Strategy for a Black Agenda first came out in 1973. The book was and remains a fundamental contribution to the struggle. The issues that Henry Winston raised centered on the unity of the class and national questions.

On July 6th, 1894, federal troops marched into the Panhandle railroad yards in Chicago. The soldiers had been ordered to the yards by President Grover Cleveland with orders to evict the hundreds of striking railroad workers interfering with the yard.

If there ever is a Marxist version of the "Trivial Pursuit" board game, it will have to include the following question: "Name the Communist candidate who opposed House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill in more than one general election, and received 25 percent of the vote?"

James E. Jackson, Jr., a giant in the struggle for African American equality, world peace and socialism, passed away Sept. 1, just short of his 93rd birthday. He was one of the truly heroic figures of the African American freedom movement, the progressive movement generally, and the Communist Party USA.

Is there such a thing as a “total state” or “totalitarianism”? Where does the term come from? How did it develop over time? What were and are its social purposes?

Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech, made on March 5th, 1946, before a small college audience in Fulton, Missouri, is an excellent example of events being turned inside out.

Sixty years ago the Republican 80th Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, perhaps the most important and negative single piece of domestic legislation enacted in the post World War ll era.

In the autumn of 1940, whilst Vichy was organizing the collaboration, the nucleus of a resistance network was being formed. The French Communist Party (PCF) was secretly developing a Popular Front strategy for confronting the enemy.

The term "backlash" came into popular usage in the late 1960s. It served as a mass media headline explanation for opposition and resistance to the Civil Rights movement generally and of course to Black militancy specifically, a sort of negation of the negation for those of us who are or were politically hip.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Tamiment Library at New York University on March 23rd to welcome the transmission of the Communist Party USA archives to the library.

This is a proud moment for our party. This collection contains tens of thousands of documents, books, pamphlets, photos, audio and visual records that show the real history of the Communist Party, USA.

Tonight we are celebrating the passage of a massive and unique collection of documents, photos, films, and materials from the Communist Party and the Reference Center for Marxist Studies to Tamiment Library. It is truly a historic occasion.

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned and died for human freedom against political oppression and economic slavery.

First of all, I would like to thank both the CPUSA and NYU for this marriage – it is one, perhaps not made in heaven but no less celestial and lofty for that.

This past Friday (3-23-07), hundreds of people gathered at the Tamiment Library at New York University to welcome the transmission of hundreds of thousands of archival pieces from the Communist Party USA to the library.

What would the world be without the Communist movement, and what would the United States be without the CPUSA? Let me summarize very quickly.

Claudia Jones was born Claudia Cumberbatch in 1915 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, a British colony. Though her family was well off, economic crisis after World War I forced the family to migrate to the Harlem section of New York City in 1922 to seek work.

One of the most interesting areas of cultural study is the impact of membership in the Communist Party USA on artists and writers. In some cases, such as Richard Wright, one of many, some of the most important and socially critical work was done while engaged with the Party itself or with forces close to the Party.

"Let's see by a show of hands-how many of you have read Paul Robeson's book, Here I Stand?" The question was directed by Dizzy Gillespie to a large audience that attended a tribute to Robeson sponsored in New York by Local 1199, Drug and Hospital Union.

One of the most prominent and influential leaders of the American left will begin a speaking tour of Britain next week, during what is appropriately Black History Month. Jarvis Tyner has been a tireless fighter for civil rights since the campaigns of his youth in his native Philadelphia.