Communist Party USA (early years)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/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