Communist Images from Life Magazine: 1938

These pictures come from 1938, at the height of the Popular Front Period of the Communist Party, when Earl Browder led the CPUSA in patriotic and social-democratic politics, aligning with Roosevelt and Labor Leadership.

Earl Browder, General Secretary of the CP



Communist May Day Rally



James W. Ford, leader of the CPUSA

In A Communist Party Bookstore


From the CPUSA's National Office






Communist Rally in Madison Square Gardens




The CPUSA's slogan from 1934-1945 "Communism is the Americanism of the 20th Century"


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