THE Communist Party USA (CPUSA) has elected two new leaders to take the party into its second century as its 31st national convention draws to a close in Chicago.
Rossana Cambron, a Mexican-American woman from Los Angeles, and Joe Sims, an African-American man from New York, were elected as the CPUSA co-chairs after John Bachtell’s five-year term came to an end.
Over 300 delegates and international guests took part in the 100th anniversary convention.
On the 121st anniversary of communist Claudia Jones’s birth ROGER McKENZIE looks at political events that shaped her, and those she helped shape
After Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win, BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK points to the forgotten role of US communists in New York’s radical politics
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators


