Editing Christopher Helali

'''Christopher Joseph Helali''' is a American activist who served as the international secretary of the Party of Communists USA. He is now the international secretary for the American Communist Party. He is also a social studies teacher at Hanover High School in Vermont.

Initially a US Army officer, he trained at Fort Benning and won several medals for his military service, but then became a conscientious objector in 2015 and resigned. He left for Greece in 2015 to work with anarchist Syrian refugees and later went on a tour with the YPG in Syria fighting against ISIS.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Christopher Helali and Judy Bello|newspaper=The United National Anti-War Coalition|title=Interview with US Activist Who Fought ISIS With The Kurds in Syria|date=2020/07/02|url=https://unac.notowar.net/2020/07/02/interview-with-us-citizen-who-fought-isis-with-the-kurds-in-syria/}}</ref>

He won a scholarship to study Marxism at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China (as well as completing a religious studies degree) and joined the PCUSA. Helali eventually became their unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 2020 in Vermont (winning 1% of the vote) and later their international secretary, leaving this post seemingly just before the founding of the ACP.