"We the People Want...Jobs, Equality, Detente" Daily LIFT #167

"We the People Want...Jobs, Equality, Detente" Daily LIFT #167

Campaign button and slogan for the Gus Hall / Jarvis Tyner CPUSA Presidential Campaign, 1976. 

People Before Profits: Hall & Davis CPUSA Ticket 1980 -- Daily LIFT# 104

People Before Profits: Hall & Davis CPUSA Ticket 1980 -- Daily LIFT# 104

Yes We Can! Report to the Central Committee / National Council, CPUSA, June 1981

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Leaflet: Yes We Can! Report to the Central Committee / National Council, CPUSA, June 1981


An interesting leaflet that looks at where the Communist Party in the United States stood organizationally in 1981 and its efforts to build and grow. Remember that this would have been against a backdrop of intense state anti-communism with the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980. 

The leaflet discusses advances, strategies and tactics.

It also features such figures as Gus Hall, Henry Winston and Angela Davis.

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The Eleventh Hour: Defeat the New Fascist Threat! -- Gus Hall, CPUSA 1964

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Leaflet: The Eleventh Hour: Defeat the New Fascist Threat! -- Gus Hall, CPUSA 1964

This leaflet, written by American Communist leader Gus Hall (who we saw in a previous leaflet and who was later to run with Angela Davis on the CPUSA presidential ticket) is quite interesting in today's context.

It examines very old questions confronting the left when faced by a serious electoral threat from the far right. In this case the threat was from the Republican candidacy of Barry Goldwater in 1964.

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When The Left Chapter began part of what I wanted to do on the blog was to show and highlight vintage public leftist election/political leaflets and booklets. While many of these have been offered with commentary to date, a very large collection of hundreds of them from several different sources remains and to preserve these often quite rare documents we will be posting them on a regular (almost daily) basis now often without or with minimal commentary so that people may have access to them as quickly as possible as an historical resource. 

While these will all be leaflets from a variety of different leftist viewpoints and countries, they are being posted as an historical/study resource and the views or opinions expressed in them do not necessarily reflect the views of this blog or blogger.

All of these posts (as well as posts made to date) will be listed on the page: Vintage Communist/Socialist Leaflets (which is still being updated with past posts).

If you have any public, vintage leaflets or booklets you would like to contribute to this project please contact us via theleftchapter@outlook.com

An invitation from the Communist Party - Join us to build a better USA 1981 w. Angela Davis & Gus Hall

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Leaflet: An invitation from the Communist Party - Join us to build a better USA 1981



An outreach and recruitment leaflet from the CPUSA released shortly after Reagan became President. Interesting for a number of reasons reflecting the period it also has a brief set of examples of the contributions made by Communists to changing the US. Note also the Gus Hall-Angela Davis photo. They had run together as the CPUSA's Presidential-Vice Presidential ticket in 1980.

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When The Left Chapter began part of what I wanted to do on the blog was to show and highlight vintage public leftist election/political leaflets and booklets. While many of these have been offered with commentary to date, a very large collection of hundreds of them from several different sources remains and to preserve these often quite rare documents we will be posting them on a regular (almost daily) basis now often without or with minimal commentary so that people may have access to them as quickly as possible as an historical resource. 

While these will all be leaflets from a variety of different leftist viewpoints and countries, they are being posted as an historical/study resource and the views or opinions expressed in them do not necessarily reflect the views of this blog or blogger.

All of these posts (as well as posts made to date) will be listed on the page: Vintage Communist/Socialist Leaflets (which is still being updated with past posts).

If you have any public, vintage leaflets or booklets you would like to contribute to this project please contact us via theleftchapter@outlook.com