The '''Communist Control Act of 1954''' is a act of congress, passed in 1954 during the height of the second red scare and the early [[Cold War]], that declared the [[Communist Party USA]] and any successor organization to be in a undemocratic, authoritarian conspiracy to overthrow or subvert the national government and would be outlawed, losing any rights it had as a political party and its willful members subject to the provisions of the [[Internal Security Act of 1950]]. <ref>http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Documents/1950s/Communist_54.html</ref> | The '''Communist Control Act of 1954''' is a act of congress, passed in 1954 during the height of the second red scare and the early [[Cold War]], that declared the [[Communist Party USA]] and any successor organization to be in a undemocratic, authoritarian conspiracy to overthrow or subvert the national government and would be outlawed, losing any rights it had as a political party and its willful members subject to the provisions of the [[Internal Security Act of 1950]]. <ref>http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Documents/1950s/Communist_54.html</ref> |