They are about the men and women active in the communist and labour movements in America during the late 1920s and 1930s, and on into the McCarthy aftermath Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Edmund Wilson, John L. Lewis (a union boss), the Reuther brothers, who brought General Motors to its knees, and others, many now forgotten.

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This culminated in independence after an alliance of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and a coalition of Ethiopian resistance movements defeated Haile Selassie's communist successor, Mengistu Haile Mariam.

BBC: Eritrea profile

Renegade mid-level officials in the US Agency for International Development are considering whether and how to fund the resurgence of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) as a secular "anchor" against both Islamic political movements and the pro-American Iraqi National Congress.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Renegades in USAID may fund Iraqi Communist Party