The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.
The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
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I don't know where to put this, please someone watch. Its a publicfreakout video of a road rage incident, while the recording driver is listening to a Second Thought video on alienation in the work place. I don't know which comm it belongs in. Someone help
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/16739qw/road_raging_with_the_wrong_person/
It's an amazing video. Surprisingly, a lot of redditors in the comments are praising the Second Thought video that's playing in the background. I think that normies are slowly getting more receptive to leftist ideas and theory, especially in the past 3 years.
the absolute timing on "like, what about all the other cogs?" omfg
this deserves mainposting
Actually this ought to be shared with second thought and deprogram circles too if it hasn't already
please repost wherever, i just want plenty of eyes on it.
This is legitimately cinematic lmfao
truck shithead absolutely blown the fuck out lmao
Death to America
That's surreal, amazing, genuinely laughed out loud
Someone in the comments called it art and they're right and I need to figure out how to save this video before it's gone.