Top 14 Fighters

14. The JAS.39 Gripen. This is a small single-seat fighter using the American F404 turbofan engine. This aircraft is capable of numerous missions (point-defense interceptor, ground attack fighter, and even anti-shipping). It is highly maneuverable, and is a worthy successor to the Draken and Viggen interceptors that Sweden has built. This is what the 1980s F-20 Tigershark (an early competitor of the F-16 and F-18) could have been, had it not been stillborn.

13. F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. This is the ultimate Hornet, without the range limitations of the F/A-18A/B/C/D, and with two extra weapons pylons. This fighter is based on a proven design, and has even been used as a tanker with the premature retirement of the S-3 Viking. Sheer versatility – and improvement from the original make the Super Hornet’s place on this list a secure one.

12. F-15C Eagle. This is perhaps one of the last of the single-purpose aircraft. This plane has done one thing for 30 years (air-to-air combat), and done it well (over 100 kills to no losses). However, what is remarkable is the almost-untapped potential the airframe has as a ground-attack platform. The F-15E Strike Eagle has become a superb multi-role fighter. However, the F-15 has gotten long in the tooth for air superiority.

11. Chengdu J-10 - This Chinese fighter is almost as good as teh F-16C Fighting Falcon. Carries the almost same payload (within 300 pounds) of the F-16. Same speeds at altitude and sea level as F-16.

10. F-16C Fighting Falcon. This is a bird that has become a classic. Widely exported, and it has amassed a solid record. Still being built to special order for export customers, it not only has scored air-to-air kills in service with the United States, Israel, and Pakistan, but it is also one of the most numerous modern fighters in service today.

9. Su-27 Flanker. This was built to counter the F-15, and it has become one of the more feared aircraft out of Russia. Highly maneuverable, it is equipped and designed for a dogfight, it has been exported. The wide export market for this plane and its variants (the Su-30 in particular) is the primary reason for the F-22.

8. F-14D Tomcat. This is a plane that had aged like fine wine. Originally designed to face the Tu-22M3 Backfire bomber in protection of American carriers, it has become a carrier-launched version of the F-15E. Capable of long-range attacks using the AIM-54 Phoenix, the F-14 proved it was capable of dogfighting in two incidents with Libya (the U.S. Navy fighters scored four kills for no losses). This is a plane retiring before its time.

7. Eurofighter Typhoon. A low-observable multi-role fighter. It is fast, maneuverable, and carries a lot of air-to-air missiles. It also can be used for attack missions as well. This is a fighter that will be the backbone of at least four air forces (the UK, Spain, Germany, and Italy).

6. Dassault Rafale. Another European multi-role fighter with some stealth built in, this aircraft not only carries out the air-to-air and attack missions, it also comes in a naval version. Its first export order was recently signed – to Saudi Arabia. Equipped with French air-to-air missiles, it edges out the Eurofighter since its naval version could interest other countries who have carriers (Brazil and India come to mind).

5. F-35. This plane will be the new F-16 in ten years. Not only is this replacing the F-16, the A-10, the AV-8B, and some F/A-18s in U.S. service, but it will replace aircraft in other countries as well. Like the F-16, it will be produced in numbers. When it enters service, it will outclass many aircraft. Comes with HELLADS AAM system. Flies vertically like Harrier IIs.

4. Chengdu Super-10 : A stealth, 5th-generation fighter developed from the J-10B featuring a more powerful engine, thrust-vector control, stronger airframe and passive phased-array radar, and much more, according to Russian sources. It is also reported to be having carrier-born capabilities.

3. Sukhoi PAK FA - The PAK FA was designed to compete with the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, the world's first fifth-generation fighter jets. Due to it having the same take-off weight as Raptors; it is basically a clone. It doesn't have supercruise, but it does have afterburner.


2. F-22 Raptor. This is the F-15C’s replacement. Entering service in 2005, it renders every other air-superiority aircraft obsolete. This is a plane that can not only outfly any other plane in the world, outrun any other plane in the world, and it can do so while remaining virtually unseen. The F-22 is a true heir to the F-15, and could do so in another fashion if Lockheed’s FB-22 proposal takes off. Comes with HELLADS AAM system. This F-22 Raptor gets #2, because it has supercruise technology; otherwise it would get #3 and PAK-FA would get #2

1. Northrop Grumman Switchblade - Evolution of the X-29; featured in Popular Mechanics magazine two years ago, this is variable switchable aircraft does exist in blueprints and dates 1999. It has three modes Long wingspan increases lift, enabling slower flight speeds for precision bombing and landing on short runways. Forward sweep provides a good balance of lift and drag; efficient airflow over the wings and control surfaces enhances the fighter's maneuverability for air-to-air combat. Low aspect ratio provides the least drag, enabling the aircraft to speed up to Mach 3. In this configuration the trailing edge becomes the leading edge, a section of the wing root becomes the new trailing edge. Comes with HELLADS AAM system.

Airforce has PHASERS!

HELLADS power supply found
List of other projects


Foreign countries are having high energy lasers for 6th gen aircraft. We have them in 2008!


Land version

Detroit is Fred Flintstone

This is so funny. The only way I want them to do loan is if they license BMW, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and AUDI car frames and blueprints and duplicate them via mass manufacturing. I can relate to this, because The Flintstones were a awesome 1990s cartoon on Cartoon Network.


Too bad we couldn't bankrupt them, because they're attached to 1000s of other supply businesses so that would conclude to 1000s supply companies bankrupted with millions of jobs lost. Republicans could emulate democrat loan BTW so that capitalism may survive in 2012 Election. Too bad the loan was the only way to achieve better stock market success. Political party wouldn't matter in this situation.



Barack Obama cheated! Hurricane Gustav wreaked everything.

Emulate Richness in Recession.

Who would've thought that I would get a TV, but I did.

A Bravia II 32" so now I have 3 TVs in my Room plus another Sansung Sync Master 220 WM 22" LCD monitor.



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It came with a Sony Firmware upgradable Bluray Player.



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Budget 22" LCD (Viewsonic 19" now replaces my Dell CRT)

Tonight we're opening more presents.



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8PM after watching George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol.

1991 Lucas Arts Protection is evil!

To whom it concerns,

I figured out how to bypass the LAME-O protection, but there isn't a makefile file in the directory. Yes, I downloaded the ScrummVM emu so I can do Secret of Monkey's Island and Monkey Island LeChuck's Revenge. Got them games off Rapidshare.



It is possible to get past the copy protection. You'll need to compile it yourself, get the tools at http://cygwin.com/ and http://www.libsdl.org/ . Get the source code at http://scummvm.sf.net/daily/ .

Edit the makefile, and in the DEFINES section, add -DBYPASS_COPY_PROT . Works like a charm.

Pirate LeChucks Revenge
Pirate Secret of Monkey Island


I wish I had a makefile! If Chris Langan can't break into it, how can I? Oh yeah, he'd just buy the real copy.

EDIT: 12:05. I beat you Chris! I just download the Amiga ROM and use WinAUE! I win.

Edit: Dec 25 - combo could be 00 & 00.

Forget Hydrogen Power Plants. We're perfecting Magnetoplasma Power Plants by 2011!

The USA is going to be the first country to build Magnetoplasma power plants.

It's better than Nuclear FUSION from what it says in the article.

VASIMR



REAL (NON-CGI) MAGNETOPLASMA REACTOR!
More on Magnetoplasma energy (newer than Hydrogen)
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

Going to obsolete nuclear!

Though So. California, Texas, and Florida can have hydrogen power plants for stability's sake.

"Construction of the ITER complex is planned to begin in 2008, while assembly of the tokamak itself is scheduled to begin in the year 2011" ~Wikipedia

Don't give into the Intel i7 Core Hype.

Be smart and wait until the 8-core Sandy Bridge core for Xmas 2009. Thinking I'll get a Sandy Bridge CPU and than a single Radeon HD 5870 X2 compatible with DirectX 11.

I truly believe Intel i7 Core is the equivalent of a Geforce 9800 GX2. Less then 3 months later the Geforce GTX 280 OC was revealed. Intel i7 CPUs will only do slightly better performance boost.

Next PC draft specs

Systemax Tigershark (II)

Sandy Bridge core CPU
Radeon HD 5870
2 GB DDR3
Windows 7.0 Ultimate
1 TB HDD
BDRW with 4x BDR burning speed instead of only 2x.

Want Change? Bralizan Democrats are conservative

Brazilian democrats are politically conservative and anti-socialist. Weird huh. I would be conservative too if the PT was in power.

Democrats here are the complete opposite. I guess we all knew that part.

Say the Republicans should be Australian liberal party than we can be "conservative"! Get it...liberal-conservative.

Closing Gitmo is an insane PR stunt, people!

Yep, you heard me right, it houses the most lethal serial killers in the world. It's not a gola, because it is what it is. Water boarding is not torcher, because these are the most lethal men in the world (they're all Michael Myers in disguise).

We were there since the Spanish American war, and we stayed and leased the place. It's a POW camp in war time and a dangerous asylum in the peace period. Don't give into the propaganda. US is absolutely right for having a prison in Gimo.

Water boarding is exception when dealing with the most lethal men in the world. The anti-American ACLU and European nations are fucking with us on that one. Don't let them.


(Gitmo prisoners)


Remember, Gitmo is a place to put the most insane, lethal guerrilla tactic mercenaries in the world who oppose the USA. It's supposed to be there. In case you haven't noticed we were a super power, most of the world hates being underneath us; therefore, the insane PR stunt (anti-gitmo)


"People will find that there's quite a few that are very dangerous people and to put them in a position where they can eventually get out on the street and come back and harm one of our citizens would be a very dangerous policy," Mr. Bush told The Washington Times" ~ Bush.
And lets hear it from President Bush.

THERE I SAID IT.

I can sleep now.


