Communist Labor Party

Examples of Communist Labor Party in the following topics:

• The Socialist Presence

  • The Socialist Labor Party was officially founded in 1876 at a convention in Newark, New Jersey.
  • The Socialist Party formed strong alliances with a number of labor organizations that shared similar goals--such as collectivism.
  • Hence the Socialists and Labor parties, with their public talk of draft dodging and war-opposition, found themselves the target of persecution.
  • After Vladimir Lenin's success in Russia, he invited the Socialist Party to join the Communist Third International.
  • The expelled members formed the Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party of America and the Socialist party was reduced to one third of its original size.

• McCarthyism

  • Thanks in part to its success in organizing labor unions and its early opposition to fascism, the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) increased its membership through the 1930s, reaching a peak of about 75,000 members in 1940–41.
  • It had long been a practice of more conservative politicians to refer to progressive reforms such as child labor laws and women's suffrage as "Communist" or "Red plots."
  • McCarthy is usually quoted as saying: "I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department."
  • Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or present connection of some kind with the Communist Party.
  • A 1947 propaganda comic book raising the specter of a Communist takeover.

• The Communist Economic System

  • The former USSR (or Soviet Union) is the typical example of a communistic, command economy.
  • It was formed in 1922 by the Bolshevik party of the former Russian Empire.
  • Communist theory was developed by a German philosopher in the 1800s named Karl Marx .
  • Labor is allocated according to state plans: in a command planning economy, there is no choice of profession; when a child is in school (from a very early age), a streaming system allocates people into designated industries.
  • Explain how a communist economic system is representative of a command planned economy

• Labor Management Relations Act

  • The Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Amendment) is a U.S federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
  • The Labor Management Relations Act, or the Taft-Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and limits the power of labor unions.
  • It also required union officers to sign non-communist affidavits with the government.
  • Majorities of both parties voted for the bill as well as the override.
  • Examine the Taft-Hartley Act's impact on the National Labor Relations Act

• Red Scare

  • A faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), the Bolsheviks split from the party’s other socialist faction, the Mensheviks, in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • In July 1920, Palmer's promising Democratic Party bid for the U.S. presidency failed.
  • While both anarchists and communists were suspected, no one was indicted for the bombing.
  • Army machine gunner holding off hordes of Reds and Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World party members).
  • Describe how the Red Scare contributed to anti-labor sentiment, the Palmer Raids, and the Sedition Act of 1918.

• A Brief History of Organized Labor

  • After the Communists in the CIO were purged in 1946-1948, a merger into the AFL-CIO became possible in 1955.
  • Membership has declined since (currently 14.8 million and 12% of the labor force).
  • "Labor-based political parties have been an important electoral force in every advanced capitalist country.
  • Elsewhere, these parties were established in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries, and, ever since, there has been a great debate about why the American experience was different. "
  • This is called "the new labor history".

• The Benefits of Communism

  • Theoretically, there are many benefits that can be achieved through a communist society.
  • Communist ideology supports widespread universal social welfare.
  • Improvements in public health and education, provision of child care, provision of state-directed social services, and provision of social benefits will, theoretically, help to raise labor productivity and advance a society in its development.
  • In a communist system, people are entitled to jobs.
  • Everyone in a communist country is given enough work opportunities to live and survive.

• Socialism

  • Elsewhere in Asia, some elected socialist parties and communist parties remain prominent, particularly in India and Nepal.
  • The Communist Party of Nepal in particular calls for multi-party democracy, social equality, and economic prosperity.
  • In Japan, there has been a resurgent interest in the Japanese Communist Party among workers and youth.
  • In Denmark, the Socialist People's Party more than doubled its parliamentary representation to 23 seats from 11, making it the fourth largest party.
  • In France, the Revolutionary Communist League candidate in the 2007 presidential election, Olivier Besancenot, received 1,498,581 votes, 4.08%, double that of the Communist candidate.

• Landrum-Griffin Act

  • The Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 is a U.S. labor law regulating labor unions' internal affairs and officials' relationships with employers.
  • The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (also "LMRDA" of the "Landrum-Griffin Act"), is a United States labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers.
  • Unions had to hold secret elections, reviewable by the Department of Labor.
  • Bar members of the Communist Party and convicted felons from holding union office.
  • Explain how the Landrum-Griffin Act affected labor unions in the US

• Tension with the USSR

  • After the elections of 1945, the portfolio of the Interior Ministry, which oversaw the Hungarian State Security Police (Államvédelmi Hatóság, later known as the ÁVH), was forcibly transferred from the Independent Smallholders Party to a nominee of the Communist Party.
  • The brief period of multi-party democracy came to an end when the Communist Party merged with the Social Democratic Party to become the Hungarian Working People's Party, which stood its candidate list unopposed in 1949.
  • Under Rakosi, the AVH began a series of purges, starting with the Communist Party to end dissent.
  • The deportees generally experienced terrible living conditions and were impressed into forced labor on collective farms where many died as a result of the poor living conditions and malnutrition.
  • On March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died, ushering in a period of moderate liberalization, when most European communist parties developed a reform wing.