Elbaum's "Revolution in the Air"

[Michael Pugliese]

>...the point I am trying to make is  that a lot of the folks that joined
cadre groups in the 1970's-1980's  were sincerely trying to find a way  to
combine revolutionary politics with  real world reality. Many of them  later
left these groups, and now are major  figures in progressive politcs.

(my lips are sealed).

- -Chip Berlet

   Ex- member of the S.F. Board of Supervisors, Mabel Teng, ex-cadre in League 
of Revolutionary Struggle. Ying Lee Kelley, aide to Ron Dellums, ex-Line of 
March.Member of Alameda County Board of Supes, Wilma Chan or Jean Quan,, if 
memory serves, reputed to have been a Maoist in the 70's. Ex-member of 
Solidarity, running for a state assembly seat, Sheila Jordan. Ken Cockrell of 
DRUM, Dtroit City Council, Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge, Detroit. 
Coleman Young, late Mayor of Detroit in the Civil Rights Congress in the 50's, 
front group of the CPUSA. (Though see, "Communist Front?, " by Gerald Horne.)

   Lots more of this stuff in, "Far Left of Center:The American Radical Left 
Today, ' by Harvey Klehr. Whose sister, in the 70's was in the Georgia 
Communist League. http://www.pbk.org/advocacy/fellowslecture/Klehr.htm