^ I agree

Videogames when controlled enhances your mental compacity

Lets disagree with this article for a moment

It is scientific fact that videogames, while as worthless as audio cds or Video dvds in net worth, will enhance your brain in problem solving and quickness. The community of discussing your favorite game with somebody else gives you education of uniteness. It is practically the only way smiley face fascists (aka: liberal fascist) and libertarians may agree which each other though if you talk politics in some countries you're jailed and nobody has as much freedom as we do. Go figure. Which is hwy most Americans don't understand that part and play videogames as it is an indoor activity. Then of course there is the Canadians who close forums just because conservatives are free ourselves biased. So like China, if we speak out, they close it since they can't jail me. It's interesting though the fact of the less free people get more +rep than the free people with the exception of the brainwashed Americans (ie: Canadian wannabes) on that forum. No..it's just the realization that I'm more free than most of those people.

Therefore, you have to be schizophrenic and sound British when you're completely capitalist for those +rep else you're screwed.

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Update OS Day II - installing OS codename: Chuck Norris

http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2008/11/opensuse-111-rc-and-kde-41.html

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/11-prime-features-of-opensuse-111-a-comprehensive-review/

You know I had OpenSuse 11 on my PC and the only problems I had was it had slow USB transfers to thumb drive, it crashed a few times (but always recovered in under 10 seconds) and the last few times, didn't recognize my mouse and keyboard! :(

The 2.6.27.7 kernel has the much needed improved filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for pure flash-based storage devices.











openSUSE 11.1 will roundhouse kick the competition!

I give the OpenSuse 11 Linux a 8.5 out of 10. I only used it like 6 times and one was to backup a locked Windows session. I downloaded a lot of MPEG4 and Games and succeeded.

KDE 3.5.7 and 3.5.9 were so much faster than KDE 4.0.4 too. No latency at all in the 3.5.x series.

I feel old...I have 2.6.27.7 kernel now. I remember using the Redhat 7.1 days of 2.4.18 kernel in 2003 in High School. 'It was my schizophrenic friend'. At least that's what the UNIX guy said. Did I mention I feel old



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You know that NASA is running Suse 9.3 Enterprise on their super computer and it's one of the top 5 supercomputers.

Some more reasons to love OpenSuse 11+ over Fedora 7+, because Rasmussen is supporting some ancient version of Linux, Fedora 2 (ie: around when Suse 9 was coming out and the British were winning American Revolutionary War). OpenSuse is still most noob friendly Linux, and that's how I like it. I'm a Microsoft guy in case you can't tell. This distro's KDE 4.1.3 and Gnome 2.24 support MESA video drivers over the inferior NV ones so the shell boots in no time and runs 4x faster once it boots up with OpenGL 2.1 enabled. 3D Linux games are playable for the first time. Fedora 10 still has those low end NV drivers and is said to be slow, because of those NV drivers.





 

Because I can. Can't wait until BTRFS (ReiserFS 5.0) in Fedora 11. Everything is a bit jurky in Fedora 10 and it won't let me change to EXT4 without stalling.

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game update (bought 2 games)

Prince of Persia for PS3, Kingdom Hearts Re; Chain of Memories (always wanted the GBA game) and on the Dec. 10th, Persona 4 (got 9.4 on IGN for some reason)

No to mention the Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia and GoW2 Xbox 360 two weeks ago. Gamelist is in May 2008 archive.

Found out what the Xmas presents were:

Canon EOS Rebel XSi DIGIC 3 12 MP camera

Sony-KDL-32XBR6 1080p TV 32"

Phillips Bluray 2x burning speed SATA /w 50 GB BDR and jewel case

1 TB SATA hard drive to replace my dieing one

250 GB 2.5" HDD for PS3

Men's Merrell Moab GORE-TEX® XCR®

used 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo paid for by my buddy, Bill Gates.

Lower your blood pressure w/o prescription!

http://www.lowstolic.com/

I should buy some of this stuff :)
Who else wants some.

It's like Tylenol! Sweet!

Buying some today and start lowering my blood pressure due to all the Mt. Dew I drink.

Global Warming is propraganda

I think with Aussie Rules Football becoming the fastest growing sport in the United States, and that all the liberals are bailing out companies every monday, and we have federal healthcare, Obama totally like Australia. Obama has secret Australian Labour Party connections. Too bad we're too liberal to unravel this scandal. Oh, by the way, Sam Webb, chairman of the CPUSA, introduced social democracy!

Kevin Rudd-Barack Obama scandle
Call me paranoid, but "agent of change" sounds familiar.
Call me paranoid, but "agent of change" sounds familiar.
Barrack and Kevin share the same cronies views

The Global Warming is evil propaganda to not build nuclear/hydrogen powerplants in America, and to build nuclear power plants elsewhere. None built since 1970s.



The UN is evil, because they're looking for money to steal from US (AAA first world nation) and these A first world nations hate us for being extremely rich via capitalism and they run the place. They need all that money to fund bizarre global warming funds and President Elect goofball will play into it, because his an elitist figure head of something like THE MAJESTIC 12! BAHAHA. In Metal Gear Solid, they're known as the "Patriots", but was heavily influenced by the Majestic 12. Something about Solid Snake destroying the super computer in MGS2, known as simply GW.

Be my friend, and together we'll take the power away from Democrats and give it to republicans.

Frank Marshal Davis

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First a senior US communist, Gerald Horne, writes an article in the CPUSA's "Political Affairs" explaining that Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis was a member of the Communist Party.

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2012: The Movie

That Nibiru fly by Earth and stuff is coming out mid-2009 in Theaters. It takes place late 2012 in the Eastern US. Space nukes are probably involved. Armageddon movie storyline updated for 2009 culture.


I'm so proud of myself. I was the first person in this school to do a Nibiru paper. I got a 95% on it too.


http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/12/126713/Nibiru.zip


Amazing how carried away I got in November 2007.

Marxists love putting America into a lot of Inflation

Jim Bianco of Bianco Research crunched the inflation adjusted numbers. The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures - combined:

* Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion

* Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion

* Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion

* S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion

* Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion

* The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)

* Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion

* Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion

* NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion"

Another MONDAY, ANOTHER BAIlOUT

Someone went insane on one of these. Probably the socialist Barney Frank which should be shot. But that would be murder and I'm you know atheist. What happen to the good old sane democrats. Are there any left? And then Barack Obama hires a bunch of Clintonites to become a moderate.

Why not have 2 moderate parties? Ie: Socially liberal, politically conservative. What I mean is a hybrid party that invites all the liberal music and culture in right-wing point-of-view of pro-military, pro nuclear, pro-superpower, anti-corruption, anti-ear-marks. We're talking emulation here. It's been done before, I mean we're a representative republic...the constitution was an anti-political party republic conservative document. An allusion yes, but the truth is because we're a superpower with a state-of-the-art military to go wars (every decade we have a war or two), we're the most conservative nation on Earth. For example the #2 nation has only 2 carriers. We have 12 commissioned!

It is literally four trillion dollars + whatever Barack Obama spends Vs. cutting taxes with Reaganomics (not costing four trillion dollars + whatever Barack Admin spends) and some creative tactics like giving everyone checks for private healthcare. And we would be more self dependent and not borrow an ungodly amount from communist China.


I believe in Reaganomics, Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganizing of all these companies. The overly greedy socialist-begging labor unions composed in the GM, Ford and Chrysler, and Teacher unions are mostly liberal, and will bring down their institutions in bizarre expectations.

Oh yeah, I voted a strait republican ticket on the 4th.

UFO Files The Gray's Intentions O_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLmRx_yo0RU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys5JdO6hxnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK_XcmVYJdI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzlzeiebSc


Gotta see this. Cool beans!


I've been here. I know about Phil Corso and spaceships and little HUD headgear, phasers for surgery, 23rd century body armor, time-space continuums, EBEs, and what warp speed is And before you say I'm wrong; I've even been here too

Mirror
Mirror 2


How old is ALH84001?

17 million

Aliens have visited Earth! I am so clever!

GOP will spend money to build Hydrogen Power Plants

The GOP also supports Hydrogen Power Plants. This is late, but better late than never.

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As you know nuclear is fission....hydrogen is fusion kind of like the difference between little boy and Project Chariot. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger allows multi-billion plant to be built in So. California where blackouts are a part of life. This is first of several and hydrogen power plants will be built as soon as 2009 as the state budget proposal is almost confirmed! Gov. Schwarzenegger is a republican and democrats don't want Hydrogen power plants. Hydrogen power plants are more expensive than nuclear so these hydrogen power plants won't replace most of the 20% of nuclear power.
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Leaked Audio says Barack admits to use social engineering against America to vote for state capitalism

In this message, the thought is clear that Barack OBama did call himself a state capitalist, because he defiantly a marxist and not ready for the Oval Office.

Vote McCain. Do your self a favor and vote not republican, but vote CAPITALISM.

Nuclear Power is essential: a matter of national security even!

For nuclear revival to work, you must vote GOP, because one of the primary concerns for nuclear power is where to store the waste. That’d be Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility in Nevada. Completion date: 2020. Yucca will hold waste for the next 100 years, because it is the largest government project of all time. Barack Obama refuses to fund Yucca Mountain and wants to shut it down, because he is a socialist with an agenda. Sorry, but it’s true that energy wattage will go up 50% by 2030, and nuclear power plants which account for 20% of the nations energy will be retired and he need more nuclear power plants just to tread water here (replace the ones that exist) .



