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The letters included listed accounts with balances totaling in excess of $7.3 million to be transferred to the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].<ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_1.pdf "Letter from Annie McGowan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205012201/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_1.pdf |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref><ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_2.pdf "Another Letter from Annie McGowan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205014539/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_2.pdf |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Jonestown was the greatest loss of American civilian lives in a non-natural disaster until the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]. Progressivism suffered a devastating blow in the eyes of most Americans. Not until the rise of Barack Obama did it recover.
The letters included listed accounts with balances totaling in excess of $7.3 million to be transferred to the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].<ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_1.pdf "Letter from Annie McGowan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205012201/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_1.pdf |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref><ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_2.pdf "Another Letter from Annie McGowan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205014539/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_2.pdf |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Jonestown was the greatest loss of American civilian lives in a non-natural disaster until the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]. Progressivism suffered a devastating blow in the eyes of most Americans. Not until the rise of Barack Obama did it recover.
==Marxism==
:{{See also|Revolutionary Vanguard}}
The Committees of Correspondence (CoC), also known as the [[Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism]] (CCDS) was formed in 1992 after the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>https://keywiki.org/Committees_of_Correspondence</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140518231419/http://www.ccds-discussion.org/?p=4</ref> Several prominent party [[Communist Party USA]] ruderless without the Soviet Union to offer funding and instructions, and disillusioned with the dictatorial rule of CPUSA General Secretary [[Gus Hall]], split off and to form their own group.<ref>https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/committees-of-correspondence-for-democracy-and-socialism-ccds/</ref><ref><small>"The Communist Party of the United States has disintegrated, as has
the party in [[Minnesota]], as a result of its own failures and misdeeds. The political and ideological crisis that brought down the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Eastern Europe]]an [[socialist]] countries produced crises in Communist Parties throughout the world from which none have emerged unscathed.<br>The CPUSA survives at present only as a shell, with many of its most active members and best-known national leaders having given up the attempt to reform from within and leaving to work in a new form.<br>These reform forces have regrouped as the Committees of Correspondence, for the exchange of information, promotion of education and discussion and coordination of activities....<br>On February 9, the Northern [[California]] district, with the second largest (after [[New York]]) membership in the CPUSA, declared its independence from the national party and joined the Committees of Correspondence. Retaining its [[Marxist-Leninist]] ideological and political framework, the Northern California organization stated:<br>"We desire to be a working-class, [[multiracial]], [[internationalism|internationalist]], anti-[[imperialist]] organization of women and men, regardless of [[sexual orientation]], with a commitment to [[coalition]] politics and mass struggle and a goal of participating in the leadership of such movements. Our work will be based upon participation with people and organizations in struggle, earning leadership through our concrete deeds.<br>"The struggles of working people, the [[racial]]ly and [[Nationalism|national]]ly oppressed, and women are central to the struggle for [[social progress]], indispensable to fundamental [[economic]] and [[political]] change. The growing alliance of these forces is central to the building of a broad coalition of democratic forces that will challenge the rule of [[monopoly]] [[capital]] in this country. The victory of such an anti-monopoly coalition and the establishment of an anti-monopoly
government is a necessary step toward the development of socialism in the [[United States]]."<br>...Dissent and disaffection within the CPUSA became an outright split because party chair Gus Hall blamed the crisis in the world Communist movement entirely on attacks by imperialism and the weakness of
