infrastructure, the Democratic Party, and the modern expansionist administrative state date predate the Wagner Act of 1935. While early labor movements…
by Michael Watson on December 29, 2023

Labor Watch
The Myth of the “Nonpolitical” Labor Union
The labor-conservative faction led by American Compass—an ostensibly conservative think tank funded by liberal Big Philanthropy—has an insurmountable problem in converting the conservative movement and the Republican Party from its…
by Michael Watson on October 6, 2023

Labor Watch
Creation of the Labor-Progressive Alliance: Industrialization and Labor Unionism
The ties that bind organized labor to the left-of-center infrastructure, the Democratic Party, and the modern expansionist administrative state date predate the Wagner Act of 1935. While early labor movements…
by Michael Watson on July 7, 2023

Labor Watch
Creation of the Labor-Progressive Alliance: Why Unions Came to Be
Labor organization before the Civil War was typically local, short term, and haphazard. Mass industrialization that took off following the end of the conflict drew millions out of farm work…
by Michael Watson on July 7, 2023

Labor Watch
Creation of the Labor-Progressive Alliance: Defining the Workforce
Aiding Gompers’s shift from Marxist-influenced radicalism to the capital-P Progressive mainstream of the early 20th century was a debate within organized labor that continues to the present day. Should the…
by Michael Watson on July 7, 2023

Labor Watch
Creation of the Labor-Progressive Alliance: Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
The story of organized labor’s development and rise to prominence from the end of the Civil War through the elections of 1946 is complicated. That the difficult, poorly paid, and…
by Michael Watson on July 7, 2023

Organization Trends
National Lawyers Guild: Origins and Early Years
The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Since its founding in 1936 or 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified…
by CRC Staff on July 19, 2022