I just caught the first half of CNBC’s Nuclear Option, and it mentioned that the South Texas nuclear site wants to double in size and is one of largest two nuclear reactor site. There has been plans to expand it to twice it’s size so another 27 megawatts which is about 2 million homes. . There are 20 cities who want to be the first to build a nuclear power plant in 30 yrs or face blackouts. Most of our plants have been in operation for 30 yrs and have a full life of only 60 yrs with technology being developed to bring them in operation longer. We’ll need increase in nuclear power, because power demands grow. Nuclear absolutely needs to be a part of the equasion. McCain is the only presidential candidate to empraise nuclear power in this country. The workload for electricity is growing dramatically in the Southeast. This has generated a lot of interest in nuclear power in the US. One nuclear power plant built means the elimination of 11 million tons of CO2 over a coal plant. Nuclear power plants would be to the equalivent of $15 a barrel of gas compared to $120 a gas barrel would normally cost. 96% of the spent nuclear fuel can be recycled into nuclear energy, and the 4% is nuclear waste.

Why is nuclear good? Well, gas plants omit CO2 and prices are incredibly high, coal has all the issues of fossil fuel appliance costs associated with itself, wind and solar are certainly a part of the equation, but can not support sustained power generation. We need a nuclear renniance just to stay at 20% nuclear in the United States. It generations lots of income for schools and government in small towns.

So we need nuclear energy so that is a good reason to vote John McCain, the only man who can build new power plants for us. Democrats are so slow at it, that we’ll have blackouts. And remember now, we have technology (invented by France) to reuse 96% of the spent nuclear fuel.

John Doe said...

"I am an American that immigrated to Australia in 2001 (after Bush took office). My wife and I didn’t like what we saw coming. Politically, culturally, financially and socially.

When Big Media first started covering the US’s economic problems here in 2008 they drug out the old phrase “When America catches a cold Australia gets a flu”. Two plus years on and this couldn’t be further from the truth. The economy here is going great guns, and demand from Asia and a better government are a good part of the reason.

House prices are having solid gains every year, unemployment is reasonably steady, and the federal reserve is trying to raise interest rates to cool the economy (.25% again today)

To that point, the government here doesn’t subsidise 30 year fixed mortgages the way they do in the US, so they can still manage the economy by slightly manipulating interest rates. The longest you can fix a mortgage for is 5 years, at a very high premium, so most people don’t.

America has become an after thought, if not the laughing stock, of many Australians. It saddens me to see how far everything has fallen over there. I no longer try to defend the US or the American people. The time for real public outrage passed many years ago, and I have not only given up on the government, but also on the people themselves. So many dear family and friends spend their lives watching TV while their freedoms, lifestyle, culture and wealth were/are being destroyed around them. Ignorant and apathetic to the realities of the real world. Living with some strange notion of the past as if it represents the present.

Not all is doom and gloom here. And although it could still come, if it does it will have little, if nothing at all, to do with the problems in America."

We're living in the past and watching TV loosing our freedoms? At least our two party system is made up of Republicans or Frankfurt School & Trotskyists. The American congress doesn't have your coalition.

What's wrong with capitalism when Australia is #1?

My banner means that like Russia (Putin is obviously KGB) that the US Treasurer is funding our economy which is smiley face facism (liberal fascism) kind of like the USSR. The People's Republic of China said that there would be no tax on businesses if they move over there and here in the US, corporate tax is 2nd highest in the world which is a democrat issue. And then Obama wants to spend trillion dollars on non-nuclear alternative energy to coal and gas, because of his cronies say so. Personally, I also believe he doesn't want to fund Yucca Mountain which is a mandatory government program if you like it or not.

And if we're the last holy place on earth as far as the apex of good goes; why would you diminish military spending? Since WWII, we fought the evil! We can prove this buy feeding 3rd world countries with American food.

Interesting enough, Australia is #1 in the world and they're capitalist. You won't hear that on liberal news. Looks whose building nuclear power plants under labor party leader! We're capitalist too and there isn't anything wrong with capitalism. With Barrack Obama (the messiah), you're handicapping capitalism and the smart people who do it. You have China with no corporate taxes, because Hong Kong, also capitalist-base, told him how to screw up American economy. China listened.

If we don't bomb Iran within months, they'll have their nuke. Then Pres. Bush would be ahead of his time, because there'll be nukes in the middle east like he predicted (besides Pakistan due to there be UN peace agreement) . The black marketing of designs and stuff will be terrible.

QUOTE http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660409.stm

Us republicans always had this figure in back of our heads kind of like death itself. It lurks around every so often...a few minutes daily for me actually. Actually you must understand that even though we're all Americans, the other 50% is screwing us young people who have to pay it off. They be democrat and add up all that debt and then they die leaving it to the Boomerang gen to pay cash where its due.

And even more weird is the fact China government offering $0 corporate tax for American companies, because manufacturing moving to China where it's cheaper. They're leaving the USA. And it's a tie in the polls...that's ridiculous to think half of Americans are that stupid. Is it just me that will stand up to this point? Probably!

There is just something wrong with the party that taxes a couple trillion dollars on top of the rescue bill and that Obama motherfucker is still doing this reteric for advancing his career. That's why McCain is the only Presidential choice

Oh yeah everybody including Australia is building nuclear power plants except those silly democrats.

Use the Smith act on Pres. Obama

If Barack Obama is marxist (from the neo-marxist new party), the American people can use the Smith Act to impeach him. This act was enforced in 1941, against the Minneapolis Trotskyists as well as the CPUSA in 1949. The Smith Act should be constitutional. How is state capitalism freedom? Utopian Karl Marx who read the US Constitution (probably Karl's arch-antagonists) said capitalism is obsolete;whereby, to incorporate state capitalism, like USSR. Leon Trotsky calls it degenerated workers state. The American bureaucracy is the Stalinist bureaucracy carried to its ultimate and logical conclusion. Under Joe Stalin, russia wasn't as free as we Americans were.

Capitalism for your Need to Know.

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Went to see Armin Van Buuren at Spin Night Club

This was an awesome experience. I don't have a videocam to record it myself. Went by myself. It was great for what it was. Progressive trance must be shrinking in popularity.

Hong Kong [Capitalist] is most prosperous city in China.

You know the bailout failed, because the democrats were greedy again.

I say the Secret Service should of gunned down all the democrats in the fucking white house! Yes, in front of the President Bush.

Nancy Polisy (House major) lied about the fact that republicans made it better and that they showed show up! She called republicans unpatriotic. All the democrats went ACLU on us and that it was politically calculated.

He said in the Presidential Debate that he couldn't reach that far to the left.

we can prevent Great Depression II this way. Although if the economy is that bad off than everything goes Democrat like right now. Democrats are the problem here. The democrats prevented the bill so the economy could get worse so they can look like heroes (they're the villains)! In the great depression, America were liberal socialism anyways by building all those government projects like Hover Dam. Oh yeah, John McCain said the same thing so hell I am 100% agreement with McCain at the moment!

re we have to use smiley based fascism/socialism sparely, because we're capitalist. Look at Hong Kong, China couldn't add market socialism to Hong Kong, because they would cripple the city which is why it's a special administrative zone. It was doing so well independently That decision was brilliant. It's not the same deal in the United States, because Barrack Obama has to win the election. It's true that Hong Kong is the most prosperous city in China, correct?

Chinese workers

International Workingmen's Association was joined up with California Unions when they kicked the Chinese railroad workers out when they feared Chinese workers would be hired for lower pay! And that's why we have the people's republic of China. Something similar happened when the signs said that white people had to work even when non-whites would work cheaper...a type of "deleonism". They were all Tom Dooley clones. That's why the communists spew racism for the payroll originally....

That's why I thought that this union thing and Obama thing made Obama a deleonist.

American Federation of Labor has problems with racism, because of the Wobblies (Deleonlist) integration into that .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World

New Union Party replaces SLP

http://libcom.org/forums/north-america/demise-de-leonist-slp-12122008?page=1

"The SLP closed its national office, which had been in San Jose, California,
on September 1, and shipped a great deal of archival material to Duke
University and also to the Wisconsin State Historical Society. Both
institutions have good collections relating to the history of many minor
parties."

Successor party (NUP) in Minneapolis

www.newunionparty.org/
(for heavily regulated foreigners) (background info)

Brain Drain Map

In Business / Economics, they call this the brain drain map. It has nothing to do with stupid people. It has to do with where # per 1000 geniuses are located. China has the most geniuses per billion! It's like that in economics, the geniuses all go the places that make the most money like Hong Kong even if its communist



If you want some of those geniuses back...voting Republican is the way to do it. Geniuses like profit.

Karl Marx supported the Radical Republicans via New York Tribune

Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune in 1841. Greeley took a strong moral tone in his newspaper and campaigned against alcohol, tobacco, gambling, prostitution and capital punishment. However, his main concern was the abolition of slavery and the introduction of universal suffrage.

Greeley was very interested in socialist and feminist ideas and published articles by Karl Marx, Charles Dana, Margaret Fuller and Jane Grey Swisshelm in his newspaper. He also promoted the views of Albert Brisbane, who wanted society organised into co-operative communities.



After the demise of the Whigs, Greeley supported the Free Soil Party. He was one of the leaders of the campaign against the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and in 1856 helped form the Republican Party.

During the Civil War Greeley and the New York Tribune supported Abraham Lincoln, but opposed his renomination in 1864. Greeley was highly critical of the presidency of Ulysses G. Grant and became associated with the Radical Republicans. Later he helped form the Liberal Republican Party.


After the 1860 elections the Radical Republicans became a powerful force in Congress. Several were elected as chairman of important committees. This included Thaddeus Stevens (Ways and Means), Owen Lovejoy (Agriculture), James Ashley (Territories), Henry Winter Davis (Foreign Relations), George W. Julian (Public Lands), Elihu Washburne (Commerce) and Henry Wilson (Judiciary)..

Radical Republicans were critical of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, when he was slow to support the recruitment of black soldiers into the Union Army. Radical Republicans also clashed with Lincoln over his treatment of Major General John C. Fremont. On 30th August, 1861, Fremont, the commander of the Union Army in St. Louis, proclaimed that all slaves owned by Confederates in Missouri were free. Lincoln was furious when he heard the news as he feared that this action would force slave-owners in border states to join the Confederate Army. Lincoln asked Fremont to modify his order and free only slaves owned by Missourians actively working for the South.

