Did a US Communist party leader enthusiastically endorse Joe Biden for president?
By Christopher Hutton
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In August 2020, Bob Avakian, founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party, published a statement on his website instructing readers to remove "the Trump/Pence fascist regime" from power by voting for Joe Biden. The statement fell well short of a typical endorsement extolling a candidate's virtues. Avakian called Biden and the Democratic Party "representatives and instruments of this exploitative, oppressive, and literally murderous system of capitalism-imperialism," and argued that Biden is not "better" than Trump "in any meaningful way."
The party seeks to bring about a communist revolution in the United States.
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