The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America, is a communist party established in 1919, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, emerging from the left wing of
The founding convention of the Communist Party of America in Chicago, Illinois, September 1–7, 1919
Charter for a local unit of the CPA, dated October 24, 1919
The Washington Commonwealth Federation newspaper after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
New York City Councilmen Peter V. Cacchione and Benjamin J. Davis Jr., two of the only elected officials of the Communist Party, served during and after World War II.
Charles Emil Ruthenberg was an American Marxist politician who was the founder and first head of the Communist Party USA. He is one of five Americans to be buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Communist Party USA
…Communist Party of the United States of America Presidium National Convention Co-chairs Joe Sims Rossana Cambron Founder C. E. Ruthenberg Alfred Wagenknecht Founded September 1, 1919 Merger of Communist Party of America Communist Labor Party of America United Toilers of America Workers…
Cover of Ruthenberg's first political pamphlet, published in 1917 by the local Cleveland Socialist Party. According to WorldCat less than a dozen copies are known to exist.
Ruthenberg (top row, third from left) with members of the Socialist Party's War Committee at the 1917 Emergency National Convention.
Ruthenberg speaks at a May Day rally in Cleveland, 1917
Cartoon of Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenknecht, and Charles Baker in the potato patch of the Canton Workhouse from a 1917 pamphlet collecting speeches from their trial.