CPUSA Splits as Anti-Zionist Influencers Form New American Communist Party
A promotional video that debuts the American Communist Party, a splinter org from the long-standing CPUSA, which they view as corrupt and inflexible. Video: ACP X/Twitter.
American Communists, bolstered by anti-Zionist influencers, have split off from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and formed a new political organization.
- A group of dissatisfied members billed as the “Plenary Committee of the American Communist Party” has declared the CPUSA’s reconstitution under a new name: the American Communist Party (ACP).
- The ACP cites a laundry list of grievances with the mainstream CPUSA, including a lack of transparency, suppression of dissenting viewpoints, unconstitutional behavior, and undemocratic practices stemming from a controversial national convention.
- They hope that, under new leadership, the ACP can restore communism’s “historical significance” and represent the interests of the North American working class.
- The ACP is being promoted by powerful online influencers such as Jackson Hinkle, Haz Al-Din, and Rev Laskaris. All of them have gained substantial influence for their anti-Zionist and anti-Atlanticist views. Those on the left often label them—sometimes negatively—as “national bolsheviks,” “MAGA communists,” “patriotic socialists,” or “tankies.”
Zooming in: While modern communists are often viewed as pink-haired liberals and anarchist slacktivists, the ACP stands out as it presents a more testosterone-fueled vision of leftist politics.
- The ACP claims that, over the years, the CPUSA has become corrupt, neoliberal, and far too aligned with the mainstream Democratic Party to effect real change or present any challenge to the status quo.
- They also believe the CPUSA’s “ruling clique” has “weakened” traditional Marxist-Leninist education in favor of championing boutique political issues and has failed to respond to real problems facing the American working class.
- The ACP hopes to address a broader crisis in American politics, which it claims is caused by “heightened political polarizations ravaging it from within.”
- So far, the ACP has already peeled off 29 pre-established CPUSA clubs, including Seattle, Philadelphia, the Twin Cities, San Diego, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and several across New York.
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BREAKING: American Communist Party OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES!
Follow @ACPMain #AmericanCommunistParty pic.twitter.com/1UBub3pLkR
— Jackson Hinkle
Why it’s important: While communists—like nationalists—have limited influence in contemporary American politics, the split inside the long-standing CPUSA highlights deepening ideological tensions among the left, made worse by a diminished American empire.
- America’s complicity with Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, as well as the ascension of non-Western powers like Russia, Iran, and China, have played a key role in dividing the left.
- While the ACP and its figureheads do present a more attractive, muscular form of communism, they still view racial issues as a symptom of a greater “class struggle” and blame many of the society’s ills on “capitalism” and unnamed “oligarchs.”
It’s extremely refreshing to see a Communist Party promo that shows industry, infrastructure, and workers instead of over privileged college kids screaming about queer disabled bathrooms of color https://t.co/8AnSFLW3Vc
— General Buttnaked (Stalinist Center)
