The Communist Party USA endorses Obama for reelection

Via Bernhard

Although it escapes media attention, Obama is the second black American to be nominated to a party presidential ticket. The first was James W. Ford, the vice-presidential nominee of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1932, 1936, and 1940. Ford was joined on the ticket by William Z. Foster in 1932, then perennial CPUSA presidential nominee Earl Browder in ’36 and ’40. Today’s Democratic Party platform is virtually identical to the CPUSA platform then, and it is noteworthy that a great many of NAACP “Spingarn Medal” recipients since the 1920’s have been black communists like WEB DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, A. Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, M.L. King, and Rosa Parks.

It is then no surprise that the CPUSA today endorses another black communist.

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It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election.

While noting he is disappointed with "some aspects" of the Obama administration's domestic and foreign policy, Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, threw his support behind Obama's re-election bid.

In an article last week at People's Weekly World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA, Webb discussed the need for a third party consisting of the so-called working class and labor as well as "racially and nationally oppressed people, women, youth, immigrants, seniors, gay and straight."

Webb, however, recognized that such a party is not likely to emerge by next year.

"Millions who have to be at the core of this party still operate under the umbrella of the Democratic Party, albeit increasingly in an independent fashion," he noted.

Webb said that for communists there are major differences between Democrats and Republicans. He urged his supporters to continue to back the Democrats.

Wrote Webb: "Neither party is anti-capitalist, but they aren't identical either. Differences exist at the levels of policy and social composition. And despite the many frustrations of the past two years, the election of Barack Obama was historic and gave space to struggle for a people's agenda."

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