The pro-communist China group, the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) in San Francisco, is actively funding a venture by Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder and unabashedly anti-capitalist Alicia Garza.
China Dailyreported:
The Chinese community also showed up for the African American protests, as members of the Chinese Progressive Association joined thousands of others at a kneeling demonstration on June 1 in front of the San Francisco City Hall to demand justice for all black families brutalized by police.
An authoritative 2009 Stanford University paper on the 1972 origins of CPA
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/iwk-cpa.pd f" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">revealedthat the organization began as a promoter of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). However, the report indicated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the founding and sole government political party of the PRC, did not control nor direct the group at the start.
The Stanford paper, found on Marxist.org,
noted:
The CPA began as a Leftist, pro-People’s Republic of China organization, promoting awareness of mainland China’s revolutionary thought and workers rights, and dedicated to self-determination, community control, and “serving the people.” Its activities were independent of the Communist Party of China or the US, and instead the organization worked with other pro-PRC groups within the US and San Francisco Bay Area.
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Support for the PRC was based on the inspiration the members drew from what they saw as a successful grassroots model that presented a viable alternative to Western capitalism and separate from the oppressive Stalinist Russia.
To promote the communist PRC, “CPA held film screenings that were open to the public, sometimes showing Chinese films as well to facilitate understanding of the country’s revolutionary ideas,” the paper added.
CPA and Black Futures Lab reportedly share the same goal of promoting communism. Garza and some of the groups she supports are vehemently anti-capitalist.
She is behind the Movement for Black Lives that
https://m4bl.org/about-us /" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">declareson its website, “We are anti-capitalist. We believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system.”
“It’s not possible for a world to emerge where black lives matter if it’s under capitalism, and it’s not possible to abolish capitalism without a struggle against national oppression,” Garza
tolda gathering of global Marxists in 2015.
Black Futures Lab resembles a lobbying group serving the BLM-linked organizations founded by Garza.
CPA is the namesake for other organizations outside of San Francisco, particularly in
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https://www.cpanyc.info /" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">New York, but it is unclear from their websites whether or not they work together.
Nevertheless, the Stanford report noted that there is a “decision-making organ” that is “answerable to the general membership” of the CPA branches