[[Gorbachev]]. He did not acknowledge the corrosive role of the [[Autocracy|autocratic]], [[bureaucrat]]ic, [[Paternalism|paternalistic]] administrative structures passed down from the [[Stalin]] period through the [[Communist International]] (Comintern) to most of the Communist Parties in the world, including the CPUSA.<br>In reality, these undemocratic structures were ultimately responsible for the inability of the socialist economies to develop to a level that would enable them to counteract the economic offensives of the industrialized capitalist countries against them.<br>A second major division arose over domestic political strategy. The Gus Hall leadership wanted to continue a policy of concentrating primarily on [[blue-collar]] workers in basic industry, on the grounds that they are most exploited and the sole source of capitalist [[profit]]. Critics of this narrow focus argued that the majority of workers contributing to capitalist profit are no longer industrial workers in basic industry, that Marxists must pay particular attention to those sectors of the [[working class]] in which there is the greatest opportunity to develop [[militant]] [[resistance]] to [[corporate]] onslaught on [[living standards]], whether in industry, trade, or services, in the private or public sector.<br>The most militant labor struggles, they say, are now emerging where there are the greatest concentrations of the most oppressed sections of the working class, particularly [[African-American]]s, [[Latino]]s and women. A labor policy ignoring these realities of the contemporary U.S. work force is, in practical effect, [[racist]] and [[sexist]].<br>The first significant criticism of Gus Hall's political leadership came with near unanimity from leading African-American members. The rigged convention subsequently purged most African-Americans, including [[Angela Davis]], Charlene Mitchell, Kendra Alexander and Carl Bloice, from the national committee. No one among over one-third of the Party's members who had signed a call for reform in the party, including [[Herbert Aptheker]], was safe; all were purged.<br>As more and more U.S. Communists re-thought their understanding of socialism and political [[activism]], they confronted a blank wall at the top of the party. Those seeking reform were branded as enemies. The effective lack of inner-party democracy became impossible to ignore. The doctrinaire rigidity of party policies that had rejected rank-and-file union reform groups (unless party-led), denigrated labor organizing of service and clerical workers, lagged in supporting the [[Feminist movement|women's movement]], ignored [[gay]] and [[lesbian]] issues, branded other socialist and progressive organizations as the "phony [[left]]" and have been blind or dishonest about "existing socialism," was intolerable if members could not hope to change these policies....The Committees of Correspondence provide hope for new ways of drawing together [[progressive]]s to work for the replacement of [[capitalism]] with a just, humane and [[democratic socialism]], created by and for the working people of this country."</small> -Erwin Marquit is a Professor in Physics, Doris G. Marquit is on the adjunct faculty in the English and [[Women's Studies]] Departments.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311011756/http://www.mndaily.com/daily/gopher-archives/1992/02/19/Party_survives%2C_but_as_a_shell.txt "Party survives, but as a shell"], ''Minnesota Daily'', February 19, 1992. (Archive.org copy)</ref>
The group's first organizational conference was held in [[Berkeley]], [[California]], July 17–19, 1992. Charlene Mitchell, who had been a leader of the California Communist Party, spoke at the conference. Mitchell said "the collapse of [[socialism]] in [[Eastern Europe]] left the [[United States]] in a near unchallenged position of world leadership." She continued,
{{Cquote|What began as a moment to take stock and ponder where to go from there has now become a very different entity. People from the Communist Party, from CrossRoads, from the [[Democratic Socialists of America]], from NCIPA [National Committee for Independent Political Action], from Solidarity, from the Socialist Organizing Network and many others, including independent leftists and independent socialists, have come together here in Berkeley.}}
Criticizing U.S. actions in the [[First Gulf War]], Mitchell stated,
{{Cquote|[[progressive]] forces were nearly powerless in the face of an onslaught of demagogic, [[patriotic]] [[jingoism]] and yellow ribbons. This war, fought for no legitimate reason, was the crowning height of [[George H.W. Bush|President [George H.W.] Bush]]'s [[New World Order]]. Previously, the Soviet Union helped to provide a certain balance to rein in the crazies in this country. Now, that balance is no longer there. It is now up to us, the American people, to rein in our own crazies. The [[left]] must take a major responsibility in organizing this task.}}
Former congressional investigator Herbert Romerstein said the CCDS has "a close working relationship with the [[Stalin]]ist remnants in the former [[East Germany]], now called the Party of Democratic Socialism..." Romerstein points out these were the people who ran the [[concentration camp]]s and the [[Communist Party]] apparatus in East Germany.
