Recovering a history of Indigenous Communism in the US

Posted by Owen Walsh and Kathryn Berry on 2025-10-20

The Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) has long been seen as a thoroughly ‘un-American’ organisation, not least by Cold War historians. Over recent decades, the claim that Communism only ever appeared in the US as a hostile Soviet plot has been roundly refuted in scholarship. Instead, scholars have established the importance of Communists to thoroughly American cultural traditions, civil rights [...]

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What the 1920s did to the Mexican Left

Posted by William A Booth on 2025-10-17

I was delighted to be able to contribute an article to this exciting Special Issue on Socialism and Indigeneity which grew out of a really rewarding conference we held at UCL last year. Although I had prepared a version of this article as my conference paper, both the depth of discussion at the event and the fascinating contributions from the other presenters left me feeling that I needed to both [...]

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