User:SocDoneLeft/Party of Communists USA
Party of Communists USA | |
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| Abbreviation | PCUSA |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Split from | Communist Party USA |
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| Political position | Far-left |
| Members in elected offices | 0 |
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The Party of Communists USA (PCUSA) is a communist political party in the United States. PCUSA formed in 2014, when its members split from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
History
[edit]Origins
[edit]In 2011, anti-revisionist members of Communist Party USA (CPUSA) created the National Council of Communists USA (NCCUSA) as a pressure group inside CPUSA. Members of NCCUSA argued that CPUSA had moved right of the Marxist-Leninist line and should shift left.
In 2014, after the 30th CPUSA convention, NCCUSA split from CPUSA, which it described as "bureaucracy of petty-bourgeois liberals" and "an anti-Leninist, social democratic accommodation to the bourgeois Democratic Party".[1]
Subsequent history
[edit]In 2020, PCUSA Central Committee member Christopher Helali ran for Vermont's at-large US House seat,[2][3] as the first Communist on Vermont ballots since the 1984 presidential election.[2]
In 2022, PCUSA began working with Caleb Maupin's Center for Political Innovation (CPI),[4][5] which supports social conservatism, LaRoucheism, and second campism. This shift caused two splits:
- In August 2022, a Marxist-Leninist faction split from PCUSA and created the American Council of Bolsheviks (ACB).[6] In 2023, PCUSA sued ACB for trademark infringement and other complaints.[4][7][8] In 2023, ACB ceased to exist.[9]
- In August 2022, another Marxist-Leninist faction split from PCUSA and created the Communist Workers' Party USA (CWPUSA).[5][10] In July 2023, CWPUSA held its first convention.[11]
In May 2023, both PCUSA and CPI joined the World Anti-Imperialist Platform (WAP).[5][12]
In July 2024, former PCUSA leader Christopher Helali joined the User:SocDoneLeft/American Communist Party (ACP),[13] which was largely composed of former CPI members and supports social conservatism, LaRoucheism, and second campism. In August 2024, ACP also joined WAP.[14]
Ideology
[edit]PCUSA is a Marxist-Leninist and democratic centralist party.[15]
PCUSA's program argues that capitalism seeks to "maintain a low-wage worker pool", which is why it "popularized divorce on TV and the media", "why men find it impossible to gain custody of their own children", and why there is "high unemployment among the male population".[16]
Election results
[edit]PCUSA has fielded 1 candidate for elected office in the United States.
Congressional elections
[edit]| Year | Candidate | Chamber | State | District | Votes | % | Result | Notes | Ref |
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| 2020 | Christopher Helali | House | Vermont | At-Large | 3,432 | Lost | appeared as "Communist" as on ballot; ran as Party of Communists USA (PCUSA) member; endorsed by Liberty Union Party | [2][17][18] |
National conventions
[edit]| Name | Date | Location | Report | Program | Constitution | Greetings |
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| 2nd Party Congress | August 28, 2021 | virtual | Greetings | |||
| 1st Party Congress | April 3, 2016 | New York City | Report | Program | Constitution | Greetings |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Open letter by comrades of Party of Communists USA". Other Aspect. May 31, 2014. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020.
- ^ a b c Kelley, Kevin (October 14, 2020). "An Anarchist-Turned-Communist in Vershire Takes on Rep. Peter Welch". Seven Days. Archived from the original on May 8, 2024.
- ^ "Q&A; With the Candidates: Representative to Congress". Seven Days. September 29, 2020. Archived from the original on October 4, 2020.
- ^ a b Smykowski, Tom (July 16, 2023). "When Communists Sue Communists". The Socialist. Socialist Party of America (2022).
- ^ a b c "On the Alliance of the CPI and PCUSA: Opportunism Under the Mask of "Anti-imperialism"". New Worker. Communist Workers' Platform USA. June 11, 2023.
- ^ "The Birth of the American Council of Bolsheviks". New Spark. American Council of Bolsheviks. Archived from the original on February 18, 2023.
- ^ "Party of Communists sue American Council of Bolsheviks over trademark". Courier Journal. June 1, 2023.
- ^ "Statement on the Lawsuit Against the ACB". New Worker. Communist Workers' Platform USA. October 24, 2023.
- ^ "An Interview Between the Wall Street Journal and the CWPUSA Central Committee". New Worker. Communist Workers' Platform USA. February 4, 2024.
- ^ "Communist Workers Platform USA Plan of Action". New Worker. Communist Workers' Platform USA. August 17, 2022. Archived from the original on December 4, 2023.
- ^ "ACB Delegate Report from the 1st Convention of the Communist Workers' Platform of the United States of America (CWPUSA)". American Council of Bolsheviks. July 15, 2023. Archived from the original on August 4, 2023.
- ^ "Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and the tasks of anti-imperialists [list updated for May 2023]". World Anti-imperialist Platform. October 14, 2022. Archived from the original on May 14, 2023.
- ^ "Declaration of the American Communist Party". American Communist Party. July 21, 2024. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024.
- ^ "Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and the tasks of anti-imperialists [list updated for August 2024]". World Anti-imperialist Platform. October 14, 2022. Archived from the original on August 10, 2024.
- ^ "Constitution and Statutes of the Party of Communists USA". Party of Communists USA.
- ^ "Program". Party of Communists USA. April 3, 2016.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2020" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. October 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 4, 2022.
- ^ "Liberty Union Party Endorsement of Chris Helali". Liberty Union Party. September 24, 2020.