When John C. Fremont refused, he was sacked and replaced by the conservative General Henry Halleck. The Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, William Fessenden, described Lincoln's actions as "a weak and unjustifiable concession in the Union men of the border states. Whereas Charles Sumner wrote to Lincoln complaining about his actions and remarked how sad it was "to have the power of a god and not use it godlike".

The situation was repeated in May, 1862, when General David Hunter began enlisting black soldiers in the occupied district under his control. Soon afterwards Hunter issued a statement that all slaves owned by Confederates in his area (Georgia, Florida and South Carolina) were free. Lincoln was furious and despite the pleas of Salmon Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury, the instructed him to disband the 1st South Carolina (African Descent) regiment and to retract his proclamation.

In the early stages of the American Civil War Lincoln only had one senior member of his government, Salmon Chase (Secretary of the Treasury), who was sympathetic to the views of the Radical Republicans. Later in the war other radicals such as Edwin M. Stanton (Secretary of War), William Fessenden (Secretary of the Treasury and James Speed (Attorney General) were recruited into his Cabinet.

Radical Republicans were also critical of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan. In 1862 Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis, sponsored a bill that provided for the administration of the affairs of southern states by provisional governors until the end of the war. They argued that civil government should only be re-established when half of the male white citizens took an oath of loyalty to the Union. The Wade-Davis Bill was passed on 2nd July, 1864, but Abraham Lincoln refused to sign it.

Despite their insistence that the white power structure in the South should be removed, most Radical Republications argued that the defeated forces should be treated leniently. Even while the American Civil War was going on Charles Sumner argued that: "A humane and civilized people cannot suddenly become inhumane and uncivilized. We cannot be cruel, or barbarous, or savage, because the Rebels we now meet in warfare are cruel, barbarous and savage. We cannot imitate the detested example."

After the war Horace Greeley advocated universal amnesty and actually put up the bail for his long-term enemy, Jefferson Davis. Lyman Trumbull and Hannibal Hamlin campaigned for better treatment of those Confederate leaders still in prison and James F. Wilson took up the case of the former vice-president, Alexander Stephens.

Radical Republicans were strongly opposed the policies of President Andrew Johnson and argued in Congress that Southern plantations should be taken from their owners and divided among the former slaves. They also attacked Johnson when he attempted to veto the extension of the Freeman's Bureau, the Civil Rights Bill and the Reconstruction Acts. However, the Radical Republicans were able to get the Reconstruction Acts passed in 1867 and 1868. Despite these acts, white control over Southern state governments was gradually restored when organizations such as the Ku Kux Klan were able to frighten blacks from voting in elections.

In November, 1867, the Judiciary Committee voted 5-4 that Andrew Johnson be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. The majority report contained a series of charges including pardoning traitors, profiting from the illegal disposal of railroads in Tennessee, defying Congress, denying the right to reconstruct the South and attempts to prevent the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.

On 30th March, 1868, Johnson's impeachment trial began. Johnson was the first and only president of the United States to be impeached. The trial, held in the Senate in March, was presided over by Chief Justice Salmon Chase. The Radical Republicans played a leading role in the trial. Thaddeus Stevens was mortally ill, but he was determined to take part in the proceedings and was carried to the Senate in a chair.

Charles Sumner, another long-time opponent of Johnson led the attack. He argued that: "This is one of the last great battles with slavery. Driven from the legislative chambers, driven from the field of war, this monstrous power has found a refuge in the executive mansion, where, in utter disregard of the Constitution and laws, it seeks to exercise its ancient, far-reaching sway. All this is very plain. Nobody can question it. Andrew Johnson is the impersonation of the tyrannical slave power. In him it lives again. He is the lineal successor of John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis; and he gathers about him the same supporters."

Although a large number of senators believed that Johnson was guilty of the charges, they disliked the idea of Benjamin Wade becoming the next president. Wade, who believed in women's suffrage and trade union rights, was considered by many members of the Republican Party as being an extreme radical. James Garfield warned that Wade was "a man of violent passions, extreme opinions and narrow views who was surrounded by the worst and most violent elements in the Republican Party."

Others Republicans such as James Grimes argued that Johnson had less than a year left in office and that they were willing to vote against impeachment if Johnson was willing to provide some guarantees that he would not continue to interfere with Reconstruction.

When the vote was taken all members of the Democratic Party voted against impeachment. So also did those Republicans such as Lyman Trumbull, William Fessenden and James Grimes, who disliked the idea of Benjamin Wade becoming president. The result was 35 to 19, one vote short of the required two-thirds majority for conviction. A further vote on 26th May, also failed to get the necessary majority needed to impeach Johnson. The Radical Republicans were angry that not all the Republican Party voted for a conviction and Benjamin Butler claimed that Johnson had bribed two of the senators who switched their votes at the last moment.

The Radical Republicans campaign for equal rights for African Americans was not a popular cause after the American Civil War. In 1868 Henry Wilson argued that the issue cost the Republican Party over a quarter of a million votes in 1868. In the election that year several of the radicals lost their seats including the long-term leader of the group, Benjamin Wade.

When Ulysses S. Grant was elected the only Radical Republicans in his administration was Schuyler Colfax, his vice-president, George Boutwell (Secretary of the Treasury) and John Creswell (Postmaster General). Later, he found posts for George H. Williams (Attorney General) and Zachariah Chandler (Secretary of the Interior).

After the American Civil War a group of former soldiers from the Confederate Army founded the Ku Klux Klan. The first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest, an outstanding general during the war. During the next two years Klansmen wearing masks, white cardboard hats and draped in white sheets, tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites. Immigrants, who they blamed for the election of Radical Republicans, were also targets of their hatred.

Radical Republicans in Congress urged President Ulysses S. Grant to take action against the Ku Klux Klan. After a campaign led by Oliver Morton and Benjamin Butler, Grant agreed in 1870 to instigated an investigation into the organization and the following year a Grand Jury reported that: "There has existed since 1868, in many counties of the state, an organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, or Invisible Empire of the South, which embraces in its membership a large proportion of the white population of every profession and class. The Klan has a constitution and bylaws, which provides, among other things, that each member shall furnish himself with a pistol, a Ku Klux gown and a signal instrument. The operations of the Klan are executed in the night and are invariably directed against members of the Republican Party. The Klan is inflicting summary vengeance on the colored citizens of these citizens by breaking into their houses at the dead of night, dragging them from their beds, torturing them in the most inhuman manner, and in many instances murdering."

Congress passed the Ku Klux Act and became law on 20th April, 1871. This gave the president the power to intervene in troubled states with the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in countries where disturbances occurred. The passing of this legislation was the last substantial victory for the Radical Republicans in Congress.

In the 1870s several Radical Republicans, including Benjamin Wade, William D. Kelley, George W. Julian, Benjamin Butler, Henry Wilson and John Covode campaigned for the eight hour day and improved conditions for working people. However, they were now fairly isolated and were unable to persuade Congress to pass legislation to protect the emerging trade union movement.

Barack Obama and the communist party

44th President of the United States
Assumed office: January 20, 2009
Born August 4, 1961 Birth name Barack Hussein Obama II Nationality American Political party Democratic Party Spouse Michelle Obama (m. 1992) Political party Democratic Party Religion Christian Liberation Theology Signature
This article is part of a series about Barack Obama
Biography • Political Career • Controversial and Radical Associates • Radical Appointments • Ties to Islam • Presidency
Invovlement with: Democratic Socialists of America • New Party/Progressive Chicago • Communist Party • Committees of Correspondence • Labor Movement • ACORN & Project Vote • more...

Contents

• 1 Communist leader on "friend" Barack Obama
• 2 Marable on Obama and Chicago communists
• 3 Frank Marshall Davis
• 4 Frank Marshall Davis' communism
  • 4.1 Hawaiian activism
  • 4.2 Still a communist?
• 5 Frank Marshall Davis and Obama
• 6 Chicago Communists first recorded interest in Obama
• 7 Addie Wyatt connection
• 8 Vernon Jarrett and Barack Obama
• 9 Communist Party support in Obama's 2004 Senate race
  • 9.1 Young Communist League backing
• 10 Bea Lumpkin on Obama
• 11 "Revolutionary mole" letter
• 12 Message of support to a Communist Party "front"
  • 12.1 Obama's sister given communist "front" award
• 13 Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
• 14 Communist support in '08
• 15 Communists alter history to protect Obama
• 16 CPUSA Extols Obama 2012 Victory at Int'l Communist Meeting
• 17 Bronx communists for Obama
• 18 Flynn Club support
• 19 References

Barack Obama's involvement with the Communist Party USA

Communist leader on "friend" Barack Obama

On November 15, 2008, Sam Webb, National Chair of the Communist Party USA delivered an address to the Communist Party USA National Committee. During his address, he noted the following concerning the party's relationship with Obama,

"The left can and should advance its own views and disagree with the Obama administration without being disagreeable. Its tone should be respectful. We are speaking to a friend."

Marable on Obama and Chicago communists

The late marxist academic Manning Marable claimed that Barack Obama has read some of his books and "understands what socialism is."
Marable, writing in the December 2008 issue of British Trotskyist journal Socialist Review, also claimed that Obama worked in Chicago with socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party.^[1]

What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organiser. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years...

