>>7657058 Holder Tweets re: John Lewis (PB)

THE NORTH STAR

Condemned by many as blatant Communist propaganda to help rally support for the alliance between the United States and Russia at the time, The North Star is a fascinating blend of politics and melodrama.

The idea to make The North Star came initially as a request from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to producer Sam Goldwyn... http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/276075%7C0/The-North-Star.html

(Copypasta) reminder:

Socialists in Congress with Ties to Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA identifies Progressive Caucus members as its “allies in Congress.”

A 2002 report by Joelle Fishman, chair of the Communist Party USA‘s Political Action Committee, stated that the Progressive Caucus “provides an important lever that can be used to advance workers’ issues and move the debate to the left in every Congressional District in the country.” In a 2010 CPUSA report, Party member David Bell identified Progressive Caucus members as his organization’s “allies in Congress.”

This is an alphabetical list of all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus(CPC) as of April 2011:Tammy Baldwin, Karen Bass, Xavier Becerra, …Corrine Brown, Michael Capuano, Andre Carson, Donna Christensen, Judy Chu, David Cicilline, Yvette Clarke, William “Lacy” Clay, … John Conyers, Elijah Cummings, Danny Davis… Keith Ellison (co-chair)… Jesse Jackson Jr., Sheila Jackson-Lee,…Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, 

John Lewis,

…Jerrold Nadler, Linda Sanchez,Bernie Sanders (CPC’s lone Senator), Jan Schakowsky, Jose Serrano, Louise Slaughter…Maxine Waters, … Frederica Wilson, and Lynn Woolsey.For a list of noteworthy former members who left the CPC prior to April 2011,click here. Read more: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1301

https://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/ From its inception, the CPUSA had put resources into recruiting African Americans into ranks. … Herbert Aptheker, a long-time member and founder of the American Institute for Marxist Studies, and Angela Davis now attempted to incorporate RACIAL RADICALISM into the Party.

Late in 2010, CPUSA member C.J. Atkins called for his comrades to drop their “communist” label, so that they could work more effectively inside the Democratic Party. … CPUSA’s modus operandi is to delegitimize and smear American society by depicting it as deeply and irremediably infested with racism, sexism, homophobia, and all manner of injustice. …for instance, for an explanation of how the organization in 2014 used its flagship publication, People’s World, to foment racial strife in Ferguson, Missouri… The group also has strong ties to China, Cuba, and other nations hostile to the United States. https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/communist-party-usa-cpusa/