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Series XIV: Archived Websites

Extent

16 websites in 16 archived websites.

Scope and Content Note

The website of the Communist Party of the United States of America includes information about Party history, platform, upcoming actions and events, publications, as well as educational resources for local organizers. The website was first captured in 2007. Websites of Communist Party the publications Political Affairs, People's Weekly World, and Labor Upfront are also included in this series. These websites include articles from the publications, which were first captured in 2008.

Arrangement

Websites arranged alphabetically.

Accruals

People's World and CPUSA websites are crawled quarterly.

Appraisal

Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

Communist Party of the United States of America Archived Website

Scope and Contents

The Communist Party USA website was first collected in late 2007. The website contained the party platform and constitution; reports and proceedings from conventions, conferences, committee meetings, and national conventions in the early 2000s; press releases; organizing around the 2008 elections; fundraising; the Manufacturing Think Tank; study and discussion guides; and news and their e-newsletter from their Organizing Department, the Party eBuilder. The website focused on many issues (called "struggles" by the CPUSA), including equality for Black, Native American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican peoples; civil rights; culture outside of commercialism; economic democracy; public education; electoral politics; environmental protection; healthcare; immigrant rights; independent media; international communist unity; justice system reform; labor organizing; LGBTQIA+ rights; solidarity against war and imperialist globalization; protections for Social Security and Medicaid; protection from agribusiness; coalition building; and women's equality. In early 2010, the website was redesigned. The website redesign included information on their national convention held every four years; speeches; commentary; reports; their blog; an FAQ on the party platform and communism; and action campaigns and petitions related to climate change, net neutrality, Iranian sanctions and peace deal, Planned Parenthood, overtime pay threshold, free higher education, voter suppression, worker safety, protections for Medicaid and Social Security, Black Lives Matter, national budget, police brutality, and corporate interests in politics. In 2016, the website was redesigned to its current iteration (as of this writing). It contains educational resources; classes and quizzes on Marxism; their pdocast, the Specter; This Week @CPUSA discussion series; events; and articles, videos, and local activities on their blog Party Voices.

Digital HUAC Archived Website

Historical Note

Digital HUAC was a project by students in a Digital Humanities Praxis course at the Graduate Center, City University of New York to create a database of House of Un-American Activities Committee testimonies.

Appraisal

Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of digitalhuac.com and documentcloud.org in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

International Publishers Archived Websites

Scope and Contents

The archived websites include their online catalog and Red Book Day celebration materials.

Historical Note

International Publishers is a publishing house historically associated with the Communist Party USA that publishes working class literature.

Labor Upfront Archived Website

Historical Note

Labor Upfront Newsletter was the online publication of the Labor Commission of the Communist Party, USA, which directed the Party's work in the labor movement. The blog was active from 2007-2010.

People's World Archived Websites

Scope and Contents

The websites mostly contain news and opinion from the national paper and the New York district. The main People's World website and URL changed in 2009 and redesigned in 2016. Additionally, these websites cover their fundraising efforts and videos related to testimonials, centennial celebrations, fundraising, rallies, panel discussions, COVID, unemployment, the Occupy Wall Street movement, strike footage, and other events.

Historical Note

People's World, established online in 2009, is a national news website that reports on workers' rights, peace, equality, social and economic justice, democracy, civil liberties, women's rights, protection of the environment, and other topics. The website is affiliated with the Community Party USA and descended from the Daily Worker, the Communist Party's newspaper from 1924-1991. The Spanish language edition of the website was called Neustro Mundo, later Mundo Popular.

Political Affairs Archived Website

Scope and Contents

Political Affairs was an online magazine of theories, ideas, politics and culture of the socialist and democratic traditions and visions of the United States from a working class point of view. The website contains sections on features, culture, editor's blog, education, podcasts, and news analysis. The website features stories from the labor movement; from the struggles of communities of color and diverse nationalities against racial injustice and inequality; and movements of women, youth, seniors, disabled, and of LGBTQIA+ communities for equality. The website was active from 2010-2015.

Young Communist League USA Archived Websites

Scope and Contents

The website contains news listings, membership applications, their publication Dynamic Magazine, and their podcast the Specter.

Historical Note

The Young Communist League, USA was a multi-racial, working class organization for young members of the CPUSA. The organization's main goal is to educate members into becoming communists. They work to advocate for the working class, reject the abuse of drugs and alcohol, to fight for the equality of all young people, to end racism and discrimination, and work for peace, full employment, complete equality, trade union and democratic rights. The YCLUSA was active online from the late 1990s to 2015. The reemerged online in circa 2020.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012