High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Communist Party of the USA (Opposition), led by former General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Jay Lovestone, was a small oppositionist Communist movement of the 1930s. The organization emerged from a factional fight in the CPUSA in 1929 and unsuccessfully sought to reintegrate with that organization for several years. Activists in the Communist Party (Opposition) played a role in a number of trade union organizations of the 1930s, particularly in the automobile and garment industries. A growing disaffection with the Soviet Union in the years after the Great Purge of 1937-38 ultimately led the group to first drop the word "Communist" from its name before its ultimate dissolution in 1941.