5 Facts About Party Secretary

1. Communist Party Secretary was adamantly opposed to fascism during the Popular Front period.

2. The Communist Party Secretary abandoned its opposition to the New Deal, provided many of the organizers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and began supporting African American civil rights.

3. The Communist Party Secretary devoted much of its energy in the Great Depression to organizing the unemployed, attempting to found "red" unions, championing the rights of African Americans and fighting evictions of farmers and the working poor.

4. The Communist Party Secretary was forced underground and took to the use of pseudonyms and secret meetings in an effort to evade the authorities.

5. The Communist Party Secretary remains active, but it never recovered the influence it had during its height in the 1930s and 1940s.