Category. | Statistic. |
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Operated in. | 1919. |
Founder(s). | C. E. Ruthenberg and Louis C. Fraina. |
Founded in. | USA. |
Disbanded in. | No. |
Political alignment. | USSR until Khrushchev took over, then Mouists, then Hoxarites and now non. An American classless and basic alliance of struggling and toiling masses via the growing political alliance of workers, Negroes (Afro-Americans), farmers and intellectuals. It was all so staunchly Euro-phobic and anti-UK until the early to mid 1960s. |
Activities. | Mostly peaceful protesting against Jim Crow period of U.S. racial segregation. Opposition Vietnam War, opposition to the Marshall Plan and actively undermined American frorigen policy in World War 2. Promoted the civil rights movement and peaceful co-existence with the USSR. Helping trade union and farmer movements. An american bases alliance of struggling and toiling masses via the growing political alliance of workers, Negroes (Afro-Americans), farmers and intellectuals. Some bombings and riots in the Inter-War Years. |
Online Links. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA. |
It was de facto banned from 1919 to 1921 after a series of unattributed bombings, and attempted assassinations of both government officials and judges that were later traced to militant adherents of the radical anarchist Luigi Galleani. Many then recent immigrants ere also needlessly jailed or expelled as a result of this to.
It was witch-hunted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities from 1947 to 1958, after it actively undermined American frorigen policy in World War 2.