The CPUSA was founded in 1919 and still exists.
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On Dec 11, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> From: "Christopher C Jones"
>
>> A communist party in continuous open and legal existence since the
>> 30s
>> (before? it may have been established illegally in the 20s, can't
>> remember) in an advanced capitalist country is very rare.
>
> Try Scotland.
>
> Willie Gallagher was re-elected as as a CP Westminster MP in the
> wake of the catastrophic break-up of the ILP, and held his Glasgow
> seat way into the fifties ...
>
> I used to watch him, out of my bedroom window limp past, then.
>
> SBT
>
> Robin
>
> {Mind you, think of Italy ...
>
> The Scottish CP was always more run from Russia than the Italian CP
> was ...
>
> C3P0}
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