The new American Communist Party publicly launched over the weekend, declaring itself the reconstitution of the Communist Party USA. However, the launch has received pushback from several groups listed in the declaration, who are denying any involvement.
The declaration, authored by the Plenary Council for the ACP and shared Sunday over social media, dismisses the current CPUSA as an “illegitimate clique” and presents over a dozen grievances with its leadership. It asserts that the CPUSA has failed to address the evolving needs of the American people, leading to a disconnect from its foundational mission.
According to the Plenary Council, the CPUSA has been compromised by internal corruption, procedural abuses related to transparency, and party mismanagement that have “rendered the organs of Party association weak, inoperable, and incapable.”
“Having closed off all avenues of principled criticism both within the Party and, in a way that is unprecedented, the 32nd National Convention of the Party itself, in tandem with having had rendered the Party historically inept for decades, the illegitimate ruling clique of the Communist Party USA has liquefied the hitherto form of the Party,” the declaration states. “Thus, the possibility has emerged that the Party may be reconstituted on an entirely new basis, a possibility which the present Plenary Committee, alongside 29 clubs of the Communist Party USA, now seize upon in actuality.”
The declaration closes by listing organizations presumed to be supportive or otherwise involved with the ACP, including several dozen CPUSA clubs and three cells associated with the Party of Communists USA, a separate communist organization. The declaration also lists the members of the Plenary Committee, which includes Haz Al-Din, Jackson Hinkle, and Noah Kharchvik.
Following the public release of the declaration, several clubs listed have spoken out on social media, pushing back against their inclusion and stating they were listed without consent.
“The ACP outfit has nothing to do with the Debbie Amis Bell Club-Philadelphia CPUSA, the Philadelphia Young Communist League or our members,” the local organization wrote on social media. “Any use of party identity or claims that our members and clubs are organizing under this formation are slanderous.”
“We’re not going to quote the post because there’s no reason give these people more attention. No member of ours signed anything for acp. Nor would we ever,” added the Albany Club. Both organizations were also joined by the Southeast Los Angeles Club, which similarly gave a statement about its inclusion.
In addition to statements from those organizations listed, several other clubs generally associated with the CPUSA have begun speaking out, including the Southern New Hampshire, Bloomington-Normal, and San Diego clubs.
The CPUSA has since published a statement by party co-chair Joe Sims regarding factionalism at its 32nd National Convention, though Sims never directly addresses the ACP.
In his statement, Sims congratulates his fellow members for their successful convention and commitment to Marxist-Leninist principles against the right. He urges them to follow through on objectives for the future adopted during the convention, particularly those related to electoral policy, before turning to factional tensions.
Sims notes that while the party achieved a general consensus on many strategic issues, a faction sought to prioritize Resolution 5, which, according to pre-convention information, urged the party to build a broad coalition against the threat posed by “MAGA forces.” The titem prioritized the need for maximum voter turnout to elect progressive candidates and ballot initiatives.
Sims claims that the faction was influenced by external forces and pro-MAGA sentiments. Despite these challenges, Sims asserts in his statement that the party’s membership and leadership have largely rejected these attempts, and calls for continued focus on engaging in the upcoming election cycle. He does not otherwise address the ACP or acknowledge its recent declaration.
The ACP has responded to the pushback it has received following its launch. On Tuesday, it issued a formal statement denouncing “the so-called ‘Communist Party USA'” for making false accusations. It denied claims that it was formed “exclusively online” and stated that it has documents it would readily publicize arguing the contrary.
The new party also addressed Resolution 5, stating petitions opposing the resolution were not allowed to be circulated by the CPUSA leadership, ultimately leading to the dissolution of entire clubs and the expulsion of party members. The party pushed back on the clubs denying their involvement, which it claimed were controlled by Sims, and added that the ACP views the signatories on the document as “bringing with them the true legacy of the CPUSA.”
“It is unsurprising that many of the social media accounts claiming to represent some of the 29 Club signatories on our Declaration have denied any participation,” the statement reads. “These accounts are controlled by individuals acting on behalf of the Sims clique, not by authentic representatives of the clubs themselves. Their responses were ordered directly by the Sims clique, down to the wording.”
The ACP also addressed signers associated with the Party of Communists USA, saying those cells have since joined the broader ACP operation.
It is a big old fail ON YOUR PARTY – and another little one which I will address at the end.
First you imply that those responsible for the Night of the Long Knives, i.e. German National Socialists, are fascists. But now you imply that they aren’t, because they aren’t Italian. That’s what is called trying to have your cake and eat it too.
The fact of the matter remains: Fascism started in Italy with Giovanni Gentile and his cronies developing a uniquely Italian nationalist flavored school of socialism. Meanwhile, Germany invented its own Germanic nationalist flavored school of socialism, which they being German unimaginatively named “national socialism”, hence “nazism”.
And they were unique either: Under Codreanu and Antonescu the Romanians invented their own nationalist flavor of socialism. So did the Slovaks under Tiso. And the Croats under Pavelic. And the “Ukrainians” under Bandera and Sukhevich, though they uniquely tried maintain a smooth continuum with their bolshevik (i.e. internationalist socialist) predecessors and successors. Of course, being contemporary schools of socialism and from countries which were often times allied, they all influenced each other to a greater or less extent.
So you can either use very narrow academic definitions and say the German nazis weren’t technically fascists, so fascists weren’t behind the Night of the Long Knives. Or you can be practical and use nazis and fascists interchangeably, so fascists were behind the Night of the Long Knives. But what you can’t do, mix the two in order to pretend fascism is not Gentile’s Italian nationalist school of socialism. And attempting to so is indeed big old fail, Dungfly.
Now your smaller and less embarrassing fail is “Knight of the Long Knives”:
A KNIGHT was originally a young male servant, but the word later came to denote youths privileged enough to be awarded a military rank that carried a degree of nobility known as a knighthood. Their proper title is Sir.
A NIGHT is that part of a day when the sun is beneath the horizon. And hence symbolically, the period after death; or a state of ignorance or immorality, of affliction or distress, of obscurity, concealment or unintelligibility.
A KNIFE is a cutting instrument with a sharp edge.
And NIFE is the nickel-iron core of the Earth.
Now that you have correctly schooled on both the history of socialism and the English language, I hope you will manage to cease making such big and small old fails. You’re welcome.
Big old fail, Nuña. Knight of the Long Knives was not in Italy, and I know you know that, and please don’t talk about the second word in the Nazi Party’s full name, like Republicans do about Democrats of a century ago and race issues.
*Fascism is the Italian nationalist school of socialism.
Fascism is the Italian school of nationalist socialism. Communism is globalist or internationalist socialism. No need to act surprised that socialists act like socialists.
What Jeff said.
Re Nuña, remember fascists do and did that too. Night of the Long Knives, anybody?
Since the announcement, I’ve seen some folks on X share cease and desist letters from the American Communist Party, particularly regarding accusations made by recipients about the organization relating to cryptocurrency.
For example: https://x.com/CantEverDie/status/1815842893527216385/photo/2
If Jackson Hinkle is associated with it, it’s a scam.
Fauver is an admitted communist now?
The ACP is a joke. You can just tell from the names signed on the bottom of the letter? Haz isn’t a Communist in any way, shape, or form.
Commies in-fighting is all fun and games until the pickaxes come out. Just throw them in a gulag together and wait till things grow quiet.