Editing Collapse of CPUSA (section)

== Angela Davis's Attempted Coup ==
After the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] (USSR), [[Angela Davis]] used this as an opportunity to form a faction against the "[[Conservatism|conservative]]" leadership of [[Gus Hall]], who was pro-Soviet but anti-[[Perestroika]]. She had managed to get the support of [[Pete Seeger]], [[Jarvis Tyner]] and many others who were supposedly "loyal" to the CPUSA in the past. At the 1994 convention they staged a walkout and formed the [[Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism]] (CCDS), which was a social democratic organization which had the support of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA) but also by foreign social democratic parties such as the newly founded German Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (PDS), the revisionist [[South African Communist Party]] (SACP) and [[Lula]]'s [[Workers' Party]] (PT) of [[Brazil]].<ref>[https://www.c-span.org/video/?59374-1/struggle-democratic-socialism Struggle for Democratic Socialism]</ref>