Category
page 1Communists from California
Angela Davis
American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)

Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)

Dalton Trumbo
American screenwriter (1905–1976)
Sterling Hayden
American actor (1916–1986)

Sirhan Sirhan
assassin of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (born 1944)

Huey P. Newton
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party (1942-1989)

Edward Dmytryk
American film director (1908–1999)
Bobby Seale
co-founder of the Black Panther Party (born 1936)
Larry Parks
American stage and movie actor (1914-1975)
Bob Avakian
American communist leader (1943-)
Eldridge Cleaver
American activist (1935–1998)
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912–1985)
Harry Hay
American gay rights activist (1912-2002)
Alvah Bessie
American politician (1904-1985)
Will Geer
American actor and activist (1902–1978)
Mike Gold
American journalist (1894–1967)
Irving Pichel
actor, film director (1891-1954)
Marc Lawrence
American actor (1910-2005)
Jean Tatlock
American activist (1914-1944)
Tillie Olsen
American writer (1912–2007)
Jessica Mitford
British writer (1917–1996)
Elaine Brown
American activist (born 1943)
Jackson Hinkle
American political commentator

John Howard Lawson
American dramatist (1894–1977)
Mike Davis
American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946–2022)
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901–1985)
Barbara Dane
American singer
Herbert Aptheker
American Marxist historian and political activist (1915–2003)

Lester Cole
American screenwriter (1904-1985)

Robert Hale Merriman
American academic; republican volunteer killed during Spanish Civil War (1908–1938)
Bettina Aptheker
American political activist, feminist, professor and author
Sanora Babb
Αmerican writer (1907-2005)
Kathleen Neal Cleaver
American activist (born 1945)

Eugene Dennis
American politician (1905-1961)
Adrian Scott
American screenwriter and film producer (1912–1972)
Bertram Wolfe
American historian (1896-1977)
Paul Jarrico
American politician (1915-1997)
Charlotte Anita Whitney
American politician
Eli Erlick
American activist and writer

Dorothy Ray Healey
American politician (1914–2006)
David Hilliard
Black Panther Party leader
Brace Belden
American leftist and YPG volunteer
Harry Bridges
American labor leader (1901–1990)
Charles Garry
American lawyer
Edwin Rolfe
American writer (1909-1954)

Irwin Silber
American journalist (1925-2010)

Karl Yoneda
Japanese American activist and trade unionist; interned at the beginning of WWII at Manzanar; served in World War II as a Japanese language specialist for the U.S. Army (1906–1999)