Yup, the Comic Party (CPUSA) is still around and kicking. Its representatives, of course, make no reference to the former role of the party as little more than an instrument of USSR policy. Mike G.
^^^^^^^^ CB: What have u done for the working class ,lately, Batman ?
Gee a tool of the USSR and tailing the Democratic Party that prosecuted the Cold War , all at the same time . Must have been an application of dialectics.
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[WS:] How about running candidates for city council, county supervisors, board of education, state assembly delegates or state governors? This popular infatuation with presidential elections is mind boggling.
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The CPUSA used to do that sometimes, many years ago. I remember back when Boston still had an elected school committee, that a Communist candidate came within a whisker of winning a seat on the committee.
Jim Farmelant
^^^^ CB: In the last year or two a CPUSA member ran for City Council in Cleveland.
In the past, CPUSA members have been elected to office, but not as public Communists. Comrades on this list underestimate the power of McCarthyism even decades after McCarthy. Open Communists can be ruined.
Presidential elections campaigns are expensive, and there ain't no more Moscow gold (giggles)
In New Haven, the venerable Joelle Fishman is doing yeoman work as an open Communist on Dixwell Avenue. In the past , she ran for Congress. There have been many other campaigns across the country, though money is scarce.
http://peoplesworld.org/youth-march-for-jobs-and-to-end-violence/
http://peoplescenter.blogspot.com/