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Oops! Did I say Democrat Party? My bad, I meant the Communist Party USA....but, what the hell, what is the difference between the two anyway?

People’s World is pleased to share with its readers the following article from the international edition of the Cuban newspaper, Granma. It features an interview with Emile Schepers, a regular People’s World correspondent on U.S. politics, Latin America, and international affairs. Schepers also serves as the International Secretary of the Communist Party USA and was recently interviewed in that capacity by Granma. The original Spanish-language edition of this article can be read here.

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) has been receiving membership requests ever since Donald Trump was elected President.

U.S. citizens with Marxist ideas were among the first to organize following the October Revolution of 1917, while their party, founded in 1919, is soon set to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

Since its establishment, the CPUSA has lived through the inter-war period and Cold War repression, which practically forced the organization underground. Of the country’s 300 million inhabitants, the organization currently has some 5,000 members nationwide.

Speaking to Granma International, Emile Schepers, CPUSA International Secretary, said, “Although the phantom of the McCarthy era still looms across the U.S., there is growing interest in communist ideas.”

An anthropologist by profession, Schepers was born in South Africa but moved to the United States when his parents emigrated to escape apartheid. He grew up in the rugged and breathtaking landscape of the Adirondack mountains and joined the CPUSA in 1987, although his association with Marxist ideas began much earlier during periods of his life spent in the suburbs of Maryland and a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Chicago.

Schepers is conscious of the fact that, “Although the United States is in no way experiencing a pre-revolutionary situation in the communist sense, capitalism is showing terminal signs worldwide.”

He says that in the United States specifically, “The global financial crisis affected many people and left the sense that today’s youth are worse off than their parents.”

“Neither recent Democratic nor Republican administrations have been able to resolve the serious problems affecting the majority of the country’s citizens,” he noted. “History tells us,” according to the CPUSA leader, “that popular discontent doesn’t always take a progressive route.” He pointed out the way in which, in the most recent U.S. election, ideological manipulation unleashed a right-wing upsurge. Schepers highlighted that in his current home state of Virginia not only the wealthy, but also many poor whites, came out to vote for Trump.

Coal mining is the main source of employment in the area; however thousands of workers have been laid off over recent years. The Republican campaign focused on pointing the finger of blame toward Barack Obama’s environmental policies.

Meanwhile, millions of youth mobilized in support of the progressive ideas of Bernie Sanders during the Democratic Party primaries. Schepers is convinced that if the Vermont Senator had been Trump’s opponent, he would have won.

In this sense, the CPUSA highlighted the importance of the left working to fight against manipulations and what Schepers referred to as “false class consciousness.”

“It’s very difficult when the mass media are controlled by corporations and local news stations in the interior of the country only broadcast preachers announcing the end of the world,” he noted. Schepers went on to say that the CPUSA aims to educate and share its ideas with as many people as possible, by all means possible.

In regards to the web, the organization has a site which features the party’s manifesto, its actions, and information about how to join.

However, the great challenge according to the CPUSA official continues to be organizing workers and trade union structures – without interfering in their internal affairs – around defending the rights of the most vulnerable workers.

The CPUSA also supports the Palestinian cause and opposes U.S. militarism. It has supported the Cuban Revolution for many years, and more recently the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

The announcement over two years ago that the U.S. government would seek to normalize relations with Cuba was welcomed by the party. “December 17, 2014 took us by surprise, but it was good news. Obama didn’t do everything he could, although he advanced in some aspects,” noted Schepers.

Despite this, he believes that support to end the blockade is growing among both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress. He explained, “Some are motivated by humanist sentiments and others by economic interests, but both oppose the policy.” The only sectors which continue to support the blockade are the ultra-right, and in particular the Cuban-American community in Florida, he highlighted.

All recent polls show that the majority of U.S. citizens support the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

“We don’t know what Trump might do, whether he is going to listen to the voices of the ideologues or the people, but in general we U.S. communists are optimistic,” Schepers said.

http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/communist-party-membership-numbers-climbing-in-the-trump-era/

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Very interesting information....THANKS for posting this up!

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Right now the leadership of the Democrat Party is nothing but communist lite.

pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ

It is likened to any battle. It is referred to as the 'gathering of the troops' During the last election the republican party had the largest growth ever, even more so than the new leftist 'demolition' party. If the republicans does the same under 'Trump' it will be because of its betrayal to its followers, just like under "O'Bozo". The demos should be happy that Ms. Clinton lost.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

If I'm not mistaken, CPUSA for the first time ever endorsed a candidate from a major party, and that was Hillary Clinton

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Politics has a cycle-- you are witnessing the cycle

vernon

Peoples World is nothing but a communist rag.

badbob85037

And has been that way since they killed JFK. Here is a list of Communist goals. So can anyone tell me the difference between these goals and the Democrats?

Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ

It appears that the "reds" are meeting these goals piece by piece, day by day, year by year, and it will be just a matter of time that they might actually secede. We have only ourselves to thank, not to mention far left politicians Over-pampered college students taught by the ultra left professors. Some years back (seems like so long ago) politicians, public servants, and folks, in general, favored what was good for their country. Now today it's all about the me syndrome, lead by their idols the clowns from the entertainment industry and professional agitators.Their ultra meant goal is to bring this once great nation to its knees at any and all costs. wake up America and smell the manure before we become 'Amerika'

badbob85037

As George Soros wants it, America brought to her knees. But do you think these treasonous groups would get away with pulling that crap here in Phoenix or anywhere in Arizona? Can you see Phoenix cops standing down and ignore lawlessness?I cant. When Clinton passed his crime bill I don't know one law enforcement officer here in Phoenix or Maricopa that enforced it. This group of Democrats, Socialist, Communist, Progressives, libtards, or what ever they call them self will have the majority of people killing them before bowing down to their STUPID agenda. I ruled out the possibility of dying of natural causes over 20 years ago when I saw what these schools tried to teach my kids.

The Second Amendment gives the state the right to form a militia but since the forming of the National Guard that amendment is no longer used. After reading that in their history book I way in the school's front office in under 5 minutes and there was no one in that school that didn't know my name when I left. Same school tried to do it again this year to my 2 grandsons. We pulled them from the school and now they go else where. It seems I was the only one that has ever called them on their teaching out right lies. How is that possible? Aren't ones children worth more than anything else?