by James Thompson

Elena Mora’s letter of resignation from the CPUSA should be welcomed and applauded. Her observations about the party are very accurate. The CPUSA, under her leadership and that of Sam Webb, has been in recent years a party based in fantasy rather than reality. Ms. Mora speaks of this and should be applauded for her honesty.

She and her partner in crime (Sam Webb) have come very close to wrecking the party. Their most recent maneuver has been to push for a change in the name of the party. Since it is clear that she and her partner do not want to be communists and do not embrace Marxist Leninist ideology, it is appropriate for both of them to quit the party. Since they value so highly the Democratic Party, a bourgeois party, it would be appropriate for them to swear their allegiance to that organization. It is and has not been appropriate for them to denigrate the CPUSA from their positions of leadership.

Hopefully, the party in an effort to heal itself from the damage done by these two culprits will see to it that they are not able to abscond with any of the assets of the party. Hopefully, the party can now move forward and transform itself into a working class party rather than pathetic worshipers of the Democratic Party.

I’m sure there will be many replies to Ms. Mora’s hypocritical letter.

I would like to expose one of the elements she addresses in the letter, recruitment. Attached you will find a copy of an email from Ms. Mora to me. Before she, Sam Webb and others with the able assistance of their henchman, John Bachtell, expelled me from the party and refused to give me a trial, I had begged them to forward the names of people interested in the party to me so that I could build the party in Houston. The following email explains it all:

From: elena mora

Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:14 AM

To: Paul

Cc: Jarvis Tyner ; Gene Lantz ; Elaine Lantz ; Sam Webb

Subject: Re: problems reported in contacting the national website

Pat, please forward any member inquiries you get from people in other states, via facebook, to this email address: markva39@aol.com We have a system in place for handling requests to join, which has been in place for quite a while now. The comrades assigned to this are very responsible about it. In most– if not all– districts, requests to join are followed up on — this does’t mean that every single person gets involved with the work of the local club, for different reasons that are specific to the local situation, and which you wouldn’t know about The Party’s web page is being redesigned, the project is due for completion in July, and we are making every effort to utilize the internet in the many ways it can be used to grow our Party. Last but not least: no one is withholding Houston contacts from you, as I, and others, have said in the past, and you should stop agitating about this. And the implication that people around the country are negligent is really unfair; comrades are struggling hard to participate in the political life of their areas, and grow the Party and press, it isn’t easy. Facebook is a great tool which others are starting to use locally as well, so that’s good news. Elena

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Paul <phill1917@comcast.net> wrote:

Here is a comment I received today from a guy in Baltimore trying desperately to become active with the party. I received the comment on our Houston Facebook page.

i’d love any contacts you can help me with I actually joined the party two years ago and registered. I’ve been patiently awaiting further instruction ever since. the national site and e-mail hasn’t been very receptive. although i do realize the baltimore chapter has had it’s fair share of people joining just to exploit them so i understand the hesitation to initiate newer members.. jordan

This is just one of many such comments. I also received a comment from a guy in New Jersey today thanking me because I responded to his inquiry and put him in touch with the New Jersey club. They are trying to organize a club that will be near him.

I have asked the guy in Baltimore for his e-mail address so that I can try to help facilitate his contacting national and/or the Baltimore club. I’m doing this because I hope someone will return the favor by sending Houston contacts to us.

BTW, we have not received any names in Houston recently. I have, however, recruited two people from Facebook in the last month who have actually joined and paid dues. Believe it or not, our club is up to eight people now. A year ago it was two.

Peace & solidarity

Pat