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Published: 04 April 2023
... Asociación Nacionalista Nationalist Association New York 1920s Communist Party USA CPUSA Dominican Republic Jones Act 1917 Lugo Américo U S Supreme Court Collazo Oscar Collazo Rosa Feliú Angel Revista Puerto Rico women’s activism Communist International Comintern Concepción de Gracia Gilberto...
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Years of Living Dangerously
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John D. French
Published: 11 October 2020
... the festering disagreements, radical disappointments, and unresolved frustrations after 1964 that shattered the Communist Party and led to emergence of a “revolutionary” Left—symbolized by Carlos Marighella—that opted for armed struggle while the mainstream Communists supported a call for direct elections when...
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Hungary’s Road to the Soviet Bloc
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Csaba Békés
Published: 21 June 2022
... Hungarian Communist Party East-West relations Soviet Bloc Smallholders Party Hungarian-Romanian border In Hungary, the first elections following the end of the Second World War, held in November 1945, resulted in a 57 percent absolute majority victory for the Smallholders’ Party, the representative...
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Depression’s Beginnings and Labor Songs
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Ronald D. Cohen
Published: 12 September 2016
... In Memory of Ella May Wiggins and Steve Katovis songbook Event songs Garland Jim Martin Brothers McGhee John Simms Harry aka Harry Hirsch Welling Frank Communist Party Red Song Book Song Book for Workers Adomian Lan Blitzstein Marc Composers’ Collective Copland Aaron Cowell Henry Pierre...
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An Invisible Army: Jobs, Relief, and the Birth of a Movement
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Robin D. G. Kelley
Published: 08 March 2015
...This chapter describes the activities of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) in the South. The Central Committee of the CPUSA set up its headquarters in Birmingham, the center of Southern heavy industry. Located on the fringe of the black belt, Birmingham served as a jumping...
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Negroes Ain’ Black—But Red!: Black Communists and the Culture of Opposition
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Robin D. G. Kelley
Published: 08 March 2015
...This chapter discusses how the meshing of the African-American culture of opposition and a Stalinist version of Marxism-Leninism contributed to the growth and survival of the Communist Party in Alabama. It first explores how a Maxist pedagogy in Birmingham and rural Alabama altered black working...
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The March of Southern Youth!
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Robin D. G. Kelley
Published: 08 March 2015
... —non CP related North Carolina Powers Foster Scales Junius Shores Arthur Taylor Ed Army welfare committees of LYS Blacks Citizens Army Welfare Committee of SNYC Nazism Politics Red Scare Youth V for Victory Committee of LYS Double V program Jim Crow Communists Birmingham Communist Party...
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Fade to Black: The Invisible Army in War, Revolution, and Beyond
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Robin D. G. Kelley
Published: 08 March 2015
... Smith Charles Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice Yankees Young Communist League YCL Young Pioneers Health care Knights of Labor Militias black Populists Reconstruction era Union Leagues United Mine Workers of America UMWA Alabama Communists Communist Party world...
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Published: 28 September 2015
... taken over by the leaders of the Catalan Communist party. AC Acció Catalana middle class Catalan party CNT Confederación Nacional del Trabajo Anarchist labor federation ERC Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya or Esquerra Estat Català middle class Catalan party PSUC Partit Socialista Unificat de...
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The Political Demise of Largo Caballero. The UGT and CNT Sign a Pact of Unity.
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Burnett Bolloten
Published: 28 September 2015
... Federation of Building Workers UGT Largo Caballero Francisco left Socialist leader and secretary of UGT executive prime minister and minister of war PCE Partido Comunista Español Spanish Communist Party Pretel Felipe treasurer of the UGT and former Caballero supporter Rodríguez Vega José former Caballero...
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Internecine Conflicts Grow
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Burnett Bolloten
Published: 28 September 2015
... and the PCE. And as the Communist party grew ever more unpopular, they became compelled to rely more and more on their military and police power. Blanco Segundo member of CNT Negrín education minister CNT Confederación Nacional del Trabajo Anarchist labor federation Solidaridad Obrera CNT organ Barcelona...
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The Popular Front
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Burnett Bolloten
Published: 28 September 2015
...This chapter is concerned with the origins of the policy of the Popular Front, exploring the reasons for how the Communist party—which was originally in support of the proletariat—would come to the aid of the small bourgeoisie after the outbreak of the Civil War and the Revolution. The Soviet Union...
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General José Asensio. Largo Caballero Defies the Communists. The Government Leaves Madrid.
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Burnett Bolloten
Published: 28 September 2015
... Socialist leader and secretary of UGT executive prime minister and minister of war PCE Partido Comunista Español Spanish Communist Party Alvarez del Vayo Julio left Socialist pro Communist foreign minister Fischer Louis pro Soviet U S writer Estrada Major Manuel Communist officer chief of general staff...
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Published: 12 September 2016
... Revolution Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook JB Communist Party CP Glaberman Martin Socialist Workers Party SWP Trotskyism Workers Party WP American Youth for Democracy Nicholas Xavier “Questions of the American Revolution” Nicholas Scottsboro Boys case Young Communist League Youth movements...
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The Rise of New Deal Liberalism
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James Wolfinger
Published: 26 November 2007
... the way for left/liberal politics in the city. The chapter then explores the role of organized labor and the Communist Party in bringing left-of-center politics to Philadelphia that eventually provided institutional support for the Democratic Party. In addition, it describes New Deal patronage anchored...
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The Demand for Justice Will Not Be a Cause Furthered Only by Radicals: Scottsboro, Alabama
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Jennifer Ritterhouse
Published: 20 March 2017
... resentment among white southerners. His preferred solution was local and state action as well as education to increase whites' commitment to the rule of law. The chapter acknowledges that the defense of the Scottsboro Boys by the International Labor Defense (ILD) helped the Communist Party-USA gain...
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Published: 20 March 2017
... Wolcott Victoria Communist Party Great Depression Swimming pools Bridgeman Jessie Scott Arthur Call & Post Detroit Mich Garvin Charles Homeowners’ and neighborhood “improvement” associations Jewish Community Council Merida James Police Racial restrictive covenants Smith Harry C Violence...
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Published: 22 April 2019
... radicalism that shaped Black Chicago during this time, especially the labors of the Communist Party and, later, organizations with the Popular Front as they challenged Depression-era austerity and battled with the police as austerity’s frequent enforcers (as in the case of evictions). To check...
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The Emergence of a Rivalry, 1919–1950
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Gregg A. Brazinsky
Published: 17 April 2017
...The first chapter explores the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) views of China’s role in what would later come to be known as the Third World. I argue that during these years, despite China’s weak position in international politics, CCP leaders nevertheless believed...
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Largo Caballero Breaks with Moscow
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Burnett Bolloten
Published: 28 September 2015
... Stalinist agent Largo Caballero Francisco left Socialist leader and secretary of UGT executive prime minister and minister of war Meretskov K A Soviet officer adviser to Martínez Cabrera PCE Partido Comunista Español Spanish Communist Party CNT Confederación Nacional del Trabajo Anarchist labor...