Frank Marshall Davis

Frank Marshall Davis

Barack Obama's first known connection with a Communist Party USA supporter was his boyhood relationship with communist poet Frank Marshall Davis in Hawaii.
Barack Obama's relationship to Frank Marshall Davis, first came to light through a March 2007 speech^[2] at New York University's Tamiment Library by Communist Party USA supporter and historian Gerald Horne.
Commenting on the alleged leftist sympathies of Hawaiians, Horne said;

When these sources are explored, I think scholars of the future will be struck by, for example, the response in Honolulu when tens of thousands of workers went on strike when labor and CP leaders were convicted of Smith Act violations in 1953 – a response totally unlike the response on the mainland. Of course 98% of these workers were of Asian-Pacific ancestry, which suggests that scholars have also been derelict in analyzing why these workers were less anti-communist than their Euro-American counterparts.

In any case, deploring these convictions in Hawaii was an African-American poet and journalist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the CP – if not a member – and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson.

Eventually, he befriended another family – a Euro-American family – that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago.

In his best selling memoir ‘Dreams of my Father’, the author speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as "Frank" as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American, a people who have been the least anticommunist and the most left-leaning of any constituency in this nation

Frank Marshall Davis' communism

Information from Davis' 601 page FBI file reveals that Davis (born 1905) became interested in the Communist Party USA as far back as 1931.
Certainly from the mid/late '30s to the early '40s Davis was involved in several Communist Party fronts including the the National Negro Congress, the League of American Writers, the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties and the Civil Rights Congress.
The FBI first began tracking Davis in 1944 when they identified him as member of the Communist Party's Dorie Miller Club in Chicago-card number 47544.
Davis taught courses at the party controlled Abraham Lincoln School in Chicago and attended meetings of the party's Cultural Club until he left for Hawaii in 1948.

Hawaiian activism

Frank Marshall Davis' move to Hawaii was influenced by two secret Communist Party USA members Harry Bridges and Paul Robeson.
When contemplating moving to Hawaii, Davis "wrote to Harry Bridges, whom I had met at Lincoln School. Bridges suggested I get in touch with Koji Ariyoshi, editor of the Honolulu Record..."
The Lincoln School was run by the Communist Party USA. Koji Ariyoshi was a leader of the Hawaiian Communist Party which controlled the ILWU affiliated Honolulu Record- which Davis went to work for.
Before going underground in 1950, the Hawaiian Communist Party was one of the most dynamic in the U.S. at the time. The mainland put huge resources into the Hawaiian party because the Soviets wanted the U.S. military presence on the islands shut down. The Hawaiian communists were charged with agitating against the U.S. military bases at every opportunity. Several times the FBI observed Davis photographing obscure Hawaiian beaches-possibly for espionage purposes.
Through its control of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) the Hawaiian Communist Party USA had considerable influence on the local Democratic Party. In the mid '50s, while still a confirmed communist, Davis like many of his comrades, became an official in the local Democratic Party.
At the time the underground Communist Party was divided into two or three person independent cells. Davis led one such cell "Group 10" with his wife Helen Canwell and one other comrade.
An extensive Senate Security Investigation in 1956 shattered the Hawaiian Party, driving the remnants completely underground .
The FBI continued to monitor Davis into the 1960s and he was marked down for immediate arrest should war break out between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Still a communist?

ACPFB letterhead April 12, 1973

Frank Marshall Davis met Barack Obama in 1970 or 1971 when Obama was about 10 years old. The relationship lasted until Obama left Hawaii for Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1978.
As late as 1973, Frank Marshall Davis was still listed as an endorser of a major Communist Party USA front organization, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.
Known Communist Party USA members listed with Frank Marshall Davis at right include Richard Criley, Abe Feinglass, Hugh DeLacy, Stanley Faulkner and James Dombrowski.

Frank Marshall Davis and Obama

In an article by Toby Harnden published in the Telegraph on August 22, 2008, Communist Frank Marshall Davis's influence on the young Barack Obama was uncovered. Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama's half-sister, told the Associated Press that her grandfather had seen Davis as "a point of connection, a bridge if you will, to the larger African-American experience for my brother (Barack Obama)".
Dawna Weatherly-Williams, a close friend of Frank Davis stated that Obama's maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham and Davis were close friends, adding that they would spend evenings together, playing scrabble, drinking, cracking jokes and smoking marijuana. She said that Davis was first introduced to Obama in 1970 at the age of 10:

"Stan had been promising to bring Barry by because we all had that in common - Frank’s kids were half-white, Stan’s grandson was half-black and my son was half-black. We all had that in common and we all really enjoyed it. We got a real kick out of reality."^[3]

Chicago Communists first recorded interest in Obama

Peoples Weekly World, August 22, 1992 (view full article)

In an article entitled Voter enthusiasm on rise in Chicago by Judith M. Hochberg, published in the Communist Party USA paper People's Weekly World on August 22, 1992, Barack Obama, then Illinois State Director of Project VOTE! is quoted as saying:

"The main point is that awareness of the importance of voting, the excitement of voting this year is getting out there".^[4]

Addie Wyatt connection

According to the United States Department of Labor, Chicago activist Rev. Addie Wyatt worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to support the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later counseled a young community organizer named Barack Obama as he came up the ranks in Chicago. ^[5]
According to Chicago Attorney and broadcaster Lonna Saunders The Rev. Addie Wyatt, was a mentor to President Barack Obama in his community organizing as a young man. ^[6]
In a letter, read at her funeral in April 2004, from President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, Wyatt was called a “champion of equality and a fierce advocate for working Americans.”^[7]
Wyatt's home was used to carry out meetings with public figures such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, President Barack Obama, and US Rep. Bobby Rush.^[8]
Addie Wyatt was a long time affiliate of the Chicago Communist Party USA.

Vernon Jarrett and Barack Obama

Vernon Jarrett was a prominent Chicago journalist and was a family friend and later father-in-law of Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.
In the 1940s Jarrett worked in several communist influenced organizations in Chicago, including serving on the publicity committee of the communist controlled Packing House Workers Strike Committee, with Frank Marshall Davis.
He also ran a radio show with Communist Party USA member Oscar Brown, Jr.
Vernon Jarrett was also a fan of Barack Obama. He watched his career from its early stages and became an influential supporter.
In 1992 Obama worked for the ACORN offshoot, Project Vote to register black voters in aid of the Senate Campaign of Carol Moseley Braun-who had strong Communist Party USA ties and was Harold Washington's legislative floor leader.
Obama helped Carol Moseley Braun win her Senate seat, then took it over himself in 2004-backed by the same communist/socialist alliance that had elected Washington and Moseley Braun.
Commenting on the 1992 race, Vernon Jarrett wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of August 11th 1992;

Good news! Good news! Project Vote, a collectivity of 10 church-based community organizations dedicated to black voter registration, is off and running. Project Vote is increasing its rolls at a 7,000-per-week clip...If Project Vote is to reach its goal of registering 150,000 out of an estimated 400,000 unregistered blacks statewide, "it must average 10,000 rather than 7,000 every week," says Barack Obama, the program's executive director...

Dee Myles, a Chicago based chair of the Education Commission of the Communist Party USA penned a tribute to Vernon Jarrett, for the People's Weekly World of June 5th, 2004.
Readers like me can be extremely selective of the journalists we read habitually... We are selective about the journalists to whom we become insatiably addicted, and once hooked we develop a constructive love affair without the romance...
Such was my experience with Vernon Jarrett, an African American journalist in Chicago who died at the age of 86 on May 23. I became a Vernon Jarrett addict, and I am proud of it!
Vernon Jarrett’s career as a journalist in Chicago began and ended at the Chicago Defender, the African American daily paper. In between, he was the first Black journalist at the Chicago Tribune, and I first began to read his articles during his tenure at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Jarrett’s claim to fame is that he was a partisan of the cause of African Americans in the broad democratic tradition of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois...
Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois were both Communist Party USA members. On April 9th, 1998 at Chicago's South Shore Cultural Center, Vernon Jarrett hosted a Paul Robeson Citywide Centennial Celebration event, with his old comrade and Party sympathiser Margaret Burroughs and former Communist Party USA members Studs Terkel and his old friend Oscar Brown, Jr.
Dee Myles went on to say;

Jarrett was fanatical about African Americans registering and voting in mass for socially conscious candidates. He championed Harold Washington like a great warrior, and this March, from his hospital bed, wrote an article appealing to Black Chicago to turn out to vote for Barack Obama in the Illinois primaries. Obama astounded everyone with an incredible landslide victory as the progressive, Black candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. From his sickbed, Vernon Jarrett issued a clarion call, and the people responded.

Communist Party support in Obama's 2004 Senate race

The Communist Party USA was supportive of several candidates in the 2004 election cycle including Frank Barbaro, Cynthia McKinney, Barack Obama, Betty Castor, Nancy Farmer and Inez Tenenbaum^[9];

It would be helpful for each district to single out House seats that can be swung from Republican to Democrat to develop our list of key races, which includes progressive Frank Barbaro in New York and Cynthia McKinney in Georgia.

A number of exciting candidates are emerging in the Senate, in the first place Barak Obama in Illinois, and also several progressive women including Betty Castor seeking to retain retiring Bob Graham's seat as Democrat; Nancy Farmer seeking to defeat Kit Bond in Missouri; Inez Tenenbaum seeking to retain retiring Fritz Hollings seat as Democrat.

The Communist Party USA actively campaigned for Obama during his successful 2004 Illinois Senate race^[10].

Activists from Illinois were immersed in the campaign to elect Barak Obama to the U.S. Senate. Obama won a landslide victory in the March 16 Democratic primary. If Obama wins in November, he would be only the third African American senator since Reconstruction.

“This was a historic victory. It was a victory for political independence and grassroots, coalition, and issue oriented politics over the machine and money,” said John Bachtell, Illinois CP district organizer.

