![]() ![]() ![]() While the Communist Party of the USA (CP) was a hierarchical organization straitjacketed by an allegiance to the Soviet Union, the unions it fostered cultivated radical democratic methods, while anticommunism often justified opposition to militancy and obstructed progressive policies. It reinforced conservative positions on union issues even in the period before the Cold War, and forged the alliances that influenced the labor movement’s direction, including the campaign to organize the South, the methods and structures of unions, and US labor’s foreign policy positions. Anticommunism preceded the founding of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, and this early history affected the later experience. The US working class and the institutional labor movement was shaped by anticommunism. ![]()
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