Communist Party USA PAC Endorses Barack Obama

by Margot Schulzke
Communist Party USA (CPUSA) PAC Chair Joelle Fishman has published a glowing, near Messianic endorsement of Barack Obama. Fishman is also Chair of the Connecticut Communist Party. In the June 21 edition of Peoples Weekly World, Fishman wrote:

Big political shifts are under way. . . Thousands of grassroots union volunteers are already in motion as part of the largest-in-history labor mobilization, visiting co-workers to talk about the issues . . .

The Obama campaign, drawing upon the candidate’s community organizing experience, is also looking toward the grassroots. Unity for Change house parties across the country on June 28 will bring neighbors together for voter registration and getting out the vote.

A national coalition of peace and economic rights organizations is also gearing up for grassroots voter registration and mobilization.

Planned Parenthood Action is launching a One Million Strong Know McCain campaign with house parties June 14-20. . .

All these efforts can involve new activists, build for the landslide and take up top issues of concern.

As AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker told the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists convention, “This election . . . must be about working people’s vision — our vision of a new direction for our country. A vision that includes universal health care, the elimination of poverty, good jobs and the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act … [W]e are going to spark a movement of those who are ready to make their voices heard in shaping the new America . . .

The Communist Party USA’s emergency program to repair, renew and rebuild America is a contribution toward this effort. . . .

Fishman’s endorsement speaks for itself. Yet Fishman is but one of a growing army of Barack Obama’s CPUSA, Marxist, and socialist supporters from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli and beyond.