Gus Hall
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Gus Hall was an American communist activist who served as the general secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1959 to 2000. As a labor leader, he was closely associated with the "Little Steel" strik
Open battle between striking teamsters armed with pipes and the police in the streets of Minneapolis, June 1934.
Hall in uniform c. 1942–1946
Hall's FBP mugshot, taken during his prison sentence in Leavenworth, Kansas for "Conspiring and Teaching Overthrow of the U.S. Government by Force or Violence", 1954.
Hall (far right) visits Finnish Communists, 1966.
Sam Webb (communist)
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Samuel Webb is an American activist and political leader, who served as the Chairman of the Communist Party USA from 2000 to 2014, succeeding the party's longest running leader, Gus Hall. Webb did not
Gus Hall
…do this four consecutive times until the party ceased presidential campaigns after 1984. Hall resigned party leadership in 2000, leaving the post to Sam Webb. Hall lived with his wife in Yonkers, New York during his last years and died in Manhattan from complications relating to diabetes. Hall was born Arvo…
Webb in 2013
Webb as the Communist Party candidate for School Committee in Portland, Maine, 1973