Communist Party Backs Obama

Joelle Fishman, an executive of the Communist Party USA, recently announced her party's endorsement of Barack Obama for the presidency (via Accuracy in Media):

The yearning in our country for a new direction and new priorities has taken hold in the 2008 elections. Voters turned out in record numbers for the primaries, propelled by economic necessity and determination to end the war, and inspired by the historic breakthrough of a woman or an African American as a major party candidate for president.

Voters of all races and nationality backgrounds and all walks of life, young and old, women, men, union members and unorganized, flooded the polls, undeterred by the constant corporate media barrage of racism, sexism and divisive tactics which might have suppressed the vote.

When Barack Obama surpassed the 2,118 delegates required for nomination, his unity appeal and outreach to Clinton supporters deeply touched the country and was greeted around the world.

Unity — especially unity of African American, Latino and white voters, women and men — will have to be fought for and forged anew, broadened out and deepened in this new phase of the battle to defeat McCain and the corporate ultra-right in Congress.

The choice is clear — stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or come together and raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right....

Big political shifts are under way....

The Communist Party USA’s emergency program to repair, renew and rebuild America is a contribution toward this effort.

I reported previously on the activities of "Revolutionary Communists for Obama."

What's significant now is the increasingly deep documentation of Obama's early affinity and indoctrination to Marxist-Leninist ideology.

For more, see "What Barack Obama Learned From the Communist Party."