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- ce ; gf ry Sr PROGRESSIVE PARTY (PP) The National Committee, Communist Party, USA (CP), in issuing its final text of the "Resolution Growing Out of the Presidential Elections" in "Political Affairs," issue of July, 1953, states in substance that in 1948 the CP helnes stimlate the formation of the Procressive Party {Ppp) a ee a ee ee ee ke a ese ee Dn ed yeay a and correctly supported the PP through the 1952 elections It then states: (-- were EEC art Pee "However, the mistace our Party made was to confuse this tesk with the historic task of forming a new mass party of the people. As a consequence, there existed the wrong estimate that the formation of the Progressive Party represented something more than the simpie emergence ace: that it fn . See} 5 veo represented the emergence of a great people's Party. YS Rely, o ry 5 ca] ° 4 ct 5 ct a) 4 G ct ne . (A Hy o i} ie) @ my oO 4 "Ey a As a result of this reasoning, the resolution concludes that the ‘Progressive Party, the CP and other progressive forces’ must unite in a broad, mass-front coalition.” 4 = cal Re =. Concerning "Political Affairs’ mentioned above, ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, a convicted CP functionary, testifying in the case "US vs Elizabeth Gurley Flynn et al," on October 20, 1952, stated that "Political Affairs” has been the theoretical organ of the CP since the publication's beginning in 1945,