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{{Cquote|It is the oppressed peoples of the world who have created the wealth of this empire and it is to them that it belongs; the goal of the revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interests of the oppressed peoples of the world.  It is in this context that we must examine the revolutionary struggles in the United States.<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976,  

{{Cquote|It is the oppressed peoples of the world who have created the wealth of this empire and it is to them that it belongs; the goal of the revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interests of the oppressed peoples of the world.  It is in this context that we must examine the revolutionary struggles in the United States.<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976,  

[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1c.pdf ''Influence of China''], Page 143 in original (p. 31 pdf).</ref>}}

[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1c.pdf ''Influence of China''], Page 143 in original (p. 31 pdf).</ref>}}

===Creation===

===Creation===

Within SDS, the Weathermen grew out of a faction called the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zQHMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT580 CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States]</ref>  At SDS' Chicago convention in June, 1969, the society found itself split three ways and collapsed shortly after.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MrPyPP7gkHYC&pg=PA50 Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons]</ref>  The Weatherman group took its name and the name for their manifesto from a lyric of a [[Bob Dylan]] song ''Subterranean Homesick Blues'',<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html Independent Lens], [[PBS]]</ref> which was published in the June 18, 1969 edition of ''New Left Notes''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&pg=PA320 Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>

Within SDS, the Weathermen grew out of a faction called the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zQHMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT580 CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States]</ref>  At SDS' Chicago convention in June, 1969, the society found itself split three ways and collapsed shortly after.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MrPyPP7gkHYC&pg=PA50 Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons]</ref>  The Weatherman group took its name and the name for their manifesto from a lyric of a [[Bob Dylan]] song ''Subterranean Homesick Blues'',<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html Independent Lens], [[PBS]]</ref> which was published in the June 18, 1969 edition of ''New Left Notes''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&pg=PA320 Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>

What was left of SDS fell to the control of the ''Progressive Labor Party'' (PLP), the oldest Maoist group in the United States.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8YSmiFins9sC&pg=PA87 Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today]</ref>

What was left of SDS fell to the control of the ''Progressive Labor Party'' (PLP), the oldest Maoist group in the United States.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8YSmiFins9sC&pg=PA87 Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today]</ref>

==Revolution==

==Revolution==

===Organizational Marxism===

===Organizational Marxism===

According to the traditional [[Soviet]] sponsored [[Lenin]]ist model, the [[proletariat]] is the main revolutionary force, and [[national liberation movement]]s become its allies. According to [[Maoist]] inspired Weathermen, however, the revolutionary national movements were proletarian revolutions in their own right against the world imperialist class, and provided the leadership in the worldwide anti-imperialist revolution.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/TheWayTheWindBlewAHistoryOfTheWeatherUnderground ''The Way The Wind Blew: A History Of The Weather Underground,''] Ron Jacobs, Verso, 1997, p. 81 ISBN 1-85984-167-8</ref>  Many WUO members believed that they were a [[Proletarian vanguard]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XUikrTLOJPQC&pg=PA91 Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism]</ref> of a revolution that was underway, and they believed they could unite all the [[Third World]] revolutionaries into one worldwide communist utopia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X2OJhrWo6PcC&pg=PT148 Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225989/unearthing-weather-underground-joseph-morrison-skelly Unearthing the Weather Underground], [[National Review]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&q=utopia Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>

According to the traditional [[Soviet]] sponsored [[Lenin]]ist model, the [[proletariat]] is the main revolutionary force, and [[national liberation movement]]s become its allies. According to [[Maoist]] inspired Weathermen, however, the revolutionary national movements were proletarian revolutions in their own right against the world imperialist class, and provided the leadership in the worldwide anti-imperialist revolution.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/TheWayTheWindBlewAHistoryOfTheWeatherUnderground ''The Way The Wind Blew: A History Of The Weather Underground,''] Ron Jacobs, Verso, 1997, p. 81 ISBN 1-85984-167-8</ref>  Many WUO members believed that they were a [[Proletarian vanguard]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XUikrTLOJPQC&pg=PA91 Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism]</ref> of a revolution that was underway, and they believed they could unite all the [[Third World]] revolutionaries into one worldwide communist utopia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X2OJhrWo6PcC&pg=PT148 Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974]</ref><ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/article/225989/unearthing-weather-underground-joseph-morrison-skelly Unearthing the Weather Underground], [[National Review]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&q=utopia Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>

On May 21, 1970, the organization issued its "Declaration of a State of War" against America, which was written by Dohrn.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ynNsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 Chronologies of Modern Terrorism]</ref>  In many ways, the Underground was structured like a typical cult organization, lacking perhaps one or two key features.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/2002/02/24/i-was-a-terrorist/5a37fc9f-9c10-410a-b47b-3e98ffe9a3a1/?utm_term=.f09b88d7efb1 I was a terrorist.], [[Washington Post]]</ref>

On May 21, 1970, the organization issued its "Declaration of a State of War" against America, which was written by Dohrn.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ynNsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 Chronologies of Modern Terrorism]</ref>  In many ways, the Underground was structured like a typical cult organization, lacking perhaps one or two key features.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/2002/02/24/i-was-a-terrorist/5a37fc9f-9c10-410a-b47b-3e98ffe9a3a1/?utm_term=.f09b88d7efb1 I was a terrorist.], [[Washington Post]]</ref>

Fourth Congress. First Session. Volume 6. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1976, Exhibit 68-13., cited in ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection'', Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, usasurvival.org</ref>  The ringleaders, principally Weather Underground terrorists, received urban guerrilla warfare training in Cuba from the [[DGI]] prior to the attacks.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Cuban_DGI.pdf Final Talk to the Fourth Contingent, Julian Rizo DGI.]</ref> ]]

