List of organizations described as Communist fronts by the US government

This list of organizations described as Communist fronts by the US government includes the names of groups included in various reports of the Attorney General of the United States or House Un-American Activities Committee listing "subversive" or "Communist" front groups. While most of these were documentable mass organizations of the Communist Party, USA, others were included out of convenience or political expedience.

Inclusion on any of these lists should not be regarded as definitive proof of covert organizational ties or actual subversive intent.

1948 Attorney General's list

1961 HUAC guide

On December 1, 1961 the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) published a 288-page book entitled Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications.^[1] This massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged Communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957.^[1] The style of the publication follows that of a 1948 HUAC pamphlet, Citations by Official Government Agencies of Organizations and Publications Found to be Communist or Communist Fronts.^[2]

• Abolish Peonage Committee
• Abraham Lincoln Brigade
• Abraham Lincoln School, Chicago
• Action Committee to Free Spain Now
• Adolph Larson-Ruby Hynes Defense Committee
• Alabama Peoples Educational Association
• Albanian-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Alex Bittelman Defense Committee
• All-America Anti-Imperialist League
• All-California Conference for Defense of Civil Rights and Aid to Labor's Prisoners
• Allied Labor News Service
• Almanac Singers
• Ambijan Committee for Emergency Aid to the Soviet Union
• American Association for Reconstruction in Yugoslavia, Inc.
• American Branch of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions
• American Committee for a Free Yugoslavia
• American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom
• American Committee for European Workers' Relief
• American Committee for Friendship with the Soviet Union
• American Committee to Survey Trade Union Conditions in Europe
• American Continental Congress for Peace
• American Council for a Democratic Greece
• American Council on Soviet Relations
• American Croatian Congress
• American Federation of Labor Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief
• American Friends of Spanish Democracy
• American Friends of the Chinese People
• American Friends of the Mexican People
• American Fund for Public Service
• American Jewish Labor Council
• American Labor Alliance
• American Labor Party
• American League Against War and Fascism
• American League for Peace and Democracy
• American Negro Labor Congress
• American Peace Appeal
• American Peace Crusade
• American Peace Mobilization
• American People's Congress and Exposition for Peace (Chicago: June 29-July 1, 1951)
• American People's Fund
• American People's Meeting
• American People's Mobilization
• American-Polish Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• American Polish Labor Council
• American Relief Ship for Spain
• American Rescue Ship Mission
• American-Rumanian Film Corp.
• American-Russian Fraternal Society
• American-Russian Institute, New York
• American Russian Institute, Philadelphia
• American Russian Institute of San Francisco
• American Russian Institute of Southern California, Los Angeles
• American-Russian Trading Corp. (Amtorg)
• American Serbian Committee for Relief of War Orphans in Yugoslavia
• American Slav Congress
• American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia
• American Society for Technical Aid to Spanish Democracy
• American-Soviet Science Society
• American Sponsoring Committee for Representation at the Second World Peace Congress
• American Student Union
• American Students Repudiate Aggression in Russia
• American Technical Aid Society
• American Veterans for Peace
• American Women for Peace
• American Workers Party (1933-1934)
• American Writers Congress
• American Youth Congress
• American Youth for a Free World
• American Youth for Democracy
• American Youth Peace Crusade
• American-Yugoslav Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Armenian Progressive League of America
• Artists' Front to Win the War
• Association of Interns and Medical Students
• Baltimore County Committee for Peace
• Baltimore Youth for Peace
• Bay Area Committee to Save the Rosenbergs
• Bay Area Rosenberg-Sobell Committee
• Bay Cities Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Book Union
• Boston Committee to Secure Clemency for the Rosenbergs
• Boston School for Marxist Studies
• Bridges-Robertson-Schmidt Defense Committee