===Black Liberation Army===
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In 1970, Marin Count Judge Harold Haley's head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun in a hostage incident in which members of the [[Black Panthers]] attempted to free Davis' lover, Black Panther member [[George Jackson]]. Jackson's younger brother took the judge, the prosecutor, and three female jurors as hostages and armed the defendants.<ref>{{cite book|last=Aptheker|first=Bettina|title=The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis|year=1997|publisher=Cornell University Press}}</ref><ref name="Register-Guard">{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Search broadens for Angela Davis|newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard|date=August 17, 1970|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4BkRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NuEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6482%2C3554926|accessdate=}}</ref> Davis had purchased several of the firearms used in the attack,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/harvard-new-home-angela-davis-papers-180968191/|title=Angela Davis’ Archive Comes to Harvard|last1=Treviño|first1=Julissa|publisher=Smithsonian Magazine|date=16 February 2018|accessdate=}}</ref> including the shotgun used to kill the judge.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/18/archives/a-shotgun-that-miss-davis-purchased-is-linked-to-the-fatal-shooting.html|title=A Shotgun That Miss Davis Purchased Is Linked to the Fatal Shooting of Judge|last1=Caldwell|first1=Earl|work=[[The New York Times]]|date= April 18, 1972|accessdate=}}</ref> Davis was also found to have corresponded with Jackson.<ref>{{cite book|authors=White, Bay, Martain|title=Freedom on My Mind|publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's|isbn=978-0-312-64884-8|page=725}}</ref> California considers "all persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense... principals in any crime so committed", and a warrant for her arrest was issued. [[J. Edgar Hoover]] listed Davis on the [[FBI]]'s Ten Most Wanted List; the third woman to ever be listed<ref>{{cite web|title=Biography|work=Davis (Angela) Legal Defense Collection, 1970–1972|url=http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/scm/scmdavisa|accessdate=}}</ref> behind Ma Barker and [[Bernardine Dohrn]]. She was apprehended and [[John Abt]], general counsel of the Communist Party USA, represent her.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Abt|first1=John|authorlink1=John Abt|last2=Myerson|first2=Michael|title=Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer|url=https://books.google.com/?id=9REaIPPh4k4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1993|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, Illinois|isbn=978-0-252-02030-8}}</ref> Davis was eventually acquitted of any role in the plotting and execution of the crime.
===Oakland, California===
People Organized to Win Employment Rights or POWER (Garza) evolved from the now defunct communist group STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement). [[Obama]]’s former “green jobs czar” and [[CNN]] contributor, the self-described “[[communist]]” and “rowdy black nationalist” [[Van Jones]], served on STORM’s board. In January 2015, POWER merged with another [[Liberation Road]] group, Causa Justa,<ref>Causa Justa/Just Cause – a Black-Latino solidarity organization allied with the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Right to the City Alliance, and others. Its 2013 revenues, $1.6 million, included $689,484 in government grants. Causa Justa has received over $2.3 million since 2010, mostly from the California Endowment, Marguerite Casey, and a few others.</ref> and Garza left.<ref>https://capitalresearch.org/article/blm-roots/</ref> Garza wrote at about the same time,
{{quotebox|"When I use Assata [Shakur]'s powerful demand in my [[Community organizing|organizing]] work, I always begin by sharing where it comes from, sharing about Assata’s significance to the Black Liberation Movement, what its political purpose and message is, and why it’s important in our context."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Garza|first1=Alicia|title=A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement|url=http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/|website=The Feminist Wire|publisher=|accessdate=}}</ref>}}
[[Assata Shakur]] is the former "queen" of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) terrorist group, who was convicted of the first-degree murder of a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973. She was convicted of [[murder]] and seven other [[felon]]ies. While serving a life sentence, she escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in 1979. She was granted political asylum in [[Cuba]] in 1984 where she has lived ever since, despite US government efforts to have her extradited. She is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list, under her maiden name [[Joanne Deborah Chesimard]]. BLM founders openly admit to being "trained Marxists".<ref>https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1273739801464725504</ref>
Garza is a black separatist and more recently was affiliated with the Marxist [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]] that wants to carve out an independent [[nation-state]] in the Bay Area.<ref>[https://www.periscope.tv/w/1zqKVljlzyDJB ''Black Lives Matter Unmasked''], Lee Stanahan, 2020.</ref>
[[File:Underwood.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Federal Security Police officer Patrick Underwood was murdered by Antifa terrorists.<ref>https://www.lifezette.com/2020/06/police-officers-all-over-the-country-targeted-for-murder-by-antifa-rioters/</ref>]]
====Black Lives Matter murder a Black federal officer====
[[Bay Area]] Democrats rioted in [[Oakland]],<ref>https://calwatchdog.com/2013/12/18/actually-jim-jones-cult-was-bay-area-democrats/</ref> California.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQq1Kv2UNpo</ref> Nearly 10,000 people took to the streets of the California community, looting stores like Target and Walgreens,<ref>https://streamable.com/y9s4x9</ref> and setting fire to a Chase bank. A Black officer from the [[Department of Homeland Security]] was [[murder]]ed and another officer shot.<ref>https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/one-of-two-federal-officers-shot-friday-night-dies-from-injuries/2299729/</ref><ref>https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/federal-police-officer-shot-dead-another-injured-in-oakland/</ref>
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf ordered a [[hate crime]] investigation after Oakland Police identified five ropes they described as “nooses” hanging from trees at Lake Merrit, with the city government apparently believing that the ropes were akin to racial intimidation tactics and allusions to lynchings carried out by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI was called in support of the investigation. A black man stepped forward stating that he and some of his friends installed the rope and small nooses merely for use as swings and exercise equipment. The nooses were used to attach a makeshift swing. “It’s unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to create a good time got misinterpreted," stating that he couldn’t see how anyone would view the small ropes as a hangman’s noose. The Democrat mayor however, refused to accept the word of a Black man and continued to claim the findings are indicative of a hate crime and continued the [[witchhunt]] for white supremacists invading Oakland.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/racial-panic-erupts-in-oakland-over-nooses-that-were-actually-exercise-equipment/</ref>
===San Francisco===
[[File:Pelosi poop map.jpg|left|350px|thumb|The City of San Francisco official "poop map" of reports of human feces on the street covers Nancy Pelosi's entire 12th Congressional district.<ref>https://www.mrctv.org/blog/new-report-shows-nancy-pelosis-district-seat-piled-high-dirty-needles-and-human-feces</ref>]]
[[San Francisco]] (colloquially known as '''Scat Francisco'''<ref>https://forums.carm.org/forum/secular/society-ethics-politics/11922-drinking-water-danger-scat-francisco</ref>), California faces [[Environmental Protection Agency]] fines over the environmental damage done by the city in collaboration with its homeless partners.<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/09/19/will-epa-fine-san-francisco-homelessness/</ref>
The last Republican mayor was elected in 1964.
