Communist Party USA (early years)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Comintern
gptkbp:color red
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved N/A (continued as Communist Party USA)
gptkbp:founded 1919
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Charles_Ruthenberg
gptkb:Louis_Fraina
gptkb:John_Reed
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Chicago
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Communist Party USA (early years)
gptkbp:ideology Marxism-Leninism
communism
gptkbp:legalStatus illegal (1919–1921)
legal (after 1921)
gptkbp:mergedInto gptkb:Communist_Labor_Party_of_America
gptkbp:notable_member gptkb:James_P._Cannon
gptkb:Alexander_Bittelman
gptkb:Alfred_Wagenknecht
gptkb:Anna_Louise_Strong
gptkb:Benjamin_Gitlow
gptkb:Bertram_Wolfe
gptkb:C._E._Ruthenberg
gptkb:Charles_Dirba
gptkb:Grace_Hutchins
gptkb:Helen_Ware
gptkb:Israel_Amter
gptkb:Jay_Lovestone
gptkb:Lillian_Symes
gptkb:Lovett_Fort-Whiteman
gptkb:Max_Bedacht
gptkb:Otto_Huiswoud
gptkb:Robert_Minor
gptkb:Sam_Darcy
gptkb:Scott_Nearing
gptkb:William_F._Dunne
gptkb:William_Weinstone
gptkb:Claude_Lightfoot
gptkb:Henry_Winston
gptkb:James_Ford
gptkb:Rose_Pastor_Stokes
gptkb:John_Pepper
gptkb:Whittaker_Chambers
gptkb:Earl_Browder
gptkb:Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn
gptkb:William_Z._Foster
gptkb:William_Patterson
gptkb:Ella_Reeve_Bloor
gptkbp:notableAction anti-fascism
labor organizing
support for New Deal policies
Popular Front strategy
Scottsboro Boys defense
anti-racism campaigns
anti-war activism (pre-WWII)
defense of Sacco and Vanzetti
involvement in CIO formation
involvement in Unemployed Councils
support for Soviet Union
support for Spanish Civil War Republicans
trade union work
underground operations
youth organizing
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Red_Scare
gptkb:Palmer_Raids
gptkbp:notablePublication gptkb:The_Liberator
gptkb:Daily_Worker
gptkb:The_Communist
gptkb:The_Worker
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Socialist_Party_of_America_(left_wing)
gptkbp:separates gptkb:Communist_Labor_Party_of_America
gptkbp:symbol gptkb:hammer_and_sickle
gptkbp:youth_wing gptkb:Young_Communist_League_USA
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Jewish_Currents
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5