• Briehl's Farm, near Wallkill, NY
• Bronx Victory Labor Committee
• Brookwood Labor College
• Bulgarian-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• California Emergency Defense Committee
• California Labor School, San Francisco and Los Angeles
• Cambridge Youth Council
• Camp Arcadia
• Camp Beacon
• Camp Kinderland, Hopewell Junction, NY
• Camp Lakeland, Hopewell Junction, NY
• Camp Timberline, Jewett, NY
• Camp Unity, Wingdale, NY
• Camp Woodland, Phoenicia, NY
• Carpatho-Russian Peoples Society
• Central Council of American Women of Croatian Descent
• Cervantes Fraternal Society
• Charles Doyle Defense Committee
• Charles Rowoldt Defense Committee
• Chicago Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case
• Chicago Greek Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Chicago Jewish Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Chicago Labor Defense Committee
• Chicago Sobell Committee
• China Aid Council
• Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties
• Citizens' Committee for Harry Bridges
• Citizens' Committee of the Upper West Side, New York City
• Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder
• Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms
• Civil Rights Congress
• Civil Rights Congress Bail Funds
• Civil Rights Division of Mobilization for Democracy
• Clatsop County Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Oregon
• Cleveland Committee to Secure Clemency for the Rosenbergs
• Colorado Committee to Protect Civil Liberties
• Colorado Peace Council
• Columbus Peace Association
• Comite Coordinator por Republica Española
• Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
• Committee for Citizenship Rights
• Committee for Civil Rights for Communists
• Committee for Concerned Peace Efforts
• Committee for Defense of Greek-Americans
• Committee for Defense of Martin Karasek, Bettendorf, IA
• Committee for Defense of Morning Freiheit Writers
• Committee for Defense of Public Education
• Committee for International Student Cooperation
• Committee for Peace Through World Cooperation
• Committee for Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact
  • Conference for Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact
• Committee for the Defense of Eulalia Figueiredo, New Bedford, MA
• Committee for the Freedom of Martin Young
• Committee for the Freedom of Sam Milgrom
• Committee for United States Participation in the American Continental Congress for Peace
• Committee in Defense of Henry Podolski, Detroit
• Committee of Philadelphia Women for Peace
• Committee of Professional Groups for Browder and Ford
• Committee on Election Rights
• Committee to Aid the Fighting South
• Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War
• Committee to Defend Angelo Herndon
• Committee to Defend Chungsoon and Choon Cha Kwak
• Committee to Defend Hazel Wolf
• Committee to Defend Lincoln Veterans
• Committee to Defend Mike Daniels
• Committee to Defend Toma Babin
• Committee to End Sedition Laws
• Committee to Protect Joseph Mankin's Citizenship
• Committee to Repeal the Walter-McCarran Law and Stop Deportation of Sam and Fanny Mankewitz
• Committee to Repeal the Walter-McCarran Law and to Protect the Foreign Born, Philadelphia
• Committee to Save the Life of John Juhn
• Commonwealth College, Mena, AR
• Communist Information Bureau
• Communist Labor Party of America
• Communist League of America (Opposition)
• Communist League of Struggle
• Communist Party of America (1919-1923)
• Communist Party of the United States of America
• Communist Party, USA (Majority Group)
  • Communist Party, USA (Opposition)
  • Independent Communist Labor League of America
  • Independent Labor League of America
• Communist Political Association (1944-1945)
• Community Unitarian Fellowship
• Conference for Legislation in the National Interest
• Conference for Progressive Labor Action
• Conference on Constitutional Liberties in America
• Conference on Pan-American Democracy
• Congress of the Mexican and Spanish-American Peoples of the United States, (Albuquerque: March 24–26, 1939)
• Congress of Revolutionary Writers
• Congress of American-Soviet Friendship
• Congress of American Women
• Connecticut State Youth Conference
• Connecticut Volunteers for Civil Rights
• Consumers' National Federation
• Coordinating Committee to Lift the Embargo (Spanish)
• Council for Pan-American Democracy
• Council of United States Veterans
• Council of Young Southerners
• Council on African Affairs
• Croatian Benevolent Fraternity
• Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace
• Czechoslovak Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Daily Worker Press Club
