Jones was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization [[Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement]] (STORM). The organization had its roots in a group protesting the first Gulf War.
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Jones was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization [[Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement]] (STORM). The organization had its roots in a group protesting the first Gulf War. The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM's influences as "third-worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism)."<ref>http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:9UyDTPx6dGEJ:machete408.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/revolutionaries-in-high-places-van-jones/+van+jones+demos&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz </ref>