Is there anyway I could contact the communist party(of the US) or a communist group?

[BIG BROTHER]

The thing is, I live here in Santa Clara California, (pretty near San Jose) and I want to make contact with some fellow comrades, so I can be active and help the cause in some way. But I went to the communist party of the US page, and after registering all I get is emails of links to articles of an online magezine(pretty interesting) but I want to make some actual contact.

Can anyone help me?

[Philosophical Materialist]

Have you tried emailing them directly comrade? [email protected]

They may be wary though. It's not unheard of for fascists to try and disrupt meetings whilst initially pretending to be communists.

Hopefully they might be able to pass on your details to a local member who could talk with you and perhaps advise on social outlets for local communists.

[Organic Revolution]

The CPUSA isn't a revolutionary organization. The CPUSA is a reformist, bourgeoisie, feel good organization with no support.

[BIG BROTHER]

The CPUSA isn't a revolutionary organization. The CPUSA is a reformist, bourgeoisie, feel good organization with no support.

Is there another option better than the CPUSA? And just out of curiosity do they opose an armed revolution or why do you call them a reformist, bourgeoisie feel good ogranization with no support?

[kasama-rl]

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[manic expression]

Is there another option better than the CPUSA? And just out of curiosity do they opose an armed revolution or why do you call them a reformist, bourgeoisie feel good ogranization with no support?

The CPUSA has endorsed Democratic Party candidates for president. They supported John Kerry and Al Gore, and they're probably going to support Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in 2008. They are class collaborationist and reformist to the highest degree, no better than any two-bit Social Democrat.

What kind of organization/party are you looking for? Read the positions of different parties and see what you think. Also, try to work with a party or two in different actions and see what impression you get. For what it's worth, here are some contacts for the organization I support:

http://www.themilitant.com/direct.shtml

Good luck.

[BIG BROTHER]

al right thanks comrades.

[Keyser]

To josefrancisco:

Before you actually decide on becoming a member of any organisation, I would advise you to look at all the different groups, networks, federations and parties that make up the revolutionary Left.

Have you already defined your political beliefs to a particular variant of communism (Trotskyism/Marxism-Leninism/Maoism/Council Communism/Left-Communism), or are you an anarchist and if the answer is yes, again which variant of anarchism (anarchist-communism/anarchist-syndicalism/green anarchism)?

Do you believe that revolution is the task of a working class working as one unified whole from below acting en-masse to overthrow the state and capitalism or do you think that an organised group of revolutionaries and the leading and most militant sections of the working class need to lead the revolution?

Do you support running Left canidates in bourgeois elections or do you oppose on principle any participation in bourgeois elections?

Or are you all new to politics and poltical activism?

I'll post some links below on some links to the many groups on the revolutionary Left, I see your based in the US, so I'll localise it for you to:

http://www.broadleft.org/us.htm

http://www.revleft.com/vb/political-organisations-t27951/index.html

Also, one longtime poster of RevLeft (Nothing Human is Alien, aka CdL) is a leading member of a newly formed party, the Party of World Revolution (PoWR):

http://www.powr-prm.org/

I hope you find a organisation or party that you like and can agree to both work with and join. It is always good to see more and more people become politically active and to take up the struggle against capitalism.

Good luck!

[chegitz guevara]

Is there another option better than the CPUSA? And just out of curiosity do they opose an armed revolution or why do you call them a reformist, bourgeoisie feel good ogranization with no support?

With the exception of DSA and SDUSA/SDPA, every group is better than the CPUSA. Take your time, talk to each group, do some practical political work with them, then find the group that best fits you.

[Led Zeppelin]

Check out Socialist Alternative (http://www.socialistalternative.org/)

[Wanted Man]

Wow, this thread is amazing. A new comrade comes on, and just wants directions to the communist party. Instead, he gets told that he needs to decide which "ism" he supports, and then to "check out" this or that group. Not because it's necessarily useful for him, but because that group is part of some putrid little "international" that the poster happens to be part of on the other side of the globe.

Anyway, here is the contact info: http://www.cpusa.org/contact

Before anyone starts *****ing: I also disagree with the CPUSA's line on a lot of things. But it's kind of hilarious to say that "they have no support", or that their line on the Democrats (which has to be seen in the context of the two-party system of the USA, which is unlikely to fluctuate in the near future) is a "cardinal" matter that can only result in the utter and complete rejection and condemnation of the CPUSA and every struggle it takes part in.

