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Building Camaraderie in the CPUSA, 1930-1950
Josh Morris, March 4, 2019
Josh Morris investigates how the Communist Party USA created a sense of camaraderie in its organizing efforts between members, looking at how both circumstances forced on organizers as well as conscious efforts of the party helped create an organizational culture that promoted (or in some cases damaged) solidarity among workers and oppressed people. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Latino Radicals and the Communist Party in the New Communist Movement: A Case Study of Two Oral Histories
Josh Morris, June 11, 2019
Josh Morris discusses the experiences of Latino/Latina organizers in the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan and CPUSA, covering an often ignored aspect of US Communist history. Read Article.
The African Blood Brotherhood and the Origins of Black Communism in the United States
Ian Szabo, February 9, 2020
Ian Szabo writes on the history of the African Blood Brotherhood as part of a broader tradition of black liberation that merged with International Communism after the Bolshevik Revolution. Read Article.
Weaponized Words: The Language of Anti-Communism
September 20, 2020
Joshua Morris discusses the development and deployment of anti-communist rhetoric in the United States from the beginnings of the 20th Century to the early Cold War. Read Article.
Popular Radicalism in the 1930s: The Forgotten History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill
Chris Wright, October 28, 2020
Chris Wright details the popular campaign for the Communist authored Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill, a moment in US labor history that is overshadowed by Roosevelt's more conservative New Deal programs. Read Article.
Sectarianism Among Communists in American History
Josh Morris, June 9, 2021
Joshua Morris writes on the phenomena of sectarianism in the early US Communist Movement. He is currently authoring a book "The Many Worlds of American Communism" with Lexington Books which is expected to be published in late 2021. Read Article.
The African Blood Brotherhood, its Relations and Legacy
Ian Szabo, February 16, 2022
Combining the insights of previous scholarship with information gathered from Bureau of Investigation (BOI, predecessor of the FBI) surveillance documents, Ian Szabo presents a new angle on the history of the African Blood Brotherhood (ABB), illustrating the organizations' particular synthesis of Black radical politics and Marxism, as well as revealing the racial fantasy through which contemporaneous mainstream U.S. media and the state understood its methods and goals. Read Article.
