Herbert Aptheker's Unity of Theory and Practice in the Communist Party USA: On The Last Night, and During the First Two Decades

2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Murrell
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Communist Party Usa

Framing William Albertson: The FBI's “Solo” Operation and the Cold War

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-85
Author(s):  
John Earl Haynes ◽  
Harvey Klehr
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
Intelligence Operations ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
Successful Intelligence ◽  
High Level ◽  
Communist Party Usa ◽  
The Cold War

William Albertson, who was executive secretary of the New York Communist Party and a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), was framed as an informant for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1964. Only in recent years have newly released FBI records enabled scholars to understand why the FBI undertook the operation and how much damage it did to the CPUSA. In 1964 two leaks from the FBI hinted that the bureau had a high-level informant in the CPUSA who was providing information about secret Soviet subsidies. The leaks were accurate and endangered one of the FBI's most successful intelligence operations, Operation Solo, which involved the use of two brothers, Morris Childs and Jack Childs, who were confidants of CPUSA General Secretary Gus Hall, as key informants. The framing of Albertson was intended to deflect CPUSA and Soviet attention from the real FBI informants to a bogus one. The ploy succeeded. The forged documents the FBI planted convinced Hall and other senior CPUSA officials that Albertson was the FBI informant. Despite Albertson's vehement denials and energetic defense, he was expelled. The CPUSA thought it had eliminated the informant, and the Childs brothers were able to continue in their role until old age forced their retirement in 1977.

scholarly journals Networked Time and the ‘Common Ruin of the Contending Classes’

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Social Rhythms ◽  
The Common

The rise of the network society has been hailed often as the bringer of many positive things, and has been damned in equal measure. This essay discusses the network society in terms of its effects upon the theory and practice of bourgeois and socialist democracy. Through the theoretical prism of social and technologically created time, the essay argues that the network society has created a neoliberal ‘networked time’. This is a logic that functions at the global level and operates at computer network driven speeds, incorporating in its wake not only the polity, but economy and society, too. What the temporal analysis reveals in this process, is that ‘networked time’ as a primarily digital form is unable to synchronise with the temporal rhythms of the forms of democracy that came to us from the age of Enlightenment—a slower time, with slower technologically based social rhythms that stemmed from print and machine culture. What this means is that the Enlightenment-based politics of bourgeois and socialist democracy, and their future-oriented logics of progress, are no longer tenable in our digital age. Accordingly the much-neglected passage in Manifesto of the Communist Party that envisions the ‘common ruin of the contending classes’ is coming to pass—and with it a seriously reduced scope for the resurrection of any form of democratic functioning that is based on Enlightenment politics and its temporal rhythms.

scholarly journals High treason. The activity of The Communist Party of Western Belarus in Vilnius in 1930–1935

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
SERGIUSZ ŁUKASIEWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
The City ◽  
Grand Duchy

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to explain the activities of the Communist Party of Western Belarus in Vilnius during the fi rst half of the thirties of the twentieth century. The author’s aim is to show the organisation, theory and practice of this illegal party. Further-more, the intention is to present the activities of Vilnius police towards communist sym-pathizers and activists. Founded in 1923 in Vilnius, the Communist Party of Western Belaruswas a branch of The Communist Party of Poland. This organization like the polish communist party was illegal. Its aim was to combat the Polish state and to perform electioneering for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Although the name of the party could indicate a desire for independence of Belarus, in practice it was for the removal of the north eastern provinces of the Second Republic of Poland to the USSR. CPWB activity had a special dimension in Vilnius. As the region’s largest city and former capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnus was home for many nations, religions and cultures. Moreover, Vil-nius was the most important fi eld for communist action. Given the number of inhabitants, industrialized multi-ethnic character, communists had the opportunity to develop wide subversive and conspiratorial work. In addition, the city was the great centre of production and distribution of communist publications, which allowed the spread of propaganda in both its administrative boundaries and in the Vilnius Voivodeship.

scholarly journals Networked Time and the ‘Common Ruin of the Contending Classes’

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-374
Author(s):  
Robert Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Social Rhythms ◽  
The Common

The rise of the network society has been hailed often as the bringer of many positive things, and has been damned in equal measure. This essay discusses the network society in terms of its effects upon the theory and practice of bourgeois and socialist democracy. Through the theoretical prism of social and technologically created time, the essay argues that the network society has created a neoliberal ‘networked time’. This is a logic that functions at the global level and operates at computer network driven speeds, incorporating in its wake not only the polity, but economy and society, too. What the temporal analysis reveals in this process, is that ‘networked time’ as a primarily digital form is unable to synchronise with the temporal rhythms of the forms of democracy that came to us from the age of Enlightenment—a slower time, with slower technologically based social rhythms that stemmed from print and machine culture. What this means is that the Enlightenment-based politics of bourgeois and socialist democracy, and their future-oriented logics of progress, are no longer tenable in our digital age. Accordingly the much-neglected passage in Manifesto of the Communist Party that envisions the ‘common ruin of the contending classes’ is coming to pass—and with it a seriously reduced scope for the resurrection of any form of democratic functioning that is based on Enlightenment politics and its temporal rhythms.

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