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'''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. | '''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. | ||
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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.[1]
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.