Eddie Bonilla

Professor Bonilla’s research examines the ideologies and activism of communists of color from the 1960s to the present. He explores how activists of different racial and ethnic backgrounds utilized the theories around Marxism for organizing laborers, students, and communities in their fights against global imperialism, capitalism, sexism, and racism. He explores the polemical writings and practical activism of a multiracial Communist Party known as the League of Revolutionary Struggle in areas such as labor, student activism, and electoral politics. Professor Bonilla has published work on the interconnections of social movements and policing by seeing how communists were politically persecuted at the hands of policing agencies against communists during the global Cold War. He is currently revising his dissertation to a book manuscript tentatively titled Homegrown Communists in the Age of Reagan: Multi-Racial Politics and Socialist Revolution that sits at the intersection of Latinx, African American, and Asian American social movement histories.

Visiting Fellow, 2024-2025