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Communist Party of America founded in Chicago

Delegates met in Chicago and formed the Communist Party of America at a secret convention, consolidating various radical groups.

Communist Party of America founded in Chicago

The party’s founding marked the organized emergence of American communism during the First Red Scare and helped provoke government crackdowns and political debate over radicalism and labor unrest.

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