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Karen Bass was a member of the [[Black Panther Party]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Grit-Impossible-Improbable-Inspirational/dp/0143113224 Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change], By Laura Flanders, page 102]</ref>  Bass was heavily involved with the [[Maoist]] Line of March.  Line of March was a Bay Area [[Marxist-Leninist]] organization founded in 1980. It became the Frontline Political Organization and later Crossroads, founded in conjunction with the [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]],<ref>[http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002/msg03620.htm  Marxism, archives of University of Utah]</ref> now called [[Liberation Road]].

Karen Bass was a member of the [[Black Panther Party]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Grit-Impossible-Improbable-Inspirational/dp/0143113224 Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change], By Laura Flanders, page 102]</ref>  Bass was heavily involved with the [[Maoist]] Line of March.  Line of March was a Bay Area [[Marxist-Leninist]] organization founded in 1980. It became the Frontline Political Organization and later Crossroads, founded in conjunction with the [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]],<ref>[http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002/msg03620.htm  Marxism, archives of University of Utah]</ref> now called [[Liberation Road]].

It was part of a movement of communist organizations in the 1970s called, The Trend. Other organizations included the [[Communist Party USA]], Maoist New Communist Movement, the [[National Guardian]] newspaper, Guardian Clubs, CrossRoads, Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center, El Committee-MINP, and other groups.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Air-Sixties-Radicals-Lenin/dp/1859846173 Elbaum, Max. ''Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che''. Verso, 2002.]</ref>

It grew out of a movement of communist organizations in the 1970s called, The Trend. Other organizations included the [[Communist Party USA]], Maoist New Communist Movement, the [[National Guardian]] newspaper, Guardian Clubs, CrossRoads, Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center, El Committee-MINP, and other groups.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Air-Sixties-Radicals-Lenin/dp/1859846173 Elbaum, Max. ''Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che''. Verso, 2002.]</ref>

Line of March published ''Frontline''. In 1990 the organization briefly morphed into the Frontline Political Organization.  Bass still works closely with former members.<ref>https://federalobserver.com/2019/10/2019-list-of-socialists-and-communists-in-congress/</ref>  In 1993 when international [[Communism]] was at its lowest ebb in decades following the [[Fall of the Berlin Wall]] and dissolution of the [[Soviet Union]], Bass was a featured speaker at Socialist forum.<ref>"New Realities, New Identities ; Socialism and Empowerment", West Coast Socialist Scholars Conference, April 17, 1993 University of California, Los Angeles.</ref>  Co-sponsors were Socialist Community School - [[Democratic Socialists of America]] - [[Committees of Correspondence]] -  Concerned Faculty (UCLA) - ''CrossRoads'' Magazine - International Socialist Organization - Socialist  Organizing Network - Solidarity -  Union for Radical Political Economics]]<ref>Dem. Left March/April 1993</ref>

Line of March published ''Frontline''. In 1990 the organization briefly morphed into the Frontline Political Organization.  Bass still works closely with former members.<ref>https://federalobserver.com/2019/10/2019-list-of-socialists-and-communists-in-congress/</ref>  In 1993 when international [[Communism]] was at its lowest ebb in decades following the [[Fall of the Berlin Wall]] and dissolution of the [[Soviet Union]], Bass was a featured speaker at Socialist forum.<ref>"New Realities, New Identities ; Socialism and Empowerment", West Coast Socialist Scholars Conference, April 17, 1993 University of California, Los Angeles.</ref>  Co-sponsors were Socialist Community School - [[Democratic Socialists of America]] - [[Committees of Correspondence]] -  Concerned Faculty (UCLA) - ''CrossRoads'' Magazine - International Socialist Organization - Socialist  Organizing Network - Solidarity -  Union for Radical Political Economics]]<ref>Dem. Left March/April 1993</ref>