The autobiography of a communist : [manuscript], 1982.

Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Pearson, Beatrice, 1902-

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Beatrice Pearson was an active member of the Communist Party USA for six decades, from the 1920s into the 1980s. Pearson taught classes in the Workers School (New York, N.Y.), participated in community and labor organizing, in the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, and held a number of support staff positions in the communist movement, including a stint as bookkeeper for the New Masses. This manuscript describes her German American family background, education at the University o...

Workers School (New York, N.Y.)

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...