Just read the "Labor Upfront" issues on their very frontpage, and then come back and whine about "class collaborationism" before going back to feelgood meetings in someone's bedroom to conduct r-r-revolutionary plotting.

[Led Zeppelin]

Stop acting like such an uptight freak.

The email to the CPUSA was already posted by another member and he was open to suggestions of other organizations, hence his question: "Is there another option better than the CPUSA?"

Maybe you should read the thread before you post in it with your "holier than thou" attitude.

EDIT: Also, I didn't only post the link to the SA because I am myself a member of its International (which certainly isn't "putrid" or "little" - compared to your organization they're a fully-fledged mass organization, but that's more because of you than us) , but also because I happen to know that they are active in the California area, which is where the OP resides and requested for contacts with other comrades.

[Led Zeppelin]

I had to add though that I'm not sure your comment was directed at me.

If it wasn't I apologize for the rather harsh reply.

[Wanted Man]

It was a general remark. I don't mind people offering suggestions, but what irritated me was that it can be really confusing. If I just start considering myself a communist and want to join a group, I don't think I would find it very useful to be told to firstly figure out whether I am a trotskyist, stalinist, maoist, hoxhaist, left communist or anarchist, and then get linked to a whole bunch of groups that all appear to be the same from the outside.

I also felt that merely naming the CPUSA invokes a shitstorm, in which people will act as if the party is wrong about everything and completely worthless. I also think that their reformist line is messed up, but only because the US two-party system does not offer any workable methods for a communist group (I agree with the SA's articles on the 2008 elections, but I don't see an "independent pro-worker campaign" happening anytime soon :(). It seems that some people place the importance of ideological "line struggle" over actual class struggle.

My irritation at this also made my post a lot more aggressive than it should have been.

[chegitz guevara]

I also felt that merely naming the CPUSA invokes a shitstorm, in which people will act as if the party is wrong about everything and completely worthless.

The CPUSA deserves the abuse heaped upon it. It has had a wretched class collaborationist position since the 1930s. When the SPUSA can correctly be said to be farther to the left than your organization, you don't deserve much in the way of sympathy from revolutionaries.

[KurtFF8]

Well at least the OP knows the email if he/she wants to contact the CPUSA, regardless of our opinions of the CPUSA.

I've emailed SPUSA (and the Florida chapter) and have always gotten a good response.

Also the Party for Socialism and Liberation has been responsive when I've emailed them with questions about their policies. They seem like a viable party, if they've organized in your area maybe you should try to meet up with them.

[Keyser]

Wow, this thread is amazing. A new comrade comes on, and just wants directions to the communist party. Instead, he gets told that he needs to decide which "ism" he supports, and then to "check out" this or that group. Not because it's necessarily useful for him, but because that group is part of some putrid little "international" that the poster happens to be part of on the other side of the globe.


I don't know what made you say that.

In my post I gave two links that will direct the OP to a large number of different groups (from across the spectrum of the revolutionary Left) so that he could see for himself which group/party he may wish to join.

I made the extra link to the PoWR as the PoWR is not listed in the other two links.

As for "isms", I asked him those questions to help him.

If he opposes the concept of a vanguard party, then he would be wasting his time contacting vanguard organisations and likewise if he supports that concept, he would be wasting his time contacting anarchist organisations.

There are certain categories that a lot of people can already identify and if he hold a certain set of beliefs, if he told us them, then instead of looking up a whole range of groups/parties, we could help him out by linking him to a group/party that would be best suited to his beliefs.

[John Rap Brown]

With the exception of DSA and SDUSA/SDPA, every group is better than the CPUSA.

Isn't that the truth.

[BIG BROTHER]

Well right now comrades I can tell you that I've been getting in contact with the PoWR, it has attracted me especially for the following statement that they made:

PoWR’s outlook is summed up by a statement made by Thomas Sankara, a leader of the 1983 revolution in Burkino Faso, who, along with Karl Marx, Frederich Engels, V.I. Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and others stands among the Party’s political forebears:

“We are open to all the winds of the will of the peoples and their revolutions, and we study some of the terrible failures that have given rise to tragic violations of human rights. We take from each revolution only its kernel of purity, which forbids us to become slaves to the reality of others.”

But I'll still try to check out some other options, and regarding isms I can't really say I follower of anything in special, but I'll admit that I have been atracted to anarco-comunism, but like I say I'm not a real follower of any branch especifically.

[chegitz guevara]

I've emailed SPUSA (and the Florida chapter) and have always gotten a good response.

You did? Who responded to you from the SPFL?