Liberalism in my CPUSA? Who could've seen this coming?
John Bachtell, former national committee chairperson of CPUSA, continues the party's decades long tradition of making shit up to discredit the left's greatest accomplishments. Liberals hate that Stalin and the greater communist movement destroyed the independence of Ukraine's ruling class and brought an end to the centuries of antisemitic violence they used to preserve their power.
The Old Party had a illustrious history from its Founding to the passing of Gus Hall. At it was a party of the people, many stories of its accomplishments weren't bombastic nor grand, like how the bourgeoise media presents the political parties, but are the stories of the accomplishments of the working class. These stories range from helping black families chased out of their homes by segregationist red-liners find both temporary and later permanent housing, to helping to build unions that still stand today. If America was at war, you could count on the old party to protest against it as the vanguard for peace in ending U.S hostilities.
It had its flaws - as any communist party does - but from Ruthenberg to Hall the party was on the right side of history
They were okay in the 1930s-40s. They weren't segregated but in the 20s they were the image of crackkker incompetence trying to organize with black people (most often attempting to organize on behalf of black people, failing to build power by embedding with and growing from the workers). They did learn lessons and course-correct, though.