Barkley R, Hi -- long time since hearing from you. Where have you been -- the CPUSA has been part of the at first unofficial and then gradually more official 'left' wing of the bosses Democratic Party beginning at the time of the second Roosevelt Admin. in 1936 . This all started back in the thirties with the 'pro-bourgeois democracy' and 'anti-fascist' coalitions that were built to deceive the then skeptical masses and get them involved and enrolled into supporting/accepting the imperialist WW2 slaughter. Boy, and back then more than now the liberal/centrist capitalists needed them,and were happy to become then part of the 'peoples fronts'. etc. I know also in the sixties , 1964, that Bettina Aptheker(daughter of Then CPUSA leader/ writer Herbert Aptheker ) came to Pasadena CC and other campuses here to hammer home the need to support 'peace' candidate Lyndon Johnson and Co. against the 'fascist' right wing Goldwater. This bourgeois/opportunist politicking is nothing new for the state caps of the CPUSA. Neil www.ibrp.org
