| Are you writing an essay? Is it for an application?
Can you just write the story and refer to your participation in "a union for workers" without naming it?
I think what is interesting is the narrative, the story you have to tell: what were the situations, how the union helped or didn't help improve things, what meaning you derive from living through those days and times. All of that matters, not the official name of the organization.
(My mom, in the USA, started to work at age 14 and went on strike the very first week.
Labor history here is part of the nation's history. We study it in textbooks. Not so scary.)
But if you could avoid writing the word "communist" that might help you all the way.
If you feel you must name the organization, then try to explain it IN CONTEXT within your home country. Just add an explanatory sentence, as you were attempting above, that the word "communist" there means "having to do with workers" and not a political viewpoint as here in the USA today. |