From a November 21 2004 report to the Communist Party USA National Committee - "The Communist Party USA and the 2004 Elections: Build the Party, Build the Coalitions".^[11]

MO: State Rep. During the campaign to elect a worker as State Representative: A new club in St. Louis, with another in formation. A new YCL club and another by the end of the year. A total of 19 new members in the YCL and Party. An increase from 2 to 12 bundles of PWW/NM a week. MI: A new club in Saginaw emerged from a national/district team that helped on a local campaign which elected a township trustee. A new club in the Upper Peninsula formed after a visit by Sam. New clubs in Lansing and Ann Arbor will be formed by the end of the year. ILL: 27 new members and an increase in PWW/NM bundles to 2500 a week. This in the process of participating in the movement from Illinois to Wisconsin to put that state over the top for Kerry, participating in the historic election of Barak Obama to the US Senate, and the successful campaign of Melissa Bean, defeating incumbent Republican Congressman Philip Crane.

In an October 23 2007 report to a Chicago Special District Meeting on African American Equality, Communist Party USA National Board member John Bachtell wrote:^[12]

The historic election of {Harold} Washington was the culmination of many years of struggle. It reflected a high degree of unity of the African American community and the alliance with a section of labor, the Latino community and progressive minded whites. This legacy of political independence also endures...

This was also reflected in the historic election of Barack Obama. Our Party actively supported Obama during the primary election. Once again Obama’s campaign reflected the electoral voting unity of the African American community, but also the alliances built with several key trade unions, and forces in the Latino and white communities.

It also reflected a breakthrough among white voters. In the primary, Obama won 35% of the white vote and 7 north side wards, in a crowded field. During the general election he won every ward in the city and all the collar counties. This appeal has continued in his presidential run.

Young Communist League backing

According to a November 20 2004, election report^[13] from Young Communist League USA national coordinator Jessica Marshall confirms Young Communist League USA support for Obama's campaign through Youth for Obama.

In New York YCLers were delegates and founders of the local organizing committees of the National Hip Hop Political Convention. In Providence, Miami and Chicago YCLers helped head up the League of Pissed Off Voters efforts. YCLers staffed Democratic Party operations and headed up precincts in Ohio and Florida. A YCLer from Virginia was a canvas director for a progressive young candidate in a tight race in Ohio. In Miami, the newly formed club helped ACT organizing efforts at Miami Dade Community College.

In Chicago YCL members were very active in the Youth for Obama efforts and one member worked with the United States Student Association and his student government to register over 1,000 new voters.

From a 2006 Young Communist League USA report by Jessica Marshall.^[14]

Young people are up to the challenge. In 2004 youth-run organizations helped to organize and register 4.6 million new young people to get out and vote… the majority of them voted against Bush and more than half were young people of color. The YCL was there and present for those experiences - we learned alongside them through our Midwest Project.

The YCL has to be at the table this fall too. Every club and every member needs to be out there and involved. And we need to bring everyone we work with out too! This is a national campaign to change the Congress and we are gonna be a part of that!

We don’t have to be millions to have an impact! Just think about what a small group of YCLers have done in less than four years since our last convention!

We organized dozens of young people to head to the battleground states in 2004

In Ohio our YCLers were asked to lead up get out the vote teams because of our experience and hard work.

In Cincinatti we helped defeat an anti-gay ballot initiative.

In New York we worked on a campaign to elect Frank Barbaro defeat a Bush Republican and elect a real progressive

In Chicago we helped to form a youth vote operation to elect Barak Obama.

In St. Louis we were instrumental in electing John L. Bowman a progressive state representative. Bowman publicly acknowledged the key role the YCL and Communist Party played in his election.

Bea Lumpkin on Obama

Senior Chicago Communist Party USA member Bea Lumpkin, and her husband and comrade Frank Lumpkin were longtime supporters and a fans of Barack Obama.
As a friend, supporter and campaigner for pro communist Chicago mayor Harold Washington, Lumpkin credits the Washington campaigns with blazing the way for Barack Obama.^[15]

Sadly, when Washington died in office, the Democratic Party hacks crept back into power. The movement around Harold had not had time to jell into an organization with staying power. Still, the lessons of that campaign, with its spirit of African American, Latino and labor unity, took deep root in Chicago. Those roots nourished the spectacular rise of a new voice for people's unity, Barack Obama. Since then, Obama's strong voice has brought the message of unity to every corner of the country.

From her book "Joy in the Struggle", pages 244, to 248;

I am sure that Frank and I met Obama in the '80s. That's when he was working on pollution problems at the Altgeld Gardens public housing. The site was close to the steel mills, and Frank was active on similar pollution issues. We certainly knew the community people with whom Obama was working. But I cannot say that we knew the Obama name then. There were two reasons for that. Both Frank and I have a hard time remembering names. More important, was Obama's style. He pushed the community people forward and stayed out of the limelight himself. After Obama became our state senator in 1996, we knew his name, and I am sure he knew ours.

We were also friends with Alice Palmer, a progressive state senator. When she ran for Congress, Barack Obama won the vacated state senatorial seat.

During Obama's years in the Illinois Senate, we heard many good things about him. I helped organize steel worker retirees to visit Obama about health care legislation. He made us happy by telling us he was a sponsor of the legislation we wanted. And we liked his stand against a U.S. invasion of Iraq. He told us he was thinking of running for the US Senate.

Electing Obama to the U.S. Senate was a must-win election for us... The hardest part of the senatorial campaign was winning the Democratic primary...

About that time in the campaign, I heard Michelle Obama for the first time. Barack Obama introduced her in a way that really appealed to me. It showed not only his love for his wife but also his respect for women. "I want to introduce my wife, Michelle. She is taller than I am, smarter, and better looking." Michelle Obama then took the podium and gave a good, progressive review of the issues we care about.

The stakes were high. To win, each one of us had to do more than we could. But Frank was 88 and I was 86. Sure, we were in good shape "for our age." But how good was that? Well we found out. We worked and we worked and worked. And we did a lot of worrying, too. The polls kept teetering back and forth...As it was, he won the nomination in a landslide, 29 percent higher than his nearest Democratic opponent.

With Obama safely nominated, we relaxed just a little. We no longer had to dream the impossible dream. But nobody knew how much racism might cut into Obama's vote. It takes a huge supermajority in Chicago to offset the Republican counties in southern Illinois. So once more we needed to work on voter registration. But Frank and I could not continue the pace of the primary election. We did not have to. Many new activists came forward.

That August, at the 2004 Democratic Convention, Obama gave the speech that became his "trademark," the call for people to unite to benefit the whole country. In November 2004, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate with 70 percent of the vote...

As an 18-year old, I served as a poll watcher in 1936.1 was not yet 21, not old enough to vote. In fact I served as poll watcher in more local elections than I can remember. But it was not until 1948 that I really threw myself into an election, heart and soul and body, too. That was the Progressive Party campaign to elect Henry Wallace for president. Fast forward to 1983 for Harold Washington, as described above. And then we come to 2008, for Barack Obama. That was like nothing I had ever seen. There had been a high level of enthusiasm when Washington ran for mayor. But nothing equaled the Obama campaign for president.

I was ecstatic when Barack Obama put his name forward as a candidate for the nomination for U.S. president. There were other good candidates, with Kucinich the clearest progressive voice. But my hopes went through the ceiling when Obama spoke. A progressive African American for president? About time and more! With Obama, we could not only reject "W's" years of right-wing destruction, we could move the country forward. Then something I had never seen before happened. People surged forward and took ownership of the campaign. The candidate himself encouraged them to do that. He kept talking about "we" and "you" and repeated "It's not about me." People took him at his word. They believed him, and let their imaginations flow. Soon there was a flowering of people's Obama art and music that flooded "You Tube," kept artists busy and printing presses running. Tee-shirts by the millions were silk screened or whatever method is now used.

My favorite tee-shirt was the one that said, "We Are the Ones We Were Waiting For." This was the feeling of empowerment that was taking root in working class neighborhoods and communities of color. The coffee shop in my neighborhood, the family restaurant two miles away, friend after friend, were inviting me to forums, phone call parties, debate watching, pizza feasts, most with a television hookup to the national campaign. Strangers visited strangers, and all at once we were not strangers anymore. We were sisters and brothers united in the greatest cause of all—saving our people and our country from the Bush disaster and to rebuild America.

Soon after Obama opened a volunteer center in Chicago, I went down to help. They were making phone calls into battleground states. The large office was crowded. All the seats were taken. All the phones were in use. And every inch of floor space was occupied by 16 to 25 year olds, sprawled in various teenage positions. They had thought to bring their chargers for their cell phones and were calling away. The young people were a perfect cross-section of multiracial Chicago, a total blend of purpose and dedication. My heart sang, and I had the rare feeling that I was not needed. My replacements had arrived!

By primary time 2008,1 was nearing my 90th birthday. Did I have one more campaign left in my arthritic legs? "Yes," my heart told me, and my legs kindly cooperated. Of course, I could have spared my knees, sat in a chair, and made telephone calls for the campaign.

When the votes were counted, Indiana came through for Obama-Biden! It was close. The steel retirees felt that they had made a difference, all of us. We are still celebrating our huge victory. Things have never moved so fast. At this writing, it is only six weeks since Obama took office. We are being swallowed up by the biggest economic disaster since the '30s. And it is beginning to look as though nothing smaller than a new New Deal can help us. How good it is that we have a president who has made job creation a plank of his crisis program. Had we not worked so hard and elected Obama, we'd be under a president who would let the people drown.

Meanwhile, Frank spent the campaign in the nursing home. I talked to him about Obama every day. I knew he wanted to know. But I could not tell if the news was getting through to him. The day after the election, the first page of the New York Times carried Obama's picture and his name in three-inch letters. I showed it to Frank. He looked at it, hard. Then he drew his right arm out from under the covers, bent it at the elbow, and raised his clenched fist high!