Since 2011, the city's Poop Patrol office has received 118,352 reports of turds in the street, or roughly am average of one every 90 seconds, around the clock, for eight solid years.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/04/17/calif_118352_human_feces_reports_in_frisco_since_11.html]</ref> With a growing population, the numbers can only be expected to increase. ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' reported in 2018 on the plight of residents unable to get a response from the city. A frustrated citizen finally called the newspaper after finding a suitcase full of human excrement on the corner of his block. The resident purchased a $750,000 condo for his wife and 2 `1/2 year old child. The paper described the neighborhood as "progressive."<ref>https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Neighbors-disgusted-over-despair-on-block-hit-13015964.php</ref> With the city already covered in feces, the newly elected Democrat district attorney vowed to not prosecute public urination.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/11/san-francisco-chesa-boudin-public-urination/</ref>
In a city with an estimated homeless population of 8,000,<ref>https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18629080/san-francisco-homeless-population-count-numbers-2019-sf</ref> the taxpayers liberally hand out 4.5 million free syringes annually,<ref>https://sf.curbed.com/2018/5/9/17336090/san-francisco-needles-syringes-exchange-numbers-sf</ref> or roughly one every 16 hours, assuming (a) the needles are used exclusively by the homeless and (b) all 8,000 homeless are intravenous drug users. While homeowners and renters may take advantage of this taxpayer subsidy, there is no means testing. And the city leaders give little thought to the health and safety of children in public parks and elsewhere exposed to the careless disposal of dirty needles which are thrown away at a rate of some 12,000 daily. While the city has banned the use of plastics straws because they are a "threat to the environment."<ref>https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/No-more-slurping-through-plastic-straws-in-San-13102063.php</ref> the city continues the distribution of disposal plastic syringes which are a threat to everybody's health and the environment.
===Los Angeles===
[[File:Antifa Hollywood.png|right|350px|thumb|Progressives looted expensive stores on [[Hollywood values|Hollywood]]'s fashionable Rodeo Drive.]]
[[Los Angeles]] has had one Republican mayor since 1961.
Los Angeles currently is undergoing a [[typhus]] epidemic.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/typhus-reaches-epidemic-levels-parts-los-angeles-area-n917271</ref> Typhus is the name given to a group of bacterial infections transmitted to people living in crowded and unsanitary conditions by lice and fleas, coming from infected rats. The rats are attracted into the human environment by unsanitary conditions created by humans.
Los Angeles Democrats sold off all its emergency medical stockpiles and ventilators for a respiratory pandemic in 2011.<ref>https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/03/29/ca-dismantled-its-mobile-hospital-system-ventilator-stockpile-in-2011/</ref>
During the 2020 leftist uprising rioters beat up a cop<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/leftist-mob-beats-police-officer-street-la-officer-mobbed-rescued-good-samaritan/</ref> and burnt a police vehicle.<ref>https://streamable.com/61mdlo</ref> The city's Democrat mayor Eric Garcetti cut funding for the police department by $250 million.<ref>https://youtu.be/DcGSvEl44ow</ref> LAPD reported that during the week of May 31 to Jun 6 homicides went up 250% and victims shot went up 56% compared to the previous week.<ref>https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1270441223753396224</ref>
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