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In the early [[Cold War]] it was a monthly publication. Its editor was Max Weiss; associate editors, [[V. J. Jerome]], Alex Bittleman, Abner W. Berry, and Jack Stachel. ''Political Affairs'' is direct successor to The Communist.<ref>Fifth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee On Un-American Activities, California Legislature, 1949, pp. 545-546.</ref>
In the early [[Cold War]] it was a monthly publication. Its editor was Max Weiss; associate editors, [[V. J. Jerome]], Alex Bittleman, Abner W. Berry, and Jack Stachel. ''Political Affairs'' is direct successor to The Communist.<ref>Fifth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee On Un-American Activities, California Legislature, 1949, pp. 545-546.</ref>
==Gerald Horne==
In 2007 [[New Zealand]] blogger Trevor Louden reported Prof. Gerald Horne of ''Political Affairs'' had outed the identity of "an old poet" only known as "Frank" in [[Barack Obama]]'s ''Dreams from my Father.''<ref>Trevor Louden, [http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2007/03/barack-obamas-marxist-mentor.html Barack Obama's Marxist Mentor], March 29, 2007.</ref> Horne and Louden identified the future president's early role-model as [[CPUSA]] operative [[Frank Marshall Davis]], a controversial figure assigned to carryout [[subversive]] activities in the Territory of Hawaii in the late 1940s and 1950s. These activities included, but not limited to
*being responsible for the Hawaiian Chapter of the [[NAACP]] having its Charter revoked;
*[[infiltration]] of the Hawaiian [[Democratic Party]]
==See also==
==See also==