The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.
The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in “Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression” by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
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Man I played The Messenger (previous game, a platformer, by the same devs) and felt exactly the same. A lot of work clearly went into it but it had this style of writing that felt like it could have been from transplanted from any high schooler uploading little fics with their OC in it to DeviantArt. Just this annoying tendency to hint at there being some kind of drama that the characters immediately say “haha nope that’d be a whole thing and that would stress us all out so let’s just get on with things!”
Drove me crazy in a way that I didn’t feel comfortable complaining about because the devs were having fun making everything cute was fine but damn it let me experience some emotion PLEASE