"Revolutionary mole" letter

Frank Chapman is a long time Communist Party USA supporter. In the early 1980s he chaired a party front National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. In the mid '80s he served on the board of another communist front, the U.S. Peace Council, alongside two future Obama colleagues and supporters Alice Palmer and Barbara Lee.
Just after Obama won the pivotal Iowa primary Chapman wrote a letter to the January 12, 2008 edition of the CPUSA's Peoples Weekly World;^[16]

Now, beyond all the optimism I was capable of mustering, Mr. Obama won Iowa! He won in a political arena 95 percent white. It was a resounding defeat for the manipulations of the ultra-right and their right-liberal fellow travelers. Also it was a hard lesson for liberals who underestimated the political fury of the masses in these troubled times.

Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary “mole,” not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.

The old pattern of politics as usual has been broken. It may not have happened as we expected it to happen but what matters is that it happened. The message is clear: we can and must defeat the ultra-right, by uniting the broadest possible coalition that will represent an overwhelming majority of the people in a new political dynamic. We must quickly shed yesterday’s political perspective and get in step with the march of events.

Message of support to a Communist Party "front"

In March 2008, Barack Obama sent a message of support to the Communist Party USA controlled Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday organization.

April 1, 2008 Washington DC--Evelina Alarcon, Executive Director of Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday welcomed the backing for a Cesar Chavez national holiday from Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama who issued a statement on Cesar Chavez’s birthday Monday, March 31, 2008. “We at Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday appreciate the backing of a national holiday for Cesar Chavez from presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama. That support is crucial because it takes the signature of a President to establish the holiday along with the Congress’s approval,” stated Evelina Alarcon. “It is also encouraging that Senator Hillary Clinton who is a great admirer of Cesar Chavez acknowledged him on his birthday. We hope that she too will soon state her support for a Cesar Chavez national holiday.”
Alarcon’s remarks were part of a statement made at a press conference at our nation’s Capitol on April 1st called by Chair of the Hispanic Congressional Caucus Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA) in support of HR 76, a resolution he authored with 62 Co-Sponsors that encourages the establishment of a Cesar Chavez national holiday by the Congress^[17].
Barack Obama’s statement for a Cesar Chavez national holiday:

"Chavez left a legacy as an educator, environmentalist, and a civil rights leader. And his cause lives on. As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years ago. And we should honor him for what he's taught us about making America a stronger, more just, and more prosperous nation. That's why I support the call to make Cesar Chavez's birthday a national holiday. It's time to recognize the contributions of this American icon to the ongoing efforts to perfect our union."

Senator Barack Obama March 31, 2008.

Obama's sister given communist "front" award

standing Evelina Alarcon left, Maya Soetoro-Ng, right

In June 2008, Communist Party USA leader and Executive Director of Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday, Evelina Alarcon presented an award from the organization to Barack Obama's younger sister Maya Soetoro-Ng at a gathering in East Los Angeles^[18].

Addressing a largely Latino audience in East Los Angeles yesterday, Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng shared stories about her childhood with her older brother, Barack Obama, and the effect he has had on her life. Held in El Sereno’s Hecho en Mexico restaurant, the event drew more than a hundred enthusiastic community activists, local elected officials, and regular citizens...

Evelina Alarcon, a notable Obama supporter and the sister of long-time Los Angeles politician Richard Alarcon, presented a poster to Obama’s sister commemorating the life of Cesar Chavez.

Alarcon recounted the accomplishments of the late Chicano leader and argued persuasively for honoring his accomplishments with a national holiday. Reminding those in attendance that Barack Obama supports the call to make Cesar Chavez’s birthday a national holiday. Alarcon trusts that if Obama is elected president the holiday will become a reality.

Obama has been quoted recently to say:“As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years ago and we should honor him for what he’s taught us about making America a stronger, more just, and more prosperous nation. That’s why I support the call to make Cesar Chavez’s birthday a national holiday. It’s time to recognize the contributions of this American icon to the ongoing efforts to perfect our union.”

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

From May 22-25, 2008, the Communist Party USA founded Coalition of Black Trade Unionists held their 37th International Convention in St. Louis, Missouri.
William Lucy, President, CBTU - Introduced Senator Barack Obama, who addressed the conference via phone.^[19]

Communist support in '08

The Communist Party USA and the Young Communist League USA, put in a huge effort to elect Barack Obama in 2008.
Individual party members who actively propagandized for Obama, or worked on the ground to get him elected include;

• Terrie Albano
• Jim Baldridge
• Margaret Baldridge
• Docia Buffington
• Gary Dotterman
• Gabe Falsetta
• Joelle Fishman
• Mark Froemke
• Lee Gloster
• Bea Lumpkin
• Norman Markowitz
• Scott Marshall
• Esther Moroze
• Rosalio Munoz
• Rick Nagin
• Libero Della Piana
• Roger Rader
• Erica Smiley
• Betty Smith
• Adam Tenney
• Jarvis Tyner
• Joel Wendland
• Joyce Wheeler
• Tim Wheeler
• Sam Webb
• Rev. Pierre L. Williams
• Len Yanielli

Communists alter history to protect Obama

Screenshot of article as it appeared as at Dec. 30, 2007

Screenshot of the article as it appeared as at Nov. 10, 2010

To the left is a screen shot an article entitled "Special District Meeting on African American Equality", taken as it appeared on the Communist Party USA website as at December 30, 2007. Note the reference to Communist Party support for Obama in the 2004 U.S. Senate primaries.^[20]
To the right is a screen shot of the same article taken on Nov. 10, 2010. Note that the statement, "Our Party actively supported Obama during the primary election" has been edited out.^[21]

 

CPUSA Extols Obama 2012 Victory at Int'l Communist Meeting

A report praising Barack Obama, and the changes wrought by him, was delivered at the 14th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, held in Beirut, Lebanon, November 22-25, by Erwin Marquit, member of the International Department, CPUSA.^[22]

We express our gratitude to the Lebanese Communist Party for hosting this important meeting under the present difficult conditions.

The Communist Party USA not only welcomes the reelection of President Barack Obama, but actively engaged in the electoral campaign for his reelection and for the election of many Democratic Party congressional candidates. We regarded the 2012 election as the most important in the United States since 1932, an election held in the midst of the Great Depression.

The election of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 led to the legalization of the right of workers to organize labor unions and to bargain collectively with employers. It led to the establishment of a compulsory employer-worker funded pension system for retired workers. It also introduced measures that enabled unemployed families to survive the Great Depression, among which were employment in the public sector for the unemployed, work camps for youth, and food provisions for the poverty stricken. Except for the youth camps, which ended with the onset of World War II, all of these are measures that the 2012 Republican Party agenda would have eliminated or greatly weakened. We believed that if the Republican candidate for President were elected and if both houses of the Congress fell under the control of the far right, racist sector (calling itself the “Tea Party”) that now dominates the Republican Party, the nation’s return to pre-1932 conditions would be a real danger.

Because of this danger, we viewed our participation in mainstream electoral activity as obligatory, even though both major parties in the United States are dominated by capital, with no effective competition from a mass-scale social-democratic party, We are aware that some on the Left in the United States thought that the correct approach to the elections was either to boycott them, or as a protest, to run or support small-scale left-wing candidacies with no possible chance of winning. We Communists rejected this strategy because too much was at stake.

The most import success of the Obama Administration since its election in 2008 was the introduction of a major expansion of the people’s access to financing of their health care. As a result of this legislation, 25 million people now have access to health care who previously did not have it. The repeal of this health care law was one of the main points in the programs of the Republican Party presidential and Congressional candidates in the 2012 election. Even without a repeal, there is still the danger that it will be ruled unconstitutional by the present Supreme Court even though the lower courts have upheld it. Whatever the present Supreme Court might not rule, a Supreme Court loaded with right-wing justices appointed by a Republican president would still be able to do so.

Obama has opposed Republican attempts to introduce austerity programs similar to those in the European Union. The Republicans have opposed his efforts to use government funds as economic stimuli to reduce unemployment, as well as his attempts to remove the special provisions of the income tax code that have allowed the rich to be taxed at a lower percentage of income than the average working person, and to eliminate of tax benefits that the corporations get when exporting of jobs abroad. The Occupy movement, with its slogan, “We are the 99 %,” that swept through the country in 2011, sharply drew attention to the power of the top 1%” of the population and stimulated support for Obama’s efforts to require higher taxes for the wealthy. The Republicans have blocked all proposals to reduce global warming, environment destruction, industrial pollution, and other actions arising from corporate greed that that threaten to destroy the biophysical basis of human existence. Republicans even want to privatize the FEMA, the federal agency for disaster mitigation.

Another important issue is that of justice for immigrant workers and their families. There are between 10 and 11 million irregular immigrants in the United States, mostly from Mexico and other Latin American countries. Our Party supports the regularization of their status, with full rights in the workplace and in the community, and access to U.S. citizenship. The Obama administration has moved too slowly on this issue (and the CPUSA has been sharply critical of this), but it is now taking some modest but real steps. The Republicans, on the other hand, have whipped up a racist frenzy against immigrants that has led to vigilante action and in some cases the murder of immigrant workers. Romney had promised to make life so hard for undocumented immigrants that they would all “self” deport.

Faced with a choice between the victory of either the Democratic Party or Republican Party, the Communist Party viewed a victory of the far-right Republican Party as an extreme disaster. In this situation, we saw the necessity of a policy of center-left alliances in order not to separate ourselves from the people’s struggles for dealing with the far right onslaught, The basis of such an alliance now includes the labor movement, organizations of African Americans and Latinos, the women’s movement, gay and lesbian civil rights groups, and organizations of the elderly and retirees. On some issues, these groups are joined by a few far-sighted elements of capital.