• Daniels DEfense Committee, North Carolina
• Delegates' National Assembly for Peace (Washington, DC: April 1, 1952)
• Dennis Defense Committee
• Denver Peace Council
• Descendants of the American Revolution
• Detroit Bill of Rights Defense Committee
• Detroit Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Detroit Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case
• Detroit Youth Assembly
• Dora Coleman Defense Committee
• Down River Citizens Committee, Detroit
• Downtown Club, Los Angeles
• East Bay Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• East Bay Peace Committee, Oakland
• East Harlem Women for Peace
• East Los Angeles Defense Committee
• East Meadow and Westbury Rosenberg Committee
• East Side Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Los Angeles
• Eisler Defense Fund
• Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
• Emergency Committee of the Arts and Professions to Secure Clemency for the Rosenbergs
• Emergency Conference to Aid the Spanish Republic
• Emergency Conference to Save Spanish Refugees
• Emergency Peace Mobilization
• Emergency Trade Union Conference to Aid Spanish Democracy
• Emory Collier Defense Committee
• Estonian Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Films for Democracy
• Finnish American Freedom Committee
• Finnish-American Mutual Aid Society
• Florida Press and Educational League
• Frances Vivian Defense Committee
• Frank Ibanez Defense Committee
• Frank Spector Defense Committee
• Freedom of the Press Committee Against Deportation
• Friends and Neighbors of David Hyun
• Friends of Chinese Democracy
• Friends of Diamond Kimm
• Friends of Soviet Russia
  • Friends of the Soviet Union
• Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
• Friends of the Campus
• Frontier Bookstore, Seattle
• Frontier Films
• Fund for Social Analysis
• George Washington Carver School, New York City
• Georgia Peace Council
• Gosman-Fabian Defense Committee
• Great Neck Rosenberg Committee
• Greater New York Committee for Employment
• Greater New York Emergency Conference on Inalienable Rights
• Greek-American Committee for Defense of Peter Harisiades
• Greek-American Committee for National Unity
• Greek-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Detroit
• Greek-American Council
• Greek-American Defense Committee, Detroit
• Gus Polites Defense Committee
• Harbor Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Los Angeles
• Harlem Youth Congress
• Harry Bridges Defense Committee
• Harry Bridges Victory Committee
• Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee
• Hellenic-American Brotherhood
• Hempstead Rosenberg Committee
• Henry Steinberg Defense Committee
• Hollywood Writers Mobilization for Defense
• Housewives Protest Committee, Pittsburgh
• Hungarian-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Hungarian-American Council for Democracy
• Hungarian-American Defense Committee
• Hungarian Brotherhood
• Ida Gottesman Defense Committee
• Illinois Chapter of the American Peace Crusade
• Illinois People's Conference for Legislative Action
• Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions
• Independent Progressive Party
• Independent Voters League, Pittsburgh
• Institute of Marxist Studies
• Institute of Pacific Relations
• Intercontinent News Service
• International Association of Democratic Lawyers
• International Book Store, Inc., San Francisco
• International Committee of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace
• International Juridicial Association
• International Labor Defense
• International Music Bureau
• Intourist
• Irving Peace Theater
• irwin Franklin Defense Committee
• Italian-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Detroit
• Italian Anti-Fascist Committee
• James Keller Defense Committee
• Japanese American Committee for Democracy
• Jefferson School Bookshop
• Jefferson School of Social Science
• Jewish People's Committee
• Jewish People's Fraternal Order
• John Reed Clubs of the United States
• John Santo Defense Committee
• Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
• Joint Committee for Trade Union Rights
• Joint Defense Committee
• Joseph Weydemeyer School of Social Science, St. Louis
• King-Ramsey-Conner Defense Committee
• Korean-American Deportees Defense Committee
• Labor Research Association
• Labor Youth League
• Larry Davis Defense Committee
• Latvian Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Laurenti Defense Committee, Akron
• Lawyers Committee on American Relations with Spain
• Lawyers Committee to Keep the United States Out of War
• League for Mutual Aid

See also

• List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee

Footnotes