Fourth Congress. First Session. Volume 6. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1976, Exhibit 68-13., cited in ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection'', Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, usasurvival.org</ref>  The ringleaders, principally Weather Underground terrorists, received urban guerrilla warfare training in Cuba from the [[DGI]] prior to the attacks.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Cuban_DGI.pdf Final Talk to the Fourth Contingent, Julian Rizo DGI.]</ref> ]]

In 1995 a cadre of like minded individuals gathered in the home of Weather Underground (WUO) [[terrorist]]s [[Bernardine Dohrn]] and [[William Ayers|William "Bill" Ayers]].  According to Dr. [[Quentin Young]], "I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that [[Alice Palmer]] was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress."  Dr. Young, a longtime friend of the Ayers' and [[President Obama]], put up the money in 1968 to pay for the office that organized a riot in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. [[Carl Davidson]] of [[Progressives for Obama]] was told by [[Fidel Castro]] in March 1968 that Castro believed the United States was ready for [[revolution]]. Several [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and WUO cadre trained in Cuba with the "Venceremos Brigades"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3GnvlvefWGcC&pg=PA180 Informing Statecraft], by Angelo Codevilla</ref> prior to the insurgency.  The FBI summarized the situation:

In 1995 a cadre of like minded individuals gathered in the home of Weather Underground (WUO) [[terrorist]]s [[Bernardine Dohrn]] and [[William Ayers|William "Bill" Ayers]].  According to Dr. [[Quentin Young]], "I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that [[Alice Palmer]] was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress."  Dr. Young, a longtime friend of the Ayers' and [[President Obama]], put up the money in 1968 to pay for the office that organized a riot in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. [[Carl Davidson]] of [[Progressives for Obama]] was told by [[Fidel Castro]] in March 1968 that Castro believed the United States was ready for [[revolution]]. Several [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and WUO cadre trained in Cuba with the "Venceremos Brigades"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3GnvlvefWGcC&pg=PA180 Informing Statecraft], by Angelo Codevilla</ref> prior to the insurgency.  The FBI summarized the situation:

{{Cquote|Rarely has any city been threatened all at one time with an invasion of 100 to 200 thousand dissidents - plots to [[assassin]]ate [[government]]al dignitaries and prominent individuals; intentions to instigate major riots in varied ways; widespread [[sabotage]] of communication, transportation and electrical systems- proposals to pour [[hallucinogen]]ic [[drugs]] into the water supply; clandestine shipments of [[arms]] and [[ammunition]] into the city for use in sniper activities - and myriad forms of [[guerrilla warfare]].<ref>Declassified U.S. Government intelligence information regarding the communist and foreign connections of the Weather Underground. Presented as evidence, on the agreement of the prosecution and defense counsel, in the trial of W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, p.10.[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Declassified_docs.pdf ]</ref>}}  

{{Cquote|Rarely has any city been threatened all at one time with an invasion of 100 to 200 thousand dissidents - plots to [[assassin]]ate [[government]]al dignitaries and prominent individuals; intentions to instigate major riots in varied ways; widespread [[sabotage]] of communication, transportation and electrical systems- proposals to pour [[hallucinogen]]ic [[drugs]] into the water supply; clandestine shipments of [[arms]] and [[ammunition]] into the city for use in sniper activities - and myriad forms of [[guerrilla warfare]].<ref>Declassified U.S. Government intelligence information regarding the communist and foreign connections of the Weather Underground. Presented as evidence, on the agreement of the prosecution and defense counsel, in the trial of W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, p.10.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120104034804/http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Declassified_docs.pdf]</ref>}}  

One veteran of the guerrilla warfare training in Cuba was Obama's host, [[Bernardine Dohrn]].  Young met with Dohrn after her return,

One veteran of the guerrilla warfare training in Cuba was Obama's host, [[Bernardine Dohrn]].  Young met with Dohrn after her return,

{{Cquote|Bernardine went down there already influenced by Cuba and in a state of romantic anticipation. She was at the top of her thermometer going down. I talked to her, sort of debriefed her, when she came back."<ref>Georgie Anne Geyer and Keyes Beach "Cuba: School for U.S. Radicals", ''Chicago Daily News/Chicago Sun-Times'' five part series October 1970, excerpted in [http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/weather/weath1c.pdf FBI file Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman),] Part 1c pp. 5-7 pdf (113-115 in original). [http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/clandestine-agents-of-the-cuban-government-ayers-dohrn-myers/]</ref>}}

{{Cquote|Bernardine went down there already influenced by Cuba and in a state of romantic anticipation. She was at the top of her thermometer going down. I talked to her, sort of debriefed her, when she came back."<ref>Georgie Anne Geyer and Keyes Beach "Cuba: School for U.S. Radicals", ''Chicago Daily News/Chicago Sun-Times'' five part series October 1970, excerpted in [http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/weather/weath1c.pdf FBI file Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman),] Part 1c pp. 5-7 pdf (113-115 in original). [http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/clandestine-agents-of-the-cuban-government-ayers-dohrn-myers/]</ref>}}

* [[Bill Ayers]]

* [[Bill Ayers]]

* [[Communist front]]

* [[Communist front]]

* [[Wunderground]] - an online weather service named for the WUO organization

*[[Antifa]]

==References==

==References==

* [http://keywiki.org/Weather_Underground_Organization Weather Underground Organization], [[KeyWiki]]

* [http://keywiki.org/Weather_Underground_Organization Weather Underground Organization], [[KeyWiki]]

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