What do we mean by “far-sighted” elements of capital? As in all capitalist countries, big capital is not a monolith of common interest. Not only are elements of capital in competition with one another, but differences in their investment policies give rise to conflicting political interests. Corporations with investments in the oil, coal, and natural gas industries tend to have the most right-wing orientations. Corporations with heavy investments in China are somewhat wary of China bashing by the Republicans and even by Obama. Some corporations derive their superprofits by operations that do severe environmental damage and contribute heavily to global warming, while others depend on a relatively healthy environment for their maximum profits. That is why some elements of big capital support the Republican Party, while others support the Democratic Party because they can see a limited common interest some issues with the working-class base of support for the Democratic Party. Our present strategy is build alliances both inside and outside the Democratic Party to curtail the dominance of big capital over the lives of our people.

We are well aware that mass political activity on issues of social justice domestically and anti-imperialist solidarity internationally will not spring from within the Democratic Party. The Communist Party must continue to work with other components of this alliance to generate mass activity independently of the two parties to pressure the president and the Congress to act on its demands.

In our electoral policy, we seek to cooperate and strengthen our relationship with the more progressive elements in Democratic Party, such as the Progressive Caucus in the U.S. Congress, a group of seventy-six members of the Congress co-chaired by Raúl Grijalva, a Latino from Arizona, and Keith Ellison, an African American Muslim from Minnesota. We also will strengthen our relationship to the Congressional Black Caucus (formed by African Americans in the Congress), which has been the point of origin of innovative policies including an end to the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba, and with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. In its domestic policy, for example, the Progressive Caucus has put forth a program for using the public sector to deal with unemployment. It has opposed the use of the so called “war on terror” to incarcerate U.S. citizens indefinitely without criminal charges. In its foreign policy, the Progressive Caucus and the Black Caucus are outspoken in their opposition to U.S. imperialist policies abroad. The Progressive Caucus, now that Obama has been reelected, will be playing an important role in contributing to the mobilization of mass activity on critical issues to bring pressure on the Congress and administration to act on them.

In this year’s elections, the labor unions made vigorous efforts to involve their members and their retirees in phoning and door-to-door visits to campaign for Obama and the Democratic Party candidates for the Congress and state legislatures. In my state, our Party members preferentially participated in the election campaign through these labor-union channels.

In our foreign policy, U.S. Communists consistently oppose all U.S. imperialist activities abroad. We participate in the Cuban solidarity movement and demand the end of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba and the freeing of the Cuban Five. We opposed the NATO intervention in Libya and oppose U.S. intervention in Syria. We support immediate withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan and oppose the use of drones for assassination and bombing. We call for the end of sanctions against Iran. We oppose the intrusion of the United States militarily and politically in the affairs of Southeast Asia. We oppose the China-bashing policies of the U.S. government. We welcome the election of several progressive, anti-imperialist governments in Latin America and oppose U.S. attempts to undermine them. This leftward shift in Latin American, opening a path to possible socialist development, is of tremendous importance in the worldwide anti-imperialist struggle.

We call for the replacement of U.S. support of the apartheid regime in Israel by support for a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders with the right of return of Palestinians to their native cities and villages. The day before the elections, the New York Times, in discussing the prospects of a Palestinian/Israel agreement, wrote: “Whatever chance exists of a new American peace initiative after the election is likely to vanish if Mitt Romney wins; at private fund-raising event, he said that the Arab-Israeli conflict was ‘going to remain an unsolved problem’ and seemed unconcerned about it.”

With the elections now over, there is a prospect that growing support in the United States for a just Middle East solution can induce President Obama once again to put pressure on the Israeli government to end the settlement expansion and resume negotiations leading to such a solution. An indication of such growing support is the letter on 19 October 2012 signed by fifteen leaders of the principal U.S. Christian churches calling upon the Congress to reconsider giving aid to Israel because of human rights violations. Reverend Gradye Parsons, the top official of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) said, “We asked Congress to treat Israel like it would any other country, to make sure our military aid is going to a country espousing the values we would as Americans—that it is not being used to continually violate the human rights of other people.” The letter said that Israel had continued expanding settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem despite American calls to stop claiming territory that under international law and United States policy should belong to a future Palestinian state. This is a sharp contrast to the evangelical Christian churches, which have been part of the core of the far right support of the Republican candidates for president and the Congress. A Jewish-American organization called “J Street,” first organized six years ago as a “pro-Israel pro-peace” organization, has been gaining growing support among Jewish Americans for its advocacy of an end to the settlement expansion and a two- state solution based on the 1967 borders. In the 2012 elections, it contributed 1.8 million dollars to support the election of 72 candidates for the U.S. Congress, of which 71 were elected,

A key element of the Communist Party’s strategy of alliances is to imbue the struggles of these alliances with enhancement of the democratic rights, and to promote the increasing use of the public sector to extend the acceptance of a socialist consciousness. Obviously the Communist Party needs far more growth than it has been able to achieve. We are, however, effectively using our participation in people’s struggles and the Internet to recruit new members. We have an online daily news publication, People’s World, www.peoplesworld.org, a monthly online theoretical journal Political Affairs, www.politicalaffairs.net, as well as national and district Websites. As a result of our online activities, we have been forming Party clubs in states in which we previously had very few or even no members. This influx of new members led us to have a national Party school earlier this year to acquaint new members with the Marxist-Leninist orientation of the Party.

The reelection of Obama places before us the high-priority task of reversing the decline in labor-union membership by securing the enactment of the law requiring the recognition of labor unions when supported by the majority of workers of an enterprise and securing passage of other legislation that benefits the working people. The fact that the composition of the new Congress did not change ideologically enough to facilitate passage of this law still presents us with a difficult struggle. The fact that Republican Party still controls the lower house of the Congress and has enough votes in the upper house to block legislative changes of a highly progressive nature presents an obstacle that we will have to combat until it can be changed in the 2014 elections. We still have the task of strengthening the center-left alliance and enriching its anti-imperialist character.

While the victory of Obama is a welcome aid for us in our domestic struggles, we still face the challenge of mobilizing mass pressure on his administration to reverse the imperialist character of U.S. foreign policy. The CPUSA will pursue this formidable task vigorously in alliance with domestic progressive forces and with our comrades in the Communist and Workers’ Parties and their allies throughout the world.

Bronx communists for Obama

In 2014, Bronx Communist Party USA member David Mirtz wrote;^[23]

On a local level, our Party's participation can matter. Prior to 2008 our club in the Bronx had little involvement in local politics and little relation with local activists, groups or elected officials. Through spear-heading work on the Obama campaigns and the subsequent healthcare fight, as well as leading local work of the WFP, that has changed. Now we are "in the loop" and part of the local political scene

Flynn Club support

In 2014, the New York based Communist Party USA Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Club wrote;^[24]

Sometimes, we must be free to disagree with Democrats on selected issues, even those whom we have supported, such as Obama on a national level, Jerrold Nadler, a progressive Congressman from Manhattan, and Bill De Blasio, who is New York City's new progressive mayor. For example, we should be free to advocate a general reduction of our country's military and to disagree with the Obama Administration's expansion of some sections of our military forces.

References

1. ↑ http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10628
2. ↑ http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/1/32/
3. ↑ The Telegraph: Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama, August 22, 2008
4. ↑ Peoples Weekly World: ''Voter enthusiasm on rise in Chicago by Judith M. Hochberg, August 22, 1992
5. ↑ DOL Hall of Honor Inductee,Rev. Addie Hyatt
6. ↑ HuffPost Chicago, Lonna Saunders, Remembering Rev. Addie Wyatt: Chicago's Little Engine Who Could, Posted: 04/ 4/2012 1:06 pm
7. ↑ Chicago Sun-Times, Hundreds gather to pay respects to the Rev. Addie Wyatt,BY TINA SFONDELES Staff Reporter tsfondeles@suntimes.com April 7, 2012
8. ↑ [http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Rev-Addie-Wyatt-Memorialized-146428745.html, NBC Chicago, Rev. Addie Wyatt Memorialized, By Glenn Marshall, Saturday, Apr 7, 2012]
9. ↑ http://www.cpusa.org/article/view/586/
10. ↑ [1] Peoples Weekly World April 24 2004, The CPUSA fires up its members to ‘Dump Bush!’, Tim Wheeler
11. ↑ The Communist Party USA and the 2004 Elections: Build the Party, Build the Coalitions, CPUSA website, November 24 2004
12. ↑ CPUSA: Special District Meeting on African American Equality, Oct. 23, 2007, page archived on the WayBack Machine - originally found here: Special District Meeting on African American Equality, Oct. 23, 2007, scrubbed by Feb. 29, 2008 (accessed on Nov. 1, 2010)
13. ↑ http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/608/1/56/
14. ↑ of Tomorrow: Youth Demand a Better Future- Keynote to YCLUSA Convention. 2006 National Convention Folder, Jessica Marshall
15. ↑ [Joy in the Struggle, Bea Lumpkin, page 243]
16. ↑ People's World, January 12, 2008
17. ↑ http://www.cesarchavezholiday.org/index.html
18. ↑ http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/06/22/barack%E2%80%99s-sister-brings-the-heat-to-el-sereno/
19. ↑ Broadcast Urban: 37th International Convention - Webcast Schedule (accessed on Dec. 19, 2011)
20. ↑ CPUSA: Special District Meeting on African American Equality, Oct. 23, 2007 (archived as at Dec. 30, 2007 at Web Archive and accessed on Nov. 10, 2010)
21. ↑ CPUSA: Special District Meeting on African American Equality, Oct. 24, 2007 (accessed on Nov. 10, 2010)
22. ↑ Solidnet.org, Contribution of the Communist Party USA, 14th International Meeting of CWP, Presented by Erwin Marquit,, member of International Department, CPUSA, 25 November 2012
23. ↑ [http://www.cpusa.org/convention-discussion-fighting-the-right-danger-in-a-blue-state/, Convention Discussion: Fighting the right danger in a 'Blue' State by: DAVID MIRTZ May 4 2014]
24. ↑ Discussion: Political Tactics in New York by: ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN CLUB, NEW YORK CITY June 2 2014