‘A leftward shift’: Communist party USA sees chance as progressives surge

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‘A leftward shift’: Communist party USA sees chance as progressives surge

In Chicago, an American party derided and feared for 100 years looked eagerly to a brighter future

Eric Lutz in Chicago

Sun 23 Jun 2019 08.30 EDT
Last modified on Sun 23 Jun 2019 08.31 EDT
 

As the Communist party USA kicked off its 100th anniversary celebration, Jarvis Tyner called for delegates and guests at the national convention in Chicago to “set the record straight” about one of American politics biggest historical bogeymen.
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“The truth is the communist party isn’t out to hurt you,” Tyner, vice-chair of CPUSA and its candidate for vice-president in 1972 and 1976, told a large and diverse crowd. “It will set you free.”

The remarks, met with applause, came on the first day of CPUSA’s 31st national convention – and at a moment in American politics in which democratic socialism and progressive ideas are increasingly finding a home in the mainstream of the Democratic party.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/23/communist-party-usa-chicago-cpusa-convention

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The American Communist Party's best chance was in the early years of the Great Depression of the thirties.
It flopped miserably. No matter how bad Americans had it  in the early thirties, they knew they didn't want communism.